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,