An Extempore Sermon, preached in a Hollow Tree,
By Frederick Fiery-Face, Mafter of Arts, and Fellow of
Malt-Juice College.

Rules to be kept by the Society.

1. Each person at entrance shall spend 6d.

2. None shall refuse Stewardship, when chosen.

3. To keep the first man, and

4. Know to whom you drink.

5. Take care to fee yourself pledged.

6. To fee the health go round.

7. None shall drink to a man, when a woman is present.

8. Not to drink to the drawer, on pain of drinking twice.

9. Whosoever breaks these ccustoms, forfeits four-pence.

10. For the non-payment of four-pence, to be excommunicated.

Sir Ralph Red Noſe, Knt.
Stewards.
Simon Suckbottle, Eq.

Why ſhould the Drunkard ſtrive his acts to mother,
Drink runs but from one hoghead to another.

Beloved,

LET me crave your reverend attention,
for I am a little man, come at a short war-
ning, to preach a short fermon upon a
ſmall ſubject, in an unworthy pulpit.

Beloved, my text is MALT: Now I
cannot divide it into ſentences, becauſe
it is none; nor into words, it being but
one; nor into ſyllables, becauſe it is only
a monofyllable; therefore neceſſity obli-
ges me to divide it into letters, which I
find in my text to be four.

M, my beloved, is moral; A is Allego-
rical, L is Literal, and T is Theological.
The moral is well fet forth, to teach you
Drunkards good manners, wherefore M
my masters, A all of you, L listen, T to
my text.

The Allegorical is, when one thing is
ſpoken of, and another thing is meant.--
The thing ſpoken of is Malt, the thing
meant is the Oil of Malt, (Strong Beer)
which you gentlemen make M Meat, A
Apparel, L Liberty, and T Treasure; the
literal is according to the letter M much,
A Ale, L Little, T Thirst, Much Ale,
Little Thirst; the theological is accord-
ing to the effects which it works, which I
find in my text to be of two kinds; first in
this world, fecondly in the world to come.

In this world, the effects which it works
are in ſome M Murder, in others A Adul-
tery, in ſome Looſeneſs of Life, in others
T Treafon; the effects which it works in
the world to come, are M Mifery, A An-
guifh, L Lamentation, and T Torment;
wherefore my first uſe ſhall be a word of
exhortation: M my Masters, A all of you,
L Leave, T Tipling; or eſle, by way of
communication, M my Masters, A all of
you, L Look for, T Torment.

So much ſhall now ſuſſice for this time
and text; only, by way of caution, take
this, that a Drunkard is the Annoyance of
Modesty, the Trouble of Civility, the
Spoil of Wealth, the Destruct ion of Rea-
fon, the Brewer's Agent, the Beggar's Com-
panion, the Constable's Trouble, his
Wife's Woe, his Children's Sorrow, his
Neighbour's Scoff, his own Shame, a
Walking Swill-tub, the Picture of a Beast,
and a Monster of a Man.

Say-well, and Do-well, end both with a letter;
Say-well is good, but Do-well is better.

Sold at FOWLER's Printing-Office, SALISBURY.