Ebrietatis Encomium / or, the Praise of Drunkenness

by Albert-Henri de Sallengre

[1.] Flav. Vopisc. in vita Bonos.

[2.] Amel. de la Houssai sur Tacit. Ann. liv. xi. ch. 35.

[3.] Scaligeriana, p. 169.

[4.] L. ii. ch. 2.

[5.] Orat. ii. Philip.

[6.] Essais, l. ii. ch. 2.

[7.] Sueton. in Vit. August.

[8.] Lib. ii. Od. 19.

[CHAP. XXV.]
BURLESQUE, RIDICULOUS, AND OUT-OF-THE-WAY THOUGHTS, AGAINST DRUNKENNESS.

It is reported that Gerson should say, That there was no difference between a man’s killing himself at one stroke, or to procure death by several, in getting drunk.