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Let us, then, dear reader, watch over ourselves; let us beware of 
drinking of those waters that will only inflame our thirst. 
Let us keep our hearts with all diligence, lest the vain, sinful pleas¬ 
ures of this world should seduce them, and leave us at last in despair at 
finding ourselves deceived! 
Beware, therefore, especially ye, young men! of this fallacious world, 
so that you need not say, almost despairingly, after, perhaps, some of your 
best and sunniest days will be gone forever, and alas ! misspent: 
“All is confounded, all! 
Reproach and everlasting shame 
Sits mocking in our plumes!” 
— Shakespeare. 
\J me.* 
The plant from which wine is made; the woody 
climbing plant, that produces grapes, of the genus 
VitiSj and of a great number of varieties. 
Mystical Union with God. 
“He brought me into the cellar of wine, 
he set in order charity in me.” 
— Solomon's Canticle , 11:4 
“I am the Vine, you the branches.” 
—Words of Christ. 
B Y this term “Mystical Union” is not meant a union of the presence or 
place, by which God is present to all creatures; nor that of sanctify¬ 
ing grace, by which every just man is partaker of the friendship of God; 
♦See, also, Introduction, with foot-note, p. xxiii. 
