A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 41 pages of information about A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure.

A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 41 pages of information about A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure.
how great peyne is intermyngled wyth these false and wrongly named pleasures, that vnshamefast loue filthie desire, much eatyng and drinking bring vs vnto:  I doo omitte now that, which is principall grudge of coscience, enemitie betwixt God and ma, and expectation of euerlastyng punishement.  What kynd of pleasure, I pray you is ther in these thinges, that dooeth not bryng with it a greate heape of outeward euilles? _SPV._ What bee thei? _HEDO._ We ought to let passe and forbeare in this place auarice, ambition, wrath, pryde enuy, whiche of their selues bee heuy and sorowful euylles and || let vs conferre and compare all those thynges together, that haue the name of some chief and special pleasure:  wher as the agew the hedache, the swelling of the belly, dulnes of witte, infamy, hurt of memory, vomyting, decaye of stomacke, tremblyng of the body succede of ouer muche drynking:  thynke you, that the _Epicure_ would haue estemed any suche lyke pleasure as thys, couenient and wourthy desire? _SPV._ He woulde saye it wer vtterly too bee refused. _HEDONi._ Wheras young men also with hauntynge of whores (as it is dayly seene) catche the newe leprosie, nowe otherwyse named Jobs agew, and some cal it the scabbes of Naples, throughe ||D.ii|| which desease they feele often ye most extreme and cruell paines of deathe euen in this lyfe, and cary about a bodye resemblyng very much some dead coarse or carryn, do you thynke that thei apply them selues vnto godlye pleasure. _SPVD._ Noo, for after thei haue been often familiar with their prety ones, then they must goo streighte too the barbours, that chaunceth continuallye vnto all whoremongers. _HED._ Now fayne that ther wer a lyke measure of pain and plesure, would ye then require too haue the toothache so longe as the pleasure of quaffing & whordome endured? _SPV._ Verely I had rather wat them booth, for ther is no commoditie nor || vantage to bye pleasure with payn but only to chaug one thing for another, but the best choise is nowe not too affectionate anye such leudnes, for _MAR.  Tullius_ calleth that an inward greife & sorow. _He._ But now ye prouocation & entisemet of vnleful plesure, besides that it is much lesse then the pain which it bringeth with it, it is also a thing of a very short time:  but if the leprosye bee ones caught, it tourmeteth me al their life daies very pitifully & oftentimes costraineth them to wyshe for death before thei ca dye. _SP._ Such disciples as those then, the _Epicure_ would not knowe. _HED._ For the most part pouertie, a very miserable and painfull burden, foloweth ||D.iii.|| lechery, of immoderate lust cometh the palsie, tremblyng of ye senewes, bleardnes of eyes, and blyndnes, the leprosie and not these only, is it not a proper pece of worke (I pray you) to chaug this short pleasure neyther honest nor yet godly, for so manye euylles far more greuouse and of muche longer continuance. _SP._ Although there shoulde no pain com of it, I esteme hym to bee a very fond occupier,
Copyrights
Project Gutenberg
A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.