There’s none of these demure boys come to any proof; for thin drink doth so overcool their blood…that they fall into a kind of male green sickness; and when they marry they get wenches…If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and addict themselves to sack.
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