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<NAME>Emma Leeson Huber</NAME>
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<HEAD>AN
EXTEMPORARY ANSVVER
To a clu&s;ter of drunkards, met together at <HI>Schiedam:</HI> Made by
<HI>Timothy Gunton,</HI> who was compelled thereto, upon his
refu&s;all to drink the Kings health.
Whether &s;uch impetuous drinking of other mens healths were lawfull,
profitable, commendable, or rea&s;onable?</HEAD>
<P>_IF lawfull, it is either by the Lawes of God, or man: If of God, it is con|tained
in holy writ, which is the old and new Te&s;tament; but from the
Alpha of Gene&s;is, to the Omega of the Revelations, there is no &s;uch
thing commanded; therefore not by the Lawes of God. If by the Lawes
of man, &s;earch the Records, review the Statutes, and &s;hew in who&s;e reign,
and what yeare it was enacted.</P>
<P>If profitable, it mu&s;t conduce to the good, either of &s;oul or body: If
of the &s;oul, it mu&s;t be &s;uitable, convenient, and agreeable to the &s;oul; But the &s;oul is a &s;pi|rituall
creature, not capable either to eat, or drink any materiall &s;ub&s;tance: If of the body,
then be ye your own judges, what profit have ye to drinke the money out of the pur&s;e, the
wit out of the brain, the bread from wife and children, the health from the body, and the
peace of God both from &s;oul and body?</P>
<P>If commendable, it is commended either by wi&s;e men, or fooles: By wi&s;e men, who know
a thing to be good; By fooles, who &s;uppo&s;e a thing to be good: But wi&s;e men know that
man is the Image of God, and by his rea&s;onable &s;oul he is di&s;tingui&s;hed from other
creatures, and other creatures cannot (contrary to rea&s;on) be compelled to drink a|gain&s;t
appetite; yet man being become wor&s;e then a bea&s;t, not only drinks him&s;elf, but al|&s;o
compels others to drink, untill they vomit it up againe; Wherefore, no wi&s;e man will
commend it; And if a foole commend it, it is for want of wit.</P>
<P>If rea&s;onable, let all the world cen&s;ure, what rea&s;on hath one man to drink another mans
health, to impair his own?</P>
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<L>By the&s;e let all men know 'tis wor&s;e then &s;ordid &s;tealth,</L>
<L>To fawn upon a friend, and &s;wallow down his health.</L>
<L>Yet &s;ome audacious Rogues dare in their drunken notes</L>
<L>Pour King, and Kingdomes health down their ungodly throats</L>
<L>And &s;tove it in their &s;tinking paunch an hour, or twain,</L>
<L>And then they'l &s;pew, and cag, and pi&s;&s;e it out again.</L>
<L>Oh then how &s;ick art thou poore King, and common-wealth,</L>
<L>While drunken &s;ots daily drink, pi&s;&s;e, and &s;pew thy health.</L>
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<L>For the&s;e my lines I'le pardon crave,</L>
<L>And promi&s;e eke they &s;hall be mended:</L>
<L>But fir&s;t I mu&s;t &s;ome rea&s;on have,</L>
<L>Wherein, and whom they have offended.</L>
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