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,
'Tis 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 'tis 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 'tis 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
[Page 8] had made him King of
Jsrael, yet strange women caused him to sin.
Nehe. 13. 26.
Besides, 'tis 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, 'tis 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 Rive
[...] 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.
'Tis 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
He
[...]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 pleaseed
Herod, and them that sat at table together: the King said unto the Maid, aske of me what thou wilt, and I will give it thee? So she went forth and said unto her mother, what shal I aske? And she said,
John Baptists Head.
Mark 6. 22. 24.
It is your vicious VVomen oft inclines
Men for to ride a hundred mile together,
Onely to expiate their Lust and Mindes,
That is more lighter then the Peacocks feather:
Two'd puzzell one to understand their meanings,
That they should have the crop, & God the gleanings.
And when
Phineas the son of
Eliazar, the son of
Aaron the Priest saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and tooke a Speare in his hand, and followed the man of
Jsrael into the Tent, and thrust them both thorow, to wit, the man of
Jsrael & the woman through the belly; so the plague ceased from the Children of Jsrael.
Num. 25. 7. 8.
It is conspicuous, evident and true,
That the excesse of Wine makes men absurd,
And beckens them for to be carelesse too,
In those soliloques that please the Lord:
A drunken man doth seldome care two strawes,
Either for Maker, or his Makers Lawes.
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Noah also began to be an Husband-man, and planted a Vineyard, and he dranke of the wine, and was drunken and was uncovered in the midst of his Tent.
Gen. 9, 20. 21.
Every sin that man commits alone,
Tends doubtlesse to his onely prejudice,
And he it is that solely should bemone▪
His slighting of the heavenly Paradise:
But where
Zimri and
Co
[...]bi joyned be,
Ther's double sinnes against the Trinitie.
Then he said, what is the pledge that I shall give thee? And she answered thy signet, and thy cloake, and the staffe that is in thine hand: So hee gave it her, and lay by her, and she was with child by him.
Gen. 38. 18.
'Tis VVine that makes the quintessence of love
Depart from the right object of the same,
And that reciprocall affection move,
That should the essence of our Soules, maintaine:
Wine makes men strong, and in that strength so blind,
That we impart part on't to women-kind.
So they made their father drinke wine that night also, and the younger arose and lay with him, but he perceived not when she arose, nor when she lay downe.
Gen. 19. 35. 36.
It is your Women that 's so coy and nice,
That deck themselves in mantles, caules▪ & wimples
And ne're leaves painting of a peece of Vice,
Till they have fill'd their faces full of pimples:
It would be strange, to see one faire and poore,
That were not envious, proud, nor yet a whore,
The Lord also saith, because the daughters of
Sion are hauty and walke with stretched-out necks, and with wandering eyes, walking and minsing as they goe, and making a tinckling with their feet: Therefore shall the Lord make the heads of the daughters of
Sion bald, and the Lord shall discover their secret parts; in that day shall the Lord take away the Ornament of the slippers, and the caules, and the round tyres.
Jsa. 3. 16. 17. 18.
'Tis the excesse of VVine that makes men frame
Their actions so promiscuously and rude,
Procuring to themselves a hatefull name,
Whilst they continue in their drunken Mood:
For little Children when they do 'em meet,
Poynt at them with their fingers in the street.
Then
David called him, and he did eat and drinke before him, and he made him drunke, and at even he went out to lye on his Couch with the Servants of his Lord, but went not downe to his House.
2 Sam. 11. 13.
'Tis wanton VVomen that resemble most
The labouring surges of the troubled Sea,
For if their humourous humours be but crost,
Nothing but emulation is their plea;
And be your fortunes either high or low,
Nothing contents 'em but your overthrow.
Now therefore slay all the males among the children, and kill all the women that have knowne man by carnall copulation, but all the women children that have not knowne carnall copulation, keepe alive for your selves.
Num. 31. 17. 18.
Excesse of Wine 'tis probable and true,
Deprives our great Creatour of a Heart,
And makes a man most earnestly pursue
That which in time will aggravate his smart:
Then who would be a drunkard, that's bereaven
And quite excluded from the joyes of Heaven?
VVoe unto him that gives his neighbour drinke, thou joynest thine heat and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest see their privities.
Hab. 2. 15.
The beauty of a VVoman makes a Man
Often forget the Author of the same;
If it be so, as so it is, why than.
Each one will vote this creature much too blame:
Beauty hath many one so blindly led,
They have forgot where it was borne or bred.
And shalt see among the captives a beautifull woman, and hast a desire unto her and wouldst take her to thy wife: Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house: and she shall shave her head, and pare her nayles.
Deut. 21. 11. 12.
The strength of Wine doth so intoxicate
The Memory of many now adayes,
That they affect to prattle, talke, and prate,
And without licence publish forth their praise:
If you let Wine too often charge your braine▪
'Tis ten to one you charge, where you'l be slain.
And his servant
Zimri, Captaine of halfe his Charets, conspired against him as he was in
Tirzah, drinking till he was drunken, in the house of
Arza. steward of his house in
Tirzah, and
Zimri came & smote him in the seven and twentieth year of
Asa K. of
Judah, and reigned in his stead.
1 Kings 16. 9. 10.
The quick and rolling eyes of some spruce Dames
Invites a man to kindle
Cupids fires,
And afterwards to scorch him in the flames,
Which is as much perchance as she desires:
For any love that's tendred to them chast,
Is made too straight and narrow for their wast.
The tender and dainty woman among you, which never would venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for her softnesse and tendernesse, shall be grieved at her husband that lyes in her bosome, and at her son, and at her daughter.
Deut. 28. 56.
Weake ones should never love for to contend
With things that are so powerfull and strong,
'Tis better for them gently for to bend,
Then to stand out and do themselues more wrong:
The strength of wine hath conquer'd more by far,
Then
Alexander ever did by warre.
[Page 15] And they went out at noone, but
Benhadad did drinke till he was drunken in th
[...] Tent, both he and the Kings, for two and thirty Kings helped him, and they slew every one his enemy, and the
Aramites fled, and
Jsrael pursued them, but
Benhadad the King of
Aram escaped on a horse.
1 Kings 20. 16. 20
Man would not thinke, to glance a lustfull thought
Upon a Woman were so sad a thing,
Yet the
Messiah tells us it is nought,
And that it much distastes our Heavenly King;
Lord of thy mercy never let my eyes
Love to behold so sad a sacrifice.
And when it was even-tide,
David arose out of his bed, and walked upon the roofe of the Kings Palace and from the roofe he saw a woman washing her selfe; and the woman was very beautifull to looke upon: Then
David sent Messengers, and tooke her away, & she came unto him, & he lay with her, and the woman conceived, therefore she sent and told
David, and said I am with child.
2 Sam. 11. 2. 4. 5.
'Tis Wine that makes the illiterate to indite,
As though he had dranke hard at
Helicon,
And oftentimes such pleasing straines to write,
That to say truth, it would admire one:
And makes ye to believe, if you want skill,
He came but lately from
Parnassus Hill.
Hee causeth grasse to grow for the Cattell, and
[Page 16] herbe for the use of Man, that he may bring fort
[...] bread out of the earth: and wine that maketh gla
[...] the heart of man, and oyle to make the face to shine and bread that strengthneth mans heart.
Psa. 104▪ 14. 15.
Women they say the weaker Vessells are;
If so, it is a Paradox to me,
That those that never were train'd up in warre,
So often should obtaine the victorie:
For your faire women still in every place
Do conquer valiant men with their bare Face.
To bring Queene
Vashti before the King with the crowne royall, that he might shew the people and the Princes her beauty: for she was faire to looke upon. But Queene
Vashti refused to come at the Kings word, which he had given in charge to the eunuchs: therefore the King was very angry, and his wrath kindled in him.
Ester 1. 11. 12.
'Tis Wine that makes the dearest friends that are
To be at odds and sometimes disagree,
And usher forth the bitter Caracter
Both of a Coward and an Enemie:
So in conclusion, nothing but their Swords
Must vindicate their fond and foolish words.
VVine is a mocker, and strong drinke is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby, is not wise.
Pro. 20. 1.
Sometimes it is the whitenesse of a hand
That doth contaminate mans heart so foule;
Because he doth not mind the great command
God dictats to him, to preserve his Soule:
Me thinkes an object that is fair and white,
Should never guide me wrong, but lead me right.
Heare me now therefore, O my Children, and hearken to the words of my mouth. Let not thine heart incline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths; For she hath caused many to fal down wounded, and the strong men are all slaine by her.
Pro. 7. 24. 25. 26.
Some men there be, that commonly preferre▪
Flagons of Wine before their reall good,
And to commix their choysest Wine with myrrhe,
Under pretence for to revive their blood:
But why should Wine ingage me to forget,
And quite extinguish reason and my wit?
Woe unto them, that rise up early to follow drunkennesse, and to them that continue untill night, till the Wine do inflame them: And the harpe, and viole, timbrel, and pipe, and wi
[...] are in their Feasts; but they regard not the worke of the Lord, neither consider the worke of his hands.
Isa. 5. 11. 12.
VVomen are cunning Creatures, that we must
Grant for a truth, and no exceptions made,
For they have drill'd too many to the dust,
That by their night-intreaties have bin sway'd:
Nay, puissant Princes have bin subject still
To the commands of women and their will.
A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish destroyeth it with her owne hands.
Pro. 14. 1.
'Tis VVine that makes the Begger to forget,
And quite disband all thoughts of poverty,
Yet suddainly deprives him of his wit,
In his approaches to iocundity:
It makes him in a time of sorrow sing,
And to conceive, he is a little King.
My heart breakes within me, because of the Prophets, all my Bones shake: I am like a drunken man, (and like a man whom Wine hath over-come,) for the presence of the Lord and for his holy words, For the Land is full of Adulterers, and because of oathes the Land mourneth.
Ier. 23. 9. 10.
The twinkling eyes of VVomen do put out▪
Those eyes that do behold 'em, which is strange,
And yet this Metaphor is true no doubt,
VVhen mens aspects lasciviously do range:
Inhetently my thoughts are very foule,
Lord regulate my thoughts, and save a Soule.
[Page 19] Ye have heard, that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, that whosoever lookes after a Woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery already with her in his heart.
Matthew 5. 27. 28.
A man in Wine is fit for any ill,
That
Satan can suggest or tempt him to;
For if he be inrag'd, hee'le fight or kill,
Nay, he will do what you will have him do:
And yet the Boyes of
Bacchus now adaies,
What'ere they lose, purchase a world of praise.
And
Nabals heart was merry within him, for hee was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, neither lesse nor more, untill the morning arose. Then in the morning, when the Wine was gone out of
Nabal, his wife told him those words, and his heart died within him, and he was like a stone.
1 Sam. 25. 36. 37.
'Tis wanton Women, as they see you passe,
Wo'd call you by your name if they knew how,
Saying, surely I have seene you; when alas
'Tis but a tricke to make your vertue bow:
For when she hath you where she would desire,
Shee'le bring hot water to augment your fire.
A foolish woman she is troublesome: she is ignorant,
[Page 20] and knowes nothing: She sitteth at the door
[...] of her house one seat in the high places of the Citie▪ to call them that passe by the way, that go right
[...] their way.
Pro. 9. 13. 14. 15.
'Tis the excesse of Wine that makes men steale
Into your brothel-houses when 'tis Night,
Thinking thereby their actions to conceale
From Gods eternall and most Radiant sight:
But sure no curtains can blind-fold his Face,
That views the reines, and sees in every place:
I sought in mine heart to give my selfe to wine, and to lead my heart in wisdome, and to take hold of follie, till I might see where is that goodnesse of the Children of men, which they enjoy under the sunne the whole number of the dayes of their life.
Eccl. 2. 3
'Tis wanton Women, that for benefit
Will venture to increase their sinfull stores,
And to that purpose impudently sit;
To take men up as they do passe their doores:
But I could wish an Order would come forth,
To punish these according to their worth.
How weake is thine Heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things, even the worke of a presumptuous whorish woman?
Ezek. 16. 30.
'Tis Wine that makes men commonly surmise
Which way to walke for to fulfill their lust,
And new-found fopperies for to devise,
That are obnoxious, hatefull, and unjust:
Each hansome Face is a sufficient tie,
If it be new, to use immodesty.
Thou hast shewed thy people heavy things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of giddines.
Psa. 60. 3
'Tis 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
'Tis 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.
'Tis 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;
Tis 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.
'Tis 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.
'Tis 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.
'Tis 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 shalbe 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.
'Tis 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 tis 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.
[...]. 3.
'Tis 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.
'Tis 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.
'Tis 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.
'Tis 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 'tis 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.
'Tis Wine that causes rednesse in the Eyes,
And couches mischiefe closely in the mind,
Making a Man heroick acts despise,
And weave from good to ill with every wind,
No thought that's permanent can long remaine
In a besotted and unstable Braine.
Though I fed them to the full yet they committed Adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in Harlots houses.
Jer. 5. 7.
It is impetious Women that devise
New-fangled fashions every day to weare,
And deck their gownes with rich imbroderies▪
When poore weake talonts challenges a share:
But doubtles 'tis no wonder for to see
A haughty woman link't to levity.
For I will gather all Nations against
Jerusalem to battle, and the Citie shall be taken, and the houses spoyled, & the women defiled, and halfe of the Citie shall go into captivitie, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the Citie.
Zech. 14. 2.
And 'tis as true that wine hath quite undone
And dissipated many of their wealth,
Because like Mercuries they lov'd to run
To that which constantly impaires the health:
What can a Man that loves his charge do worse,
Then fill his Cups, and empty still his Purse?
For it is sufficient for us that we have spent the time of our life past, in the Lusts of the Gentiles, walking in wantonnesse lusts, drunkennesse, gluttony, drinkings.
1 Peter 4. 3.
By women many mighty ones have bin
VVrapt in a sheet of Lead and direfull dust,
Because he us'd celeritie in sinne,
And traverst wayes unseemly and unjust:
By following Harlots no man can do well;
Because she leads point-blank to death and hell.
For of this sort are they that creepe into houses, and lead captive simple women, laden with sinnes, and led with divers lusts.
2 Tim. 3. 6.
Wine hath another property beside,
It doth extenuate our Love to God,
And builds the fabricke of our faith so wide,
That nothing which is good can we applaud:
They that do use it very seldome thrives,
But gets a swift
exordium for their Lives.
So that when he heareth the words of this curse, he blesse himselfe in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, although I walke according to the stubburnnesse of mine owne heart, thus adding drunkennesse to thirst.
Deut. 29. 19.
'Tis envious Women, in a troubled State,
That do incense their Husbands to rebell.
Which makes their Children so unfortunate,
And all their Actions for to thrive so well:
By their advice they presently take fire.
At any motion that will mount 'em higher.
There shall be no VVhore of the Daughters of
Israel, neither shall there be a VVhore-keeper of the sonnes of Israel.
Deut. 23. 17.
By Wine the prudent'st men that lives on earth,
One time or other harh bin much deceiv'd,
And given their sensuall wombs untimely birth,
Mans great antagonists so quaintly weav'd:
Then having faults within, and foes without us,
I presuppose 'tis time to looke about us.
And the drinking was by an order, none might compell: for so the King had appointed unto all the
[Page 29] Officers of his house, that they should do according to every mans pleasure.
Ester 1. 8.
By women mighty
Monarchs hath bin slaine,
And left their large & vast commands behind 'em,
And softly stole away to blisse or paine,
For all their friends so closely had inshrin'd 'em;
'Tis a sad thing me thinkes, we should imbrace
And hug our ruine for a hansome Face.
And
Abimelech came unto the tower and fought against it, and went hard unto the doore of the tower to set it on fire: But a certain woman cast a peece of a milstone upon
Abimelechs head, & brake his brainpan.
Judges 9. 52. 53.
'Tis wine that makes the modest now and then
Forget the simpathy they have with good,
And steere their actions like uncivill men,
By secret distillations of the Blood:
A cup or two revives the pensive Heart,
But many more, doth aggravate the smart.
Drinke no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomacks sake, and thine often infirmities▪
1 Tim. 5. 23.
A
Curtezan, of all the Creatures living,
Is very free of what she counts her owne,
'Cause for the most part she is still a giving,
Yet hardly gets a thankes from any one:
And that which animates and makes her free,
Is her deboyst and base scurrillity.
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[...] whose heart is as nets and snares, and her hands as bands: he that is good before God, shall be delivered from her, but the Sinner shall be taken by her,
Eccles. 7. 28.
They that sit long at wine the wine wil tame 'em,
Although they imprecate, curse, sweare and dam,
And though a little while it doth inflame 'em,
At last they 'le be as patient as a Lambe:
'Tis not carousing healths that will procure
Mans health in sicknesse, not for halfe an houre.
But the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and as a strong man that after his wine cryes out.
Psa. 78. 65.
Briefly, 'tis Wine and Women hath undone
This Kingdome that's distracted, rent, and torne,
And made the lees of the Lords Wrath to run,
Till Prince and People had just cause to mourne;
And had not Clemency his Scepter sway'd,
No doubt ere this we had bin all betray'd.
Wherefore, be you not unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is, and be not drunken with wine, wherein is excesse.
Eph. 5. 17. 18.
Then since we know the cause 'tis very meet
We do reforme and rectifie our wayes,
For though
Jehovah walkes with leaden feet,
He doth expect we should not stand and gaze:
He that sits idle in the Market place.
Hath little mind to worke, or little grace.