Vpon the Frontispice Convivas Vitulos Hircos Asinosque suesque preusae vides bruto stringere vina pede Quid mirare ivos hic aspicis Helluo fratres qui quoties coptus talis es ipse pecus Quandoquidem pressis rationem sensibus aufert AEmula Cyrcaeis Artibus Ebrietas Quam si bellipotens Brittannia tollerit Hostem Clarior hac nusquam natio gente foret Thus Interpreted CAlues Goates Swine Asses at a Banquet set To graspe Health's in their Hooff's thou seest here met Why wonder'st thou oh Drunkard to behold Thy brothers In whose ranke thou art inrowled When thou so oft as tox't at any Feast Can'st bee no better held then such a beast Since like Cyrcaean Cups Wine doth surprise Thy sences and thy reason stupifies Which Foe would Warre-like Brittaine quite expell No Nation like it could bee said to excell T.H. Philocothonista OR THE DRVNKARD Opened Dissected and Anatomized LONDON Printed by Robert Raworth and are to be sold at his house neere the White-Hart Taverne in Smithfield 1635. The Author to the Booke THere 's no faith in the forehead Drunkard goe Tell all of that condition that are so Stil'd worthily they are Helluoes and not men If they be vext say ore and ore agen They are Statues onely gasping a short breath Like dying men each houre expecting death Tubbs-bottomlesse in which what ere you fill All runs to waste the more you powre you spill Casks open to receive what so you please To glut their Concaves with health or disease To them all 's one Fowle Kennells that make stinke The pure raine they from spouts and gutters drinke And turne them into puddle Froggs not content To live in water their sole nutriment But ever croaking to find something new After the evening and the mornings dew Dry Spunges alwayes thirsty in their kind And drunke being squeez'd leave all the dregs behind They are no day-birds rather Owles and Batts These looke not on the Sun but see like Catts Best in the night To rest they lay their heads When th' early Cock calls other from their beds Though men of fashion and possest of land Yet on their owne free ground they cannot stand They live in thicke Foggs which like Etna choake By Candle-snuffes and in Tobacco-smoake Somtimes they like those heathen Idolls be Have Eares and Eyes but neither heare nor see Meere Ethnicks I l'e not call them Christians neither But the seuen grand sinnes bundled up together Thou art none such Then Booke away begon And tell the World Ebrietas quid non Tho Faeni-lignum GEORGE DONNE To his industrious Friend THere rests the height of knowledge when wee see The Praticke part linck'd with the Theorie To both these Obseruation To contend Whether this Art th' ast best obseru'd or pen'd Is questionable most thou say'st doe draw A lawlesse drinking into rules of law The Souldier Clearke and Sea-man from this part Speake all in their owne termes and drinke by Art Yet heer 's the master piece thy Art could faine To shew to drinke and drinking to abstaine OF PHILOCOTHONISTA The Reader To the Author NEPHALIOPHILVS THou hast my learned friend with happy fate Shew'n to the world A Monster at cheape rate Much more A Prodegy then all the Toyes Set out to cozen Women Fooles and Boyes At Fayres and Markets In the Gulph of drinke Where giddy vessells reele and lastly sinke The Quick-sands Whirle-pooles the Rockes the Shelues Are so describ'd that they must read Themselues Guilty of wilfull Shipwracke who ore-looke Thy paines yet then be saved by thy Booke Hang Bookes Let it goe round Follow your Leader Pardon I 'm but Interpreter to th' Reader IOHN FOORD ⧠The BOOKE to the sober and discreet Reader GEnerous Reader thou hear'st my charge and I come to present my selfe to thy viewe like a Chancery Bill pitifully complaining The reason is because I am turn'd out like a masterles man without Patron or Mecaenas to countanance mee much misery I undergoe meerely for my names-sake For is he that hath a bad name is said to be halfe hang'd what may I hope for then when mine is so abominable Notwithstanding if my condition had accorded with my Title I might have had Incouragers enough and too many but when they understood my nature and my name were directly opposites For many who were loath to have me follow them publikly in the streetes would have beene glad to have hugg'd me in their private Chambers I then was left destitute both of pitty and patronage For instance I presented my service to a great Favourite in the Court who when hee apprehended that my comming was rather to plucke up then plant the Vine and to condemne not countenance the vice he bit the lip contracted the brow and made me this answere And would'st thou barre me from drinking healths to the Prince whom I serue the Lords whom I honour and my Mistris whom I love So with a looke able to sowre the next draught before he swallowed it left me From the Court I tooke my progresse into the Countrey where hearing of a Noble house-keeper who kept liberall hospitalitie not common in these dayes I tendred my seruice to him who generously excused himselfe thus Friend would'st thou have mee now close-handed and to set a pad-locke upon my Buttery hatch If my seruants bee freely entertained in other great mens Sellers Shall I forbid their followers to drinke drunke in mine From him I went to an old Country Lawyer his next Neighbour who presently clapt his spectacles on his nose and reading my inside with my Title in a great chollar which swell'd up his ruffe as hie as his veluet cap said Hence from my doores thou imposture which art not what thou seemest were it not for such of thy name who quarrell in their cups how should I doe for clients to maintaine my estate Neere unto the Lawyer dwelt a Farmer I descended so low as to offer my selfe to him telling him my condition and qualitie he replied in a furie How then shall I pay my Land-lord were it not for Drunkards I should sow no more Barley so might the Malt-men starue and I perish Having such cold comfort in the Countrey I then provided to come up to London with the Carryer The first Inne wee came unto I open'd my selfe to mine Host a Iollie Corpulent fellow and a boone Companion who at the very motion first stamped then staring he began at length to be starke mad saying aloud Who then shall keepe my guests vp all night call in for drinke and put them to unnecessary charges how shall my Tapster live or I maintaine fire in thy Kitchin As good perswade me to cut downe my signe-post For thinkest thou that I can eate and drinke hay and water with the Horses Much adoe I had to get lodging there that night but with condition to be gone thence by the day breake in the morning At length I came to the Citie and hoping to have
beene entertain'd by one of the Sheriffes I found the Seargeants and Yeomen ready to beate their siluer Flagons about mine eares Their Sellers were open for all commers and I onely excluded and extruded for by no intreaty they would shew me to their Masters The French and Spanish Merchants that trade in Wines rejected me as one who had laid some project to undermine and blow up their trafficke I then thought good to find some reliefe at Vintners Hall but there I was more churlishly repulsed then at any time before They call'd mee Innovator and told mee I had laid a plot to begger them who had 〈◊〉 so many I went thence to the Fraternitie of the Brewers and finding them assembled I had no sooner petitioned to them but they presently open'd so many stale bottles mouthes against mee that I was afraid either to be drown'd in their frothy 〈◊〉 which powr'd upon me like a deluge or to be shot to death with their corkes which peal'd against mee like so many Pot-guns For which injury I complained to a Iustice desiring his warrant and withall besought him of entertainement But hee gave me this short answere I prethee friend how then dost thou thinke my Clerke should live I then was in dispaire but thus comforted my selfe surely one Schollar will 〈◊〉 the worke of another and so put my selfe upon a Poet who looking first stedfastly upon mee after a small pause gave mee this short answere and so left mee Ennius ipse pater num nisi potus ad Arma prosiluit Old father Ennius never durst aspire To write strong line till Bacchus lent him fire I have now no refuge but to thee oh temperate and discreete Reader under whose wings I hope at length to be shadowed if not supported For which favour I shall protest me thine in all sober sâ—…dnesse Philocothonista Anatomized The Contents of the first Tractate CHAP. I. THe excellency of Sobriety illustrated and the hâ—…rrid effects of 〈◊〉 discovered The first for Imitation The second for detestation c. CHAP. II. A Catalogue of sundry Helluoes and great quafsers amongst the Grecians Infamous for their 〈◊〉 CHAP. III. Of famous Wine-bibbers amongst the Romanes and other Natioâ—…s c. CHAP. IIII. A particular discourse of those nations most addicted to Vinosity and Drunkennesse with the monstrous effects thereof c. CHAP. V. Of sâ—…verall sorts of quaffing Cups and drinking Bowles most frequent in Greece and other Countreys CHAP. VI. A discovery of sundry other Cups of severall fashion and size CHAP. VII Of Nestors quaffing Bowle the same which hee used at the siege of Troy CHAP. VIII A discourse of severall sorts of Wines and first of them most frequent in Italy CHAP. IX The like of the Wines of Greece and elsewhere with their appellations and operations c. The Contents of the second Tractate CHAP. X. OOf our English Drunkards The titles they give one to another with the varietie of their drinking Cups and Vessells CHAP. XI What forraine Wines and sundry sorts of drinks are now frequent in this Kingdome CHAP. XII Of a new order of drinking lately come up amongst us call'd a drinking Schoole or Library The degrees taken in the Schoole The Tongues and Bookes which they studdy with the severall titles proper to the Professors of that Art CHAP. XIII Their phrases borrowed from severall Courts with places of dignity 〈◊〉 by them both Civill and Martiall CHAP. XIIII Of their Sea-seruice Their new termes for new 〈◊〉 Their Writing-Schoole c. CHAP. XV. Of certaine penall statutes enacted by drunkards vpon severall forfeitures committed in their healthing With Writs that issue upon the forfeitures c. CHAP. XVI Of sundry Termes and Titles proper to their yong Studients with Customes to be obserued and forfeits upon the breach with divers Proverbs used amongst them c. CHAP. XVII Divers Cases to be put in their healthing which have beene weightily considered and learnedly determined amongst themselues CHAP. XVIII Divers stories of such whom immoderate drinking hath made most ridiculous CHAP. XIX Of some who have liued abstemious and altogether refrained from Wine CHAP. XX. A moderation to be obserued in drinking borrowed from Antiquity CHAP. XXI Of the most horrid effects of Drunkennesse and a Christian like admonition to Sobriety and Temperance Philocothonista OR THE DRVNKARD CHAP. I. The excellency of Sobrietie Illustrated and the horrid effects of Drunkennesse discovered The first for Imitation The second for detestation c. THe first age of the World which is reckoned from Adam to Noah or the Creation unto the Deluge might be called the Temperate or Sober age for then Man-kind neither tasted the flesh of Beast nor Bird nor dranke of the Ivice or liquor of of the Grape their Meate was the fruites of Trees and the Rootes and Herbage of the Field Their Drinke the fresh and unmixed Water of the Rivers and Fountaines But after the great Cataclisme or Flood when the waters were ceased from off the face of the earth Noah was the first that planted the Vine and was made drunk with the strength thereof Some are of opinion that because in the dressing of it hee moystened the rootes with the blood of sundry beasts It still retaines that predominant quality to put Drunkards into such severall humors For wee find by common experience some in their healthing to be made wilde as Lyons apt for any mischiefe or outrage Some in their Cups dull and sortish as Asses almost voide of motion or spirit some Luxurious as Goates forgetting both Civilitie and manners Others crafty as Foxes then most subtle either in Cheates or Bargaines and so of the rest but it is an Argument on which I will not insist but passe it over as rather a fancie then a maxime onely I will make my first Corrolary to shew a reason why severall Drunkards may be properly paralleld with sundry Beasts and first of Ebrietas Asinina THe horrid vice of Drunkennesse and Intempeance which like the Cup of Cyrces turnes Men into beasts is to be avoided as an open enemy to all goodnesse and vertue Macrob. lib. sat 2. tells us that of the five Sences the unlawfull pleasures of two If immoderately used Man communicateth with the unreasonable Creature Namely these of the Touch and Tast and therefore all such are to be numbred amongst Beasts who brutishly forget the Noblenesse of their owne Nature and give themselues over to inordinate and carnall appetites Amongst which such may be called and not amisse Drunken Asses who beare themselues in their lavish and riotous cups no otherwise then the Beasts whose names they deserue as being rude Ignorant Infacious Ill-nurtered shamelesse Ill-tutered and unmanerly who neither obserue their betters nor reverence their elders regarding not Matrons nor respecting Virgins who not onely are of that impudence to utter squirrelous and absceane speeches in their hearing but in their absence to asperse their Chastities boasting what either they have or might
Vnderstanding dark'ned One 〈◊〉 being demanded how it came to passe that hee had lived to the number of an hundred and eight yeeres returned this answere because I never in my life-time â—…ate beyond satietie nor drunk to 〈◊〉 Wine saith 〈◊〉 will make the wise man sing foolishly the temperate man laugh outragiously The stayd man dance rediculously the silent man vtter secrets openly and to speake things immodest and vncomely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est in corde 〈◊〉 est in lingua 〈◊〉 Whatsoever things lies hid in the heart of the sober man is 〈◊〉 made publike by the tongue of the drunkard When a prating fellow upbraided Bias of follie because hee 〈◊〉 silent at a banquet hee made him this answere Friend didst thou ever know a foole that was tongue-tide in his Cups And when certaine Forreigne Ambassadors were feasted in Athens by one the most eminent amongst the Areopagitae whither divers learned Philosophers were invited to discourse and keepe them company After many Arguments gravely and weightily debated one of the strangers obseruing Zeno in all that time not once to have opened his lips Tooke up a bowle and dranke unto him saying But of you grave Sir what shall wee report to the King our Master To whom he replied say to him nothing else but this Wee have 〈◊〉 an old man who had that power over himselfe to be silent at a Banquet It is reported of Phillip King of Macedon the Father of Alâ—…xander that having leavied a Potent Army to invade the Persians and understanding by his skowtes and spies that the land abounded with daintie fare and delicate Wines and that the People were wholely addicted to feede hie and to drinke deepe he presently retired his Forces and returned into his owne Countrey and being demanded the reason hee made answere To what purpose should I make warre upon them who are every houre ready to overcome themselues CHAP. II. A Catalogue of sundry Helluoes and great quaffers amongst the Grecians Infamous for their vinosity I Come now to speake of the ancient Carowsers I will first begin with the merry Greekes From whom the Good-fellowes of this age would borrow that name and see what Frollike healthers I can find amongst them Hee that had a great inclination to drink Wine was called Philoenus He that lov'd to make himselfe merry with that liquor which was 〈◊〉 of Water and Graine which I imagine to be like our Ale or 〈◊〉 was stiled Phiâ—… He that dranke immoderately and above his strength had the denomination of Philocothonista Among whom * Old Nestor even in his third age was numbred He was observed to take his rowse freely and more at the siege of Troy then the Generall Agamemnon whom Achilles upbraided for his immoderate drinking Neither in the hottest of the battell was hee ever knowne to venter further then within sight of his Bottle To whom Sir Iohn Falstaffe may not unfitly be compared who never 〈◊〉 ride without a Pistoll charg'd with Sacke by his side You may reade in Homer Nestora non latuit clamor tamen ille bibebat Old Nestor notwithstanding all the Noyse and clamour made by the Tumult would not breake his * draught His Cup was compared to Achilles his Shield as the one never enter'd the field nor ingag'd his person without his Targe to guard his life So the other never heated his body in any skirmish without his bowle to quench his thirst Proteus the Macedonian had the character of an inuincible quaffer For as Ephippus testates Alexander the Great drinking to him a full bowle of Wine containing twelue Sextaries which according to our measures held two Gallons and a quart hee pledg'd the King and carowsed it off at one draught with a great applause from the standers by and after some small interim he caused it to be filled againe and began a new health to Alexander In the pledge whereof the King failing in his strength and not being able to overcome it the bowle slipt out of his fingers and hee with it fell likewise groveling to the earth It is further reported of * Alexander that hee would sit up and drinke so long that being overcome with sleepe he hath not left his bed for two entire nights and dayes together insomuch that it grew to a common Proverbe in Greece That if any man could powre more liquor down his throate then his companions they would say hee were able to drinke with Alexander divers Authors report of him That carowsing one day with twenty Persons in his company hee dranke healths to every man round and pledged them severally againe And as he was to rise Calistenes the Sophist comming into the Simposition or Banquetting-house the King offered him a deepe quaffing-bowle which he modestly refused for which being taxed by one there present Hee said aloud I desire not oh Alexander to receive a pledge from thee by taking which I shall be presently inforced to inquire for a Physition Theophrastus writes that by continuall riotising his body was made so unable to performe any venerall Act that when his mother 〈◊〉 sent unto him a most beautifull Lady called 〈◊〉 notwithstanding his opportunitie and her importunitie shee departed unvitiated from him King Darius had these words inscribed upon his Tombe Vinum multum bibere potui Idque perferre I could drinke much Wine and beare it well Etesias reports that the Kings of India were not suffered to drinke but with great moderation But the Kings of Persia had liberty for one day in the yeere to carowse even unto surfet and that was in their sacrifice offered to the Sunne For so saith saith Duris Philip of Macedon was sirnamed Bibax for so saith Thepompus who having one night bounteously feasted the Athenian Ambassadors they were no sooner departed to their lodgings but he caused shee minstrells and fingers to be called into the roome with Aristonicus the harper and Dorionus the Piper with sundry other Iesters and Bafoones with whom he often used to revell and carowse In whose company having spent the whole night the day no sooner appeared but he commanded them all to leave the place and sending for the Ambassadors early in the morning even when he was scare able to utter one ready word dismist them with a ridiculous answer Caristius in his historicall commentaries writes That when hee purposed to take his rowse he was wont to say Now may I drinke freely and safely for it is sufficient to me that Antipater is sober and awake Vpon a time being at â—…hesse and one bringing him word that Antipater was comming to see him he suddenly flung away the bag the men Chesse-board and all and hid them behind the bed on which he then sate as if he either feared or was ashamed to be found by him at so unprofitable an exercise Amongst these great wine-bibbers Dionysius Iunior is numbred by Thepompus who almost drunke out his eyes for his continuall surfetts made him
in Syria Phenicum and Lisbinum Xenophon of Mendaeum and the Poet Hermippus speaking of Wines sorteth them thus Mendaeum Mingunt Caelestia regna tenentes Molibus in stratis sunt dulcia Thessala vina The Gods Celaestiall in their beds Divine Having drunk deepe pisse out Mendaena wine Thessalium Wines are pleasant relishing well The Thasunim too that doe of Apples smell And that I thought all others had surpast Till mellow Chyum better pleas'd my taste There is a wine cal'd Saprium which if pow'rd Into a bowle and cover'd but an houre The lid remov'd thence will arise a smell So rare that shall the Violet excell Or Hâ—…cinthe as of that fragrant race The casements shut it sweetens all the place Such noble Nectar may my friends devoure My foes the Peparathium tart and sower The Mendoians as Phantas Eressius writes use often to water their Vines with certaine Medcinable Ivices cal'd Elateria to make the Wine taste the more pleasant and gentle Seâ—…us in Icaro reports that therâ—… is another sort cal'd Pramnium which takes the denomination of a Mountaine so called Amphis speakes of Acantium Alexis of Corinthium and Euboicum Archilochus of Napium and 〈◊〉 Chresmus of Pollium so cal'd of Pollio the Argine who raigned in Siracusa Wee reade further of Vinum Oaenantium Benthium Paristium Onoglium Stathmium from the places where they grew Polyrelus speakes of a Wine in Rhodes cal'd Antitum 〈◊〉 Comicus of Capria the best of which hee saith is in Bonaventum in Italy Amphium is remembred by 〈◊〉 and cal'd Malum c. THE SECOND TRACTATE CHAP. VIII Of our English Drunkards The titles they give one to another with the varietie of their drinking Cups and Vessells TO leave all other natives and now at last to turne our eyes inward and looke back upon our selues wâ—…e by comparing their ryotts excesses intemperances surfets varietie of drinkes and choyce of quafsing Cups with ours frequent in our land rather for figure or syze Mettall or matter shall easily find that wee are so farte from comming short of them in any one thing that wee apparently exceede thâ—…m in all things first whereas other languages afford but some few wordes as amongst the Grecians Philocothonista the Latines Ebrius or Bibax the Spaniards Borachio The French Yurogne The Italian Boraco and so of the rest To title a drunkard by wee as loath to give such a name so grosse and harsh strive to character him in a more mincing and modest phrase as thus Hee is a good fellow Or A boone Companion A mad Greeke A true Tojan A stiffe Blade One that is steele to the backe A sound Card A merry Comrage A Low-Countrey Souldier One that will take his rowse One that will drinke deepe though it bee a mile to the bottome One that knowes how the Cards are dealt One that will be flush of all foure One that will be subtile as a Fox One that will drinke till the ground lookes blew One that will wynde up his bottome One that beares up stiffe One whose nose is durty One whom the Brewers horse hath bit One that caâ—… relish all waters One that knowes of which side his bread is butter'd One that drinkes vpse-freeze One that drinkes supernaculum One that layes downe his eares and drinkes One that can sup off his Sider c.. Next for variety of drinking Cups we need not be said to come neere but to goe farre beyond the Grecians of whose carow sing bowles I have before given you a sufficient catalogue divers and sundry sorts wee have some of Elme some of Box some of Maple some of Holly c. Mazers broad-mouth'd dishes Noggins whiskins Piggins Crinzes Alâ—…-bowles Wassell-bowles Court-dishes Tankards Kannes from a Pottle to a Pint from a Pint to a Gill other Bottles wee have of Leather but they most used amongst the Shepheards and haruest people of the Countrey small Iacks wee have in many Ale-houses of the Citie and Suburbs tipt with siluer besides the great black Iacks and bombards at the Court which when the French-men first saw they reported at their returne into their Countrey that the English-men used to drinke out of their Bootes wee have besides cups made of hornes of beasts of Cocker-nutts of Goords of the egges of Estriches others made of the shells of divers fishes brought from the Indies and other places and shining like mother of 〈◊〉 Infinite there are of all measures and fashions model'd of earth Cotili and Dycotili single pots and double pots some plaine others of many colours Insomuch that the Dutch-men have removed their Furnaces hither and driven a great trade as if our owne Nation and soyle could not either asford vs earth and clay enough or worke-men sufficient to maintaine our 〈◊〉 some I have seene made in the forme or figure of beasts as of Doggs Catts Apes and Horses others of Fishes as Dolphins c. But the most curious and costly either for Workmanship or Mettall are brought from China Of glasses to quaffe in the fashions and sizes be almost without number some transported hither from Venice and other places some made in the Citie by strangers besides the ordinary sort I have seene some like Shipps under-sayle accommodated with Mastes Sayles Ordnance Cable Anchor and saylors to man her others like boates Lyons Ratts Trumpets and indeede what not Come to plate Every Taverne can afford you flat bowles French bowles Prounct Cups Beare-bowles Beakers and private houshoulders in the Citie when they make a Feast to entertaine their friends can furnish their cupbords with Flagons Tankards Beere cups Wine-bowles some whire some percell guilt some guilt all over some with covers others without of sundry shapes and qualities Many can make showes of 50. pounds or an hundred Marke-worth of plate upon his Table when hee hath scare an hundred shillings to dance in his pocket and that makes the proverbe to grow so common amongst them A good paâ—…ne never shames his master But come to a great mans Invitation in the Citiâ—… the varietie and value of their plate were it not so common might to some appeare wonderfull what then may wee imagine the estate of the Nobilitie and the Court to be in that kind No question without valuation Insomuch that divers of good experience and Iudgement have beene of opinion that the Plate doth much out-value the Coyne in the Kingdome you see how wee may compare with others in varietie of cups let us now examine what competitor-ship wee can claime with them in diversitie of drinks CHAP. XI What forraine Wines and sundry sorts of drinks are now frequent in this Kingdome IT is unquestionable but that where other nations and Provinces are contented with such wines or other liquors as their owne Climats affoord Yet we as if doting upon insatiety borrow
which he began to blesse himselfe and wonder where he was and in his devotion casting up his eyes he perceived a light above for it was then day by which he presently apprehended that he was fallen into a well but seeing by the distance betwixt him and it it was so deepe that there was no possibility for him to get out without helpe hee began to bee in despaire And as hee was musing what hee should doe hee heard them laughing and talking in the roome which he supposed were some above that passed by the wells mouth upon businesse and not willing to loose that opportunity hee call'd out aloud Helpe helpe Ladders Ropes helpe helpe I am fallen into the Well The rest wondring by the hollownesse of his voyce whence the noyse should come for the clamor ascended upward at length by his strugling and striving perceived him to be in the Chimney and so in the stead of pulling to draw him up they pluckt him out by the leggs below and these and such like are the ridiculous effects of drunkennesse which end with that of the Poet Nam maximum Ebrietas Malorum est omnium Mortalibus quod laedat hos est maximum The greatest evill that on earth can be And most hurts mankinde is Ebrietie CHAP. XIX Of some who have liued absteinious and altogether refrained from Wine IAm loath to cloy the reader with too much impertinences I will next set before you the absteniousnesse of some Ethnicks of the sormer Ages To whom if we oppose the Libertines of these our times and this nation it will easily appeare how farre those Morall men excell us in sobriety and temperance and on the contrary how much we Christians exceed them in vinocity and surfet Philarchus relates that Theodorus Larissaeus was of such abstinence that he alwayes withdrew himselfe from the presence of King Antigonus when hee went to any quaffing feast The same Author 〈◊〉 that the Iberians though they were the richest and potent of all their neighbouring nations yet they drinke nothing but water and eat but once a day yet in their atyre they were gorgious and sumptuous Aristotle and Theophrastus remember a man call'd Philinus who neuer in his whole life time eate or dranke any thing save Milke Hegesauder Delphus writes that Anchimolus and Mosschus two Philosophers that read in Helis never in their life time dranke any thing but water and eate nothing but fruits yet they were of strong and able bodies Matris an Athenian eate little or nothing save the fruit of the Myrtle he never tasted of the Grape but water onely Lamprus Musicus was most abstenious commended by Pbrinicus both for the sweetnesse of his voyce and wisedome he never dranke but from the river or fountaine Macho the 〈◊〉 Poet remembers the like in one Moschiaedes Aristotle in his booke de Ebrieta speakes of divers who notwithstanding they fed upon salt meats yet were never thirsty amongst whom were Archonides the Argine and Mago the Carthaginian who past the Desarts three severall times eating onely dry meats and never dranke in all their travell Antigonus Charistius reports of Poleman the Academick that beginning from thirty yeeres of his age he drunke nothing but water to the houre of his death 〈◊〉 Sceptius witnesseth of Dioeles Peparethius to have tasted no other in the whole terme of his life Herodatus lib. 1. speakes of a King of Persia who dranke onely of the Riâ—…er which flowes neere unto Susas and whithersoever he remooved many Waggons drawne by Mules and laden with siluer vessells fill'd with that Water followed him The second King of Egypt sirnamed Philodelphus having contracted his daughter Berenice unto Antiochus King of Syria at his infinite charges provided that the water of Nilus should be continually conueyed unto her because hee would have her drinke onely from that River for so reports Polibius Heliodorus relates that Antiochus the Illustrious used to mixe his Wine with a water drawne from a Fountaine in Antioch which Theopompus saith Midas King of Phrigia caused first to be made when he thought to surprize Sylenus the drunken Priest of Bacchus Iâ—… is call'd Inna and lies as Byon sayth in the mid-way betwixt the Medi and the Paerniaus Staphinus saith that Meampodes was the first that used to drinke Wine commixt with water Demostenes the famous Oratour protests of himselfe that for a long space together he dranke Water onely of whom Pytheus thus writes Now behold and cast your eyes upon Demosthenes and Demudes both pleading at the barre the continence of the one and the intemperance of the other The onâ—… tasts nothing but water the other swilles altogether Wine Demosthenes alwayes sober Demudes ever drunke the one addicted solely to his study the other to his belly Euphorian Calcidensis reports of Lysirtus Lasivinius that hee was never knowne to bee thirsty at all and though he seldome or never tasted any liquor yet his urine hath beene as free to him as to any other man At which when many wondred yet by triall they found it to be true Infinites I could exemplifie in this kind but I will surfet you with nothing for I obserue with the Physitians that a sparing diet is better then surfet but on the contrary concerning those spunges that powre downe their throats cup after cup and glasse after glasse as if their thirst would never bee satisfied or as if their stomachs were of the nature of fire which the more it eates the more it askes let them listen to that of the Poet Antiphanes Hee that with Wine Wine thinks to expell One ill would with another quell A Trumpet with a Trumpet drowne Or with the Cryer of the Towne Still a loud man Noyse deafe with noyse Or to conuert a Bawde make choise Of a Pander pride with pride shame thus Or put a Cooke downe by Calistratus Discord by discord thinke to ease Or angry men with scoffes appease So Warre by Battell to restraine And labour mittigate by paine Command a suddaine peace betweene Two shrill scoulds in their height of spleene By drinke to quench drinke is all one As if by strife strife to atone CHAP. XX. A moderation to be obserued in drinking borrowed from Antiquity EPichermus is of opinion that all sacrifices which were first piously deâ—…oted to the Gods have since by the corruption of times beene adulterated as meerely chang'd into ryotous Feasts and banquets And those which were at first sacred made profane by voluptuous and excessive quassing from whence ariseth wantonnesse or furie begetting blastings misery and fetters The Poet Pangascs dedicates the first moderate draught to the houres and the Graces the second to Venus and Bacchus the third to Injury and discommoditie according to that of Euripides Sunt praemium Lascivienti verbera To him that wantons in his cupps stroakes are due And Pamasis before named thus speakes