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ATauerne is the Fountaine of sinne, the Schoole of the Diuell; it workes won∣ders, fitting the place. It is the custome of God to shew his power in his Church, and to worke miracles; that is to say, to giue sight to the blinde, to make the lame to goe, the
dumbe to speake, the deafe to heare, but the deuill doth quite contrary to all these in a Tauerne. For when the Drunkard goeth to the Tauerne, hee go∣eth vpright, but when hee commeth foorth hee can∣not goe at all, and hee hath lost his sight, his hea∣ring, his speech. The Lectures that are read in this Schoole of the deuill, are Gluttonies, Oathes, Per∣iuries, Lyings, Blasphemies, and diuers other villa∣nies. For in a Tauerne are quarrells, slanders, con∣tentions, murthers, and Tauerners that suffer them, are partakers of their sinnes, and that wickednesse they commit. For hee that would speake as much euill of their Parents, as they suffer men to speake of God, and the glorious Virgin, and the Saints in Para∣dise, and all for a little gaine by the saile of their wine, they would neuer endure it so peaceably. And there∣fore it is said in Ecclefiasticus, that the Tauerner shall not be freed from sinne.