John Dod, Cards spiritualized, or, The pack of cards transformed into a Bible… (1800)
“ T, Torment So much for this time on my text, only by way of conviction, take this: all drunkards are the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the pests of society, the spoil of wealth, the destruction of reason, the brewer’s agents, the alehouse’s benefactors, their wives’ sorrow, their children’s shame, the beggar’s companions the constable’s trouble, their neighbour’s laughing stock, walking swill-tubs, the devil’s vassals, pictures of beasts, and monsters of men. ”
