Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	drink_v	root_n	wine_n	34,794	5	10.5067	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97260	A precious mithridate for the soule made up of those two poysons, covetousness and prodigality the one drawn from the fathers ill qualities: the other from the sons: for the curing of both extremes, and advancing frugality, the mean. Being foure chapters taken out of R. Junius his Christian library, and are to be sold by J. Crump stationer in Little Bartolmes Well-yard, and H. Crips in Popeshead-ally.	Younge, Richard.	1661 (1661)	Wing Y174A; ESTC R230788	14,240	16

they will have I shall beg of thee but once thy estate will so soon vanish of them often yea give me now a talent I may live to give thee a groat And at another time hearing that the house of a certain Prodigall was offered to sale he said I knew well that house was so accustomed to surfeiting and drunkenness that ere long it would spue out the Master Nay in all likelihood he foresees it himself and therefore as he makes short work with his estate so not long with his life as knowing that if he should live long he must be a begger As seldom but he shortens his days some way for he gives himself to all manner of vice gluttony and drunkennesse chambering and wantonness pride riot contention c. He even banishes civility and gives himself over to sensuality and such a life seldom lasts long They may rightly be called spend-alls for they not onely spend all they have but themselves also in stead of quenching their thirsts they drown both their bodies souls and estates in Drink They will call Drawer give us an Ocean and then leave their wits rather then the wine behinde them One cryes to his fellow Do me reason but the drink answers I will leave thee no reason no not so much as a beast hath for these Nabols cannot abound but they must be drunk surfet They have not onely cast off Religion that should make them good men but even reason that should make them men And saving only on the Sea they live without all compass as a ship on the water so they on the land reel too and fro and stagger like a drunken man Psal 107.27 All their felicity is in Tavern or brothell house where harlots and sicophants riflle their estates and then send them to robbe or teach them how to cheat or borrow which is all one for to pay they never mean and prodigality drives them to repair their too great lavishnesse in one thing by too great covetousnesse and injustice in another The greatest mispenders for the most part are constrained to be as great misgetters that they may feed one vice with another Now as if they had been bred among Bears they know no other dialect then roaring swearing and banning It is the tongue or language of hell they speak as men learn before hand the language of that Country whether they mean to travel By wine and surfeting they pour out their whole estates into their bellies The father went to the devil one way and the son will follow him another and because he hath chosen the smoother way he makes the more hast The one so loved Money that he could not afford himself good Drink the other so loves good Drink that he scornes Money The Father cannot finde in his heart to put a good morsel into his belly but lives on roots that his prodigal heir may feed on Phesants he drinks water that his son may drink wine and that to drunkenness The one dares not eat an egge lest he should lose a chicken and goes to hell with whay and carrots the other follows after with Canary Partridges and Potatoes These are Epecures indeed placing Paradise in their throats and heaven in their guts their shrine is their Kitchin their Priest is their Cook the Altar is their table and their belly is their God By wine and furfeit ng they pour out their whole estates into their bellies yet nevertheless complain against nature for making their necks so short Aristippus gave to the value of sixteen shillings for a Patridge his clownish neighbour told him he held it too dear at two pence Why quoth Aristippus I esteem less of a pound then thou dost of a penny the same in effect sayes the prodigal son to his penurious father for how else could he so soon bring a noble to nine pence an inheritance of a thousand pounds per annum to an anunity of five hundred shillings besides the one obtains a thousand pounds with more ease then the other did a thousand pence and by how much the less he esteems of money by so much the more noble and better man he esteems himself and his father the more base and hereupon he scorns any calling and must go apparelled like a Prince God hath inacted it as a perpetual law In the sweat of thy Face be it brow or brain shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth Gen. 3.19 And for the best Gentleman to dispise honest callings mental or manual is a pride without wit or grace Even gallant Absalom was a great sheep-master the bravery and magnificence of a Courtier must be built upon the ground of frugality Besides exercise is not more wholsome for the body then it is for the minde and soul but this vain glorious Coxcombe is all for sports and pleasure and seldom ceases hunting after sports as Esau for venison until he hath lost the Blessing But he should O that he would consider that medicines are no meat to live by Then for his pride in apparel you may know that by this he is like the Cinamon tree whose barke is of more worth then his body or like the Estridge or Bird of Paradise whose feathers are more worth then her flesh Or some Vermine whose case is better then het carcass And yet this swells him so and makes him look as big as if the river of his blood could not be bancked within the channel of his veins and shift his attire he must like the Islanders of Foolianna the sicle or that King of Mexico who was wont to change his cloths four times a day and never wear them again imploying his leavings and cast suits for his continual liberalities and rewards and who would also have neither pot nor dish nor any implement in his Kitchin or on his Table be brought twice before him Indeed he cannot shift himself out of the Mercers books until he hath sold the other Farm or Lordship perhaps a dinner or supper at some Tavern may cost him ten pounds or more for he must pay the whole reckoning that he may be counted the best man Yea when the shot comes to be paid for any man to draw in his company is a just quarrel and use hath made it unpleasant to him not to spend and yet bare head in the streets does him more good then a meals meat He hath the Wolfe of vaine glory and that he feeds untill himself becomes the food Nor can it be long first for an excessive and successive impairing alwayes importeth a final dissolution Nor hath he ever the wit to think upon sparing till he comes to the bottom of the purse resembling Plautus that famous comical Poet born in Umbria who having spent all he had on plaiers apparel was forced for his living to serve a Baker in turning a hand mill Like an hour-glass turned up he never leaves running till all be out He never looks to the bottom of his patrimony