Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE SCOVRGE Of Drvnkennes Cornv-apes his Farewell to Folly, or his Metamorphosis, wherein hee doth shew his vnfaigned hatred to euill Company such as bee Drunkards, swearers, and such like; whidi God doth hate: And also, where hee doth briefly display the effects of Drunkennesse, with his Detestation of frequenting Ale- houses: profitable to all, and hurtfull to none. BITTER sweet pleasing vanities adue, Yee subtill syrens sing vnto your selues, For from your songs, much preiudice ensue I list no longer for to trust such elues, Sing, play, pipe, dance, your grandsircs galliard round, Swagger and sweare, dice, drab, and drinke profound. The crowing cocke which sharpely checked Peter, The scriech-owles hideous notes giue more content, The croaking night-rau'n yeeldeth tunes much sweeter Then the vaine musicke your vile breaths haue spent: These are and haue beene ominous to some, But yours presage a dismall end to come. To damp and quencli the heat of all your sport, Let me but tell you the true end of all, You that to brothell houses doe resort, And vnto dicing and to drinking fall. I will bee plainc the very truth to tell, Such bee the highwayes and the gates to hell. Your eager sports to easelesse griefe doe tend; Your mirth in mourning, and your blisse in bane, Your weale in woe, your wealth in wrack shall end, Your sweet in sower, your pleasure all in paine: This is the song my dolcfull muse begins, Which doth declare the stipend of foule sins. Then suck tobacco, and swell vp your iawes, And make your nostrils like to chimneyes smoake, Still bee rebellious to your Makers Iawes, If that you will his anger so prouoke: For be you sure though he be slow to ire, His wrath will come as a consuming fire. Be as you are if you will not amen...