day in his drink, _Matrem
praegnantem nequiter oppressit, sororem violare voluit, patrem occidit
fere, et duas alias sorores ad mortem vulneravit_, would have violated his
sister, killed his father, &c. A true saying it was of him, _Vino dari
laetitiam et dolorem_, drink causeth mirth, and drink causeth sorrow, drink
causeth "poverty and want," (Prov. xxi.) shame and disgrace. _Multi
ignobiles evasere ob vini potum, et_ (Austin) _amissis honoribus profugi
aberrarunt_: many men have made shipwreck of their fortunes, and go like
rogues and beggars, having turned all their substance into _aurum
potabile_, that otherwise might have lived in good worship and happy
estate, and for a few hours' pleasure, for their Hilary term's but short,
or [1899]free madness, as Seneca calls it, purchase unto themselves eternal
tediousness and trouble.

That other madness is on women, _Apostatare facit cor_, saith the wise man,
[1900]_Atque homini cerebrum minuit_. Pleasant at first she is, like
Dioscorides Rhododaphne, that fair plant to the eye, but poison to the
taste, the rest as bitter as wormwood in the end (Prov. v. 4.) and sharp as
a two-edged sword, (vii. 27.) "Her house is the way to hell, and goes down
to the chambers of death." What more sorrowful can be said? they are
miserable in this life, mad, beasts, led like [1901]"oxen to the
slaughter:" and that which is worse, whoremasters and drunkards shall be
judged, _amittunt gratiam_, saith Austin, _perdunt gloriam, incurrunt
damnationem aeternam_. They lose grace and glory;

[1902] ------"brevis illa voluptas
Abrogat aeternum caeli decus"------

they gain hell and eternal damnation.

SUBSECT. XIV.--_Philautia, or Self-love, Vainglory, Praise, Honour,
Immoderate Applause, Pride, overmuch Joy, &c., Causes_.

Self-love, pride, and vainglory, [1903]_caecus amor sui_, which Chrysostom
calls one of the devil's three great nets; [1904]"Bernard, an arrow which
pierceth the soul through, and slays it; a sly, insensible enemy, not
perceived," are main causes. Where neither anger, lust, covetousness, fear,
sorrow, &c., nor any other perturbation can lay hold; this will slyly and
insensibly pervert us, _Quem non gula vicit, Philautia, superavit_, (saith
Cyprian) whom surfeiting could not overtake, self-love hath overcome.
[1905]"He hath scorned all money, bribes, gifts, upright otherwise and
sincere, hath inserted himself to no fond imagination, and sustained all
those tyranni