4^8 The fourtedntli Booke of 



topreventthcdccekof thofe that drinke for a wager. Afingular glorienodoubtinbim^ anda G 

 rare tdicmcTeygilla challenged Cicero the yoiniger/onne to chat M.Cicero the famous Ora- 

 tour,and rcproched him to his face^that ordinarily he drunke two gallons at ones : and that one 

 time above the reft when he was driinke,he flung a pot at M,yyigrifp% his head. And truly thss is 

 one of: the fruits and feats of drunkenneife. But blame not young Cicero in this point yet bee 

 deiired to furmount him that flew his father, M,Antormps I meanc \ for he before that time ftrai^ 

 ncd himfelfcj and ftrove to win the beft game in this feat, making profeffion thereof, as may ap- 

 pcare by a booke that he compiled and fetforth with this title^O/ hts owne drunker.nejje : where- 

 in he was not al"hamcd to avow and juftifie his cxcefle and enormities that way : and thereby ap- 

 proved(as I take it) under pretence and colour of his drunkenneflej all thofe outrages of his/ail 

 ihofe nliferies and calamities that hee brought upon the whole world. This treatile he vomited h 

 31 id fpued out a little before the battell of Aaium^wherein he was defeated : whereby it may ap- 

 pcace very plainely,that as hee was drunken before with the blond ofcitizens/o ftill hee was the 

 more bloud-thirftie . For this is a propertie that neceflarily followeth this vicCjThat the more a 

 man drinkethjthe more he mayjand is alwaies drie. And herein fpake to good purpofe a certaioe 

 Embafladour of the Scythians/aying, That the Parthians the more they drunkej they thii (her 

 they were; 



^ As touching the nations in the Weft part of the world, they have their drinkes alfo by them- 

 ' felves made of ^corne fteeped in water^whcreof they will drinke to the utterance.and be drunke i 

 and namely in Spaine and Frauncc,where the manner of making the fame is Sll one^howfoever 

 5 they have ^divers names. And in Spain they have devifed means that thefe drinks(Ale or Beere) 

 will abide agc,and continue ftale.ln -^gypt likcwifc they have invented fuch kind of drinks made ^ ' 

 of corne .'fo that no part or corner of the world there is^butdrunkenneflereigneth. And verily 

 thefe liquors howfoever they bee named, they ule to drinke entire as they bee, and made of the 

 veryftrength of Malttnever delaying ihefamewithwaterjas we doe wines. But it may bee faid. 

 That Nature hath endowed and enriched thofe countries with abundance of corn, and theifore 

 they may well doe it.Oh how induftrious we arc to maintaine our vices 1 There is a devife founds 

 (would ever any man have thoisgJicir?) how water alfo Ihould make men drunke. Two liquours 

 there be jmoftpleaftng and acceptable to mens bodies, Wine withinj&:Oilewithout.Both pro- 

 ceed trom two fpcciall trees, howbeit, of the twainejOile is neceftarie, and Wine may be better 

 (pared; And verily ^men have not been idle in the making of good Oile : howbeit,they have been 

 more addi<5lcd and given to make Wines for drinke 5 as may appcare by this,that reckoning but K 

 the generaJl kinds thereof, a man may find ic? 5 forts of wine : but if a man would fubdivide and 

 dcftributediofe heads into their braunches, hee iliould meet almoft with twice asmany : but 

 of Oiles there bee not fo many kinds byfarre. Whereof wee purpofe to treat in the booke next 

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