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A15850	Englands bane: or, The description of drunkennesse. Composed and written by Thomas Young, sometimes student of Staple-Inne	Young, Thomas, student of Staple Inn.	1617 (1617)	STC 26116; ESTC S120602	22,245	54

breaking his oath As I liue Ezech. 17 15.16.19 I will surely bring mine oath that he hath despised and my couenant that he hath broken vpon his owne head 2 King 25.2 and so it came to passe Nabuchadnezar by an armie ouercame him slew his sonnes before his face put out both his eyes and carried him to Babel But in these later times and in this our land I may shew very many examples as of Earle Godwin who wishing at the Kings table that the bread hee eate might choke him if he were guilty of Alphreds death whom hee had before slaine was presently choked and fell downe dead Fox actes and monu Wee may reade in the Acts and Monuments of one Iohn Peter a horrible swearer with whom it was vsuall to say if it be not true I pray God I may rot ere I dye To which God said A men and so he rotted away indeed and died miserably Lastly witnesse the example of a Seruingman in Lincolne-shire who for euery trifle had an vse to sweare no lesse oath then Gods precious bloud he would not bee warned by his friends to leaue it at last he was visited with grieuous sicknes in the time whereof he could not be perswaded to repent of it but hearing the Bell to Toll in the very anguish of death hee started vp in his bed and swore by his former oath that Bell tolled for him Wherevpon immediately the bloud aboundantly from all the ioynts of his body as it were in streams did issue out most fearefully from mouth nose wrists knees heeles and toes with all other ioynts not one left free and so dyed These and such like examples and fearefull warnings from heauen are sufficient to terrifie the hearts of all Drunkards whose tongues being set on fire of hell Iam. ● 6 7.8 9. speake nothing without an oath and Drunkards vsually fall into the sinnes of the tongue against which S. Iames speaketh so bitterly Psal 141.3 and Dauid saith Set a watch O Lord before my mouth and keepe the doore of my lips With whose saying in the 50. Psalme I will conclude and wish all Drunkards and Swearers to ponder his words Psal 50.21 Consider of these things yee that forget God lest he teare you in pieces and there be none to deliuer you But to speake of the sixt and last Head Sixtly Cursing which is Cursing Dauid noting the vilenesse of this sinne Reputeth those persons that vse this vice to thinke there is no God to yeeld them vengeance for their wickednes noteth them in the 14. Psalme which beginneth Psal 14.6 The foole hath said in his heart there is no God and so going forward to the 6. verse saith Their mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse And in the hundreth and ninth Psalme hee sheweth that God will neuer blesse them that curse Psal 109.17.18 But that he shall be cursed of all people As hee loued Cursing so shall it come vnto him and as it loued not Blessing so shall it be farre from him as he clothed himselfe with cursing like a rayment so shall it come into his bones Let it be vnto him as a garment to couer him and for a girdle wherewith he shall be alwaies girded Dauid did rightly terme Cursing the girdle of the Drunkard For hee is compassed about both at home and abroad with cursings At home he is cursed of his Wife for wasting of her portion and bringing her in contempt penury and misery Of his Family because hee defraudeth their bellies through his wasting and superflous excesse abroad The good Wise is forced to pinch her houshould at home Yea of his owne children if not in his life time by his daughters for that they are not through his vnthristinesse and base manner of liuing preferred in marriage Yet by his sonnes after his death for spending their patrimonie by succession due to them and not giuing them education How many men haue I heard say I am bound to curse the time that euer my Father was a company keeper which had he not been I might haue proued a Scholler or I should haue had such lands or such liuings which my father spent in his solly Yea the very nourishers of his vices themselues when his money is spent doe curse him the Host and Hostesse curse him because he troubleth their house being pierce penilesse and not giue place to other guests that are full fraught The Tapsters curse him because hee cals for Beere and runnes in score the Chamberlaines they curse him for tumbling the beds polluting the roome and he curseth them as fast for deceiuing him of his money are not Drunkards accordding to Dauids saying girded about with curses Which girdle the Diuell claspeth about him so fast it is to be feared without repentance and the great mercy of God it will neuer be vnloosed vntill hee hath him in hell where with the damned soules he will be forced to cry O dolor ô Rabies ô stridor dentium Ingence Luctus Inferni meluendus carceris horror With griefe with rage with gnashing teeth and howling great In this infernall lake and horride place my soule is fret Saint Paul the third to the Colosians bids vs to put away all malicious cursed speaking forth of our mouthes Col. 3.8 and to the Romans hee saith Blesse but curse not And surely the Diuell and destruction waites at the doore when wee fall into this humour of cursing Marke 14.17 as appeareth by Peter before hee denied his Master Our blessed Sauiour First hee began to curse and then he swore saying I know not this man of whom ye speake Goliah before he was killed of Dauid 1 Sam. 17.43 fell a cursing and so died in this wickednes Dauid held this fault so great in Shemi for cursing him that euen vpon his death-bed he tooke order with Salomon his sonne to put Shemei to death for the same 2 Sam. 16.5.13 Shemei cursing 1 King 2.8.9.46 His death Behold with thee is Shemei which cursed me with a horrible curse therefore thou shalt cause his hoare head to goe downe to the graue in bloud If the heads that spring from this polluted Monster are so detestable dangerous and damnable as by the fore-recited places of Scripture is declared it is requifite that the noysome and infectious poison to mankinde which doth proceede from the nature and condition of this Monster should plainly be made manifest and described to the world Drunkenes defined And therefore to define it Drunkennesse is a vice which stirreth vp lust griefe anger and madnesse extinguisheth the memory opinion and vnderstanding maketh a man the picture of a beast and twise a childe because hee can neither stand nor speake Saint Augustine saith Ad sacram Ebrietas est flagitiorum omnium mater culparumque materia c. Drunkennesse is the mother of outrages the matter of faults the roote of crimes the fountaine of vice the intoxicate

For Plato saith Drunkennesse is a monster with many heads As first filthy talke Secondly Fornication Thirdly Wrath Fourthly Murther Fiftly Swearing Sixtly Cursing If these be the chiefe heads that procede from the polluted body of this vgly Monster Filthy talke the first bead of Drunkennes let vs trie them by the touchstone of the holy Scripture and see how they are allowed of thereby And first concerning filthy talke is is said to the Counthians that filthy speakers and raylers shall not inherite the Kingdome of God and the fourth to the Ephesians Saint Paul forbids vs to haue any corrupt communication to proceed forth of our mouthes Eph. 4.29.30 but that which is good to the vse of edifying that it may minister grace to the hearers And also we must put away all bitternesse and euill speaking And further the fift to the Ephesians S. Paul wisheth that no filthinesse nor foolish talking Eph. 5.4 no not so much as iesting should either bee vsed or named among Christians But from the mouthes of Drunkards what idle talke filthy speech blasphemous oathes and prophane words are vsed no Christian eares can with patience endure but with griefe of minde vexation of spirit yea with both horrour and terrour to the soule of man The greatest curse that euer fell on mankinde since the floud came by Drunkennesse as appeareth in Genesis by Noah the godliest man then liuing auoiding all other sinnes Gen 9.25 yet was vnawares taken with this vice of Ebrietie and cursed his own sonne with the bitter and perpetuall curse of seruitude Saying Cursed be Canaan a seruant of seruants shall he be to all his brethren Which thing of seruitude was neuer either heard or spoken off although the world had then beene the space of 1656. yeres to the which curse God saying Amen added also nakednes to the posterity of Cham as appeareth this day by the Virginians and Indians being by the best Authors of Antiquitie noted to come from that Cham Nakednes and seruitude are hereditary curse to all drunkardes their posterity and surely by the slauerie and beggerie that happeneth generally to all that vseth this vice I can thinke no other of it but that it is a curse hereditarie to all Drunkards themselues or at least to their posteritie Now concerning the Description of the second head of this Monster Drunkennesse Fornication second head which is Fornieation The Apostle in the sixt chapter to the Corinthians saith Be not deceiued neither Fornicators nor Adulterers nor Wantons nor Buggerers 1 Cor. 6.9.15 18.19.20 shall inherite the Kingdome of heauen And in the 15. verse he saith Know yee not that your bodies are the members of Christ shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an Harlot Flye fornication euery sinne that a man doth is without the body but hee that committeth Fornication sinneth against his owne body Know yee not that the body is the Temple of the holy Ghost which is in you whom ye haue of God And yee are not your owne for ye are bought for a price therefore glorifie God in your body and in your spirit for they are Gods Which being thus what glory can that partie shew vnto God in his spirit that hath neither vse of body nor sence for as Socrates saith Reason departeth when drinke possesseth the braine Thrise worthy is this saying of the Philosopher and fit to be noted with golden letters Cum tibi siue Deus siue mater rerum omnium Natura dederit animum quo nihil est prestantius sic teipsum O homo ab abiicies at que prosternes vt nihil inter te quadrupedem aliquem potes interesse Wheu as God hath giuen thee a liuing soule which excelleth all things O man wilt thou so much abase and disgrace thy selfe that thou wilt make no difference betwixt thy selfe and a bruit beast for Drunkennesse doth not onely disgrace but euen slayeth the soule of man according to Zeno his saying It is not Death that destroyeth the soule but a bad life But to returne to the vice of Fornication S. Paul to the Thessalonians saith 1 Thes 4.3 For this is the will led a man he should be slaine for it and further to set out the greatnesse of this sinne and fearing they might bee tempted through briberie to spare the murtherer he saith moreouer yee shall take no recompence for the life of the murderer Num. 25.16.19.20.31.32 which is worthy to die but he shall be put to death The land where the murther is done is so much pollnted that there is no way to cleanse it but by the bloud of him that shed it And surely it is seldome or neuer knowne that a Murtherer went in peace to his graue as may appeare by Abimelech who after hee had killed his seuenty brethren although God suffered him for a time to liue and to rule all Israel yet at length hee died miserably and was slaine by the hands of a woman Zimri murdered Elah but afterward by Gods iust iudgement was forced to burne himselfe 1 Kin. 19 18 But this vnnaturall sinne this monstrous deede this abhorred fact of Murther is by no accident or occasion so often committed as through Drunkennesse not onely by Drunkards vpon others but also many times through Gods heauy wrath vpon Drunkards themselues as by too many examples I am able to make proofe as well of the one as of the other And first to begin with that high and mighty Monarch of the world Alexander the Great Murders in Drunkenes who in the beginning of his Raigne was so temperate that he refused the Cookes and Pasterers of the Queene of Caria saying he had better then they were viz. for his dinner early rising and for his supper a moderate dinner notwithstanding through the vitious manners and lewd customes of the Persians he was so much giuen at last vnto the excesse of drinking that he propounded sixe hundred crownes for a reward to him that drunke most called a cup of siluer being of a great bignesse after his owne name which cup when he offered vnto Calisthenes one of his fauorites he refused saying that he which dranke with Alexander had neede of Asculapius at which words the King feeling himselfe touched and being in his drinke was so incensed against him that hee caused him immediately to be put in a cage with dogges where hee poysoned himselfe afterwards being perswaded by a common Strumpet named Thais he burnt Percipolis the chiefe Citie in Persia and which was worst in his intemperancie killed his deere friend Clytus for which bloudy deede after he came to himselfe he wept and fasted three dayes and would had he been permitted haue slaine himselfe In this deede of Alexander Seneca Epist 59 the saying of Seneca is verified Ebrietas vnius horae hilaram Insaniam longi temporis tedio pensat Drunkennesse requireth one houres merry madnes with a