Even peace, they say, may be bought too dear, and what shall it profit a people if it gain a swill-tub of comforts and lose its own soul?

This is the only law, before the first parliament under king James, that has been made against those swill-bowls, Swabbers of drunken feasts, and lusty rowers, In full-brimmed rummers that do ply their oars, "who, by their carouses (tippling up Nestor's years as if they were celebrating the goddess Anna Perenna,) do, at the same time, drink others' health, and mischief and spoil their own and the public.