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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01560	Distractions, or The holy madnesse Feruently (not furiously) inraged against euill men; or against their euills. Wherein the naughty are discouered to themselues, and others: and may here see at once, who they are; what they doe; and how they ought. Somewhat delightfull, but fruitfull altogether: as ordered to please a little; but aymed to profit much. By Iohn Gaule, vtrusque olim Academiæ.	Gaule, John, 1604?-1687.	1629 (1629)	STC 11689; ESTC S102992	78,981	617

bound while it is both Causlesse and Extreme Cursed CAIN looke vpon thy Brother he is thy Makers Image also as fearefully and wonderfully made as thy selfe his bones and haires are as strictly numbred and his bloud more precious in his Markers Eyes What Fury of Hell prouokes thee to destroy that Image which no art no ability of thine can repaire no amends can acquit Tush what 's a Death to a Dishonour His Life shall but pay for thy Disgrace Ah! nor thy Confusion but for his Life The LAW when it was vsed at the most and interpreted at the worst allowed no more than an Eye for an Eye a Tooth for a Tooth a Hand for a Hand a Foot for a Foot Stripe for Stripe Wound for Wound but Bloud answered not but for Bloud nor but for Life was Life required Do I instance think'st thou for thy priuate Retaliation of wrongs rather against that ouerplus of Euill whereby thy reuenge tyrannizes so farre beyond the Offence HE that knew best how farre that LAW did stretch and how long it should last now tells thee otherwise Yee haue heard that it hath beene said an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth But J say vnto you that ye resist not Euill The Talion Law when it was was for publike Iustice not for priuate Reuenge Especially sith the Reuenge of a man knowes no Order holds no Equalitie in his owne wrong So that commonly there is more wrong in the Reuenge done than in the Wrong receiued Hee hath endammaged thy Goods must thou therfore assault his Person He hath torne thy Coat must thou therefore teare his Flesh He pluckes thee by the Haire wilt thou therfore pull him by the Throat He hath blemished thy Name and must thou therefore spoile his Life While thou wilt be thus satisfied for the wrong hee hath done thee what satisfaction wilt thou make him for the wrong thou hast done Hee is the more Offender himselfe that seekes to auenge him about the Offence Let it not be pleaded whether hath first or last it shall be iudged whether hath most offended Besides the Ground and Occasion thereof this euill hath Anger in the End and Execution that it is vniust His Wrath is iust alone that shall once render to euery one according to his Workes Thou wicked SERVANT and mercilesse wilt thou pull thy Fellow by the throat and hale him to Prison for a few Farthing Trespasses Thy LORD shall once binde thee hand and foot and cast thee into Vtter Darknesse for many Talent Offences Anger is but the Deuils Wrath and the angry Man but his Weapon A Weapon wherewith hee kills double or two at once ones Soule together with anothers Body Hellish Instruments of Fury are they all to set a World in combustion and bring themselues to confusion What a spite is this Thus the Deuill vses Mans hand for Mans destruction Thus laughs the Aduersary that euery mans Sword is in his Fellowes side thus glories that Man is his owne and others ruine God made Man Mans God but the Deuill thus makes Man Mans Deuill Shall I turne Actor in this balefull Tragedie of Men and Dayes and inueigh against this Fury of the World Direfull Miscreant and hatefull Monster of Hell impatient of our Being irefull at our Quiet hurtfull to our Safetie and dismall through all our Dayes Who but SATAN did first enwombe thee Woe and alas that Man did euer enbosome thee Thy rage hath vndone more Liues than the force of Death hath dissolued Thou Plague of Mankind ●hat hast cost them such measurelesse such numberlesse Bloud and Wounds Not Tigres not Dogges not Vipers but Men ah Men are growne the impatient the froward and stubborne Generation thus vntowardly doe they degenerate from themselues The Lion the Beare the Wolfe feed on the Hart the Asse the Sheepe but Man thirsteth after Mans bloud and the greedy Canniball gluts himselfe with Mans flesh Aske why he is so hengry It is because he is so angry at his Fare It is his Fury that prouokes him to that Dogged Appetite and gets him such a Stomack to it Reuenge is but the Executioner of all those Cruelties whereof Anger is the first Inuentor That but the Practitioner this the Engineere Whence come Stabblings Stranglings Poysonings and rufull Maceratings This first taught and vrged to digge out a mans Eyes to slit his Nose to cut out his Tongue to hew off his hands to carbonate his Flesh and shiuer his Bones Yet more and worse Because it will not doe a Man the Fauour to dispatch him it studies to put him to as many Deaths as Wounds and thinkes that if be perish other or sooner than it would that he hath as good as escaped in comparison to what it meant him Diuers hath this Euill diuersly surpriz'd and ruin'd One in his Bed another at his Table another on his Way another in the Church Not Time Place Persons Occasions can forbid Anger 's rash and raging attempts Widowes and Orphans Young and Old lament and curse this Euill since it vntimely tooke away the Husband from the Wife of his bosome the Parent from the tender Infants head the staffe of his age from the aged Father What say I thus of some This Firebrand of the World hath set all Nations together by the eares hath dilapidated whole Cities depopulated whole countries hath made mountaines of Carkasses Riuers of Bloud and Mists of gasping Breaths Outragious Hagge and odious had the World but one Head she with Caligula would strike it off at a blow So she might see the whole Fabricke in a flame shee Nero-like would not grudge her ashes to a second Chaos This euill hath Anger thought and done and would yet do more It neuer but had a desire aboue the power a thirst beyond the practice of reuenge Yet it thunders though it now can dart no more hauing done the vtmost spite and rage it yet will threaten worse Thus as followeth haue the Furious vowed and sworne against the liues of their Aduersaries To giue their Carkasses to the Beasts of the field to the Fowles of the aire to strow their ashes vpon the Sea to make them they shall neither know nor say who hurt them not to leaue so much as one to carry newes of the rest That hee 'le make them eat their owne dung and drinke their owne stale that not their God shall deliuer them out of his hands That he meanes to ply them with Powder and Pellets as thicke as mist and haile that hee 'le tread their Gray-haires to their well nigh returned dust strangle the Infant in the Parents eye and arme spoile their Virgins rip vp their Bigge bereaue their Mothers Make their Men to draw in his Waggons to grinde in his Mills to dig in his Mines Their Princes necks shall bee but his Footstooles and their Young-mens backes but the Asses for his loads Thus roare the Lions thus hisse the Serpents thus barke the Dogges Nought but