Sin Stigmatized, Part 1 · Section 28
§ 28.
SEcondly, His vaine habling, ſcurrilous jesting, wi…ked talking.ſuppoſe you urge him not the wine; having ſet his tongue at liberty, it ſhall reſemble Bacchus his Liber pater, and goe like the ſaile of a Wind-mill. For as a great gale of wind whirleth the ſailes about; ſo abundance of wine whirleth his tongue about, and keeps it in continuall motion. Now he railes, now he ſcoffs, now he lyes, now he ſlanders, now he ſeduces, talks baudie, ſweares, banns, fomes, and cannot bee quiet, till his tongue bee wormed.
And all this hee ſets out with the ſame throat, that a hired waterman cryes Cales ſand: for commonly a lewd tongue, is a lowd one; and a lowd tongue, a lewd one. Impudent ſpeakers are like gaping Oyſters; which being open'd, either ſtink, or there is nothing in them.
But to keepe cloſe to drunkards. This Caca-daemons diſcourſe is all quarrelling, ſcoffing, or ſcurrilous; for as hee hath a ſpitefull tongue in his anger, ſo he hath a beaſtly tongue in his mirth; as theſe two inſeparably attend each other.
Firſt, a ſpitefull tongue in his anger: for if you marke him then, having more rage than reaſon, hee enterlaceth all his diſcourſe, either with reviling the preſent, or backbiting the abſent: now all his prayers, are curſes; and all his relations, lyes; talkative and lying, you know, are two birds, which alwayes flie out of one neſt. To be ſhort, heare him when he is in this veine, and but ſeriouſly conſider his condition, you would thinke, that by a juſt judgement of God, hee were metamorphoſed, like Hecuba the wife of Priamus, into a Dog, whoſe chiefe property is to barke with open mouth, at ſuch as hee knowes not: for without queſtion, their wits are ſhorter, and their tongues longer, then to demonſtrate them rationall creatures.
Secondly he hath a beaſtly tongue in his mirth: the drunkards communication is ever filthy and beaſtly, ful of all ribaudry and baudineſſe; no filthy talke, or rotten ſpeech whatſoever comes amiſſe to a drunkard; yea, no word ſavours well with them, that is not unſavoury; their onelyonly muſicke (and ſo fares it with all the rude rabble) is ribaudry, modeſty and ſober merriment with them is dulneſſe.
Thus whereas hee ſhould either bee ſilent, or his words ſhould be better worth then ſilence; contrariwiſe, from the beginning to the end hee belcheth forth nothing, but what is as farre from truth, piety, reaſon, modeſty, as that the Moone came down from heaven to viſit Mahomet. O the beaſtlines which burns in their unchaſt and impure minds, that ſmoakes out of their polluted mouthes! A man would thinke, that even the Divell himſelfe ſhould bluſh, to heare his child ſo talke. How doth his mouth runne over with falſehoods, againſt both Chriſtians and Preachers? what ſpeakes hee leſſe then whoredomes, adulteries, inceſts, at every word? yea, heare two or three of them talke, you would change the Lycaonians language, and ſay, Devills are come up in the likeneſſe of men.
Yea, it is a ſmall matter with them to meddle with their equalls, or to ſit upon their pariſh Prieſt (as thoſe hogſheads terme him) for in ſuch a meeting they will viſit a whole Dioceſſe, and Province; nay, the ſageſt Iudge, and graveſt Counceller, and greateſt Peere in the land, muſt doe ſervice to their Court, and be ſummoned before the Alebench; according to that in the Pſalmes, they ſet their mouthes against Heaven, and their tongues walke through the earth, Pſal. 73.9.
Nor will they ſtay here; for when they have huft their ſmoake into the face of theſe, they will have a health to King Charles; and what not, for the honour of England? O that they ſhould dare to make that a ſhooing-horne to draw on drinke, by drinking healthes to him! I cannot bee in charity with the places that permit this, with the perſons that pardon it, much leſſe, with ſuch Belialiſts as practiſe it.
But ſee greater abominations then theſe, for as yet wee bee but in the Haven; if wee launch out into the deepe, we ſhall meete with Sea-monſters, farre fowler evills.