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{corn and derifion to the very vulgar, nay, 

 to his own Companions ; none being more 

 apt to deride him than they : It turns 

 Reafon out of doors, and transforms a 

 Man into a Beaft, or fomething worfe. 

 Thus Seneca in his 84 Epiftle: TDic quam 

 turpe Jit) plus fib i tngerere quam capiat, & 

 ftomachi fm non n6ffe men fur am ; quam mtd- 

 ta cbrti faciant) quibus fobrn erubefcant ; 

 nihil aliud effe ebrietatem quam voluntariam 

 infantam^ &c. Tell, faith he, a Drunkard, 

 what a filthy thing it is to pour down more 

 than he can keep, and not to know the 

 meafure of his Stomach : How many things 

 Men do when they are drunk , of which 

 they are afhamed when they are fober : 

 That Drunkennefs is nothing elfe but a 

 voluntary Madnefs. Extend this Habit or 

 Condition of the Drunken Man to many 

 days, and you will not doubt of his Mad- 

 nefs; fo that it is no lefs a Phrenzy than 

 any other, only a ihorter. Relate to him 

 the Example of Alexander the Great, who 

 in a drunken fit killed Clitw, his mod dear 

 and faithful Friend ; and afterward when 

 he came to underftand'the Faft, he would 

 have died : to be fure he deferved it. 



Drunkennefs doth both inflame and 

 difcover other Vices, removing that Mo- 



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