Healthes: sicknesse. Or A compendious and briefe discourse; prouing, the drinking and pledging of healthes, to be sinfull, and vtterly vnlawfull vnto Christians by arguments, Scriptures, fathers, moderne diuines, Christian authors, historians, councels; imperiall lawes and constitutions; and by the voyce and verdict of prophane and heathen writers: wherein all those ordinary obiections, excuses, or pretences which are made to iustifie, extenuate, or excuse the drinking or pledging of healthes, are likewise cleared and answered. By William Prynne Gent. Hospitii Lincolniensis.

Abstract

Printer's name from STC. The first leaf and the last leaf are blank. The preliminaries collate pi² [par.]⁴ ² [par.]² (-[par.]4, [par.]² , + chi² ) etc.; the text of this section is that of STC 20463. Variant: with cancellandum dedication collating pi² [par.]⁴ ² [par.]² etc.; the language is stronger. Reproduction of the original in Cambridge University Library.