John Trapp on Isaiah 5:11

Ver. 11. Woe unto them that riſe up early] Heb. the early riſers, Oſor. in loc. but for an ill purpoſe. O intolerandum flagitium, ſaith one, — homines inertia, ſomnique pleniſſimos, &c. O intolerable wickedneſs, that men ſo lazy, and more ſleepy then dormiſe, ſhould be up, and at it ſo very betimes (they riſe early to corrupt their actions, ſaith another Prophet; Zeph. 3.7.) and ſhould have their brains crowing before day. Neither are they ſo ſoon up alone, but they call up others (as the Hebrew word here ſignifieth) to ſerve them, and ſit with them on their Alebench; for they are good fellows they ſay, and muſt have company.

That they may follow ſtrong drink] purſue it eagerly, as the worlding doth his gain,Studium ebrietatis illis objicit. Lib. 14. cap. ult. the hunter his game; Their Motto is, Take away our liquour, ye take away our life. By ſtrong drink here underſtand any inebriating liquour, whereof beſides wine, the Italians have twenty diſtinct Species, to pleaſe the Guſto. Pliny cries out Hei mirâ vitiorum ſolertiâ inventum eſt quemadmodum aqua quoque inebriaret! Portentoſum ſanè potionis genus, &c.

That continue unto night] All the live-long-day; theſe Ale-ſtakes ſtick to it, quaffing and carouſing. Diem noctemque continuare potando nulli probrum, ſaith Tacitus of the old Germans; to drink whole dayes together is amongſt them no diſgrace: neither is it among many of their poſterity, to this day. About the midſt of Q. Elizabeths raign, that curſed ſin was firſt brought over into England, ſay ſome,Fullers Church hiſt. 61. out of the Low-Countries: before which time there was neither general practice, nor legal puniſhment of that vice in this Kingdom.

Till wine enflame them] By which expreſſion, omnem ebriorum inſaniam intelligit, ſaith Oecolampadius, he meaneth all the drunkards mad pranks, when heated with wine, and yet more with luſts and paſſions. See Prov. 23.29 — 34. Tyrone the Rebell 1567. was ſuch a drunkard,Camd. Eliz. pag. 89. that to cool his body when it was immoderately inflamed with wine and Ʋskabagh, he would many times be buried in the earth up to the chin.