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VVine and women or A briefe description of the common courtesie of a curtezan. Written solely for the benefit of immodest and intemperate youth.
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E. F. (Edward Ford), fl. 1630?-1660.
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1646
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VVINE AND WOMEN OR A briefe Description of the common courtesie of a Curtezan Written solely for the benefit of immodest and intemperate YOUTH Cavete autem vobis Take heed to your selves lest at any time your hearts be over-charged with Surfeting Drunkennes Luk. 21. 34 We see that Lot of whom Origen saith Ebrietas decipet quem Sodoma non decipet Here 's neither Wine nor yet good Women blam'd Though 't may bee in a place or two they 'r nam'd Wine should accilerate our Thoughts above And make us hate the very thing we love LONDON Printed by John Hammond 1647. To the Honourable Robert Walloppe Esquire one of the Right Honourable Committee of both Kingdoms and a worthy Member of the Honourable House of COMMONS SIR I Must either without prolixity or flattery confesse that I have received from time to time very many singular and large favours from you and truly I was thinking and premeditating with my selfe what I might do to make it manifest appeare I willingly would make requitall in some measure if I were able and yet this Duty troubled me the lesse in regard with noble and Heroick Minds still for the most part where the deed is wanting the Will compleats the Worke. Yet I must confesse 't is very meet that Charities eyes be open as well as her hands though she gives away the Branches not to part with the Root Honour'd Sir I do ingeniously confesse my self ingag'd to you for your Love you may conceive it strange I should present you with a present that you do not love yet Kind Sir so it is for I have tendred to you both the excesse of Wine and a Company of Wanton Women and how you do affect the one or respect the other your Life and Conversation certificats as farre as Phebus commonly doth lend his Glorious and most Radiant Rayes I would your unworthy Servant were as free for I must confesse both to Gods glory and my owne ignomie unlesse he please to cover it with the Mantle of Christs mercy that the excesse of VVine inordinate affections chambering and wantonnesse hath bin habituall with me but I hope that it will be sufficient that I have spent the time past of my Life walking in Wantonnesse Riot Surfeting and Drunkennesse Honour'd Sir I doubt I am too tedious I am sure I have bin so in my Transgressions Yet ere I part I would intreat your lenity to patronizle my little small Enchiridion whilst I by Gods assistance shall endeavour to improve my interest in the Lord and my favour in your Love And Rest Your assured Servant to command Ed. Foord To the courteous Reader READER consider as a little Clay In time will fade and moulder all away Even so conceive that truth this reason gives In time will fade the sweetest sweet that lives And therefore as thou tend'rest Gods honour Ne're let a thought that 's ill reflect upon her But see without delay that thou apply'st To fix 'em on thy proper obiect Christ So shall thy Transmigration happy be Both to thy Selfe and thy Posteritie Thine in the Lord Ed. Foord VVine and Women IT is the affection some men beare to Wine That hinders their immergent duties still And makes them by degrees for to decline From Actions that are good to those are ill And truely I conceive without distast 'T is hard to find a Drunkard that is chast Woe to the Crowne of Pride the Drunkards of Ephraim for his Glorious Beauty shall be a fading Flower which is upon the head of the vally of them that be fat and over-come with VVine for all their tables are full of filthy vomiting no place is cleane Isa 28. 1. 8. And likewise 't is the love that some men beare To wanton Women that undoe them still For let them speculate a face that 's faire And pray how soone are they induc'd to ill And therefore 't is a most apparent signe He that loves women doubtles favours wine Did not Solomon the King of Jsrael sin by these things yet among many Nations was there no King like him for he was beloved of his God and God had made him King of Jsrael yet strange women caused him to sin Nehe. 13. 26. Besides 't is Wine that makes a man of strength So imbecil and weake he cannot stand But measures his owne way by his owne length For downe he is i' th' turning of a hand Let reason be expuls'd and Wine take place A man will reele to ruine a good pace Therefore thou shalt say unto them thus saith the Lord God of Jsrael Every bottle shall be filled with wine and they shall say unto thee do we not know that every bottle shall be filled with wine and all the Inhabitants with drunkennesse I will dash them one against another even the father and the sonne together saith the Lord Jer. 13 12. 13. 14. Besides 't is Women in the heat of Wine That cooles mans duty to his bountious God And ne're permits his glim'ring light to shine He had directions for to spread abroad Me thinkes a Woman that is sweet and faire Should never sell her skin to make a Snare And after this he loved a woman by the Riveâ— of Sorek whose name was Delilah unto whom came the Princes of the Philistims and said unto her intice him and see wherein his great strength lyes and by what meanes we may over-come him and punish him every one of us shall give thee eleven hundred shekels of silver Judges 16. 4. 5. When Wine has fill'd the braine and belly full Then man is put immediate to a Nonplus And all his sacrifices they prove dull Being as sleepy still as Eutichus Down street he squats and down he hangs his head And hear's a funerall sermon like one dead For thus hath the Lord God of Jsrael spoken unto me Take the cup of wine of this mine indignation at mine hand and cause all the Nations to whom I send thee to drinke it and they shall drinke and bee moved and be mad because of the sword that I shall send among them Jer. 25 15. 16. 'T is wanton VVomen make men idolise And their bought beauty too much to adore The foolish man can say he is not wise That wilfully doth run his Ship ashore I would not have a man that is discreet Trample his knowledge underneath his feet But King Solomon loved many out-landish women both the daughter of Pharaoh and women of Moab Ammon Edom Zidon and Heâ—h and hee had seven hundred wives that were Princesses and three hundred Concubines and his wives turned away his heart from God 1 Kings 11. 1. 3. And it is Wine we manifest'y find That makes us wanton in these mournfull times Having no index of a pensive mind But breviate our dayes with paultry Rimes Take heed of being private with a Woman But chiefly if her looks proclaime her common And the Daughter of the same Herodias came in and danced and
to drink the wine of giddines Psa 60. 3 'T is the excesse of Wine that makes men rove Darting their eyes at each loose Lasse they meet Forsaking childishly their first-borne Love For fain'd affection pick't up in the street But sure it is a signe of ignorance To slight true Love for Love that 's met by chance They shall not drinke wine with mirth strong drinke shall be bitter to them that drinke it There is a crying for wine in the streets all joy is darkened the mirth of the world is gone away Jsa 24. 9. 11 'T is wanton Women that do captivate And snare too many poore men now adayes Either by beauty or a stately gate They practise when they trip so many wayes Your chiefest cause your Harlots walk by night Is ' cause they do not love to walke aright Desire not her beauty in thine heart neither let her take thee with her eye-lids For because of a whorish woman man is brought to a Morsell of Bread Pro. 6. 25. 26. And no man doth deny but it is VVine That doth incourage Cowards for to fight Yet ' may be take this man another time And hee 'le not venture to secure his right God unto none denies his fruitfull Grapes Yet he restraines 'em when they make us Apes VVhoredome and wine and new wine take away their heart Hosea 4. 11. 'T is Wine which makes fond men without a cause Retard the precepts of Almighty God And daily violate Jehovah's Lawes VVith such ridiculous and absurd applaud For now each imbecile and tippling Sot Conceives Gods Vineyard is an Ace too hot The sonne of man came eating and drinking and they say behold a glutton and a drinker of wine a friend unto Publicans and sinners but wisedome is justified of her Children Matthew 11. 19. Women are very powerfull that can Make men forsake the Elizeum of their youth And so to stupifie a knowing man That he forsakes the way of life and truth T is a sad thing when God doth give us meanes For to live chast that we should cherish queanes Behold all that use Proverbs shall use this proverbe against thee saying As is the mother so is her daughter Ezek. 16. 44. 'T is wanton Women that impaire the store Of men that had large talents not long since But now obscenity has made them poore As doth appeare by sad experience Is' t not a shame that we should God implore To lend us meanes to give unto a whore But he that committeth adultery with a woman is voyd of understanding he that doth it destroyeth his owne Soule Pro. 6. 32. 'T is Wine that makes bad men for to refraine And follow that which is apparent ill Taking felicity in what is vaine Maugre all precepts prest to crosse his will Surely in Wine there is a kind of charme That that which doth me good should do me harme And they gave him to drinke wine mingled with myrrhe but he received it not Marke 15. 23. 'T is wanton Women frequently seduces Men for to live extravagant and rude Making them run to riot and profuses They have such fine quaint wayes for to delude For having spent your portion they cry then Faith Sir good morrow we are for other men For wicked Athaliah and her children brake up the house of God and all the things that were dedicate for the house of the Lord did they bestow upon Baalim 2 Chron. 24 7. It is the love of Wine that makes men keepe Both from his wife and children night and day His wife perceiving of it falls to weepe And her poore Lambs they fall as fast to play Their father proves an Alchymist most fine And turnes his Childrens bread to draughts of wine Keep not company with drunkards nor with gluttons For the drunkard and the glutton shal be poore and the sleeper shall be cloathed with ragges Pro. 23. 20. 21. Immodest Women set themselves to sale Wearing their necks and bosomes constant bare And ' cause with some or other they 'le prevaile They paint their faces crispe and curle their haire And for the lucre of some halfe a Crowne They 'l take you up before you 'r hardly down Then the Scribes and the Pharises brought unto him a woman taken in adultery and set her in the midst And said unto him Master this woman was taken in adultery in the very act John 8. 3. 4. 'T is VVine that makes uncivill men forget And keepe all companies they meet withall And doth the boyes of Bacchus so respect That he forgets who t is that doth him cal First his burn'd wine and then his wine that 's rawer And whosoere call's him he call's the Drawer Let him kisse me with the kisses of his mouth for thy love is better then wine we will remember thy love more then wine the righteous do love thee Cant. 1. â— 3. 'T is wanton women as you have understood That would suppresse all vertuous thoughts within ye And at the first will make a shew of good That at the last they may the better win ye Whilst your coyne lasts they 'l shew a hansome leg But when that 's gone they 'l shew you how to begge Such is the way also of an adulterous woman she eateth and wipeth her mouth and saith I have not committed iniquitie Pro. 30. 20. 'T is the excesse of VVine that makes men wast And care so little for their precious time Still harbouring vicious thoughts that are unchast And round invelloped with filth and slime A Man is never fit for acts Divine That fits himself to quaffe up bowles of wine But they have erred because of wine and are out of the way by strong drinke Jsa 28. 7. 'T is envious women whose invective tongues Makes slander still their common receptacle And in their bosomes weares anothers wrongs Their minds and dispositions are so sickle I had rather by a Sword receive a wrong Then to be bitten by a womans tongue Then said his wife unto him Doest thou continue yet in thy uprightnes I blaspheme God and dye But he said unto her thou speakest like a foolish woman what shall we receive good at the hands of God and not receive evill Job 2. 9. 10. 'T is Wine makes men so carelesse and remisse In many duties that concernes their good And quite cast off their deare-bought happinesse At no lesse value then their Makers Blood And therefore we may very well conclude No sin but one out vyes ingratitude Yet the chiefe Butler did not remember Joseph but forgate him Gen. 40. 23. It is the Love of Harlots often makes A Man to venture both his limbs and life And 't is for them alone that he forsakes And many times rejects his vertuous wife Forbiden Fruit a Man may daily meet As he doth Death yet neither may be sweet And the woman said unto the Serpens we eats of the fruit of the trees of the Garden Gen. 3. 2. 'T is Wine that causes rednesse in