¶Of Prodigalitie. Chap. 9.
PRodigality is next, another notable part of Pleasure. The Stoikes cal the same a dissolution or a too much loasing of vertue.* 1.1 A Prodigall mannes pro∣pertie is to couet other mens goodes, and not to care for his owne: to spende lustely, and to fare deliciously: so hée hath, he cares not howe he gets it, and so he spendes he cares not, howe, when, or who consumes it. Nothing can make him thrifty, no not admonitiō of frends: nothing can make him kéepe a measure, no, neyther feare of pouertie, nor feare of punishmēt. This Prodigality the A∣thenians sayd was a token of him which desired to raigne like a Tyraunt. And therefore Aristophanes the Poet, in the presence of the people,* 1.2 exclamed & sayde, that it was not meete a Lion shoulde be nourished in a common weale, for if he shoulde, men must serue to satisfie his appetite. The Poets call dissolute and prodigall men loase & vngirdled, which is taken from Venus gyrdle,* 1.3 which be∣ing