Healthes: sicknesse. Or, a compendious and briefe discourse; prouing, the drinking, and pledging of healthes, to be sinfull, and utterly unlawfull unto Christians / By William Prynne.

  • William Prynne
Date:
1628
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Credit: Healthes: sicknesse. Or, a compendious and briefe discourse; prouing, the drinking, and pledging of healthes, to be sinfull, and utterly unlawfull unto Christians / By William Prynne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 aa—■■ neerefi friends, orforfome other fitch like~priuate or ~publike occajton; by which it is euident, that Healthes were commonly vfed among the Gentiles; and Pagans in his times: It is recorded of (cf) cAmphyblion Kin? of Athens who was the fir (l that mixed wine; that he enabled: that men Ihould drinke but a little pure wine after meales, but as much rmxt wme as they would: and that they Jbonld alwayes inuo- cate the name ofloue, or drinke hues Health, in their drink¬ ing matches, that fo they might obtame Health by it: whence SeleucHs witnejfeth, that the Ancients did not He to drinke much wine3 but in fauour and honour of the fads: whence they Jhled their Jeafts and meetings, Thanas, Thalias, andUMe- thas : becaufc they imagined, that they might be filfily drunks in theje fiafls of theirs, for the honour and feke of their Gods fince the.principal end ofthefe their meetings, was to drinke thirHealthes: So that Health* fit feemes) were a pa* of the Demis homage,and facrifice at the firft: and hence I luppofe it is, that many are turned fuch incarnate De¬ mis in thele our dayes, that with Popelohn the thirteenth, thVhaVf n°r to beSInor P!e% tHe Dcuills health, vvhich is fonfcwith many. It is Storied of Alexander the great (r) That after he had compofed the differences be¬ tween the Per fans and Macedonians, he made a treat Fea(l vnto them, and toothers of other Nations whom te had con¬ quered, to the number of9000. ; who did all drinke to his heahh and the health of his tArmy, and to the perpemall con- co, ; oft be Persians W Macedonians out of the fame Bowie It is recorded by Vion fatf*,, (,) Tim,he RommeSe- mte enaOedforthehonourof Au?i]ftus: That the Romanes Should makersfcr him, (,)md drinke b„ health inalltheir pthliojue andprtuate Feafis. («) Clearchas is cited by.^f- (x) Rlinierecords, Some Lame, andCeleLTeslfthlTo'- fiEllfa refen- q Athen&ta Dtp*of.\,txA, m r Aria»tu\,6'm de Geftii Alex- and. See Lypfim tu Ep: Censure Mi feel: Ep‘. i r. S Rom: 5 l.p- 602. t Vt in conus- uits non mod* public*, fed priuatis e/uot]| ■proeo l/lere- tur. u DipnofMb. lo. cap.7. X NatMtfiK Harfgtrelt Apt-* logj I.4.C.6.