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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15850	Englands bane: or, The description of drunkennesse. Composed and written by Thomas Young, sometimes student of Staple-Inne	Young, Thomas, student of Staple Inn.	1617 (1617)	STC 26116; ESTC S120602	22,245	54

For Plato saith Drunkennesse is a monster with many heads As first filthy talke Secondly Fornication Thirdly Wrath Fourthly Murther Fiftly Swearing Sixtly Cursing If these be the chiefe heads that procede from the polluted body of this vgly Monster Filthy talke the first bead of Drunkennes let vs trie them by the touchstone of the holy Scripture and see how they are allowed of thereby And first concerning filthy talke is is said to the Counthians that filthy speakers and raylers shall not inherite the Kingdome of God and the fourth to the Ephesians Saint Paul forbids vs to haue any corrupt communication to proceed forth of our mouthes Eph. 4.29.30 but that which is good to the vse of edifying that it may minister grace to the hearers And also we must put away all bitternesse and euill speaking And further the fift to the Ephesians S. Paul wisheth that no filthinesse nor foolish talking Eph. 5.4 no not so much as iesting should either bee vsed or named among Christians But from the mouthes of Drunkards what idle talke filthy speech blasphemous oathes and prophane words are vsed no Christian eares can with patience endure but with griefe of minde vexation of spirit yea with both horrour and terrour to the soule of man The greatest curse that euer fell on mankinde since the floud came by Drunkennesse as appeareth in Genesis by Noah the godliest man then liuing auoiding all other sinnes Gen 9.25 yet was vnawares taken with this vice of Ebrietie and cursed his own sonne with the bitter and perpetuall curse of seruitude Saying Cursed be Canaan a seruant of seruants shall he be to all his brethren Which thing of seruitude was neuer either heard or spoken off although the world had then beene the space of 1656. yeres to the which curse God saying Amen added also nakednes to the posterity of Cham as appeareth this day by the Virginians and Indians being by the best Authors of Antiquitie noted to come from that Cham Nakednes and seruitude are hereditary curse to all drunkardes their posterity and surely by the slauerie and beggerie that happeneth generally to all that vseth this vice I can thinke no other of it but that it is a curse hereditarie to all Drunkards themselues or at least to their posteritie Now concerning the Description of the second head of this Monster Drunkennesse Fornication second head which is Fornieation The Apostle in the sixt chapter to the Corinthians saith Be not deceiued neither Fornicators nor Adulterers nor Wantons nor Buggerers 1 Cor. 6.9.15 18.19.20 shall inherite the Kingdome of heauen And in the 15. verse he saith Know yee not that your bodies are the members of Christ shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an Harlot Flye fornication euery sinne that a man doth is without the body but hee that committeth Fornication sinneth against his owne body Know yee not that the body is the Temple of the holy Ghost which is in you whom ye haue of God And yee are not your owne for ye are bought for a price therefore glorifie God in your body and in your spirit for they are Gods Which being thus what glory can that partie shew vnto God in his spirit that hath neither vse of body nor sence for as Socrates saith Reason departeth when drinke possesseth the braine Thrise worthy is this saying of the Philosopher and fit to be noted with golden letters Cum tibi siue Deus siue mater rerum omnium Natura dederit animum quo nihil est prestantius sic teipsum O homo ab abiicies at que prosternes vt nihil inter te quadrupedem aliquem potes interesse Wheu as God hath giuen thee a liuing soule which excelleth all things O man wilt thou so much abase and disgrace thy selfe that thou wilt make no difference betwixt thy selfe and a bruit beast for Drunkennesse doth not onely disgrace but euen slayeth the soule of man according to Zeno his saying It is not Death that destroyeth the soule but a bad life But to returne to the vice of Fornication S. Paul to the Thessalonians saith 1 Thes 4.3 For this is the will led a man he should be slaine for it and further to set out the greatnesse of this sinne and fearing they might bee tempted through briberie to spare the murtherer he saith moreouer yee shall take no recompence for the life of the murderer Num. 25.16.19.20.31.32 which is worthy to die but he shall be put to death The land where the murther is done is so much pollnted that there is no way to cleanse it but by the bloud of him that shed it And surely it is seldome or neuer knowne that a Murtherer went in peace to his graue as may appeare by Abimelech who after hee had killed his seuenty brethren although God suffered him for a time to liue and to rule all Israel yet at length hee died miserably and was slaine by the hands of a woman Zimri murdered Elah but afterward by Gods iust iudgement was forced to burne himselfe 1 Kin. 19 18 But this vnnaturall sinne this monstrous deede this abhorred fact of Murther is by no accident or occasion so often committed as through Drunkennesse not onely by Drunkards vpon others but also many times through Gods heauy wrath vpon Drunkards themselues as by too many examples I am able to make proofe as well of the one as of the other And first to begin with that high and mighty Monarch of the world Alexander the Great Murders in Drunkenes who in the beginning of his Raigne was so temperate that he refused the Cookes and Pasterers of the Queene of Caria saying he had better then they were viz. for his dinner early rising and for his supper a moderate dinner notwithstanding through the vitious manners and lewd customes of the Persians he was so much giuen at last vnto the excesse of drinking that he propounded sixe hundred crownes for a reward to him that drunke most called a cup of siluer being of a great bignesse after his owne name which cup when he offered vnto Calisthenes one of his fauorites he refused saying that he which dranke with Alexander had neede of Asculapius at which words the King feeling himselfe touched and being in his drinke was so incensed against him that hee caused him immediately to be put in a cage with dogges where hee poysoned himselfe afterwards being perswaded by a common Strumpet named Thais he burnt Percipolis the chiefe Citie in Persia and which was worst in his intemperancie killed his deere friend Clytus for which bloudy deede after he came to himselfe he wept and fasted three dayes and would had he been permitted haue slaine himselfe In this deede of Alexander Seneca Epist 59 the saying of Seneca is verified Ebrietas vnius horae hilaram Insaniam longi temporis tedio pensat Drunkennesse requireth one houres merry madnes with a