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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10703	The honestie of this age· Proouing by good circumstance that the world was neuer honest till now. By Barnabee Rych Gentleman, seruant to the Kings most excellent Maiestie.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1614 (1614)	STC 20986; ESTC S115916	33,743	58

nor in honouring of haughty spirits and valiant Souldiers But with vs our Parasites our Panders our Fauourets our Fidelers our Fooles our instruments of ambition our ministers of our wanton pleasures shall be rewarded but wee neuer cherish wisedome till wee haue cause to vse her counsell and then perhaps shee may bee rewarded with some Court holy water wordes and which wee will bestowe but for our owne aduantage when our turne is serued our kindnes is estranged The world is not now the world that it hath beene when the sauing of a Romane Citizen was rewarded with honor the humoure of preseruing our Country is now spent there is not a Curtius now to be found and where should we seeke for another Sceuola Desert may now goe to Cart and he that cannot ruffell it out in silkes will hardly gette passage in at a great mans gate Hee that is thought to bee poore is neuer thought to bee wise nor fit to haue the managing of any matter of importance all is well accepted that is spoken by authoritie but truth it selfe is not beleeued if it proceede from the mouth of pouertie By this contempt of pouertie vice hath beene aduanced and sithens riches haue thus crept into credite the worlde is rather growne to giue way to the humour of a rich Foole then to followe the direction of a poore wiseman Let vs no we a little looke into the actions of this age and speake truly when was Vertue and Honestie more despised when was Pride Ryot and Excesse more inordinate when was adultery and all other vnchast liuing either more apparant or lesse punished when were all manner of abhominations more tollerated when those that should minister correction will sometimes fauour their owne vices in others euery man accounting that to bee most excellent in fashion that is most taken vppe and en-vred by those that be most vicious Thou shalt not follow the multitude to doe euill the commandement of the liuing God Exod. 23. but for these Adulterers these Drunkards these Swearers these Blasphemers they haue made a sacrifice of their owne soules to the Deuill haue cast of all care both of honour and honestie But to leaue the generall and to come to the perticular I tell thee thou Adulterer I speake it to thy face that besides the Poxe and many other loath some diseases that are incident to Whore-maisters whilst they liue in this world thy hot burning fire of lust will bring thee to the hot burning fire of Hell And I tell thee Diues that pamperest thy selfe in excesse whilst Lazarus lyeth crying out at thy gate readie to famish Lazarus shall be comforted when thou shalt intreat but for one drop of cold water to coole thy tongue And thou beastly Drunkard thou monster of Nature that amongst all other sinners art the most base and seruile if a Drunkard were as seldome to be seene as the Bird of Arabia he would be more wondered at then the Owle more loathed then the Swine How many Crafts men that will labour all the weeke for that which on Sun-day they will spend in an Ale-house that will there most beastly consume in Drinke that would relieue their poore wiues and children at home that other whiles doe want wherewith to buy them Bread But if Drunkennesse were not so common as it is a number of Tauernes and Ale-house keepers might shutte vppe their doores but the custome of it doth make it so conuersant that it taketh away the sence of sinne The generallitie of it I shall not neede to expresse when there is no feasting no banqueting nor almost anie merrie meeting but Drunkennesse must bee a principall guest and what a glory is it after the incounter of their Cups for one Drunkard to see another carryed away vppon mens shoulders to the Beds The fruits of Drunkennes haue beene very well knowne since Lot committed incest with his owne Daughters since Alexander kild his Clitus and since Lucius pius obtained that victory against his enemies by making of them drunke that hee coulde neuer attayne vnto so long as they were sober When the fume of the drinke once beginnes to ascend to the braine the mind is oppressed with idle thoughts which spurreth on the tongue to contentious quarrelling to slandering backbiting to idle and beastly talking to swearing and blaspheming and in the ende to stabbing and murthering I neuer yet knewe a Drunkard to be fitte for any good or godly exercise and Caesar was wont to say that hee stoode more in doubt of Brutus and Cassius that were noted to bee sober then he did of drunken Marcus Antonius Let him be of what title he list if he be a Drunkarde doe but strippe him out of his gay cloathes and scrape his name out of the Heraulds booke and he is without eyther euidence or preheminence of the basest rascall that euer was drunke in an Ale-house Now I tell thee againe thou Swearer and Blasphemer that the heauie curse of GOD is still depending ouer thy head thou that vppon euery light occasion dost polute the name of God that is to bee reuerenced and feared and doest sette that tongue which by the right of creation shoulde bee the Trumpet to sound forth his glory thou doest make it the instrument to prophane and blaspheme his holy name How many blasphemous wretches are there in these daies that do make oathes their pastime will sweare vpon pleasure he that hath not for euery word an oath can sweare voluntarily without any cause is holden to be but of a weak spirit a signe of want of courage and he that should reproue him in his blasphemies they say hee is a puritan a precise Foole not fitte to hold a gentleman company their greatest glory and the way to shewe themselues generous is to sette their tongues against Heauen and to abuse that name at the which they should tremble and quake with feare In the commandements of the first Table God himselfe is the obiect for they immediately appertaine vnto him and therfore he that taketh his name in vaine I thinke displeaseth God asmuch or more as he that against the commaundement of the second Table committeth murther and therfore those positiue lawes that doe so seuerely punish the actuall breaches of the second Table without any respect to the sinnes that are committed against the first were rather sette downe by the policies of men then by the rule of the written word of God He that should but touch a man in credite if he be a man of any sort or calling that should impeach his reputation or slaunder his good name there wanteth no good Lawes to vexe and molest him and to inflict those punishments vpon him that they will make him to cry peccaui but hee that should depraue God in his maiestie that shall depriue him of his glory or blaspheme his holy name there is no maner of Lawe whereby to correct him there is not so much as a