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An inuectyue agaynst dronkennes
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†An inuectyue agaynst dronkennes Prouer. 20. A Wyne maketh a man scornfull and dronkennes maketh a man vnquiet he that delyteth therein shall neuer be wyse Iohel 1. A Awake vp you dronkards wepe mourn you wyne suppers because of youre sweete wyne for it shal be takeÌ„ out of your mouth I drede it muche lest that suche as be sobre sholde scornefully deryde me for my discours and inuaying agaynst them the be dronken The proemy as lyght and laboure loste and tryfled tyme in vayne for they will saye that such castigacion / as to sobre meÌ„ it nedeth not so vnto dronkerdes it bootethe not whiche wallowynge invayne can nother heare anye mannes voyce vnderstande hys fryendlye admonytioÌ„ nor feleth the poygnant sharpenes of any rebuke For in lyke case as a dead corps can with no vehemente pryckynge be made to feele no more can the mynde of a dronkard be stirred vp with any admonisshements And albeit it ware to be wisshed that mens labour shuld not be loste in chastenynge of theÌ„ that are so wedded to their vice wilfullnes that all hope of amendement vtterly is excluded yet that not with standyng for as moch as some there be whiche otherwhiles betwixt times as it wer awaking out of the depe slepe of that so great an euy◠〈…〉 them selues and declare theÌ„ selues no lesse but to be in case to be holpen in that they do acknowledge some time theyr own disease I wil eueÌ„ for their sakes now as briefly as I can declare what outrage enormitye is in thys foule vice conteyned for as ther is nothing moore beautyfull Contra … 〈…〉 theÌ„ a sobre man â—est and redy 〈…〉 hyng in what so euer tyme and place you wyll haue hym so is there no monster more huglye then a dronkerde whose handes fete as Terence sayth can nother of theÌ„ do their dutie And fyrst of al I can muche prayse the wisedome of the Grekes The ety mologie of the woord who in the proprietie of theyr language do manyfestly expresse how great a vertewe and how exellente is sobrietie for to th enteÌ„t they myght declare that the mynde of man can not contynewe in hys dignytie with out sobrietie they haue called this vertue by a good ly name SOPHROSYNE which signyfyeth nothyng els but the preseruation of the mynd that in how muche maÌ„ dothe excell all vnreasonable Creatures in worthynesse of mynde so muche should thys vertu be estemed aboue all other excellent albeit that certayne Phylosophers of the secte of zeno holde opinion that he that hath one vertew wanteth not the resydew yet neuerthelesse it is ofteÌ„ seene by experyence that he hath had fortitude which hathe not kepte the lawes oâ— Almytie But without the fouÌ„datioÌ„ of sobrietie was neuer maÌ„ yet endued with other vertues For in like case as that eye onely can iudge best the diuersytie of colours lyke which is cleare without any blemysh of euil humor or other infection soo can that mynd discerne in euerye thynge what is to be escâ—â—â—â—d what is to be followed whiche the temperancie of meat and drynke kepe the cleare from any burdeÌ„ This vnto wise men is mother of all good Counsels This putteth in execution all wittie deuises This maketh common wel thes to floryshe And with out this the chiefeste thynges decaye So that euen hereof is it manyfeste howe great a mischief in a coÌ„monne wealthe is a dronken citesyn Declaration whiche as he is cleane wtout all vertue and honestie so caÌ„ he nother in doubtfull matters gyue any counsell him selfe nor followe that shall be gyuen hym of others as oone that nother can remembre thynges paste nother vnderstande that which is present nother fore â—ee thynges to come finally who is nothing else but as the Poete sayeth of idle persons Telluris mutile pondus an vnprofitable burden of the earthe Furthermore It feyned person painte in your mynde withe the Pensyll of your thought suche a mannes life from euenyng till it be far forth nyghtes There is cry enge there is drynekyng there is playeng there is singinge ther is talkyng of bawdry There is hod lynge ther is Chiding there is fighryng and braw lynge there is breakynge of pottes there is vieng vomytyng the shame it is to heare Then are some taken withe slepe so heuy as it ware euen deathe some ar trubled with spirites other thinges most terrible in theyr dremes TheÌ„ ensueth the iuste punyshment of dronkeÌ„nes great hedache and debilitatioÌ„ of all the members On the morow ache and wine notte as yet digested kepeth hym in bed tyl none But if he haue any vrgente busynesse to do he goeth there aboute as it were a maÌ„ worne and halfe dead And who shall euer do anye thynge purposly in a matter of weighti importaunce wherevntoo hee commethe with so euyll a wyll so faynt and weak in his lymmes What thing can he dispatche being hym self laden What thynge strongly can a weake man do What laboure can he endure which with drynkyng ouer nyghte was not onelye weakened and weryed but also clene ouer throwen Muste he touche any thinge His handes haue the paulsy Must he go anye whyther his legges stacker Comparison so he reeleth and maketh indeÌ„tures Doth the matter requyre eloquence Hys tonge stamereth his voyce wyll not let hym speake and to be shorte amongeste all kynd of diseses wher vnto the myserable coÌ„dytion of man is subiecte there is none at all to be found that so whollye take the man from all vse of him self and ouerthrowethe both body and mynde as dothe thys vyce of dronkennes For al other diseses what tim they do assayle the body or any parte therof yet dare they not attempte to pearce the mind the immortal part of man For som haue the craâ—â—â— and some the goute some hote diseses and some colde yet haue they styh the vse of reson in her chief perfection But the selfe same thyng which we haue common and all â—one wyth God wherbye both we are and so be ryghtlye called men â–ª wherin 〈◊〉 we differ from brute bestes droÌ„kennes bothe can and is also accustomablye wonte to confounde bring to naught Falling sycknes The fallyng sycknes is vndoubtedly a cruel and a dreadefull dysease wherin many ar wont often times to destroy them selues whyleste they beate their owne membres teare theyr heyre and wallow theÌ„ selues in the myre But no man is able wythe woordes to expresse how much more beastly and detestable dronkennes is for whom so euer the fallyng sicknes taketh it leaueth hym by and by and restoreth vnto hym the vse of his mind again But the dronkerd after that he hath longe much bene tormoyled with dronkenship and hath both done suffred many thynges full shamefully vnles he ware by and by as often tymes it chaunseth vtterly extinguisshed therein and hath leyne two or thre daies lyke a deade man scarsly then commeth agayn to himself The other mannes disease is lesse euyll for thys cause that nothynge is committed through his fault but through the vehemencie of his disease He repenteth that he hath sayd and done but thys manne hath a double euyll the he can laye the blame vpon none other and that suche thynges do more greue meÌ„ which chaunce vnto them with out deserte Agayn amongeste the diseases of the mynde there is none so hurtfull Thynges annexed nor where vpon groweth and ensueth so muche wickednes to be fouÌ„d For once what thyng is so abhomynable that dronkerdes dare not doo Consequentes Nothyng ought amongeste men to be more reuerentli obserued then faythe and counsell keapyng but thou mayst commytte nothing in creadite to a dronckarde for he bloweth it abrode and can kepe no counsel be it neuer so reuerent a thynge neuer so holy neuer so much nede to be kepte secrete but if he be prouoked vnto such folly by any dronken companion of his The cause he bewrayeth and betrayeth the high dignitie of his mynde for what thinge is it that he wyll not dyscloose which is so ready and so greadye at the foolysshe requeste and affection of oothers to lose that thynge that he hath in this world deerest Effectes And to whom is it vnknowen that dronkennes is an ouerflowyng founteyn and welsprynge of all myschiefes of contention strife and debate woundyng of men rauysshynge of women murdre aduoutry It is euydently knowen that the greate fyght of the Lapithes as Horace makethe mention arose onelye vpon wyne we now at this dai haue to many examples thereof and dyd not Tharquinius kyng of Romaines after that he had in his cuppes goo and rauyshe that good woman Lucrece and lost therby his kyngdom Who knoweth not that great Alexander king of Macedonia in al other thynges a prince moste excellente and a famous conquerer in his dronkennes wold sley his moste deare famyliar frendes and so loste the loue of hys Lordes therby that in fyne he was poysoned A briefe peroration But men maye impute to me greate folly which go aboute wythe the shortnesse of speache to comprise anne endlesse matter whose myschief stretcheth so farre that in case I had an huÌ„dred wittes with as many tongues a mouth of brasse or yron yet ware I no thynge able to vtter the euyls that arise of dronkennes Imprinted at Ippiswiche by me Ihon Oswen Cum priuilegio ad Imprimendum solum