Aristippus, or The Jovial Philosopher · chunk 10 of 18
Randolph, Thomas · published 1630 · first performed or written 1626 [1625-1626] (Annals) entertainment; academic entertainment unassigned nearest T44 Drinking: wine, ale and taverns · 484 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T44: drink, wine, numps, ale, butler, pot, sing, moy, drunk, win.
To persuade the Vintner to trust you, is good Rhetoric, and the best figure is Synecdoche to pay part for the whole, to drink above measure, is a Science beyond Geometry, falling backward is stargazing, and no Jacob's Staff comparable to a Tobacco pipe, the sweet harmony of good-fellowship, with now and then a discord, is your excellent music, Sack itself is your Grammar, sobriety a mere solecism, and Latin be it true, or be it false, a very cudgel to your Priscianus pates, the reckoning is Arithmetic enough, a receipt of full cups are the best physic to procure vomit, and forgetting of debts an art of memory; and here you have an Encyclopedia of Sciences, whose method being circular, can never be so well learned, as when your head runs round. If mine have any other motion, it shall be prater naturam, ay, and contra too, if I live: I like that art of music wondrous well, life is not life without it; for what is life but an harmonious lesson, played by the soul upon the Organs of the body. O witty sentence! I am mad already, I see the immortality, ha brave Aristippus: but in Poetry, 'tis the sole predominant quality, the sap and juice of a verse, yea, the spring of the Muses is the fountain of Sack, for to think Helicon a barrel of Beer, is as great a sin, as to call Pegasus a brewer's Horse. I know some of these halfpenny Almanac makers do not approve of this philosophy, but give you most abominable counsel in their Beggars Rhymes, which you are bound to believes as faithfully, as their predictions of foul and fair weather, you shall hear some of Erra Paters Poetry. I wish you all carefully, Drink Sack but sparingly, Spend your coyne tifuly, Keep your health warily, Take heed of ebriety, Wine is an enemy, Good is sobriety, Fly baths and Venery. For your often potations much crudities cause, by hindering the course of mother Nature's laws, therefore he that desireth to live till October, aught to be drunk in Iuly, but I hold it to be a great deal better that he went to bed sober. And let him alone, thou man in the Moon, yet hadst thou but read a leaf in this admired Author, this aureum flumen, this torrens cloquentiae, thou wouldst have scorned to have been of the water poet's Tribe, or Skelton's family, but thou hast never tasted better Nectar than out of Fennor's Wassail Bowl, which hath so transformed him, that his eyes look like two Tunnels, his nose like a Faucet with the spigot out, and therefore continually dropping: the Almanac-makers, and Physicians are alike grand enemies of Sack, as for Physicians being fools, I cannot blame them if they neglect Wine, and minister simples, but if I meet with you, I'll teach you another receipt.
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To perswade the Vintner to trust you, is good Rhetoricke, and the best figure is Synechdoche to pay part for the whole, to drinke aboue measure, is a Science beyond Geometry, falling back-ward is star-gazing, and no lacobs Staffe comparable to a Tobacco pipe, the sweet harmony of good-fellowship, with now and then a discord, is your excellent musicke, Sacke it selfe is your Grammar, sobriety a meer solecisme, and Latine be it true, or be it false, a very cudgell to your Priscianus paes, the rckoning is Arithmetique enough, a receipt of full cups are the best physick to procure vemit, and forgeting of debts an art of memory; and heere you haue an Encuelopoedia of Sciences, whose method being circular, can neuer be so well learned, as when your head runnes round. If mine haue any other motion, it shall be prter naturam, I, and contra too, if I lie: I like that art of musicke wondrous well, life is not life without it; for what is life but an harmonious lesson, play'd by the soule vpon the Organs of the body. O witty sentence! I am mad already, I see the immortality, ha braue Aristippus: but in Poetry, 'tis the sole predominant quality, the sap and juyce of a verse, yea, the spring of the Muses is the fountaine of Sacke, for to thinke Helicon a bartell of Beere, is as great a sinne, as to call Pegasus a Brewers Horse. I know some of these halfe-penny Almanack makers doe not approue of this philosophy, but giue you most abominable counsell in their Beggers Rhymes, which you are bound to beleeues as faithfully, as their predictions of foule and faire weather, you shal heare some of Erra Paters Poetry. I wish you all carefully, Drinke Sacke but sparingly, Spend your coyne tifuly, Keepe your health warily, Take heed of , Wine is an enemy▪ Good is sobriety, Fly baths and Venery. For your often potations much crudities cause, by hindring the course of mother Natures lawes, therefore he that desireth to liue till October, ought to be drunke in Iuly, but I hold it to be a great deale better that hee went to bed sober. And let him alone, thou man in the Moone, yet had'st thou but read a leafe in this admired Author, this aureum flumen, this torrens cloquentiae, thou would'st haue scorn'd to haue bin of the water Poets Tribe, or Skeltons family, but thou hast neuer tasted better Nectar than out of Fennors Wassaile Bowle, which hath so transformed him, that his eyes looke like two Tunnels, his nose like a Fausset with the Spicket out, and therefore continually dropping: the Almanackemakers, and Physicians are alike grand enemies of Sacke, as for Physicians being fooles, I cannot blame them if they neglect Wine, and minister simples, but if I meete with you, I'll teach you another receipt.