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And he handleth many of the rest, whose execution he forbeareth yet unto a farther time, even as hardly and punisheth them as sorely, in this common prison of the world, as there are any handled in those special prisons which, for the hard handling used in them, you say your heart hath in such horror and so sore abhorreth. VINCENT: The rest will I not gainsay, for methinketh I see it so indeed.
At a later period he was accused, truly or falsely, of vices from which History averts her eyes, and which even Satire blushes to name, vices such that, to borrow the energetic language of Lord Keeper Coventry, "the depraved nature of man, which of itself carrieth man to all other sin, abhorreth them." But the offences of his youth were not characterised by any peculiar turpitude.
You can hardly open either of those books, but somewhere in their pages you will find a description of the wicked man's attempts against the poor: such as "He doth ravish the poor when he getteth him into his net." "He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages; his eyes are privily set against the poor." "In his pride he doth persecute the poor, and blesseth the covetous, whom God abhorreth."
"Nature seeketh to possess things curious and attractive, and abhorreth those which are rough and cheap; Grace is delighted with things simple and humble, despiseth not those which are rough, nor refuseth to be clothed with old garments.
How Pantagruel altogether abhorreth the debtors and borrowers. I understand you very well, quoth Pantagruel, and take you to be very good at topics, and thoroughly affectioned to your own cause.
"When an inquiry is held, and thou art present, multiply not speech; thou wilt do better if thou holdest thy peace. Act not the part of the chatterer. "The sanctuary of God abhorreth noisy demonstrations. Do this, and He will do thy business for thee. He will hearken unto thy words, and He will receive thy offering.
For the Lord abhorreth all these things; and for these abominations He will destroy them." The Black Art had its votaries during the Middle Ages and kept the Church busy warning the faithful against its dangers and its evils.
For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good. He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil. Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
He thought of trying for a government office, and was tempted into politics. His description of his experience is amusing enough. "Before the third day was expired, I was as deep in mud and politics as ever a moderate gentleman would wish to be; and I drank beer with the multitude; and I talked handbill-fashion with the demagogues, and I shook hands with the mob whom my heart abhorreth.
And the man who gives himself up to them, though he may not become a raving savage, is just as truly possessed by devils, to his own misery and ruin, that he may sow the wind and reap the whirlwind; that though men may speak well of him, and posterity praise his saying, and speak good of the covetous whom God abhorreth, yet he may go for ever unto his own, to the evil spirits to whom his own wicked will gave him up for a prey.
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