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Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Tobacco -- Early works to 1800. Smoking -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800. 2000-00 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2001-00 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2001-00 TCP Staff (Michigan) Sampled and proofread 2001-00 TCP Staff (Michigan) Text and markup reviewed and edited 2001-11 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A COVNTERBLASTE TO Tobacco . ¶ Imprinted at London by R. B. Anno 1604. ¶ TO THE READER . AS euery humane body ( deare Countrey men ) how wholesome soeuer , is notwithstanding subiect , or at least naturally inclined to some sorts of diseases , or infirmities : so is there no Common-wealth , or Body-politicke , how well gouerned , or peaceable soeuer it bee , that lackes the owne popular errors , and naturally enclined corruptions : and therefore is it no wonder , although this our Countrey and Common-wealth , though peaceable , though wealthy , though long flourishing in both , be amongst the rest , subiect to the owne naturall infirmities . VVee are of all Nations the people most louing and most reuerently obedient to our Prince , yet are wee ( as time hath often borne witnesse ) too easie to be seduced to make Rebellion , vpon very slight grounds . Our fortunate and oft prooued valour in warres abroad , our heartie and reuerent obedience to our Princes at home , hath bred vs a long , and a thrice happy peace : Our Peace hath bred wealth : And Peace and wealth hath brought foorth a generall sluggishnesse , which makes vs wallow in all sorts of idle delights , and soft delicacies , the first seedes of the subuersion of all great Monarchies . Our Cleargie are become negligent and lazie , our Nobilitie and Gentrie prodigall , and solde to their priuate delights , Our Lawyers couetous , our Common-people prodigall and curious ; and generally all sorts of people more carefull for their priuat ends , then for their mother the Common-wealth . For remedie whereof , it is the Kings part ( as the proper Phisician of his Politicke-body ) to purge it of all those diseases , by Medicines meete for the same : as by a certaine milde , and yet iust forme of gouernment , to maintaine the Publicke quietnesse , and preuent all occasions of Commotion : by the example of his owne Person and Court , to make vs all ashamed of our sluggish delicacie , and to stirre vs vp to the practise againe of all honest exercises , and Martiall shadowes of VVarre ; As likewise by his , and his Courts moderatenesse in Apparell , to make vs ashamed of our prodigalitie : By his quicke admonitions and carefull ouerseeing of the Cleargie , to waken them vp againe , to be more diligent in their Offices : By the sharpe triall , and seuere punishment of the partiall , couetous and bribing Lawyers , to reforme their corruptions : And generally by the example of his owne Person , and by the due execution of good Lawes , to reforme and abolish , piece and piece , these old and euill grounded abuses . For this will not bee Opus vnius diei , but as euery one of these diseases , must from the King receiue the owne cure proper for it , so are there some sorts of abuses in Common-wealths , that though they be of so base and contemptible a condition , as they are too low for the Law to looke on , and too meane for a King to interpone his authoritie , or bend his eye vpon : yet are they corruptions , aswell as the greatest of them . So is an Ant an Animal , aswell as an Elephant : so is a VVrenne Auis , aswell as a Swanne , and so is a small dint of the Toothake , a disease aswell as the fearefull Plague is . But for these base sorts of corruption in Common wealthes , not onely the King , or any inferior Magistrate , but Quilibet e populo may serue to be a Phisician , by discouering and impugning the error , and by perswading reformation thereof . And surely in my opinion , there cannot be a more base , and yet hurtfull , corruption in a Countrey , then is the vile vse ( or rather abuse ) of taking Tobacco in this Kingdome , which hath mooued me , shortly to discouer the abuses thereof in this following little Pamphlet . If any thinke it a light Argument , so is it but a toy that is bestowed vpon it . And since the Subiect is but of Smoke , I thinke the fume of an idle braine , may serue for a sufficient battery against so fumous and feeble an enemy . If my grounds be found true , it is all I looke for ; but if they cary the force of perswasion with them , it is all I can wish , and more then I can expect . My onely care is , that you , my deare Countrey-men , may rightly conceiue euen by this smallest trifle , of the sinceritie of my meaning in greater matters , neuer to spare any paine , that may tend to the procuring of your weale and prosperitie . A Counterblaste to Tobacco . THat the manifolde abuses of this vile custome of Tobacco taking , may the better be espied , it is fit , that first you enter into consideration both of the first originall thereof , and likewise of the reasons of the first entry thereof into this Countrey . For certainely as such customes , that haue their first institution either from a godly , necessary , or honorable ground , and are first brought in , by the meanes of some worthy , vertuous , and great Personage , are euer , and most iustly , holden in great & reuerent estimation and account , by all wise , vertuous , and temperate spirits : So should it by the contrary , iustly bring a great disgrace into that sort of customes , which hauing their originall from base corruption and barbarity , doe in like sort , make their first entry into a Countrey , by an inconsiderate and childish affectation of Noueltie , as is the true case of the first inuention of Tobacco taking , and of the first entry thereof among vs. For Tobacco being a cōmon herbe , which ( though vnder diuers names ) growes almost euery where , was first found out by some of the barbarous Indians , to be a Preseruatiue , or Antidot against the Pockes , a filthy disease , whereunto these barbarous people are ( as all men know ) very much subiect , what through the vncleanly and adust constitution of their bodies , and what through the intemperate heate of their Climat : so that as from them was first brought into Christendome , that most detestable disease , so from them likewise was brought this vse of Tobacco , as a stinking and vnsauorie Antidot , for so corrupted and execrable a Maladie , the stinking Suffumigation whereof they yet vse against that disease , making so one canker or venime to eate out another . And now good Countrey men , let vs ( I pray you ) consider , what honour or policie can mooue vs to imitate the barbarous and beastly maners of the wilde , godlesse , and slauish Indians , especially in so vile and stinking a custome ? Shall wee that disdaine to imitate the maners of our neighbour France ( hauing the stile of the first Christian Kingdom ) and that cannot endure the spirit of the Spaniards ( their King being now comparable in largenes of Dominions , to the great Emperor of Turkie ) Shall wee , I say , that haue bene so long ciuill and wealthy in Peace , famous and inuincible in Warre , fortunate in both , we that haue bene euer able to aide any of our neighbours ( but neuer deafed any of their eares with any of our supplications for assistance ) shall we , I say , without blushing , abase our selues so farre , as to imitate these beastly Indians , slaues to the Spaniards , refuse to the world , and as yet aliens from the holy Couenant of God ? Why doe we not as well imitate them in walking naked as they doe ? in preferring glasses , feathers , and such toyes , to golde and precious stones , as they do ? yea why do we not denie God and adore the Deuill , as they doe ? Now to the corrupted basenesse of the first vse of this Tobacco , doeth very well agree the foolish and groundlesse first entry thereof into this Kingdome . It is not so long since the first entry of this abuse amongst vs here , as this present age cannot yet very well remember , both the first Author , and the forme of the first introduction of it amongst vs. It was neither brought in by King , great Conquerour , nor learned Doctor of Phisicke . With the report of a great discouery for a Conquest , some two or three Sauage mē , were brought in , together with this Sauage custome . But the pitie is , the poore wilde barbarous men died , but that vile barbarous custome is yet aliue , yea in fresh vigor : so as it seemes a miracle to me , how a custome springing from so vile a ground , and brought in by a father so generally hated , should be welcomed vpon so slender a warrant . For if they that first put it in practise heere , had remembred for what respect it was vsed by them from whence it came , I am sure they would haue bene loath , to haue taken so farre the imputation of that disease vpon them as they did , by vsing the cure thereof . For Sanis non est opus medico , and counterpoisons are neuer vsed , but where poyson is thought to precede . But since it is true , that diuers customes slightly grounded , and with no better warrant entred in a Commonwealth , may yet in the vse of them thereafter , prooue both necessary and profitable ; it is therefore next to be examined , if there be not a full Sympathie and true Proportion , betweene the base ground and foolish entrie , and the loathsome and hurtfull vse of this stinking Antidote . I am now therefore heartily to pray you to consider , first vpon what false and erroneous grounds you haue first built the generall good liking thereof ; and next , what sinnes towards God , and foolish vanities before the world you commit , in the detestable vse of it . As for these deceitfull grounds , that haue specially mooued you to take a good and great conceit thereof , I shall content my selfe to examine here onely foure of the principals of them ; two founded vpon the Theoricke of a deceiueable apparance of Reason , and two of them vpon the mistaken Practicke of generall Experience . First , it is thought by you a sure Aphorisme in the Physickes , That the braines of all men , beeing naturally colde and wet , all dry and hote things should be good for them ; of which nature this stinking suffumigation is , and therefore of good vse to them . Of this Argument , both the Proposition and Assumption are false , and so the Conclusion cannot but be voyd of it selfe . For as to the Proposition , That because the braines are colde and moist , therefore things that are hote and drie are best for them , it is an inept consequence : For man beeing compounded of the foure Complexions , ( whose fathers are the foure Elements ) although there be a mixture of them all in all the parts of his body , yet must the diuers parts of our Microcosme or little world within our selues , be diuersly more inclined , some to one , some to another complexion , according to the diuersitie of their vses , that of these discords a perfect harmonie may bee made vp for the maintenance of the whole body . The application then of a thing of a contrary nature , to any of these parts , is to interrupt them of their due function , and by consequence hurtfull to the health of the whole body . As if a man , because the Liuer is hote ( as the fountaine of blood ) and as it were and ouen to the stomacke , would therfore apply and weare close vpon his Liuer and stomacke a cake of lead ; he might within a very short time ( I hope ) be susteined very good cheape at an Ordinarie , beside the cleering of his conscience from that deadly sinne of gluttonie . And as if , because the Heart is full of vitall spirits , and in perpetuall motion , a man would therefore lay a heauy pound stone on his breast , for staying and holding downe that wanton palpitation , I doubt not but his breast would bee more bruised with the weight thereof , then the heart would be comforted with such a disagreeable & contrarious cure . And euen so is it with the Braines . For if a man , because the Braines are cold and humide , would therefore vse inwardly by smells , or outwardly by application , things of hot and drie qualite , all the gaine that he could make thereof would onely be to put himselfe in a great forwardnesse for running mad , by ouerwatching himselfe , the coldnesse and moistnesse of our braine beeing the onely ordinarie meanes that procure our sleepe and rest . Indeed I doe not denie , but when it falls out that any of these , or any part of our bodie growes to be distempered , and to tend to an extremitie beyond the compasse of Natures temperate mixture , that in that case cures of contrary qualities , to the intemperate inclination of that part , being wisely prepared and discreetely ministred , may be both necessarie and helpefull for strengthning and assisting Nature in the expulsion of her enemies : for this is the true definition of all profitable Physicke . But first these Cures ought not to bee vsed , but where there is neede of them , the contrarie whereof , is daily practised in this generall vse of Tobacco by all sorts and complexions of people . And next , I deny the Minor of this argument , as I have already said , in regard that this Tobacco , is not simply of a dry & hot qualitie ; but rather hath a certaine venemous facultie ioyned with the heate thereof , which makes it haue an Antipathie against nature , as by the hatefull smell thereof doeth well appeare . For the Nose being the proper Organ and conuoy of the sense of smelling to the braines , which are the onely fountaine of that sense , doeth euer serue vs for an infallible witnesse , whether that Odour which we smell , be healthfull or hurtfull to the braine , ( except when it fals out that the sense it selfe is corrupted and abused through some infirmitie , and distemper in the braine . ) And that the suffumigation thereof cannot haue a drying qualitie , it needes to further probation , then that it is a smoake , all smoake and vapour , being of it selfe humide , as drawing neere to the nature of the ayre , and easie to be resolued againe into water , whereof there needes no other proofe but the Meteors , which being bred of nothing else but of the vapours and exhalations sucked vp by the Sunne out of the earth , the Sea , and waters , yet are the same smoakie vapours turned , and transformed into Raynes , Snowes , Deawes , hoare Frostes , and such like waterie Meteors , as by the contrarie the raynie cloudes are often transformed and euaporated in blustering winds . The second Argument grounded on a show of reason is , That this filthie smoake , as well through the heat and strength thereof , as by a naturall force and qualitie , is able and fit to purge both the head and stomacke of Rhewmes and distillations , as experience teacheth , by the spitting and auoyding fleame , immediatly after the taking of it . But the fallacie of this Argument may easily appeare , by my late preceding description of the Meteors . For euen as the smoakie vapours sucked vp by the Sunne , and staied in the lowest and colde Region of the ayre , are there contracted into cloudes , and turned into raine and such other watery Meteors : So this stinking smoake being sucked vp by the Nose , and imprisoned in the colde and moyst braines , is by their colde and wett facultie , turned and cast foorth againe in waterie distillations , and so are you made free and purged of nothing , but that wherewith you wilfully burdened your selues : and therefore are you no wiser in taking Tobacco for purging you of distillations , then if for preuenting the Cholike you would take all kinde of windie meates and drinkes , and for preuenting of the Stone , you would take all kinde of meates and drinkes that would breede grauell in the Kidneyes , and then when you were forced to auoyde much winde out of your stomacke , and much grauell in your Vrine , that you should attribute the thanke thereof to such nourishments as bred those within you , that behoued either to be expelled by the force of Nature , or you to haue burst at the broad side , as the Prouerbe is . As for the other two reasons founded vpon experience , the first of which is , That the whole people would not haue taken so generall a good liking thereof , if they had not by experience found it verie soueraigne and good for them : For answere thereunto , how easily the mindes of any people , wherewith God hath replenished this world , may be drawen to the foolish affectation of any noueltie , I leaue it to the discreet iudgement of any man that is reasonable . Doe we not dayly see , that a man can no sooner bring ouer from beyond the Seas any new forme of apparrell , but that hee can not bee thought a man of spirit , that would not presently imitate the same ? And so from hand to hand it spreades , till it be practised by all , not for any commoditie that is in it , but only because it is come to be the fashion . For such is the force of that naturall Selfe-loue in euery one of vs , and such is the corruption of enuie bred in the brest of euery one , as we cannot be content vnlesse we imitate euery thing that our fellowes doe , and so prooue our selues capable of euery thing whereof they are capable , like Apes , counterfeiting the maners of others , to our owne destruction . For let one or two of the greatest Masters of Mathematickes in any of the two famous Vniuersities , but constantly affirme any cleare day , that they see some strange apparition in the skies : they will I warrant you be seconded by the greatest part of the Students in that profession : So loath will they be , to bee thought inferiour to their fellowes , either in depth of knowledge or sharpnesse of sight : And therefore the generall good liking and imbracing of this foolish custome , doeth but onely proceede from that affectation of noueltie , and popular errour , wherof I haue already spoken . The other argument drawen from a mistaken experience , is but the more particular probation of this generall , because it is alleaged to be found true by proofe , that by the taking of Tobacco diuers and very many doe finde themselues cured of diuers diseases , as on the other part , no man euer receiued harme thereby . In this argument there is first a great mistaking , and next a monstrous absurditie . For is it not a very great mistaking , to take Non causam pro causa , as they say in the Logicks ? because peraduenture when a sicke man hath had his disease at the height , hee hath at that instant taken Tobacco , and afterward his disease taking the naturall course of declining , and consequently the patient of recouering his health , O then the Tobacco forsooth , was the worker of that miracle . Beside that , it is a thing well knowen to all Phisicians , that the apprehension and conceit of the patient , hath by wakening and vniting the vitall spirits , and so strengthening nature , a great power and vertue , to cure diuers diseases For an euident proofe of mistaking in the like case , I pray you what foolish boy , what sillie wench , what olde doting wife , or ignorant countrey clowne , is not a Phisician for the toothach , for the cholicke , & diuers such common diseases ? Yea , will not euery man you meete withal , teach you a sundry cure for the same , and sweare by that meane either himselfe , or some of his neerest kinsmen and friends was cured ? And yet I hope no man is so foolish as to beleeue them . And al these toyes do only proceed from the mistaking Non causam pro causa , as I haue already sayd , and so if a man chance to recouer one of any disease , after he hath taken Tobacco , that must haue the thankes of all But by the contrary , if a man smoke himselfe to death with it ( and many haue done ) O then some other disease must beare the blame for that fault . So doe olde harlots thanke their harlotrie for their many yeeres , that custome being healthfull ( say they ) ad purgandos Renes , but neuer haue minde how many die of the Pockes in the flower of their youth . And so doe olde drunkards thinke they prolong their dayes , by their swinelike diet , but neuer remember howe many die drowned in drinke before they be halfe olde . And what greater absurditie can there bee , then to say that one cure shall serue for diuers , nay , contrarious sortes of diseases ? It is an vndoubted ground among all Phisicians , that there is almost no sort either of nourishment or medicine , that hath not something in it disagreeable to some part of mans bodie , because , as I haue already sayd , the nature of the temperature of euery part , is so different from another , that according to the olde prouerbe , That which is good for the head , is euill for the necke and the shoulders . For euen as a strong enemie , that inuades a towne or fortresse , although in his siege thereof , he doe belaie and compasse it round about , yet he makes his breach and entrie , at some one or few speciall parts thereof , which hee hath tried and found to bee weakest and least able to resist ; so sickenesse doth make her particular assault , vpon such part or parts of our bodie , as are weakest and easiest to be ouercome by that sort of disease , which then doth assaile vs , although all the rest of the body by Sympathie feele it selfe , to be as it were belaied , and besieged by the affliction of that speciall part , the griefe and smart thereof being by the sence of feeling dispersed through all the rest of our members . And therefore the skilfull Phisician presses by such cures to purge & strengthen that part which is afflicted , as are onely fit for that sort of disease , and doe best agree with the nature of that infirme part ; which being abused to a disease of another nature , would prooue as hurtfull for the one , as helpfull for the other . Yea , not only will a skilfull and warie Phisician bee carefull to vse no cure but that which is fit for that sort of disease , but he wil also consider all other circūstances , and make the remedies sutable thereunto : as the temperature of the clime where the Patient is , the constitution of the Planets , the time of the Moone , the season of the yere , the age & complexion of the Patient , & the present state of his body , in strength or weakenesse . For one cure must not euer be vsed for the selfe-same disease , but according to the varying of any of the foresaid circumstances , that sort of remedie must be vsed which is fittest for the same . Whear by the contrarie in this case , such is the miraculous omnipotencie of our strong tasted Tobacco , as it cures all sorts of diseases ( which neuer any drugge could do before ) in all persons , and at all times . It cures all maner of distillations , either in the head or stomacke ( if you beleeue their Axiomes ) although in very deede it doe both corrupt the braine , and by causing ouer quicke disgestion , fill the stomacke full of crudities . It cures the Gowt in the feet , and ( which is miraculous ) in that very instant when the smoke thereof , as light , flies vp into the head , the vertue thereof , as heauie , runs downe to the little toe . It helpes all sorts of Agues . It makes a man sober that was drunke . It refreshes a weary man , and yet makes a man hungry . Being taken when they goe to bed , it makes one sleepe soundly , and yet being taken when a man is sleepie and drowsie , it will , as they say , awake his braine , and quicken his vnderstanding . As for curing of the Pockes , it serues for that vse but among the pockie Indian slaues . Here in England it is refined , and will not deigne to cure heere any other then cleanly and gentlemanly diseases . O omnipotent power of Tobacco ! And if it could by the smoke thereof chace out deuils , as the smoke of Tobias fish did ( which I am sure could smel no stronglier ) it would serue for a precious Relicke , both for the superstitious Priests , and the insolent Puritanes , to cast out deuils withall . Admitting then , and not confessing that the vse thereof were healthfull for some sortes of diseases ; should it be vsed for all sicknesses ? should it be vsed by all men ? should it be vsed at al times ? yea should it be vsed by able , yong , strong , healthful men ? Medicine hath that vertue , that it neuer leaueth a man in that state wherin it findeth him : it makes a sicke man whole , but a whole man sicke . And as Medicine helpes nature being taken at times of necessitie , so being euer and continually vsed , it doth but weaken , wearie , and weare nature . What speake I of Medicine ? Nay let a man euery houre of the day , or as oft as many in this countrey vse to take Tobacco , let a man I say , but take as oft the best sorts of nourishments in meate and drinke that can bee deuised , hee shall with the continuall vse thereof weaken both his head and his stomacke : all his members shall become feeble , his spirits dull , and in the end , as a drousie lazie belly-god , he shall euanish in a Lethargie . And from this weakenesse it proceeds , that many in this kingdome haue had such a continuall vse of taking this vnsauorie smoke , as now they are not able to forbeare the same , no more then an olde drunkard can abide to be long sober , without falling into an vncurable weakenesse and euill constitution : for their continuall custome hath made to them , habitum , alterā naturam : so to those that from their birth haue bene continually nourished vpon poison and things venemous , wholesome meates are onely poisonable . Thus hauing , as I truste , sufficiently answered the most principall arguments that are vsed in defence of this vile custome , it rests onely to informe you what sinnes and vanities you commit in the filthie abuse thereof . First , are you not guiltie of sinnefull and shamefull lust ? ( for lust may bee as well in any of the senses as in feeling ) that although you bee troubled with no disease , but in perfect health , yet can you neither be merry at an Ordinarie , nor lasciuious in the Stewes , if you lacke Tobacco to prouoke your appetite to any of those sorts of recreation , lusting after it as the children of Israel did in the wildernesse after Quailes ? Secondly it is , as you vse or rather abuse it , a branche of the sinne of drunkennesse , which is the roote of all sinnes : for as the onely delight that drunkards take in Wine is in the strength of the taste , & the force of the fume thereof that mounts vp to the braine : fot no drunkards loue any weake , or sweete drinke : so are not those ( I meane the strong heate and the fume ) the onely qualities that make Tobacco so delectable to all the louers of it ? And as no man likes strong headie drinke the first day ( because nemo repente fit turpissimus ) but by custome is piece and piece allured , while in the ende , a drunkard will haue as great a thirst to bee drunke , as a sober man to quench his thirst with a draught when hee hath need of it : So is not this the very case of all the great takers of Tobacco ? which therefore they themselues do attribute to a bewitching qualitie in it . Thirdly , is it not the greatest sinne of all , that you the people of all sortes of this Kingdome , who are created and ordeined by God to bestowe both your persons and goods for the maintenance both of the honour and safetie of your King and Common-wealth , should disable your selues in both ? In your persons hauing by this continuall vile custome brought your selues to this shamefull imbecilitie , that you are not able to ride or walke the iourney of a Iewes Sabboth , but you must haue a reekie cole brought you from the next poore house to kindle your Tobacco with ? whereas he cannot be thought able for any seruice in the warres , that cannot endure oftentimes the want of meate , drinke , and sleepe , much more then must hee endure the want of Tobacco . In the times of the many glorious and victorious battailes fought by this Nation , there was no word of Tobacco : but now if it were time of warres , and that you were to make some sudden Caualcado vpon your enemies , if any of you should seeke leisure to stay behinde his fellowe for taking of Tobacco , for my part I should neuer bee sorie for any euill chance that might befall him . To take a custome in any thing that cannot bee left againe , is most harmefull to the people of any land . Mollicies and delicacie were the wracke and ouerthrow , first of the Persian , and next of the Romane Empire . And this very custome of taking Tobacco ( whereof our present purpose is ) is euen at this day accounted so effeminate among the Indians themselues , as in the market they will offer no price for a slaue to be sold , whome they finde to be a great Tobacco taker . Now how you are by this custome disabled in your goods , let the Gentry of this land beare witnesse , some of them bestowing three , some foure hundred pounds a yeere vpon this precious stinke , which I am sure might be bestowed vpon many farre better vses . I read indeede of a knauish Courtier , who for abusing the fauour of the Emperour Alexander Seuerus his Master by taking bribes to intercede , for sundry persons in his Masters eare , ( for whom he neuer once opened his mouth ) was iustly choked with smoke , with this doome , Fumo pereat , qui fumum vendidit : but of so many smoke-buyers , as are at this present in this kingdome , I neuer read nor heard . And for the vanities committed in this filthie custome , is it not both great vanitie and vncleanenesse , that at the table , a place of respect , of cleanlinesse , of modestie , men should not be ashamed , to sit tossing of Tobacco pipes , and puffing of the smoke of Tobacco one to another , making the filthy smoke and stinke thereof , to exhale athwart the dishes , and infect the aire , when very often , men that abhorre it are at their repast ? Surely Smoke becomes a kitchin far better then a Dining chamber , and yet it makes a kitchin also oftentimes in the inward parts of men , soiling and infecting them , with an vnctuous and oily kinde of Soote , as hath bene found in some great Tobacco takers , that after their death were opened . And not onely meate time , but no other time nor action is exempted from the publike vse of this vnciuill tricke : so as if the wiues of Diepe list to contest with this Nation for good maners , their worst maners would in all reason be found at least not so dishonest ( as ours are ) in this point . The publike vse whereof , at all times , and in all places , hath now so farre preuailed , as diuers men very sound both in iudgement , and complexion , haue bene at last forced to take it also without desire , partly because they were ashamed to seeme singular , ( like the two Philosophers that were forced to duck themselues in that raine water , and to become fooles aswell as the rest of the people ) and partly to be as one that was content to eate Garlicke ( which hee did not loue ) that he might not be troubled with the smell of it , in the breath of his fellowes . And is it not a great vanitie , that a man cannot heartily welcome his friend now , but straight they must bee in hand with Tobacco ? No it is become in place of a cure , a point of good fellowship , and he that will refuse to take a pipe of Tobacco among his fellowes , ( though by his owne election he would rather feele the fauour of a Sinke ) is accounted peeuish and no good company , euen as they doe with tippeling in the cold Easterne Countries . Yea the Mistresse cannot in a more manerly kinde , entertaine her seruant , then by giuing him out of her faire hand a pipe of Tobacco . But herein is not onely a great vanitie , but a great contempt of Gods good giftes , that the sweetenesse of mans breath , being a good gift of God , should be wilfully corrupted by this stinking smoke , wherein I must confesse , it hath too strong a vertue : and so that which is an ornament of nature , and can neither by any artifice be at the first acquired , nor once lost , be recouered againe , shall be filthily corrupted with an incurable stinke , which vile qualitie is as directly contrary to that wrong opinion which is holden of the wholesomnesse thereof , as the venime of putrifaction is contrary to the vertue Preseruatiue . Moreouer , which is a great iniquitie , and against all humanitie , the husband shall not bee ashamed , to reduce thereby his delicate , wholesome , and cleane complexioned wife , to that extremitie , that either shee must also corrupt her sweete breath therewith , or else resolue to liue in a perpetuall stinking torment . Haue you not reason then to bee ashamed , and to forbeare this filthie noueltie , so basely grounded , so foolishly receiued , and so grossely mistaken in the right vse thereof ? In your abuse thereof sinning against God , harming your selues both in persons and goods , and raking also thereby the markes and notes of vanitie vpon you : by the custome thereof making your selues to be wondered at by all forraine ciuil Nations , and by all strangers that come among you , to be scorned and contemned . A custome lothsome to the eye , hatefull to the Nose , harmefull to the braine , daungerous to the Lungs and in the blacke stinking fume thereof , neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse . A14326 ---- A briefe and accurate treatise, concerning, the taking of the fume of tobacco vvhich very many, in these dayes, doe too too licentiously vse. In which, the immoderate, irregular, and vnseasonable vse thereof is reprehended, and the true nature and best manner of vsing it, perspicuously demonstrated. By Tobias Venner, Doctor of Physicke in Bath, in the spring and fall, and at other times, in the borough of North Petherton neare to the ancient hauen towne of Bridge-water in Somersetshire. Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660. 1621 Approx. 34 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 12 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2003-11 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A14326 STC 24642 ESTC S119044 99854251 99854251 19660 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . 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Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Smoking -- Early works to 1800. 2003-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2003-07 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-09 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2003-09 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-10 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A BRIEFE AND ACCVRATE TREATISE , CONCERNING , The taking of the fume of TOBACCO , which very many , in these dayes , doe too too licentiously vse . In which , the immoderate , irregular , and vnseasonable vse thereof is reprehended , and the true nature and best manner of vsing it , perspicuously demonstrated . By TOBIAS VENNER , Doctor of Physicke in Bath , in the Spring and Fall , and at other times , in the Borough of North Petherton neare to the ancient Hauen towne of Bridge-water in Somersetshire . AT LONDOON , Printed by W. I. for Richard Moore , and are to be solde at his Shop in S. Dunstons Church-yard in Fleet-street . 1621. ILLVSTRISSIMIS VEREQVE GENEROSIS VIRIS , DOMINO FRANCISCO HELE , ET DOMINO FRANCISCO ROGERS , MILITIBVS . Hoc de Tobacci fumo opusculum , In Deuoti animi testimonium , offert , dedicat , consecrat Tobias Vennerus , Medic. Doctor . it , it is hot and drie in the third degree , and hath a deleteriall , or venemous qualitie , as I suppose : for it being any way taken into the body , it tortureth & disturbeth the same with violent eiections both vpward and downeward , astonisheth the spirites , stupifieth and benummeth the senses and all the members . This noysome facultie of Tobacco proceedeth not from the temperature of it , but from the very essence of its substance . As for the stupifiing or benumming qualitie thereof , it is best perceiued vpon the taking of the fume at the mouth : for thereupon followeth a drunken-like lightnesse of the head , and especially if it be much taken at once , a benumming sleepinesse of the limmes and senses . Wherefore Tobacco , though it be in taste , biting , and in temperature , hote , hath notwithstanding a benumming qualitie ; which , because it cannot depend of an extreame colde qualitie , the hearbe being very euidently hot , it followeth , that it is hot and benumming , not benumming by reason of its temperature , but through the propertie of its substance . There is in the iuyce of this hearb an excellent digesting , mundifying , and consolidating facultie ; by meanes whereof , it is of ineffable force for the speedy curing of any wound or cut in the flesh , or soares , vlcers , scabbes , &c. for which it is worthy of very great esteeme , and not much for any other propertie to be magnified and respected ( as I conceiue . ) And thus much briefly concerning the nature of Tobacco . Before I passe to deliuer mine opinion concerning the vse and faculties of the fume , I must cleare an obiection of our vulgar Tobacconists , which I seeme to heare them make against the noysome qualities that I haue auerred to be in Tobacco , saying ; that vpon the taking thereof they find no tortures and violent eiections , or stupifyings of their members and senses . To whom I may answer , that the immoderate vse of Tobacco hath made them Insensiles , without sense . But let it be admitted , that vpon taking of the fume , they find not those malignant effects ; yet it convinceth not my assertion , because that by long vse and custome , it becommeth familiar to their bodies . And thus much by the way to our licentious Tobacconists , who spend and consume , not onely their time , but also their health , wealth , and wittes , in taking of this loathsome and vnsauourie fume . Now I come to speake of the smoakie fume and faculties thereof , which is taken through a pipe , for that purpose , into the mouth , and thrust foorth againe at the nostrills , and is of some also sucked into the stomacke and breast , against all diseases , especially such as are gotten by cold , or that proceed from a cold and moist cause . The Indians , from whom we receiued this manner of taking Tobacco , were ( at the first ) onelie wont to take it at such times , as they felt their bodies wearied with much labour and exercise , or would presage of things to come : for the fume procuring first a drunken-like lightnes of the head , and thereupon sleepe , with sundry phantalmes or visions , was the cause that vpon their awaking they found themselues ( through their sleepe ) greatly eased , and refreshed , and could , by reason of the somnorine visions which this fume doth greatly occasion , presage ( as they fondly conceiued ) the euent of any busines , or matter of importance , that they desired to know , or were delighted in . First they took the dried leaues of Tobacco , and cast them on the coales , then they receiued the smoake of them at their mouth and nose with a kane , and continued the taking thereof so long , till that they fell into a drunken traunce and sleepe , wherein they continued as dead three or foure houres , according to the quantity of smoake that they had taken . The fume hauing done his worke , they awakened out of their sleepe , and found themselues eased and lightened , in such sort , as that they were able to returne to their labour or exercises , as lustily as before : and this they did alwayes when they found themselues wearied , or were ( as I haue said ) desirous to fore-know , what might be the successe of their businesse , by meanes of the vaine dreames and visious , which this fume suggesteth . But this custome of taking the fume , hath so far bewitched them ( as also it hath and daily doth many of our people ) as that they also often-times , take it for wantonnesse and delight , wherein they haue so great a pleasure , as that they desire nothing more then to make themselues drunken and drowsie with Tobacco . And thus much for the originall of the fume . I will now leaue the Americans , and come to our Europeans , who ( well-neare ) vse the fume of Tobacco with as much excesse as they doe . Many of our people , and that of all sorts , doe greatly affect the taking of Tobacco ; but few of them respect whether it be profitable to their bodies : for most take it , rather for custome and delight , to entertaine and passe away the time , then for any such necessitie or vtilitie that they haue of it : whereby it commeth to passe , that some iudge very hardely of Tobaccoes fume , and vtterly disclaime the vse thereof . In consideration whereof , I was moued to publish this Treatise , shewing therein the faculties and right vse of the fume of some ( as I know ) greatly desired , and withall , taxing the ignorance , or rather petulancie of many , that in these daies doe take it without any respect had of the time , age , or constitution . A worke ( I hope ) no lesse pleasing , then profitable . For mine owne part , I confesse , that though I am in no wise delighted with the fume of Tobacco , partly for the malignitie of its nature , but especially , because of the detestable sauour or smacke that it leauerh behinde vpon the taking of it : yet I doe not altogether condemne the vse thereof ( for I sometimes in case of necessitie , as when I am afflicted with rheumes , take it my selfe , especially prepared , as I will heereafter shew ) but rather approoue it as necessarie and profitable for the rheumaticke , and such as are by temperature , colde , so as it be taken in congruent maner , that is , both moderately and seasonsbly , as shall be heereafter shewed , for it helpeth the braine that is ouer cold and moist , reducing it by its heating and drying facultie vnto a temperuture : it taketh away rheumes and windinesse of the head , and is profitable for all colde effects of the braine and sinews , by resoluing and consuming the crude and windie superfluities of those partes : it doth ( for the time ) expell melancholie , and excite lumpish spirites : it helpeth paines of the teeth , swellings of the gummes , and aches of the ioynts : it preuenteth putrefaction of humours , by drying vp the crudities of the body , and is very profitable vpon taking of colde , and for all colde and moist effects of the stomake , breast and lungs . It is a speedie remedie vpon a surfet , by making a sodaine evacuation both vpward and downeward of such things as are contained in the stomacke , and by the like reason it doth , in an instant , remooue windie torments of the stomacke , and bowel's , that proceed of crude humours , and helpeth the fittes of the mother : in a word , it is ( being rightly vsed ) auaileable against all colde and moist distemperatures . But to such as are not of a colde and moist constitution , nor affected with rheumes , it is not , though it be onely retayned in the mouth , and powred foorth at the nostrills , but by way of precaution , and that with good aduisement to be permitted , as I will by and by shew , and the reason is , because this fume which is hote and drie in the third degree , ascending to the braine , doth not onlie greatly heate and distemper it , but also the animall spirits , wherevpon oftentimes the senses are confounded , and the vnderstanding perverted . As touching the taking of the fume downe into the stomacke and lungs , I vtterly disclaime as pernicious , except it be done by way of Physicke , one or another of the aforesaide affects , impensiuely requiring it , both by reason that it is of a verie turbulent and sickely operation , and also , because it being excessiuely hot , ouer heateth , and dryeth the liuer , marreth the concoction of the meats , and deturbeth them vndigested from the stomack , if it be taken before they are concocted . Moreouer , the lungs which are the flábell of the heart , being by nature ( in regarde of their great vse and continuall motion , of soft and spongie substance , are by the immoderate heate and sircitie of this fume , quickely dried and coarctated , and consequently become vnapt for motion , to the great offence of the heart , and ruine at length of the whole body . Hence it may appeare , in how great an errour they persist , that vsually , or for euerie light occasion , imbibe or take downe this fume . Now that which hath been spoken concerning the vse of this fume , is not so precisely to be taken , as that it is at no time lawfull or convenient for such as are not by nature rheumaticke , or colde by constitution to vse it : for it is sometimes allowable for euery one , except for him that hath a drie distemperature of the braine , to take this fume by way of prevention . For example sake , if anie one hauing not a drie constitution of the braine , shall trauell , or take a iourney in mistie , stormie , and raynie weather , especially in the winter season , I say , that it is expedient for him , although hee bee not rheumaticke , or of a colde temperature to take three or foure draughts of this fume so soone as hee shall be entred into his house or Inne , for the preventing of rheumes , or other harmes that may chaunce to him by meanes of the grossenesse or impuritie of the aire . But mee thinkes I heare many that are not by nature rheumaticke , nor of a colde temperature of body , louers of this fume , or that I may more rightly speake , abusers , and luxuriating in this kind of euill , for cloking of their vicious custome , to obiect against me after this manner . We find by daily experience , that the fume of Tobacco doth draw from vs very many rheumaticke humours : wherefore the vse thereof is not onely allowable and good for the rheumaticke , and such as are of cold temperature . I doe deny the argument ; and also reiect their experience : for their lewd and preposterous custome in taking this fume is convenient for no constitution or state of body : for , one while they take the fume , another they drinke , and so continue by turne , vntill they fall asleepe , vomit , or be drunke : wherefore it is no maruell that vppon the vse of the fume they excrete very many rheumaticke superfluities , seeing that by this their preposterous and vnreasonable mingle-mangle of smoake and drinke , farre more crudities and superfluities are bred , then can by vertue of the fume be consumed or excreted , as it is to be seene in them that are giuen to Tobacco , & the Pot , whom you may see to haue tumide and smokie faces , with turgide and flatulent bellies . Heere also some , I know , which are delighted with the drinking downe of this fume , that I may so speake , will obiect against that which hath bin spoken against that manner of taking it , namely , that vppon the taking of it downe after meate , they finde no perturbation or offence , but rather , very great commoditie , by furthering the concoction . I must tell them , that in this they are grosely deceiued : First , because their daily custome of imbibing the fume taketh away the sense of perturbation ; for by vse and custome , any thing ( though contrary ) is made familiar vnto Nature , as I before haue touched : Secondly , they are no lesse deceiued , thinking by imbibing the fume , that the concoction is furthered , beeing not able to distinguish betweene concoction and distribution : for it is the worst thing , and most pernicious to the bodie , to occasion the distribution of the meates before they are concocted in the stomacke ; which they doe , that imbibe or drinke downe the fume after meate . And verily , the cause of this their errour , is some emptinesse of the stomacke , or prouocation to stoole , which they feele vppon the receiuing of the fume , not considering , that this their emptinesse and ill distribution of the meates , and consequently , prouocation to stoole , proceede from the purgatiue facultie of the fume . Wherefore I would haue them to vnderstand , that though they seeme to be well for the time , eyther by reason of their youth , or of a strong constitution of bodie , that this preposterous taking of the fume , will vppon the sodaine , ruine the state of their bodie , by spoyling the stomacke , destroying the concoction , and filling the whole body with crude and noysome sup●●●●●ities .. I 〈…〉 shall againe vrge to shunne these disco●●●●ities , and maintaine another custome no lesse pernicious , that they will take the fume about three or foure houres after meate , when the concoction is effected , for deturbing or driuing downe the reliques of the meates , and crudities that shall be in the stomacke , I would haue them to know , that the hurt will be farre greater then the profite : for besides that , in this they peruert the operation of Nature , they greatly also annoy the lungs , disturbe and infringe the spirits , corrupt the breath , and destroy the languifying facultie of the liuer . I maruell verily at the madnesse of these men . For , what is there in the fume that should so greatly occasion delight ? Not the smell , because it is vnpleasant , much lesse the savour , for it is stincking and fuliginous . Besides these idle affectors of Tobacco , there are also some who are graue and seemingly wise and iudicious , that take it moderately , and most commonly at fixed times ; but with its proper adiunct , which ( as they doe suppose ) is a cuppe of Sacke , and this they thinke to be no bad physicke ; nay , they so relie vppon this sacred medicine , as the most of them become detractors both of physicke and Physicians , for which cause they shall not passe without my taxe . As for Sacke , it is without all controversie , very helpefull , comfortable and agreeable to mans nature , as I haue shewed in my Booke which is entituled , Via recta ad vitam long am , of this yeares Impression : Tobacco is not so , but rather oftentimes hurtfull , especially if it be no iudiciously vsed . But , whether Sacke be good to be taken vpon Tobacco , I will hereafter ( notwithstanding these detractors , for the good of others ) demonstrate . As for these Cynicke detractors ( for such you shall finde most of them to be ) a I must tell them , that this their absurditie proceedeth from their ignorance of the great and admirable mysteries of the noble Art of Physick ; or for that they are slaues to their purses , and therfore seeke not in their necessities , physicke-helpes , and counsaile from such as are learned in that facultie ; or else , it is because they deeme all expense lost , besides that which adornes the backe , or oblectate the pallate and throat . And so I leaue these to their physicke , and the common Tobacconists to their sleeping betweene the Pot and the Pipe , and come now againe to shew the right vse of Tobacco . Although it be apparent , by that which hath beene hitherto deliuered , that the taking of Tobacco is onely convenient for colde and moist bodies , that the often and daily vse thereof is onelie allowable for them that haue their stomake , breast , braine and sinewie parts exceedingly colde , and stuffed with crude and rheumaticke humours , and also that it is sometimes tollerable for others , by way of prevention ; yet the knowledge of these things , without the true vse and application of the fume , as namely , when to vse it , how often , in what manner and measure , and what to obserue after the taking of it , is of small purpose : for it may ( being taken without respect had of these circumstances ) prooue more hurtfull , then beneficiall vnto him that taketh it . Wherefore I wish him that desireth to haue the true vse of Tobacco , to receiue from me , and carefully obserue ten precepts in the vse thereof . The first is , that it be most commonly taken mornings fasting , after a little stirring of the body , and also sometimes about halfe an houre before dinner and supper , but especially at the time of going to bed , in whom the condition of the bodie , as a colde and moist constitution ; and some accidences , as rheumes , catarrhes , heauinesse of the head , and cruditie of the stomacke ; or circumstances , as a moist , foggie , and waterish season , shall for the preservation of the health , require the vse thereof . 2 The second is , that the taking thereof be chiefly obserued after trauelling in misty foggy and rainy weather , because it preventeth catarhes , and rheumes , and taketh away all hurts that are wont , by rcason of the humiditie and 〈◊〉 of the aire , to happen to the head and other parts . For the taking thereof at such time , is convenient for every state of body , except where there is a drie constitution of the braine , as hath beene formerly shewed . 3 The third is , that it be taken with moderation , not ( at the most ) exceeding the quantitie of a pipe full at a time ; for euerie thing which is superfluous , is very aduerse to Nature , and nothing more then Tobacco . 4 The fourth is , that at meales betweene the eating , it be at no hand taken , as many very foolishly doe , because it vtterly interrupteth and marrerh the concoction . 5 The fift is , that it be not taken within foure or five houres after meale , except a peculiar state of the body shall necessarily require the taking thereof presently vppon the meale , and that onelie in two respects : The first is , for the imbecillitie of the natiue and digestiue heate in some , which may not be a little comforted by the translation of the heate of this fume , mediantibus nervis , from the braine to the stomacke : The second is , for the consuming of vapours , and preventing of their hurts , which in others are ( by reason of an ill disposition of the stomacke ) immoderately woont to ascend after meale : for by meanes of the fume detained in the mouth and cavities of the braine , those superfluous vapours are in part consumed , the braine , which by nature is ouer colde , and moist , heated and dried , and consequently , not so soone annoyed by the vapours which do ascend vnto it . 6 The sixt is , that you drinke not betweene the taking of the fumes , as our smoakie Tobacconists are wont , because thereby the operations of the fume are hindered , and more superfluities commonly bred , then can by the efficacie of it be consumed . 7 The seuenth is , that you eate not , nor drinke any thing within a quarter of an houre after the taking of the fume , but allowing that space for the operation of it , you may then wash your mouth with Beere or Wine , to take away the fuligiuous sauour of the fume , and also drinke a draught of Sacke , if the stomacke shall be colde , or abound with crude and flatulent humours , and so goe to your meale , if it shall be the time of your repast . For , to wash your mouth , or drinke presently vppon the taking of the fume , doth much hinder the operation of it : or , in steade of washing your mouth , you may presently , vpon the taking of the fume , rubbe your tongue , pallate , and gummes , ( which I alwayes holde fit to be observed ) with a drie napkin , and if it be also heated , the better , especially in colde and rheumaticke seasons , and afterwards chew in your mouth something of an aromaticall savour , as cloues , or the rootes of Galingall , or the floures of Rosemarie , and Sage when they may be had , &c. or the conserues of them : for these , and such like , doe not onely take away the fuliginous and stinking savour of the fume , but also giue comfort to the braine and spirits . And vppon the doing heereof , if it be not before meales , it is specially good to swallow downe abo●t the quantitie of a prune or two of the conserue of red Roses . Tabulae Dianisi , which you may haue from the Apothecaries , are also very good to be eaten vppon the taking of Tobacco , the mouth beeing first washed as aforesaid , for they correct the euill savour and smell of the fume , make the breath sweete , and also resolve windinesse of the stomacke . I commonly vse , vpon the taking of Tobacco , to swallow downe a spoonefull of a pectorall and cephalicke syrupe made for the purpose , which doth foorthwith remooue the offensiue savour of the fume , and is withall , very profitable vnto the stomacke , breast , and head , & thereupon also , a quantitie of the conserue of red Roses , especially at the time of going to bed . 8 The eight is , that in drawing of the fume , you suffer it not externally to affect the eies : for it is vnto them , by reason of its smokie drying , and fuliginous nature , very offensiue . 9 The ninth is , that you warily draw the fume out of the pipe , not sucking it into your wind-pipe and throate with a sodaine or strong attraction ; for then it will exasperate the winde-pipe , and much offend and disquiet the mouth of the stomacke . 10 The tenth and last is , that you go not abroad into the aire , presently vppon the taking of the fume , but rather refraine there-from the space of halfe an houre or more , especially if the season be colde , or moist , because the poares of the body being open , by meanes of the strong working of the fume , euen to the vttermost and superficiarie parts of the body , ineffable hurts may happen , by the sodaine accesse of the aire . Hence you may obserue how idle and foolish they are , that can not trauell without a Tobacco pipe at their mouth ; but such ( I must tell you ) are no base Tobacchians : for this manner of taking the fume , they suppose to be generous : Let these fume-gallants enioy their vanity , and for their better grace , it were good they were also attended with chimney-sweeping Lackeys . Now from that which hath beene said , you may collect a two-folde manner of taking of Tobacco , which ought to be altered and obserued , according as occasion and the particular state of him that taketh it , shall require . The first is , a detaining of the fume onelie in the mouth , and thrusting of it forth againe at the nostrils , for heating and drying of the braine , and for dissoluing and dissipating of colde humours and superfluous vapours that reside in it . The other is a receiuing of it into the stomacke and lungs , for consuming & deturbing of crudities and windinesse , that shall offend in those parts . But I aduise , that the fume be sodainly taken downe , and then neither , but some great necessitie or extremitie vrging it , both because it offendeth the bodie with its violent operation , and also for that it may , by reason of its exiccating nature , be very hurtfull to the lungs , liuer , and melt , as I will by and by shew . Wherefore my counsell is , that some safer remedy ( if time shal permit ) be vsed for consuming and deturbing of the flatulent crudities of the stomacke and bowells . Whosoeuer therefore thou be that desirest to know whether the fume of Tobacco may be profitable or hurtfull to thy body ; thou oughtest first to consider , whether it be convenient for thy head : for if thy braine be ouer cold and moist , or abound with superfluous matter , then the detaining of the fume onely in the mouth , and forcing it out at the nostrills , may be profitable vnto thee : for by this meanes the fume ascending to the braine , doth not onely by its heating , attracting and exiccating facultie euacuate and consume the superfluities in it , but also , in some measure , reduceth the same to its natiue temperament . But heere by the way it is to be noted , that it may sometimes happen , that some may haue their heads accidentally stuffed with rheumatike matter , although the braine it selfe bee not in its natiue temperature excessiuely colde and moist , but is rather affected with a drie distemperature . Wherfore I aduuise such , to take the fume with very great caution & moderation , as at one time not to exceed the quantity of sixe or seuen draughts at the most , lest it should cause greater hurt to the braine and spirits , by encreasing the drie distemperature of the braine , and incensing the spirits , then commodity in discussing and consuming the colde and waterish humours , wherewith the braine was accidentally oppressed , which in some I haue obserued to come to passe , that haue without measure and iudgement vsed this fume . Secondly , you must diligently consider whether the fume of Tobacco bee convenient for the stomacke , lungs , and liuer . For , if crude and windie humours abound in the stomacke and bowells thorow a colde imbecillitie of the liuer ; or if a colde distemperature , and thinne , crude , and flatulent humours dominiere in the lungs , then the imbibing also or taking downe of the fume into those parts , may , so the stomacke be emptie of meates , be sometimes tollerable , yea profitable , especially for strong bodies , in case of extreamitie , and when no better remedie , at the instant , can be had : for by its heating , exiccating , and purging facultie , it somewhat correcteth the distemperature , consumeth winde , and foorthwith expurgeth the offensiue humours . But by reason of its turbulent and sickely operation , I cannot commend the often vse thereof , nor at any time approue it to them that are of a weake and valetudinarie state of body . Heere two cautions doe offer themselues to bee observed concerning the imbibing , or taking downe the fume : the one , in respect of the lungs , the other , in respect of the lungs and liuer too . For if the lungs be obstructed of a thicke and clammie humour , or subiect to such obstruction , then the taking downe of the fume is very pernicious , because it doth by reason of its heate and siccitie , more harden and condense the humour , by means whereof , it is altogether vnfit to be excreted . From hence it is manifest , with how great prudence , caution and providence , wee are to vse heating and drying remedies in affections of the lungs . In like manner also the taking downe of the fume , is very pernicious to them that are affected with a drie distemperature of the liuer , or lungs , although the stomacke and intestines shal sometimes be annoyed with crude and flateous humours , because it will cause greater hurt by encreasing the distemperature of those parts , then commodity in discussing and purging foorth the crudities of the stomacke and bowells : and therefore ( in mine opinion ) it is farre better , in such case , altogether to abstaine from taking downe the fume , and to vse a more safe and easier remedy . The like caution must also be observed in respect of the melt that is obstructed , or subiect to obstruction , especially in them that are of a drie melancholike temperature , because the fume , by reason of its heate and siccitie , doth not onelie greatly distemper them , but also causeth their bloud to growe more melancholike , and to bee adusted , and the melancholie humour that resideth in the spleene , as in its proper receptacle , to bee indurated from whence diuers calamitous miseries doe commonly arise . Wherefore I aduise all such as are of a melancholericke constitution , vtterly to shunne the taking of Tobacco . But , that Tobaccoes fume may more effectually performe all the aforesaid commodities , and with lesse detriment , I aduise that the rules of Tobacco be macerated or steeped two or three daies in sacke aboundantly edulcated or sweetned with sugar , wherein Nutmegs , Cloues , Saffron , the rootes of Sassafras , Calamus aromaticus , and of Galingale , Lignum aloes , knaps of Stickadoue , the Floures of Rosemarie , Sage , and Lavender-spike , together with their knaps , Fennell seedes , and the excellent graines called Cubebe haue beene infused foure and twenty houres , and afterwards strained from the licour with a strong expression . All these things must be bruised a little , sauing the Saffron , but the rootes and Lignum aloes more then the rest , or sliced very thinne , and for the quantities of them , and of the wine , it must be according to the quantitie of Tobacco that you will infuse , wherein you can commit no errour , so you take not aboue halfe a dram of Saffron to a quarte of Wine : when the Tobacco shall be infused as aforesaid , take it out of the licour , and reserue it for your vse . If any shall also sprinckle it with a few droppes of oyle of Annise or Fennell seedes , or rather , of Cloues , I will not gainesay it . For the fume , by reason of an Aromaticall savour , which it acquireth by meanes of this artificiall preparation , is more agreeable to the spirits , & doth , besides the aforesaid commodities , which it more excellently performeth , farre lesse offend with its benumming qualitie , ill smell , and fuliginous savour . Now , that I may impose an end to this busines , I will summarily rehearse the hurts that Tobacco inferreth , if it be vsed contrary to the order and way I haue set downe . It drieth the braine , dimmeth the sight , vitiateth the smell , hurteth the stomacke , destroyeth the concoction , disturbeth the humors , and spirities , induceth a trembling of the limbes , corrupteth the breath , exiccateth the winde-pipe , lungs , and liuer , annoyeth the melt , scorcheth the heart , and causeth the bloud to be adusted : Moreouer , it eliquateth the pingui-substance of the kidnies , and absumeth the geniture . In a word , it ouerthroweth the spirites , perverteth the vnderstanding , and confoundeth the senses with a sodayne astonishment and stupidity of the whole body . All which hurts I affirme , that the immoderate and intempestiue vse of Tobacco doth effect , both by reason of its temperament , but especially through the property of its substance : wherefore the vse of it is onely tollerable by way of physicke , not for pleasure , or an idle custome . To conclude therefore , I wish them that desire to haue mentem sanam in corpore sano , altogether to abandon insanam praeposterumque Tobacci vsum . This is all which seemed good vnto me to be written of Tobaccoes fume , partly for shewing the right manner of vsing it , but especially for reproouing the too too licentious liberall , and intempestiue taking of it , which very many , in these dayes ) do to their owne ruine lewdly , and for want of better employment , foolishly affect . FINIS . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A14326-e200 The nature of Tobacco . An obiection of our vulgar Tobacconists . Solution . Sleep and vaine dreames , two effects of Tobacco for which the Indians vsed it . The vertues o● Tobaccoes fume . Imbibitus , that is , taken down . This custome of taking the fume downe into the stomacke & lungs very pernicious An obiection of our vulgar Tobacconists . Solution . Another obiection . a There is also no other reason why very many of our people , in their sickenesse , expose their bodies to be corrupted , I cannot say cured , to ignorant vsurping Po●icaries , and other base illiterated Emperickes , who are ( contrary to the Lawes ) euery where permitted to exercise Physicke , to the dishonour of God , disgrace to the Facultie , hurt of our People , and shame of our Nation , Ten precepts to be obserued in the vse of Tobacco . The fume of Tobacco ought not to be taken downe vpon euerie light occasion . Such as are affected with a drie distemperature of the braine , must verie warily ( when they are annoyed with rheumes ) vse Tobaccoes fume . Two cautions to be obserued in taking the fume of Tobacco downe . Cautio practica Tobacco most pernicious to dr 〈…〉 like bo●ies . The preparatiō of Tobacco . The discommodities of Tobacco , being immoderately and vntimely receiued . A20030 ---- A defence of tabacco vvith a friendly answer to the late printed booke called Worke for chimny-sweepers, &c. Marbecke, Roger, 1536-1605. 1602 Approx. 117 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 36 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2004-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A20030 STC 6468 ESTC S109505 99845152 99845152 10037 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . 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Smoking -- Early works to 1800. 2003-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2003-10 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-11 Jonathan Blaney Sampled and proofread 2003-11 Jonathan Blaney Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-12 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A DEFENCE OF TABACCO : VVITH A FRIENDLY ANSWER TO THE late printed Booke called Worke for Chimny-Sweepers , &c. Si iudicas , cognosce : si Rex es , iube LONDON , Printed by Richard Field for Thomas Man. 1602. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVL SIR HENRIE COCKE knight , Cofferer to her Maiestie : and Master Richard Browne Esquire , Clarke of the Greene cloth . MVch here is said , Tabacco to defend , And much was said , ●abacco to disgrace : Reade , marke , and scan : then censure in the end : Both you are men , most fit to iudge the case . Esteeme of me , as you in me shall find : Craue pardon first I do : and that obtaind , Know this , that no man shall with better mynd , Each where declare to you his loue vnfaind . Come what shall come , to this poore Indian toy : Vnto you both , I wish immortall ioy . A DEFENCE OF TABACCO : VVITH A FRIENDLY ANSWER TO THE late printed Booke called Worke for Chimny-sweepers , &c. Si iudicas , cognose : si Rex es , iube . THere was published of late , a certaine briefe Discourse of Tabacco . By whom it was penned , I know not , I protest : no more then I know his name , that did lay the first stone at the building of London bridge . But in my iudgement , he seemeth to be a man , well read , and of sufficient learning , and vnderstanding . I am requested by some of my friends , ( who rather may command me , ) thoroughly to peruse it , and that being done , to giue my censure , and opinion , and therewithall , to giue such defence as I can , to that poore simple , if the truth of the matter , will any maner of way , seeme to beare it . Loath I am , I confesse , to entermeddle in anie such matters : neuerthelesse , for so much , as modest , and scholerly disputations are to be allowed , and conference betweene such , as haue bene ciuilly brought vp in schooles , are not to be disliked : for that oftentimes they do much good , and giue great contentment to the Reader , if they be done with due regard , of time , place , and person : I haue thought it not amisse to yeeld vnto my friends request : and to say something ●o the matter : more I assure you , to satisfie their desire herein , then otherwise , to seeke to offend anie . For I do protest , and that truly , that I am no way high minded : or do challenge anie whit so much vnto my selfe , as some perchaunce , rather of good will , no doubt , then of my desert do yeeld vnto me . And among that number of men I do account my selfe , that rather desireth to learne of others , then to be a teacher , and an instructer of anie . But euery thing is , as it is taken : and my hope is , that nothing shal be ill taken there , where all is well meant . And before I enter into the matter it selfe , I hold it not amisse to put downe the maine point of the Discourse , or the true state of the question , as they call it , and so much the rather , for that the Authour seemeth somewhat vncertaine herein : sometime inueighing against Tabacco it selfe , and his manifest qualities : sometime speaking but onely against the great abuse thereof . If his meaning be , onely to condemne the abuse of Tabacco : in that , I am readie to take his part , and will most willingly ioyne with him hand in hand : but yet so , as I do thinke , that a good thing should be no more misliked , for the abuse thereof : then I do thinke : that fire , is therefore vtterly to be condemned , because sometime either a towne or house , is set a fire therewith , be it by negligence or malice of others : or that good drinke is therfore to be dispraised , because some that exceed therein , and lye tipling , and quaffing at it all day long , sometime do lose , both their wealth , and wits and all thereby . Leauing therefore , the abuse of Tabacco : or at the least , touching it , as occasion shall be offered : my meaning is onely to deale with Tabacco it selfe : and therein to shew : that , neither of it selfe , or for it selfe , it is to be so mightily misliked : or at the least wise , not so much to be misliked for those causes , and reasons , which are by the Author alleaged . The order that I will obserue shall be thus : the eight chiefe , and capitall arguments , which him selfe hath set downe , I will alleage verbatim , and in the same order , as he hath placed them . And that being done , I will collect and gather , as briefly as I can , the pith , summe , or substance , of his principall proofes , which he bringeth for the farther strengthening , and confirmation of his said arguments , but yet not rehearsing all the Authors words , for that would be too long , and ouer tedious : but , in that behalfe , I will referre the Reader ouer to the booke that is published in print , for his better satisfaction . And hauing answered his arguments , then will I briefly deale with such pretie by-points , and questions of learning , which shall be worth the noting , and shall be found here and there sprinkled , and scattered , in all the Chapters of his booke following , in order as they lye . Touching mine owne particular fantacie and affection to Tabacco : I protest , it is no maner of way , tyed vnto it . For in all my life , either I did neuer take it at all : or else verie seldome : so that , euen in that respect also , I may be held ▪ as a most indifferēt iudge for the matter . Not making indeede , anie great reckening or account , on which side the iudgement , or sentence shall go : not much vnlike to a friends saying of mine , of late : and it was thus : This friend of mine , being not many yeares agoe , a great Courtier , and pleasant conceited Gentleman : but now altogether retired into the countrey , and a man of verie good woorth , and qualitie ; had at that time a sute vnto his Lord and maister , whom he then serued : for the sauing of a man , that was then condemned to be hanged : and but for a trifle neither , quoth he : What is that , said his Lord ? Onely said he , for mistaking of a word or two : for whereas he sh●uld haue bid an honest man , good morrow : he chaunced to bid him Deliuer his purse . Well said his Lord , smiling , I wil do what I can to get his pardon of her Maiestie : but yet in good faith tell me , what shalt thou haue , for thy paines ? if his pardon be gotten . By my troth , quoth he : and I will not lye vnto your Lordship , the troth is , I am promised fortie pound . But if it please your Honor to make it vp ten pound more , and to giue me fiftie , as God iudge me , I care not if he be hanged by and by . And euen so in a maner it fareth with me , touching the case of Tabacco now in question . For if vpon the matter , he shal be found meete to remaine still in request , in some sort , I shall be glad thereof : if otherwise , I shall not greatly be aggrieued . But yet , for that this Tabacco , is a poore gentleman , and a stranger ; and , as it should seeme , of some good account in his countrey , with the high Priests , and Rulers of the Sinagogues there , and can speake no word of our language to defend himselfe , being so mightily accused as he is : and now standeth vpon his triall , at the Barre , I could wish , that for the honor of our countrie he might be both honorably , and fauorably dealt withall , and to be permitted to entertaine some one man or other to pleade his cause , and to speake for him : were it but in forma pauperis : or rather as my neighbours of P●ticoate-lane , Scold , Chider , and Spend-all , are wont to call it , in forme of Papers . And for that it is a deede of charitie to succour and helpe the needie : and for that I am naturally enclined to pitie , and to fauour poore straungers , I pray you giue me leaue to say something in his behalfe , and to speake that which I haue to say , franckly , and freely , without any offence . The first Argument , is : That in the vse , or custome of Tabacco , no methode , or order is obserued : diuersity , and distinction of persons , times , and seasons considered : no varieties of accidents , and diseases pondered , &c. The first reason dependeth wholly vpon this point : Because there is no order , or methode kept therein : therefore either it , or rather the daily vse of it , is to be discommended . And for proofe therof , there is mentioned , the decay of a Commonwealth , for lacke of order , and right gouernment : and beside ●hat , a long discourse is brought in , out of Hippocrates , Galen , and other good writers , as also grounded vpon good experience : That there must regard be had , of the age , of the time , of the disease , of the sexe , of the region and place , of the complexion , &c. or else all is marred : and there can come no good either of it , or of any thing else that is disorderly taken , &c. All this is yeelded vnto , so that there needeth no longer speech at al ▪ where th●re is no contradictiō . So that briefly to conclude : This Argument seemeth , altogether to driue against the immoderat , and disorderly abuse of Tabacco : and not much against the thing it self : and euery artificer and meane trades man , can both see it , and also say as much : that where no order is kept , there the worke cannot prosper , or come to good effect . As for example : He were a simple Cooke , that thought all meates should be dressed alike : or that a Chine of Beefe , should haue no greater a fire , nor no longer a time of rosting , then a dousin of Larkes . And he hath small knowledge in baked meate , that supposeth that a good fat pastie of Venison , must haue no longer a time , either of baking , or of soaking , then an apple Tart. Neither is he to be accounted to haue any skill in baking of bread , I trow , that will first thrust in the batch of bread into the Ouen , and then make the fire afterward . So that to conclude , where all circumstances are not considered , that ought to be regarded : and where any action is to be performed , and where methode , order , and proportion is not kept and obserued , there all the labour is lost , and whatsoeuer is taken in hand , is mard for lacke of discretion . So fareth it with Tabacco : that where it is immoderately and disorderly vsed , there I confesse some offence perchaunce , may well inough grow by the abuse therof : and yet for all that , the poore Simple of it selfe , and the right vse thereof , may iustly deserue great commendation . Hitherto then , it seems we agree well inough . But here in your farther discourse you say : That we see by experience , that some diseased of the Dropsie , and mois● complexions , and maladies growing of superfluities of humors , haue receiued great helpe by the frequent vse of this Tabacco , &c. Tabacco is very much beholding to you for this , I assure you , that your selfe hath here confessed by the way : and it is almost as much , as is either to be wished , or looked for , for the great good of Tabacco . For if it be well weighed , it mightily confuteth , all the rest in a maner of your bitter inueighing against it ; in other places : namely : that it hindreth digestion , it depriueth nature of nourishment , it destroyeth naturall heate , it marreth propagation , it is a daungerous poison : and the like . For now in the meane while , ex confessis : Tabacco in this place is held for a thing very good for dropsies you say and moist complexions , and waterish diseases : and in some other placeshereafter , as you affirme , it is good for the scuruy , for weake cold stomackes , for rheumaticke fluxes , for grosse & foggy bodies , yea : and for expelling of poyson in some sort , &c. All which sayings of yours , are in my opinion maruellous great praises for Tabacco : & so great , as no greater praise can well be deuised , to be attributed , or giuen , to any one simple in the garden . What ? To be good to cure dropsies , and waterish diseases , and rheumes , and scuruies , and cold , and weake stomackes , &c. Why ? what would you more ? would you haue it good for all things ? Nay : the honest stranger that praised butter so much , could neuer bring that to passe in his butter as good as it was : for when that he had said all the good that he could of it , saying , it was good to eate at all times , both morning and euening , and good for all sorts of people both early and late , and good for pies , cakes , and spice-bread , and many other iunketing knackes ; and in the end praised it so excessiuely , that at the last he confirmed it with an oath , that it was the only thing in the world , for it was good for all things : Nay , ho there , sayd a good fellow , and a stander by , That 's not so : for it is not good to stop ouens . Although Tabacco be not good for all things : no , nor for so many things neither , as butter is perchance , yet by my fay : it is well , if it be good for so many things , and so great matters , as dropsies and the like , as you haue sayd : and you shall hardly match him againe I warra●t you , with his like in all points . Marry if your meaning be by this reason , onely to reprehend the abuse and disorder thereof : Then this controuersie is at an end . But yet as I haue already said : The lacke of discretion of the party that vseth it : is no dispraise to the thing that is abused . You still go on , and at the last you find fault with Tabacco , For that by the vse of Tabacco , the natuall offices and functions of the body are peruerted , as namely the mouth , throat , and stomacke , are made emunctory cleansing places , and sinkes for the filth , and superfluous excrements of the whole body , &c. But this obiection is very weake , and to little purpose . For who sees not , that those parts which you haue named , are in some sort appointed by nature , to serue for the selfe same purposes , which you haue here mentioned : as the mouth to auoide superfluous spittle , by hawking , reaching , and spitting : the nose , by vttering such filth , as descendeth from the braine , and forepart of the head : the throate , by coughing , to rid , & make passage for tough fleame , from the lungs , and also to cast vp and discharge ill matters from the stomacke , by the way of vomiting , either pr●cured by art , or otherwise comming voluntarily by natures motion , when she findeth her selfe surcharged with an ouerplus . So that by these doings it should seeme , here is either no offence at all done vnto nature , neither yet her course peruerted : or at the least , nothing so much wronged , & peruerted , as is by you supposed . Marry if these excrements which are wont to be brought thither , and to be conueyed away by those places , were left there to remaine , it we●e another matter , and there were somewhat to be sayd ▪ but daily experience maketh it manifest , and your selfe also confesseth it , that it bringeth no more thi●her , then it carieth away from thence . And so vpon the reckening , it should seeme it is so farre from causing any annoyance or offence , that it rather cleanseth and preserueth those places , by keeping them much better , and sweeter , then otherwise . The second reason is , for that It is in quality and complexion , more hote and dry , then may be conueniently vsed daily of any man : much lesse of the hote , and cholericke constitution . True it is that the good temperament , and constitution of our bodies dependeth vpon the inst , and due proportion and mixture of the foure Elements : not that each body hath a like quantity , or proportion of the sayd Elements in them , by weight and measure : but according to the rules of iustice , and sufficiency for euery particular body to haue , they be so orderly mingled and proportioned , as is best for the health and strength of that particular body , to make him able to do , and performe , all those functions and actions , which are fittest for the body to do , and performe . For example sake , as that horse is said to haue his health best , and to be of a good constitution , which is best able in running , and other actions , to performe those things best , which appertaine to a horse , for to do : and as that dog likewise is said , to be best , & soundest , which in hunting , and smelling , &c. with best strength and agility performeth his functions : so is that man sayd to be in best plight of body and perfect health , which findeth himselfe best able to performe , and discharge all those actions which are agreeable for his body , and incident to the nature of man : so that , they and we consist of the like elements : but not of the like proportion & mixture of the same elemēts ; but yet of such a sufficient & cōuenient temperature , as shall be most befitting for the health and good estate of each creature in his degree . And of this due commixtion of these elements , riseth those foure compound temperaments , or complexions that are so famous : The Sanguine : the Cholericke : the Melancholy : and the Flegmaticke : all agreeing , in hauing all the Elements in them : yet all disagreeing , in hauing them proportioned a like in them ; and yet euery one well pleased in that quantity & proportion , which he hath , and enioyeth in himselfe . Now , whether these foresaid Elements be in our bodies substantially , and materially , as they be in nature , and essence : or only but the qualities , powers and properties of the same : so placed and conueyed , into the mould of our temperature , as they are able to worke , and be get their like effects in vs , and our bodies : that is a darke and a tedious question , and hath bred great contention among the learned : but yet , not much materiall to the purpose of that thing which we haue now in hand . But this one thing is to be noted by the way , that none of these temperatures , or complexions , are so narrowly scantled , or pent vp into such a streight , but that each one of them may in some sort , admit a certaine kind either of increase , or decrease , of his principall humor , whereof he carieth his denomination , and yet retaine his naturall and perfect constitution still . As for example : The sanguine man may leese some bloud , or else alter some part of the same : the cholericke man likewise , may either increase , or decrease some part of his choler ; and so of the rest : and yet retaine his health : and remaine of a sanguine , or a cholericke constitution still . For as the Base , and Treble in Musicke haue diuerse alterations of rising and falling in them , which I thinke ▪ they call keyes , and ●treines , all differing in proportion , yet in sound , and noyse , making all a pleasing musicall concord : so in like maner haue these constitutions , or complexions of ours , a certaine decent scope , or latitude ( as we call it ) to walke in : and yet for all that , each one of them , may be said to keepe his first strength , and constitution , with a sweete pleasing proportion and harmonie . Thus much being generally spoken : now let vs weigh your argument , and the materiall notes , and proofes , annexed to the same . In this place it is said by you : that , the daily vse of Tabacco , is not good for any man : much lesse for the cholericke constitution . If you meane , by these words , daily vse : too much , or immoderate vse ; I yeeld vnto it : and in that sence , it is not good , for any other complexion : be it neuer so cold , and Phlegmaticke . No more is any thing else , that I do k●ow . But if you meane by daily vse , the often and frequent vse thereof , and then meane that the frequent and often vse is not good for any , as here you say that it is not : then you contradict your selfe . For but euen now , in a few lines going before in your first Chapter , you said : many moist complexions , haue receiued great helpe , by the frequent vse of Tabacco , &c. which is flat against that , which you do now here affirme . But it had bene well done of you , here to haue put downe , which way of taking of Tabacco you do meane , when you thus condemne , the daily vse thereof . If you meane the daily taking of it in substance , as a foode , &c. I know none , for my part , that vseth it so ; if you meane , by infusion , or decoction , or otherwise , as a medicine to purge withall , &c. I thinke likewise none so mad , or so foolish , as to offend that way . But if you meane , by fume , and Pipe , as I thinke you do : how comes it then to passe , that you stand so greatly in feare of it now , when you confesse in another place : that ▪ the fume of it is not any matter , of any great importance , or able to make any great impression , too or fro , to do any great good , or ill at all . Me think ( as the poore old man said by his patcht torne cloke ) this geere hardly hange●h well together . And whereas this misliking of yours , seemeth to rise of his two manifest qualities that be in him : that is to say , ●or his great heat , and drinesse : why , you know , and I know , that hotter things then this is ▪ and drier too , are daily taken of all sorts , yea and of all complexions ; as Ginger , Pepper , Clo●es , ●raines , and Mace , and other good spices , as well with meat , as also in their daily drinke , suppinses , and cawdels : and yet for any thing , that either you , or I can see ; God be thanked , there comes no hurt at all in the world thereby . But why it should destroy , and consume natura●● heate and moisture , as you affirme , which are the principals of our life ; in truth I vnderstand not , vnlesse , as I said , the takers thereof , should make whole meales thereof , which I am sure no man doth . For then indeed it may be , it would worke that effect : and so would all your cordiall spices do also : if men should in that disorderly maner feede on them : as to make whole meales thereof . Whereas now being moderately taken : and yet daily too : they be great preseruers of health , in most sort of men , or rather in all kind of complexions : as a●l men I am sure , will confesse . That which is added out of Aristotle ; O●ne simile , additum simili , reddit ipsum simile magis simile : maketh lit●e for your purpose . For as your selfe confesseth , that ; Contraria contrarijs curantur : so I thinke you are as willing to confesse also : that , similia similibus nutriuntur . Now ●ir ; if Tabacco be hote and drie , as you put downe that it is , and the cholericke man hote likewise ; and then if ●●ke be increased with like : as Aristotle saith : or if like be nourished , maintained , and preserued with like , as Ph●sitions affirme : then like inough it is , that the choleric●e mans complexion , is rather preserued by Tabacco , then destroyed : presupposed alwaies , if it be moderately taken . It may be , you will here haue a kind of euasion , and a certaine starting hole : and I guesse well inough what it is , yet neuerthelesse I will not name it . But for anything that is yet said of you to the contrarie , this argument holdeth ; and so it shall rest for me . Moreouer , that Principle of Aristotle : Omne simile , additum simili , &c. must haue a nice interpretation , and must be rightly vnderstood : or else it is like inough , I tell you , to breede an errour . Like increaseth like , you say . It is true : but yet in quantitie it increaseth it , and not in qualitie : vnlesse that same like , be in a higher , and stronger degree , of qualitie and likenesse . And yet , how it should then rightly be called like , being by reason of a higher degree vnlike , for my part , I see not . As for example : hote water , being put to as hote water , maketh not that hote wa●er , hotter then it was , vnto the which it is put . It may well increase the substance , and quantitie of that hote water : but yet not the heate , and quality thereof . Then , vnlesse Tabacco , be hotter then choler , ( which will be very hard to proue ) it cannot increase choler in heate , and qualitie . But if it be colder in power and qualitie , ( as I thinke it will fall out , that it is ) then doth it rather abate , and suppresse the heate of choler , then increase it . For warme water , yea though it be good and warme water : yet because it is not so hote , as scalding hote water is , being put to scalding hote water ; it doth not increase his heate a whit : but rather cooleth it , I warrant you , try it when you will. Touching the great store , of vndigested , and crude humors , which are the effects of immoderate heates in vs , as you affirme ; and so consequently are cause and occasion of hote feuers ; I see no cause of any such feare by Tabacco . For if daily experience may serue for a sufficient proofe of the contrarie : I for my part , haue seene none at all : neither hath any man else I am sure knowne any ; or at the least , very few , among so many thousands , that daily take it , that haue fallen into agues directly vpon the taking of Tabacco : and therefore , euen by that experiment also it doth seeme vnto me , that the taking thereof , especially in fume , ( which as your selfe graunteth , hath very , small force to worke any great matter vpon our bodies ) can cause no such fierie , and extreame heate in the bodie , as is by you supposed , but rather , if it do giue any heate , yet that heate is rather a familiar , and a pleasing heate , then an immoderate , extraordinarie , and an aguish distemperature . And as for them that affirme , Agues to be cured by Tabacco , as you say ; if any vnlearned so say : in my iudgement , it is an vnsauory speech , & without sence or methode , and I leaue it to them that so say , to defend it as they can . But it may be , you mistake them . Possible it is , that their saying , yea , and their meaning too , is thus : that in the curing of Agues , Tabacco , may haue his good vse , if he be rightly vsed : as well as other purgatiues haue . And that opinion well vnderstood , is not greatly amisse . For if Purgations , being done in good order , and conueniently giuen in their due times , and seasons , be one of the especiall helpes , to rid and cure rotten Agues , as you know it is : then it is like inough ▪ that Tabacco , by his purging facultie , may do much good , by taking away the cause of the Ague , as other Purgations do . For if you thinke it can do no good that way , because it is hote and drie : then by that reason likewise , no Purgatiues in a maner , that the old auncient writers did vse , can do any good that way . For that they were all , or most of them of the same nature , hote and dry : as for example : Elleborus , Colocinth , Elatery , Esulus , Scammony : which was not onely vsed by them in a manner altogether : but at this day also , is one of the most common , and vsuallest things that we haue ; especially , in our great , and magistrall compositions . As for the daunger that you presuppose ▪ is in the often vse of Tabacco , to them that be in health , for dissipating , & consuming that wholesome humor , by often vomits , seeges , sweatings , spittings , and coughings , which otherwise would be turned to good bloud , and nourishment : and all this to be done to by the fume of Tabacco , ( which by and by vanisheth away , as all smokes do . ) In my fancy , all this is but a meere imagination : and directly against that which your selfe hath sayd already : affirming that the fume hath no great force to worke , any matter of moment in our bodies , as also flat against common and daily experience . For neither I , nor you , nor any man else , in my opiniō , euer did see , that the fume ( for of that your talke must be , or else you talke to no purpose ) which is the thing onely that is in daily vse , did euer worke , any great purgings , or vomits , or sweates : or if it did at any time : yet it was by a meere accident and chance ; which is nothing to purpose . As for the other humidities , which as you say , it prouoketh , from the braine , and other parts of the head : a man may thinke , that those things may as conueniently be done , and with as litle hurt or danger with Tabacco , as we see them daily done by your Errhinaes , and Nasaliaes , and Sternutatories , which are vsually giuen in Phisicke by the nose , to procure sneesing , and clammy filth to come downe that way : or by your Mastichatories , which you vse to chew and to prouoke the passing away of offensiue humours by the mouth : or by your expertorating medicines , and procurers of Phleagme to be discharged , and auoided by coughings . But if your meaning be , that it consumeth only that humidity , which is layed vp in the stomach , as in a store-house , to serue to good purpose hereafter ; euen in that point also , you are deceiued , considering the great waterishn●sse , and ouermuch moisture , of our country , and the people thereof : as shal be more at large spoken of hereafter : in so much that there is a great deale mor● feare and care to be had , of the offences , that may grow by too much humiditie in the stomacke ; then any whit , to stand in feare , of any great matter , or harme that may ensue , vpon the abating of the abundance , of that humiditie and moisture . And now : whereas you affirme , it maketh , the grosse , and foggy , to be leane , &c. If this be certaine , which by you is put downe and auouched , you haue giuen Tabacco , one of the greatest praises , that can be deuised . And if there were no other matter , why it should be had in good regard : yet for this only point it deserueth immortall praise . You are not ignorant I am sure , how many learned men , haue of long time labored , and do daily busie themselues from time , to time , how to de●ise remedies , to make the grosse , and foggy man , leane , in some reasonable measure , and yet notwithstanding , you see , how few haue , or can effect the same . For my part , I would I were indebted to you , in a good round summe of money , that I might be assured , Tabacco , could worke that feate . Do you but assure me , that it can do it indeed : and I will be bound to assure you , that no Consumption , or decay , either of naturall heat , or radicall & substantiall moisture , shal follow vpon the taking of Tabacco . But to come something close to the point . If Phisicke haue any direct , and ordinary meanes to pull downe a grosse and foggy body , as you call it : in my conceit , it must be , by conuenient competent euacuations , and drying diets , fit , and agreeable for the purpose . Now sir : if those ordinary remedies which are vsuall in the common course of Phisicke , for the abating of ouermuch foggy fatnesse , are , and ought to be of the same quality and condition that Tabacco is : that is to say , hote , and dry : and notwithstanding the daily vse of them , yet for all that , we stand no whit in feare , that either consumptions , or decay of naturall heate and moisture , will ensue vpon the vse thereof , when they are ministred : what is the reason then , why we should be so much afeard , of the vsing of Tabacco , in the like case , hauing the selfe same properties , that other medicines either haue , or should haue , being vsed to the same effect , and purpose ? And whereas you imagine it is very vnapt , to breed good nourishment ( and vpon that hangeth the greatest weight , and moment of your reasons : ) I see not well , how that can be : except it be , by one of these two meanes following : that is to say , either because Tabacco it selfe maketh not good nourishment , if it be taken into the body : or else because Tabacco decayeth and destroyeth , the chiefest instrument , that maketh good nourishment for our bodies , which is the stomach . If we meane , it breedeth no good nourishment of it selfe , as other good meates do : I yeeld thereunto , as I sayd before : and confe●●e as much now : neither did I euer take Tabacco , to be any good meate at all : neither doth any man vse it for foode , that I know . But if your meaning be , that therefore it hindreth good nourishment , because it hindreth , and destroyeth the chiefest instrument of good nourishment , I meane our stomach : in my iudgement , you are farre deceiued : for it is rather a principall helpe in that respect , then any hinderer at all . For if ouermuch moisture be a great hinderer of the stomach , by relaxing of it : and by dulling the desire , and appetite of meate : and if great cold be another great enemy , to the same ; for that it hindereth , and decayeth good concoction : then Tabacco , as Tabacco hauing the contrary qualities , that is to say , being hote , and dry , is no such ill meanes to amend those foresayd defects , and infirmities of the stomach , as you presupposed that it is . I say , Tabacco , as Tabacco : that is , as Tabacco I meane rightly , and moderatly vsed : for too much wood , suddenly , and out of order heaped on , choaketh , and putteth out the fire : and too much good wine , being immoderatly and excessiuely swilled in , though of his owne nature it be warme , and comfortable , yet , so taken , it killeth and extinguisheth naturall heate : and so in this , as in other things , the common saying is fulfilled : Too much of any thing , is good for nothing . Your discourse of smels , is for the most part true and pretty , and very well to be liked : but yet in all parts , but weake , and faint , to proue the matter in hand . The Aristotelians , and the Galenists , are at a iarre about the nature of smels : and some of the old writer● ; as also some of the latter to , yea , and those of the best sort , and greatest fame : haue much a do about this point : to proue that sweet swels do nourish , and are mightily puzzled in it . But yet to be briefe , in this point , for my part , I do ●ssen● vnto you , and am of opinion , as you are , that sweete smels do nourish . But yet the principall point in question remaineth still in doubt : which is this : whether Tabacco stinke , or no ? Then , whether it do stinke in that high degree , that it doth breed such great offence to nature , as it must needs be abhorred so much , as you do beare vs in hand it must . And by the way : if it do stinke : is it therefore to be thought vtterly vnprofitable , to be vsed , in Phisicke ? For the deciding of this question , whether it stinke , or no : I know no better way , or directer course , then to appeale to the multitude of indifferent voices . True it is , that as all noses are not alike in shape , and making but some are long noses , some short : some thin , and sharpe , as they say shrewes be : some great and botteld , as I know whose is : so is there great variety of iudgement in their smels , and that which pleaseth one much displeaseth another : as appeared by the merry tale of the Collier , that passing through Bucklersbury , fell into a kind of trance , with the sweete smels of that street , and was reuiued againe with the smell of , you wot what , if all Caunterbury tales be true . But yet thus much I do know , and I thinke your selfe also will not deny ; That men of great learning and iudgement , men of right good bringing vp , men of fine , and deinty diet , men of good worth , and worship , yea men , of right honorable estate , and calling ; do like of the smell of Tabacco well inough . Why then should it be so mightily condemned by you , for such an horrible stinker ? If it were possible to haue , so great an assembly , of so indifferent , and worthy Iudges for this matter , as there is now , a most honorable meeting , at this very instant in the high Parliament for other greater matters , & if it might be put to their indgement , assure your selfe , it would go against you , and you would quite be ouerthrowne : and for one voice of your side , there would be twenty , at the least on the other ; and all for Tabacco . For I can tell you , that this is held for an infallible rule , and to be one of the most perfectest signes of good Tabacco ; that it be sweete , and yeeld a kind of pleasing , fragrant , aromaticall smell . But by the way of admittance , let it be sayd , that it hath a kind of ranke , or vnpleasant sauour . What then ? shall it therefore be banished out of the vse of Phisicke ? or if it bring , a greater commodity with it , shall it therefore , for a little ranke smell , be reiected ? Smell me to the simple , called Vuluaria : or to your Castoreum : or to your Assa foetida , called of some Stercus Diaboli , or to your great composition of Mithridat , the glory of Phisicke , and the wonder of the world : and such other , which are no small fooles in the course of Phisicke : and I beleeue , when you haue but once handled some of them ; you would thanke him , that would bring you a little good Tabacco , to helpe to put away those smels , and to sweeten your selfe againe . If men did cōmend Tabacco , to make Pomanders withall : or for lip-salue , or for fine perfumes , and sweete smels , for Ladies chambers , it were another matter : and might perchance haue bene instly misliked . Your storie of Ambrose Pary , is farre fetcht , and to no purpose in all the world . What needed you to haue fetched your proofes out of Fraunce , to perswade that ill smels do offend ? Euery dūghil in England , and something else too , can testifie that well inough . And here I must needs tell you by the way , that your speeches , be a litle too much exceeding , and as I might tearme them , too farre transcendent , and your comparisons too vnequall , when you inueigh against poore Tabacco . For when you talke of his manifest qualities , which are hot , and dry , and yet that to not excessiue : but in some measurable manner , yet you terme him to be , fi●ry , hellish , burning , scorching , out of Plutoes forge , and the like : whereas indeede , there is no such matter : and ye● vpon that hyperbolicall ground , as I may say , are most 〈◊〉 your arguments builded . As if a man should reason thus : Because too great a fire , and therewithall standing too neare vnto it , doth burne a man : therefore , a moderate fire , with a reasonable distance standing from it , were not fit to warme a man pleasingly , and with delight . Or because scalding hot water , is fitter to scald a pig , then to trim a mans beard : therefore luke-warme water ▪ is not good to be vsed in Barbors basons : for euen much a like hang these your arguments together ▪ And now , in like manner , what a comparison haue you pickt out ▪ be●weene Tabacco , and that most hatefull thing , the plag●●● He that knoweth not of what a monsterous deepe , filthy , corrupt , stinking putrefaction , the plague proceedeth , being able not onely to infect another : but also to beget in a second person , in a third , yea and in a fourth man , another monsterous , stinking , contagious seminarie as he calleth it ( a Seminarie Priest if ye will ) like to himselfe ; let him but reade that learned Fracastorius vpon that point in his bookes De morbis contagiosis ; and he shall be satisfied . And now alas , what comparison is there betweene the smell of such a monster , and poore Tabacco : whose smell is deemed no worse of such as loue him , and are men of good account , and of a dainty sence , then to haue a certaine , drying , odoriferous , aromaticall sauour : and of such as hate him , yet if they do him right , and be not too partiall , can be thought to be but something hote in smell , and as it were a little rancke at the most . Touching the story of D. T. it dieth of it selfe : and is to as little purpose , as the other of Ambrose Pary . Yea , and if it be well scand , it is directly against your selfe . For you confesse , he would not for a hundreth pounds , but that he had vsed it : and why ? himselfe answereth : for thereby saith : he found great ease , of his cold , and rheumaticke stomach . So that vpon this mans confession : Tabacco is nothing so ill a thing , or such a terrible bugge , as you haue made him , to hinder nourishment , or to destroy and ouerthrow concoction . For , as you see , it mended his stomach , which was weake , and feeble before . And whereas he saies , he cannot , now leaue it : euen in that also , he seemeth by implication as it were , to confesse : That there is no such horrible ill smell in it , as you preten● there is . For if D. T. be he , whom I do thinke , you meane : then do I knowe the man well , and knowe him also to be a very learned gentleman : and of a fine graine , as also to be a moderate , sweete , ciuill gentleman , in all his whole cariage of his life : and if the stinke were so offensiue , as you would make it to be , assure your selfe , a man of his gentlemanly course of life , and dainty nature , would haue the discretion in common sence , to shun , and abhorre it . As for the saying of the Noble man ; it must be taken , and regarded , as a particular speech , of an honourable person , that could not abide Tabacco , and as the testimony onely of one ; and for that one , you shall haue a dozen , of the same order , and degree , to thinke , and to say the contrary . The third reason , is , for that It is experimented and tried , to be a most strong , and violent purgation : and for proofe of this : you appeale : To the often scourings , vomits , sweats , and other immoderate euacuations incident into this simple . Tabacco to be a purgatiue , or to haue a purging facultie , is no dispraise in all the world , that I know . No , nor yet to be a strong , and violent purgatiue , deserueth any whit more discommendation , then other purgatiues do , being of the same nature and degree , & which for all that , are held in such high price , and great estimation in Phisicke , as your selfe knoweth . For what is more violent , then Elleborus , Colocinth , Elatery , Euphorb , Scammony : and such like ; and yet what daily vse there is of them , and with what good effect , and safety also , being carefully , and artificially handled , and prepared , who seeth not ? A good rider had rather haue , a strong , hote , stirring , ready running horse , then a weake , lame , sluggish iade , as I take it . And giue me a sharpe fine edged , cutting knife , to eate my meate withall , rather then a dull penny whittle , fit to cut butter withall , when it is warme , as the common Prouerbe is . But here perchance you will say , a meane betweene both , is best ; and so perchance say I , to . But yet for all that , the strength of your argument is broken . For , as neither a strong , stirring horse , nor a sharpe knife , is to be misliked , in themselues , or for themselues ; but if any offence grow by them , it is either by the vnskilfulnesse , or by the negligence of the one or the other : so fareth it with the secrets , and mysteries of Phisicke . Againe , your selfe confesseth , and I likewise do confesse , that this is true , that you haue said : that is to say : If a Purgation do not purge , that humor which should be purged , but lyeth drowned in the body without any working : then the Purgation increaseth that humor which should haue bene purged , and thereby doth rather much harme , then any good at all . So that hereby it is to be gathered , that the danger is rather in weake , and sluggish Purgations , then in such , as are quicke , nimble , and actiue ; if they be handled skilfully , and according to art . Let the Phisition be learned , and know how to direct , correct , and bridle him , and you may turne him loose . So that euen in this respect also , Tabacco deserueth great commendation , if it be well , and skilfully vsed . I would no● haue any man to mistake me here , and to thinke , that my meaning is , in these speeches , to condemne , or dispraise , our mild , and gentle Purgatiues , which are now so much in vse , and are called : Benedicta medicament● : most holy , and blessed medicines . For that is no part of my meaning , neither doth any man more vse them , in all his practise , then my selfe doth . But all my speech tendeth to this end : that whereas it is most manifest , that there is , and may be good vse , and profite made of both medicines , as well of that which is strong , and violent , as of that which is a gentle , and a mild Purgatiue , if they be rightly vsed : therefore I thinke it great pitie , and against reason too , that where both I say , may be well vsed , there any one of them , should be condemned , or misliked . But this fault , that you do find by his purging propertie , toucheth nothing the taking of him , by Pipe , or fume : for it is well knowne , that , by that way , it worketh none of those effects , that you talke of . And yet it should ●eeme that the chiefest thing , that you shoote at , to condemne Tabacco for : is only for the great harmes and discommodities , that vse to come by the smoke , or fume thereof , as your selfe termeth it . And for that cause , it should appeare , you haue entituled your Booke : Worke for the Chimny-sweepers , &c. And as for this smoke , which is the vsuall thing , that is so much inueighed against : vpon my credite , there is no such daungerous purgings or euacuations to be feared to come that way , as you talke of . Some litle deale of waterish , cold , superfluous , Phlegmaticke matter perchaunce , is auoyded that way by Tabacco , as is well knowne : not much otherwise , then is auoided by chewing of Masticke , and Mastichatories , by the mouth ; but yet Tabacco doth it much better then they : or else is discharged , and auoided by sneezing medicines , and cleansings , s●uffings vp into the nose : but yet Tabacco performeth that also , much more plentifully , and much more easily , then all they : and yet as safely too , as euery man doth see . And whereas you conclude , that hereby it is apparant , that : ( in regard of the harmes , that do depend vpon his violent quality in purging ) it can therefore neither in health , nor sicknesse , be so vulgarly , and commonly vsed : all this is to be graunted , so farfoorth , as you meane to condemne thereby , the ouer rash , and inconsiderate vse thereof ; which , I do thinke , your selfe doth meane , by those words which you haue put downe , when you say : So vulgarly and commonly vsed . And in this point , I do agree with you . But yet for all that , I say it proueth no more against Tabacco , then it doth against all other Purgatiues vsed in Phisicke . For if they likewise , be daily , and rashly vsed : and out of season : then are they also , in like maner , for the selfe same reasons , and for the great mischiefes , that may come thereby , to be as well reiected , and condemned , as Tabacco . And as for all those authorities , which you haue cited out of Hippocrates : they are good rules , and good sayings I graunt : but yet they tend to no other end , but onely to put vs in mind what we haue to do : and to giue vs a friendly Caueat , as it were , to take heede that we abuse them not . And therefore your selfe said very well , a litle before : that no Purge , be he familiar , and gentle : or otherwise strong and violent , ought to be familiarly , or daily vsed . This position is most true , being spoken of all Purgatiues ; and reacheth to Tabacco also , if Tabacco be vsed daily as a Purgatiue . But for my part , I know no man , that vseth it as a Purgatiue daily , be it , either in in●usion , or decoction , or in a Sirupe , or Electuarie made for that purpose , or in the way o● an extract , or any other way else , to that vse and seruice . If any man do it , let him do it , at his owne perill . For he that will haue the Pigge , or Goose rosted , after his owne fashion , as they are wont to say in my countrie , and will not vse the helpe , and aduice of the skilfull Cooke therein , then if any thing chance to be amisse in the rosting , yet let the poore Pigge , and the poore Goose go scot-free . For the Goose you know , may be a good Goose , ( as the goodwife said to her goodman : ( goose ) let him do as he wil : ) but yet let the blame light , a Gods name , where it is ; that is , vpon the ouersight , and indiscretion of the partie , that would needes haue it so dressed , according to his owne mind , and fashion . So , if they will be busie , and fall a purging , without the aduice , of the honest , and learned Phisition , let them take their pleasure , in the name of God : but if they chaunce to catch copper , by the way , let them thanke themselues . The fourth Reason is ; for that It withereth , and dryeth naturall moisture in our bodies : thereby causing sterilitie , and barrennesse : in which respect , it seemeth an enemie to the propagation of mankind , &c. For better strengthening of this assertion : you affirme , that it depriueth the bodie of nourishment , and foode . And to proue this last point , you affirme , that it spendeth and euacuateth , out of vs by spitting , and sweates , and otherwise , much of that matter , that in time would proue in vs , good bloud , and good foode for our bodies . I graunt , that there is in euery mans bodie for the most part a certaine kind of superfluous Phlegmaticke humor : as also one other excrement , which shall be namelesse , which though it be an excrement , yet , it is called by the name of a Profitable excrement , and may serue , and doth serue sometime , to supply the place of nourishment , and foode : and therefore may well beare the name , of Nutrimentum futurum , as some do tearme it . Albeit , there is another vse also of that said humiditie , which is laid vp in the store-house of our body : as that learned Huernius , hath well noted , comparing the bodie of man to the frame of the world ; hauing the great Ocean sea so placed in it as it is , that by his sufficiēt moisture , and humiditie , he might still temper the great excessiue heate of the Sunne , which otherwise , if that were not , wold go neare happily , with his cōtinual hote beames , to set the whole world a fire . The like vse , saith he , hath that same moisture , and humiditie in our bodies , &c. But that this good matter for nourishment , should be exhausted , and consumed , in that excessiue maner , by the vse of poore Tabacco , being taken in smoke , ( for so you meane I thinke , or else , you say nothing to the purpose ) there neede no feare at all in all the world to be had of any such matter . Nay , rather in my opinion , if it be well examined , it will be found a great helper , and maintainer , of that true natural good humiditie , which in time would become good nourishment , as you say ; rather then a hinderer of the same : as hath alreadie partly bene shewed before in your second Chapter , and shall hereafter more at large be declared . And for proofe thereof let this reason be something regarded , which followeth . This our countrie , and natiue soile of England , is an Island , and the most famous Island in Christendome , as all the world knoweth . And be it , but for that we are Islanders , yet , euen in that respect , for the very situation of our countrie , we are by nature subiect , to ouermuch moisture , and rheumaticke matter . Now , adde vnto this , that English men commonly are great eaters , nay rather great surfetters , and do delight much , and a great deale more , then any Nation else , in varietie , and number of sundrie meates , and dishes , whereof the Prouerbe came , Tam satur , quàm Anglus . And yet go farther . Englishmen , are now become excessiue great ●rinkers , not onely of Beere , and Ale , but also , of all kind of wine , no Nation in the world , more . And moreouer beside all this : we English men , offend as much in idlenesse , in carelesse sittings vp , and watchings , and distempering of our bodies , in royotous sports and pastimes , and in loosenesse of liuing , as any people vnder the Sun , whatsoeuer . By all which inordinate meanes : that same good and necessarie moisture , which nature prouideth , and layeth vp in store to do vs good withall , is commonly so far surcharged , and choked , with another vnprofitable crude humiditie , that she seemeth daily to make her mone , and to call for helpe , to haue that superfluous and combersom enemie remoued , and consumed : which otherwise wold be an impediment , to the remainder of that other good , & natural moisture , which nature would willingly prouide , for the supply of nourishment , and other good vses . For as Conduits , if they had not vents for to spend their wast water , would in time , either breake , or else become vnprofitable : so in our bodies , this vnnaturall , and ouer great increase of vnnecessary humidities and moistures , being made by those meanes which I mentioned before , would breed great annoyances , if they were not lessened and wasted , by some deuice , or other . Now , here perchaunce , you will say vnto me : Why ? How did men in times past , before Tabacco was known ? what helps had they then ? or how liued they in those daies ? All this is nothing to the purpose : and is as soone answered by me , as obiected by you . For admit they liued more orderly then , then we do now , and so perchaunce , had no need at all , of other helpes : ( which for all that I hardly beleeue ) or rather ●ay thus : ( which indeede is the liker of the two ) that they had other helps , and deuices , to serue their turnes ; which in their opiniō , was as good as Tabacco : yet all this doth not proue , that Tabacco is not good for the same purpose now ; as wel as those former things were then , whatsoeuer they were . Well it may proue , that Tabacco , is a thing later deuised and found out : but yet it proueth nothing at all , that because it was found out & deuised but of late to speak of , therfore it hath no force , & vertue at all to do good , but rather to hurt , as you would haue it . Let Tabacco , be a later deuice then the rest ; if ye wil : but at my request : I pray you let it be a better : for any thing that I see . For farther strengthening of this argument of yours , you alledge , that the great heat , and vnmeasurable drinesse of Tabacco , dissipateth naturall heat , whereby concoction is hindred , & by that means , many raw humors increased , &c. In which saying in my opinion , you do far misse the cushion . And this is the very point , that in all your discourse , is the chiefest cause and occasion of all your errors , as I haue said alreadie before . For you do reason still , as though there were such a fierie heat in Tabacc● , and such an exceeding extreame drinesse , as nothing might wel be deuised hotter , or drier . You know the old schoole-saying : Vno impossibili dato , sequitur quodlibet . Grant you but that false Principle once , and then any thing indeed will follow . It is not vnknowne to you , and the learned , that superexcelling obiects , weaken and destroy the senses , be they neuer so perfect : for example sake ; the exceeding brightnes , and the cleare shining of the Sunne , ouercommeth our sight , insomuch , that the more firmly & attentiuely , you do gaze vpon it ( as many tried it but euen this last day , when it was eclipsed ) the ●linder you are . What then ? and shall it therfore follow , ●hat his moderat , and comfortable shining , shal put out our eye-sight ? Who sees not , that the extreme hot burning fire , presently killeth , and destroyeth that bodie , that is cast into it ? and yet for all that , I hope the moderat , and pleasing warmth of the same fire , whē we stand by it , yeeldeth no offence at all : but rather is a great cōfort vnto vs : if Tabacco had that superexcelling heat , or such an exceeding drinesse , as you seeme to attribute vnto it ; it were another matter . But it is neither so , nor so . I neuer yet heard in all my life , that moderat heat , or things that be hote in some measurable meane and degree as Tabacco is , either did , or could dissipate , or decay naturall heat . If that were so , thē are they , in a good pickle , that cherish their stomacks with spices , and warme drinks . Vsquabah , and D. Steeuens water , Rosa solis , and Aqua vitae , greene Ginger , preserued Nutmegs , and the three Peppers , and the like , might go a begging . What stronger men haue you or more actiue , then our Irish people ? I hope they neuer came to that strength at the first , or maintained it , now they haue it , with drinking of snow water . And if Tabacco be not by many ods , and degrees beneath all these things that I haue talked of , in heate , and drinesse , then let me lose my credite . And yet for farther proofe of your argument , you alledge that by the same extreme heat of Tabacco : bloud being vndigested and crude , becometh vnfit for the sperme and seed of man , & therby is hindred the propagation of mankind by this hellish smoke , out of Plutoes forge . This reason wholy dependeth vpō the same foundation that the other did , and therfore may well receiue the same answer , that the other had . So that in a matter vnnecessarie , there needeth not any necessary speech to be had . But whereas you do confidently affirme : that Tabacco cureth the disease called Gonorrhaea : and there uppon would seeme to inferre , that therefore it hindreth propagation : good Lord , how are you deceiued therein ? and yet in so saying , what an excellent gift , and vertue haue you found out in Tabacco ? and what a si●gular praise , haue you put downe , on Tabaccoes side ? I for my part , haue as much labored , in the curing of that disease , as perchance , most men haue , of our profession : and I hope to , with as good successe . But if I had thought , in all the time of my practise , that Tabacco , had bene such a fellow , and had had any such prerogatiue , in the cure of that disease ; assure your selfe , I would haue bene better acquainted with him then I am ; & I would haue giuen him right good entertainement . I will not vse many words in this matter for diuers good , & honest respects : neither enter into any discourse , to rip vp , the diuerse kinds , natures , and differences , of that loathsome disease ; or once seeme to mention the causes , & occasions thereof , or to deale with any part of his remedies . But let this only suffice , for an infallible principle , & a thing to be maintained , against all gaine sayers : That whatsoeuer is good to cure that sicknesse : that selfe same thing is singular good , to helpe and farther propagation ; if it be orderly administred , and rightly vnderstood . For what thing in the world is there , that is a greater enemy to generation , then that disease is ? Tum quia corrumpi● totum nostrum corpus , & reddit ipsum semen languidum , & effoetum : tum quia ipsa generandi etiam instrumenta , nimis flaccida facit , & ad cocundum prorsus inepta . Sed hoc in loco , parcè , timideque loquendum est . Noui enim quàm sint malè morata haec nostra tempora , & in quàm audax oeuum , a● dissolutam aetatem inciderimus : Quocirca , vt & decentiae , & pudoris , ac verecundiae iusta , & honesta ratio habeatur , arbitramur multò meliùs esse , hìc consistere , quàm longiùs progredi . The fifth reason is : for that It decaieth , and dissipateth naturall heate , that kindly warmth in vs ; and thereby is cause of crudities , and rheumes , occasion of infinite maladies , &c. These obiections , are much like vnto those that went before : and are already sufficiently answered . But yet for farther satisfaction : let this yet , be remembred by the way : That in another place before ; your selfe hath confessed : That in cold , rheumaticke , hydropicall bodies , &c. Tabacco may do much good . And now is it become , the cause of increase , of these rheumes , and cold waterish humors in our bodies ? here is a great alteration indeed , vpon a sudden . Likewise in another place , you sayd , it cured D. T. ofhis cold rheumaticke stomach . And as I take it , that was done : by giuing of it some increase of good heate , with a sufficient drinesse : for otherwise I know , he could not haue bene cured . For this is flat , and plaine , that contraria , contrarijs curantur . And I am sure , your selfe also , is of that opinion . And is Tabacco , now found out to be a decayer , and dissipator , of that naturall kindly heate , which heretofore , it did giue , and procure to others ? by your owne confession ? By my fay : the reconciling of these , and the like speeches ( whereof , there be diuerse in your booke ) will put a wiser man then I am , or your selfe either , to cast about , and to seeke the bottome of his wits , how it may be brought to passe . But for that the proofe of this your fifth reason , hangeth vpon the proofe of your fourth argument , as your selfe saith , and for that cause , your selfe also is willing to referre vs ouer , to that fourth part of your Discourse : euen so will I do to : and so here rest a while . And in the meane time , if it will please you to giue me leaue to enter into the consideration , of some of your pretty odde conceits , which you haue here set downe in this chapter , I will thanke you . The troth is , I feare me , I am not very well able to conceiue your meaning thoroughly , by reason , that , to my thinking , in the deliuering of them , you do vse , diuerse kinds of windings , in , and out , and as it were certaine turnings to , and fro ; that are not altogether voyde of obscurity : but it may be , it is my weakenesse in vnderstanding , and not your darkenesse in penning . And therfore in truth , I craue pardon , if I chance to make an offence in mistaking , &c. One of your conceits is this : That much hardnesse , and drinesse is the occasion , that moisture , cannot enter . If you meane by these words : hard , and dry : an excessiue , and an extreame hardnesse , and drinesse in the highest degree : then it may be yeelded vnto . As , for example : A hard flint , or a marble stone : or a hote , hard , dry gad of steele , will admit no moisture into it , I confesse : though you powre neuer so much water vpon them . But what is this to Tabacco ? or what analogie , or proportion , is there betweene our bodies , and these things ? though old bodies be dry , and hard too : yet are they neuer so dry , and hard , but they can admit moisture well inough : like as when the earth is verie dry , in so much , that it is thereby full of chaps , and chinkes , because it is a porous bodie , as we call it , and in some sort spongious , it is therfore apt , & able to receiue great moisture , and to drinke in mightie showers of raine , as daily experience sheweth : albeit , as it should seeme , you are of a contrary opinion . And euen so , fareth it with our bodies . Another conceit of yours is this : That drinesse , doth not onely hinder the receiuing of moisture : but also by that meanes , it is an enemy to nourishment , as you inferre vpon it . First , to answer you merily : and so I pray you to take it ; all the suckgrouts in London , and all the whole company of tiplers , of which societie , I tell you , there is not the least number , will be all vpon you with open voice , and come all against you in this : to testifie : That drinesse neuer hindered as yet , the receiuing , and imbibing in of any good liquor . But in good sadnesse , I thinke you speake and meane this , of an exceeding great drinesse , and in the highest degree , and such as cannot be found in our bodies : for so it must needes be that you meane , and no otherwise . And in that sence , I assure you ouermuch wet also , is as great an enemy to nourishmēt ; as by this familiar example may soone appeare . Admit a very good meddow , be ouermuch glutted with water : and altogether ouerwhelmed as it were , with continuall raine : and you shall see , what wise hay , and what trim grasse , you shall haue of that meddow . So that vpon the reckening , lay but the hare-worts , against the goose-giblets , as we are wont to say : and for my part , I see not , but that Tabacco , may worke as much good to vs , in the auoiding of too much moisture , as it is like to bring harme , in the procuring of too much drinesse . Touching your painting out of olde age , with his stiffe , and dry sinewes , and with many other of his infirmities , and imperfections ; I confesse them all to be true , and wish with all my hart , that I were able to remedie them : were it but to amend , some crooked conditions in my selfe ▪ and some thing else . But yet I see no reason , why that great cold , should not be as great an occasion of the increase of all these harmes , and imperfections in old age , as any thing else that can be named . For he that thinketh not , that cold hath a mightie strength , to worke a wonderfull hardnesse , and drinesse : let him but remember this last great frost in Nouember last past , or if he hath bene in some of these great cold countries , such as Russia , ( where in very deed I neuer was , although not verie farre from it , when it was ) he can then tell , that the ground is so hard and dry , and all by the reason of cold onely , for one halfe yeare , or thereabout , that they are enforced to leaue their dead bodies vnburied during all that time , being not able with any instrument in the world , to enter into the earth , and to breake it vp ; vntill the Sunne be come about againe to relent , and mollifie the same . So that thus I conclude : whether we take Tabacco : or take no Tabacco : yet seeing all those infirmities , and imperfections , which you haue reckened vp , do follow old age euen by the course of nature , much like as the shadow waiteth vppon our bodies : and seeing that great cold , either is , or may be , as great , an increaser , and hastiner of those infirmities , as any one thing else is , that can be named in all the world : and seeing our poore friend Tabacco , hath a good and a speciall property , to resist , that professed great enemy , the cold : me ●hinke , it were a reasonable sute , to intreate , that Tabacco , might rather be esteemed as a friend , then a foe , euen to old age also : whose heate in this case no doubt , is rather a pleasure , then any offence at all vnto old men . And yet you haue one other conceit more , which maintaineth one of the strangest opinions , that euer I heard of in all my life , as olde as I am : and that is this : That by reason of hote and dry Sommers in haruest time , the greatest waters , and land flouds are most wont to appeare , &c. This in very truth , is a point beyond Eela : and I am not able to reach vnto it , or to vnderstand it . It was my chance to stand by , when it was ; when that a Noble man in this land , was in an exceeding great rage , with a certaine gentleman , an acquaintance of mine , a very proper man , and a stout . The Noble man grew into such choler with him , that at the length , he all to be knaued the gentleman : and often times repeated these words : I tell thee , thou art a knaue : nay I tell thee troth , thou art a very knaue . The gentleman , stood long mute , and sayd neuer a word , but at the length , he could hold no longer , but burst out into these words : As God iudge me , my Lord : If your Lordship , should tell me neuer so oft , that I am a knaue , yet you shall pardon me : for , by God , I will neuer beleeue it , and sayd not one word more . The like answer I must be bold to make vnto you : for if you tell me neuer so oft , that dry Sommers , make great water flouds : yet in very truth , I will neuer beleeue it . And what your meaning is in so saying , I protest I know not : but this I wot well , & I am sure of : that vpon this last great drought that we had , as well in the Sommer time , as also in the fall this yeare , the riuer of the Thamis , was become so shallow , and dry as it were : that the poore Westerne barges complained much of their hard passages downe the riuer , to serue her Maiestie , and her Maiesties citie of London , while she lay at Richmond : and now since her Maiestie i● come to White-hall , to : I know , diuerse good farmers , that are enforced to driue their cattell two miles , and more , to water them : who were wont to haue great store and plenty of water , euen at their owne doores , before this hote , and dry weather came to drie vp their springs . And therefore to thinke that dry Sommers , is cause of great waters , in my opinion , is nothing else , but to dreame of a dry Sommer . The sixt reason is , for that This herbe , or rather weede : seemeth not voide of venome , and thereby seemeth an enemy , to the life of man , &c. I marry , this is a matter of some importance indeed , and would be well looked vnto . But by the way , this discourse , of venomes or poysons , would rather be tripped ouer , then much dwelt vpon , for diuerse good respects . The times being so dangerous , as they are ; I think● it not conuenient to meddle with any such matters , and such gaps as these be , would not , so rashly , and vnaduisedly be opened , to the common people . I knew a Preacher once , and a verie honest learned man , who meant no harme , I dare sweare for him , yet inueighing in his Sermon earnestly , against the wickednesse of this age , and telling of the bad dealing , that lewd Ostlers vsed , about the greasing of their horse teeth , and the like vnhonest trickes , that Bailifes vsed , about the altering , and changing , of cowes hornes , that were missing , and strayed abroad : did more harme in repeating these deceitfull sleights , then all the rest of his Sermon could do good to his auditorie . And you also in this place , by your leaue , might , in my opinion , haue bene something better aduised , then to haue vsed , so liberall , or rather so lauishing a kind of talke , both of poysons , and of purgatiue medicines : still coupling of them together , in such an odious hatefull manner , as you do . Whereas , in very deed , there is no such matter , if things be rightly vnderstood , as hereafter shall better appeare . In the meane time , yet happie it is , that God himselfe , hath pronounced by himselfe , that he is the author of Phisicke , and hath therefore commanded , the Phisition , to be had in some good regard and reuerence for his knowledge sake . Otherwise , if such tales as you haue told of poysons , and of purgatiues , should be beleeued : ( as indeed , God be thanked , they are not to be credited ) Phisitions might say they haue spun a fine threed , and brought their hogs to a faire market : and Phisicke her selfe might haue great cause to reioyce , for bringing vp , so dutifull , and so good a child , as you are . What ? hath Phisicke , hitherto bene counted the most excellent gift of the Highest , and bene called by the ancient writers , the hand , and finger of God , for his wonderfull effects , and operations : and is it now in your iudgement nothing else but a hodge podge , and a mingle mangle of poysons ? If this be so : then it is more then high time , for her Maiesty and this most honorable Parliament , to take some order for Phisicke , and Phisitions too . For albeit you haue brought in Tabacco , as a Rowland , vpon the stage , to make sport withall , and to be laughed at : yet , as farre as I see , poore Oliuer , which is Phisicke it selfe , beares away all the blowes , vnto whom you haue giuen the longest part , and the worst part in all the Play. But now , to come to the purpose : I will not meddle , as I said , with any curious , or solemne discourse of poisons , for such reasons as I haue partly alleadged : neither will I stand vpon the strict points of his definition , or enter into his manifold parts , and braunches by the way of diuision , neither vnfold the diuers waies , meanes , and fashions , of his hatefull operations . But bluntly , and briefly , to answer to so much as you haue laid downe : Then thus I say : touching your tripartite diuision : ( you might haue added the fourth branch too , if it had pleased you , ) I leaue it to your selfe ; as a good matter , or argument , for a man to shew , his wit , learning , and reading vpon : but I esteeme of it as no direct proofe at all : neither yet to be any whit in the world more able to blemish , and hurt Tabacco , then it is to disgrace other parts of Phisicke , which haue deserued better , at your hands , then this comes vnto . And as for those particular places , and authorities which you haue cited out of Galen , and others : either they do answer themselues , if they be well marked , and rightly vnderstood : or else this one generall answer , may be sufficient for them all : and that is this : wheresoeuer you do reade , or heare in Phisicke : purging medicines , or purging remedies , to be tearmed , or rather mistearmed by the name of Venena , or Deleteria : or the like , in Galen : or any other good writer : there is alwaies added one word , or other , to mollifie , and mitigate the harshnesse of that speech withall . Or if any such word , chance to be left out , as perchaunce sometime it is : yet the circumstances of that place being well weighed and considered , it will euidently fall out , that some one such mild word or other ought there to be vnderstood . As for example : they commonly vse to call them : quasi Delet●ria ▪ or , ●anquam venena : or else more mild then that , they will say : that they haue in them , quiddam venenosum : or else yet more mild then that too : as to say they haue in them ; quiddam noxium ; or , quiddam inimicum humane n●tur● : or the like . In so much that the great Lawyer Ca●●s himselfe , who was much bent against Phisicke : yet when he called Pharmacum : venenum : yet he added and concluded , it ought not so to be called absol●tely , but that you should alwaies adde this word , ( bonum ) vnto it : and so still with that addition , it must be called ; bonum venenum said he . Now sir , thinke you , that there is no difference , or oddes in these speeches ? I know not sir : whether you be married , or no : but if you be , and haue a shrew to your wife : ( as if you haue not , I would you had , for now indeed , I am angry with you ) is there no difference , thinke you , in calling your wife , shrew : and calling of her ; good shrew : or profitable shrew : or pretie shrew : or the like ? Yes I warrant you , trie it when ye will. But Galen , the only man for Phisicke that euer wrote : at the very first iumpe , putteth downe , a very learned , and a notable difference ; betweene Medicamentum , and Alimentum : The one ( saith he ) increaseth Molem & substantiam corporis : & vincitur , or alteratur à natura : the other , minuit eam , & vincit . The one agit in corpus : the other patitur à corpore , &c. These , and the like speeches are vsed of him , and are pretie speeches , and good speeches , and true speeches . But all these speeches import no more but thus much : that purging medicines , are not fit for nourishments : and because they are not fit , to nourish , and feede a man : therefore in that respect , that they do yeeld no foode , or nourishment vnto vs , the● may be tearmed after a sort things hurtfull to man , or enemie to man , or things against mans nature , and therfore , in a kind of large signification , as a man would say , they may be called as it were , in a certaine manner , a poison to man : because they nourish not the nature of man. And after this maner , and sort of speaking , and in this large signification , calling all those things , as it were poisons that do not nourish vs : you may well call a stone a poison , as that learned Fallopius noteth : and as I say too , so may you call , a lumpe of gold , a poison also , because there is small nourishment in it : but yet such a kind of poison : I thinke , as I do know a great sort of good fellowes , that would not sticke to venter the poisoning of themselues , in swallowing downe their throats , great gobbets of it , so they might haue them for their labour . But , how euer it is : These medicines , are farre from the nature of that poison , which is so hatefull a thing , and called venenum indeed . For of that sort of Venoms , a very little quantity , being taken into the body , ouerthroweth vs , and corrupteth nature , because it is enemie to nature , totâ substantiâ , as we terme it , and therefore can neuer be turned to good : but as a litle rottennesse in an apple , can neuer become sound , and good againe , but will corrupt and perish the rest , vnlesse it be ●eparated from the rest , and cut away ; euen so it fareth with venims in our bodies , passing through , the whole bodie , and masse of our temperature , in like maner , as a litle Saffron , mingled in a quantitie of liquor , giueth a tincture to all the water , or as a litle Garlicke being eaten , maketh both the vrine and the spittle , and the breath of the eater to smell thereof : euen such a kind , of infection , and working in our bodie , is procured by venimes , vnlesse with all speede , they be either by vomit , auoided : or otherwise miraculously mastered . But now good sir , if you were but examined vpon your knowledge , how many you haue knowne in all your life , to haue bene poisoned with Tabacco : I thinke you would be put very much vnto your shifts , to find out but so many as poore one , notwithstanding it is so commonly , and so daily taken , as it is : and yet nothing taken against it neither , either to auoide it , or else to correct it . Then I hope it standeth cleare , that poore Tabacco , is none of those dangerous poisons : vnlesse you call him so , in that large signification , which we haue spoken of , calling all those things , which do not nourish , or feede vs , after a sort venimes , or poisons : for that they are in some maner , contrarie to mans narure , for that they are not apt , either to increase , or preserue the substance of man : and in that sort , as I haue told you , a stone , or a peece of gold is a goodly poison too . The rest of your speech : as that it is a violent Purgation , and therefore needeth good correctiues , &c. proueth no more Tabacco , to be ill , and daungerous , then other things to be euen so too , that are vsed in Phisicke . But yet it proueth very well indeed , all thē to be fools , that will vse it , or any thing else vnaduisedly , to purge withall . And thereto I agree with you , as I haue alreadie , at large signified , and declared before . You build much vpon the accidents , and symptoms , that sometime do follow the large taking therof : namely , as violent vomits , many , and infinite stooles , great gnawings , and torments of the guts , defect of feeling , and vnderstanding , losse of sight , and giddinesse of head , profound , and deepe sleepes , &c. And hereupon you thinke you haue a great hand of the matter , and haue said much to proue Tabacco , to be a great , and a daungerous poison , &c. If you may make your owne accompt , it were hard I perceiue , if you did leese by the reckening . But if you were but friendly examined , but vpon this point : how many you had euer seene , or known , to be in this pickle , vpon the taking of Tabacco : I thinke ( to speake within my compasse ) it will be very hard for you , to giue the instance of fiue thousand in all your life : and yet I thinke too , that , euen that were as easie for you to do : as to giue the instance but of fiue . And farther , admit that it hath wrought any of these effects , vpon any some , at any time , as vpon some great , and some vnreasonable disorder perchaunce it hath : yet what of that ? I am sure , that I haue seene for your one , that you can name that way , an hundred at the least , vpon immoderate taking and powring in of good wine , that haue bene in the same pickle , and worse too : and yet I hope , it shall not follow thereof , that good wine , is no otherwis● to be accounted of then a poison : if it were , it were high time to looke to our Vinteners I can tell you . But yet you still go on : and vrge farther : and say that it is the more daungerous poison : because that it hath contrarie qualities in it : for it hath also , say you , a stupefying , and a benumming propertie , or qualitie , which is in the extreamest degree of cold , as your selfe affirmeth . Here is good stuffe indeed . What ? hath Tabacco hitherto bene accounted so daungerous a thing , and all for his extreame heate , and therefore called by you , the fierie , hellish , scorchingfume , out of Plutoes forge , and hath it now such a great cooler ioyned with it ? I hope you know , and will confesse , that two extreames , cannot consist , and dwell together , in one , and the selfe same substance , in equall degrees , and at one time : no more then darke midnight , and cleare shining noone day , can be at one instant , in one and the selfe same place : or that any one thing can be as hote as fire , and the selfe same to be as cold as yce , at one instant . Here you attribute vnto Tabacco , a cold quality in the highest degree : and heretofore you haue ascribed vnto him , a heate more then ordinarie , nay , almost rather in the like extremitie , if your words be throughly scanned : which is impossible to hang together . But vpon this errour dependeth the greatest force of your former arguments . And this principle being once ouerthrowne ▪ which is this : That the heat of Tabacco is so exceeding hote , that it is able to inflame , and destroy naturall heat , &c. ( which is nothing so indeed , as I perceiue by your own confession here that it is not , hauing such a cooling card ioyned with him , as you say it hath : and as also partly hath bene well proued before in many other places . ) Then I say , all your former reasons brought against the killing , and destroying of our naturall heate , by the great heat of Tabacco , and thereby , the procuring of so many crudities , and ill digestions in our bodies , and all procured by the great inflaming heat ▪ of Tabacco , as you say : al these reasōs I say , are quasht , & not worth a buttō . Well , this is not inough : but yet still you proceed : and make answer to a secret obiection ; which is this : Many ( say you ) in England do take the fume of Tabacco , without hurt or inconuenience : and your selfe giueth the reason , by and by . Because ( say you ) the custome of taking of it , in that manner , which we do vs● , that is to say , by receiuing of it , at the mouth , or snuffing it vp by the nosthrils , can neither profite nor hurt much , &c. If this be so : why , then haue you so much inueighed against it all this while , as you haue ? yea , and against that manner of taking of it too ? For euen of that onely action , it seemeth vnto me : that your booke beareth that title that it doth : of Chimny-sweeping , as hath bene alreadie said . But let vs go on : and marke but that reason : which your self hath made , and in the same chapter , afterward immediatly followeth : and you shall see , that it doth wonderfully cleare Tabacco ; and he is exceeding much beholding to you for it . For thus you say : You are not ignorant that many perillous , and deadly poisons , are sometimes taken into the bodie without offence , and daunger : but then they are euer in very small quantitie , or else so repressed , and corrected with other cordials , as that they cannot offend , &c. Let this speech of yours be well marked , and remembred . For if this be so , ( as I for my part , take it to be so ) then there cannot in all the world , a better tale , & in fewer words be told for Tabacco , then this is . For if poisons , cannot be taken , without great , and present hurt and daunger , except they be taken in a very small quantitie , and with many correctiues too , to resist , and bridle them : then contrariwise ; seeing that Tabacco , is daily taken , and that in great abundant quantities too , yea and that also without any correctiue in all the world , and yet for all that , God be thanked , it poisoneth no bodie : what greater testimonie or proofe , can there either be had , or brought , for the clearing , and quitting of this poore gentleman , both from being a poison● as also from the very suspition of any poison to be in it , then this is , that your selfe hath said ? In good faith , in my fancie , I need say no more , then is confessed , and written by your selfe . But yet , come what come will , you will still plod on : and needes you will haue it to be a poison , euen to the very Indians , had not custome preuailed to the contrarie as you say . And here you do labour tooth and naile with a long discourse , to set out , the nature , and force of custome , and to tell what great acts , she can do , and bring to passe : all which we do yeeld vnto . But yet , this is nothing to the chiefe point in question . And for a briefe answer to all , that is , or may be said in that behalfe : I am not of opinion that the Indians long vsing of it , hath made it no poison to them : but contrariwise , because of it selfe , and in his owne nature , it was not a poison , nor any hurtfull thing , therefore with them it grew into custome . For it is most likely , in all common sence , and reason , that ; things , must first either be found , or knowne , or at the least thought to be good , and wholesome ; before , they can be drawne into any vse , and custome . Some litle triall , and experience I confesse , must be had of them : to know , and find out , the true nature of euery thing , whether they be good , or no : but yet that little trial , would neuer bring it to a daily custome , or long vse , but would by and by be checked , and controlled : if the thing it selfe , were not found good , and wholesome ; vpon the first proofe , and triall thereof . So that , as I haue sayd alreadie : i● is much more probable , that the goodnesse of a thing , is the cause of the custome thereof , and not the custome , cause of the goodnesse . As for those particular instances , of the people that Virgil maketh mention of : and of the woman , and maide , that fed vpon poysons , and killed others with her breath , and yet liued her selfe ; let them either be true stories , or but reports from mouth to mouth , let them I say be what they will : yet I account them ▪ but as pretty , and rare obseruations , of certaine secret Sympathies , and inward workings of nature : more to be wondered at , for the strangenesse thereof : then to be of any force , to proue any thing against Tabacco : or to be answered , for any great matter of moment in this case . But yet , if it so please you : let all this be granted : That vse , and custome , doth make , a thing good in time : and yet what haue you got by this then ? For then all the Tabacconists , haue that , that they would haue . For , if custome , say they , made it good to the Indians : why may it not do the like to the English , in time ? If custome be the matter : and all in all , then let vs alone ; for we will bring it into as great vse , and custome , as euer aniething was . In that you graunt it to haue such a prerogatiue , for the Scorbute , commonly called the Scuruy , and for other the like diseases incident to that kind of people : herein also , you haue sayd verie much , in his commendation . For there is no disease , that is more loathsome then that is : neither is there anie that deserueth greater reward for the cure , then that doth . I am sure it is not vnknowne to you , what a notable treatise is written by that worthie old man Wyerus , about the curing of this Scuruie , as they call it ; and how much he hath written in the praise of one poore herbe , called Coclearia : in respect that it is so wholesome , for the cure of that disease . And if Tabacco , haue this singular gift also for that disease : then I hold him in great regard , and estimation : and account of him , as of an excellent simple , that deser●eth rather to be worthily written of , then to be so bitterly inueighed against . To conclude , at the last , when you haue ended all your talke of the Scuruie , then yet you labour to proue Tabacco , to be a poyson forsooth this way : Because say you , when it is taken of an infected body , it draweth out the poyson , like to himselfe . Your owne words are these , or to this effect : That Tabacco doth the like to other poysons : which when they find any of their owne qualitie and nature in mans body , &c. they draw forth the same ( the lik● coueting his like ) and yet leaue the sound , and healthy humours cleare , and vnspotted . Blessed God , I neuer heard of such a reason , in al my life . For in my poore opinion , in saying this that you haue said , you haue mightily freed Tabacco , euen from the very suspition of all poyson : or else , I am wonderfully deceiued . In this place , there is some occasion offered , to speake somewhat of the nature , and manner of purgatiues in Phisicke . Namely to tell by what meanes , this act of purging is performed : and what be the true causes , of this attraction , or drawing , or purging of humors in a mans body . He that shall enter into this question , shall find a large field to plough . For there be manie opinions , about it , and all earnestly defended : some saying it is , à manifesta qualitate : others , ab occulta aliqua vi , & coelesti virtute : others some : ab ipsa forma specifica , as they tearme it . And some againe , à violento quodam motu , & contrarietate substantiae : but the most famous for learning , say it is , à similitudine naturae , and that is Galens opinion ; albeit , he is mightily gainesaid , and sore taxed for the same ; by that learned , and famous man Valariola . And therefore knowing that this discourse , would be rather tedious then profitable , in so short a Treatise , as this is : I will leaue that point for this time : and rather seeke to answer , your words , as they lye in order . Two things , you do attribute vnto Tabacco : the one is , that from infected bodies , it draweth out all the ill humours : the other is , that it leaues all the other humors in the bodie , cleare and vnspotted , as you say . Two notable properties , I assure you : and such as would rather make a man in loue with Tabacco ; then cause him to hate it , as a poyson . What ? does Tabacco draw out of an infected bodie corrupt venimous humors , because it is a corrupt venom it selfe ? and is like to those venimous humours , that are drawne out by it and expelle● ? Me thinke in common sence that should not be so . As I told you euen now : so I say againe , I will not stand vppon the examining and sifting out , of the causes , and the meanes , of this sayd attraction , and expulsion of humours : for there be many opinions of that point , as hath bene alreadie said , and all of them probable , and defensible . But thus much , both you , and I do confesse , and we see it also to be so : that ill humors be purged , or expelled , or tumbled out of the body . Marry , how they do come out : and by what meanes , that cannot I tell : but that they do come ou● : that is flat , and plaine , and euerie man sees it , by these said purgatiues . And now Sir , to leaue all schoole questions aside , and plainely , and bluntly , to come to the point : let me aske you but this familiar question : Doth one friend vse to driue out another friend , out of his house , when he findeth him there , who is like to himselfe : in nature , good will , and conditions ? or rather doth he thrust out and expell , a theefe , if he find him there : or an enemie : or such a one , as loues him not : but is contrary to him in all his actions and meanings ? Me thinke the case , is too plaine , and needeth no farther dispute . But yet ; like , finding his like : it expelleth that like : say you still : and this is the faburden of your song . And is it , euen so indeede ? and does like , expell his like with you now : who haue borne vs in hand , all this while , that like , added to like , did delight , and ioy in that like : and increase that like in our bodies ? For if it doth all this , then belike , it expelleth it not : nor one venome doth not thrust out another as you affirme , now ? For if this reason of yours be true : then he that hath taken a strong poison : should be healed , either by taking more , of that poison : or else by taking of a stronger poison , then that is . But try that when ye will : and giue rats-bane , to him , that is poysoned with rats-bane alreadie , and you shall see , what a wise cure , you shall haue of it . So that , to conclude , as farre as I can see , you are as farre off , from prouing Tabacco , to be a poison : as both by reason , and your owne words to : he is rather found to be an enemie vnto poyson , and an expeller , and a conquerour of the same : yea , and more then so to : for by your owne report , it leaueth the other good humours ( which is a wonder I can tell you ) cleare , and vnspotted , as your owne words do testifie . Now then : this great storme , we see is past , and ouerblowne : and this terrible accusation , is much like to a Sampsons post , thwited to a pudding pricke , as the Prouerbe is . Well now : what more ? We must not yet so go away . Then let vs heare your seuenth reason in the name of God. The seuenth reason is : for that The first author , and finder thereof was the diuell : and the first practisers of the same , were the diuels Priests , and therefore not to be vsed , of vs Christians . I must needes thinke , that you were very neare driuen to go to the hedge for a stake , when you pickt out this argument . And must it needs be deuised , and inuented by the diuell ? and must it needes be vsed by the diuels Priests , and seruants , and by none other ? and must not Chrstian men vse it , in any case , because Infidels , the diuels seruants , haue vsed it ? what remedie ? But yet my mind giueth me : it should not be so . And yet all this while , why it should come from the diuell , I heare no other reason made by you , as yet : but onely because Monardus the Spaniard affirmes it : nay rather for that he imagineth it to be so . And my answer forsooth is this , for that he doth but barely affirme it onely ; and for that his assertion is but coniecturall ▪ I see no reason but that it may be as safely , and as easily reiected , as beleeued . But yet if the circumstances be well considered , that Monardus himselfe putteth downe , me thinke it were a more charitable motion , to thinke that it came from God , who is the author of all good gifts , then from the diuell . This one thing I am most sure of , that euen this selfe same Monardus : whom you here bring against him , as your greatest proofe ; hath written as much good of Tabacco , as can be : affirming him not onely to be verie good , against infinite diseases in a manner : but also to haue a singular gift , to refresh men of their great , and intollerable wearisomnes in their iourneyings . Yea , & to be such a wonderfull preseruer , & curer of poisons : yea , and of that great , & admirable poison too , called Bague ( how soeuer it hath pleased you , to slander him in your last Chapter before this ) and in conclusion knitteth vp , the whole Treatise of him with these words : That for his excellent vertues , Tabacco , is had amongst the Indians , in wonderfull estimation , &c. Now Sir , how such , an excellent thing as this is , by his owne report , should now be sayd by him to come from the diuell ; that would be knowne . Touching the taking of it by their Priests , and by and by falling asleepe thereupon , &c. Marke me but that whole discourse well : and ye shall see , it is taken & reported quite amisse : for indeede it maketh all for Tabacco . For take but Monardus his owne tale : and by him it should seeme ; that in the taking of Tabacco : they were drawne vp : and separated from all grosse , and earthly cogitations , and as it were caried vp to a more pure and cleare region , of fine conceits & actions of the mind , in so much , as they were able thereby to see visions , as you say : & able likewise to make wise & sharp answers , much like as those men are wont to do , who being cast into trances , and exstasies , as we are wont to call it , haue the power and gift thereby , to see more wonders , and high misticall matters , then all they can do , whose braines , & cogitations , are oppressed with the thicke and foggy vapours , of grosse , and earthy substances . Marry , if in their trances , & sudden fallings , they had become nasty , & beastly fe●lowes ▪ or had in most loathsome manner , fallen a spuing , and vomiting , as drunkards are wont to do : then indeed it might well haue bene counted a diuellish matter : and bene worthy reprehension . But being vsed to cleare the braines , and thereby making the mind more able , to come to her selfe , and the better to exercise her heauenly gifts , and vertues ; me thinke , as I haue said , I see more cause why we should thinke it to be a rare gift imparted vnto man , by the goodnes of God , then to be any inuention of the diuell . And if that their Priests , as you call them , do abuse at any time , this good gift , to deceiue thereby the people , with subtill , and doubtfull speeches in their answers : that was the Priests fault , and to be ascr●bed vnto them : and no whit to be imputed to the thing . Now sir , by the way : whether those Priests , do serue the diuell , or no , and be his seruants as you say they are , that I do leaue to you , and others to iudge . I am of Cicero the Ethnickes opinion in this : That there is no people , or nation so rude , or barborous in the world : but that they haue some sence , and feeling of God : and that thereby they do ordaine and appoint to themselues , some one kind or other of diuine worship , and seruice of that immortall , and omnipotent deity , and most blessed euerlasting power : albeit , they vnderstand him not aright , as we Christians do . And albeit , neither these Indians , nor yet those Philosophers , whom all ages haue hitherto so much reuerenced : and by whom we haue receiued so many helpes , of learning , as we haue , neuer knew Christ aright , for that perchance they neuer heard of him : and therefore like inough that they do all erre in their religion , or rather superstition : yet , in my fancy , it were a hard thing to pronounce them all to be the diuels seruants , and his instruments : being otherwise good men of life , and couersation , & blamelesse in the ●ight of the world . But for that this question , appertaineth not vnto this place , neither yet commeth within the compasse of your handling or mine : I leaue it to our reuerend Diuines : to whom it belongeth to decide such matters . Hoping for all that , it shall not seeme to be repugnant to the rules of Christianity , to iudge the best , euen of those Infidels : and to thinke , that as God is omnipotent and wonderfull in all his doings : so , by that his omnipotency , ioyned with his infinite mercies , he hath also many wayes , and meanes ( though to vs , and our weakenesse vnknowne ) how to raise vp , plant , and preserue , some numbers amongst them : of such as shall be accounted , and reckened among the fellowship of those his true seruants , that shall be saued . And if this opinion of mine shall be thought awry , and erronious : yet I hope , it shall be taken , and accounted , as pius error : and so I leaue for this matter : submitting my selfe to the censure and iudgement of them , to whom it doth appertaine . But let vs imagine , the worst : be it , that they be the diuels seruants : and that the vse of this Tabacco , came wholly from them : shall it therefore be thought either impious or inconuenient , or vnlawfull , for Christians to vse it ? For my part I am not of that mind . For I thinke , that religion forbids it not : and I am sure , honest pollicy doth not prohibite it . Touching religion : Omnia munda , mūdis : Take me yet here I pray you , as I meane it , that is : as spoken , and meant of such matters , as are not otherwise precisely ordered , & ouerruled by Scripture , but are counted indifferent , & stand only vpō their right vse , or abuse , to be either good , or bad : and haue no expresse rule , example , or commandement to the contrarie . As for honest pollicie ; I referre you ouer , to the daily practise of all good Christian Princes . Imagine those Indians be as ill , as ill may be : yet I know , that the Turks are as ill as they : who are the professed enemies , of Christ , and of his sacred Gospell : and yet , I am sure there are many things both inuented and deuised by them : or else by as ill as they : and also , that are daily vsed by them : which are held in great price , and estimation , with all Christians , at this day , and by all Christian Princes put in practise euery where . Wherefore , in condemning Tabacco , and the Tabacconists so eagerly in this point , as you do : in my opinion you do in a maner condemne all Christendome for some one thing or other vsed by them : which was either in●ented at the first : or else is now daily vsed by the Infidels . The eighth and last reason is : for that It is a great augmentor of Melancholy in our bodies , which humor , is the cause of many great diseases , and hurtfull impressions in our bodies , &c. In this chapter there be many things , very well , and learnedly put downe : As , the nature , and description of Melancholy : The difference betweene the naturall melancholy , and that melancholy which commeth , by adustion , and accidentally : the straunge effects , and properties , that it breedeth , and bringeth foorth in our bodies : the helpe and vertue that it hath in it to make men wise : and how that proposition , which auoucheth melancholy men , to be the wisest men , is rightly to be vnderstood , &c. All these things haue very good matter in them I confesse . And though some of them , by some men , both are , and may be contradicted , by the way of argument , and schollerly disputation : yet for my part , I mind not to gaine-say any one of them : for it were nothing to the purpose , for that matter which we haue now in hand . But when all is said , that you can say , and when all those odde ends are brought together , of those matters , which you haue laid downe , and scattered in your discourse ; the vpshot of all your talke in this matter : is , and must be this : that Tabacco increaseth melancholy humor in our bodie , and increaseth it so abundantly , that it manifestly destroyeth the temperature of our bodie , disordering and ouerthrowing , the good actions of the same : and so consequently is a breeder , and an occasion of many diseases in melancholie persons especially . And this is the marke , I am sure that you shoot at . Wel sir , then to leaue your long discourse , and to come to handie gripes , and to make short with you ▪ then thus I say : if Tabacco do these things which you affirme it doth : that is : if it increase the humour of melancholie , and breed blacke vapours in our bodie , as you do say , it doth : then su●ely sir , it must needes do it , either by his fume , and smoke , or else by his purging facultie . For there be no moe waies , I trow , how he shold do it : for by the way of foode , I think you meane it not : for that is alreadie resolued vpon , and put downe as a principle : That no man feedeth on Tabacco , as to make his meales thereof . Well then , as touching the fume of Tabacco , here in this chapter , you plainely , and precisely affirme , that by the smoke , or fume of Tabacco , all sorts of melancholy are augmented , and increased , &c. But in another place , you haue as plainely affirmed likewise , that no impression of any matter , either to do hurt , or good , can be made by the smoke or fume of Tabacco . Of these two contradictions , I know not I promise you , what to make : they appeare vnto me , much like to the Aegiptians fast and loose : so that a man cannot tell where to haue you . For to do no hurt at all : as you say : and to do so great a harme , as to increase all sorts of melancholie , being a matter of so great moment , &c. which also , you do say : it doth so puzzle my wits to reconcile them well : as in truth , I know not what to make of it . If you can reconcile them , I pray you then do it ; for in truth I cannot . As for the reason that you bring , to proue Tabacco , to leaue in our braine , a black , swarfe , sootish tincture , because it doth all to be-blacke the Pipe wherein it is taken : ó Lord , it is a very weake reason . For betweene your dead , and sencelesse Pipes , made of earth or otherwise ; and the liuely cauities , passages , and pipes of ou● breathing and liuing bodies , there is no likelihood or comparison to be made . And for proofe hereof , let vs not stand now vpon making of schoole syllogismes : but let vs fall to a flat demonstration : and one demonstration you know verie well , is worth fiue syllogismes . My demonstration then at a word is this : looke me but into the throats , and nosthrils , of all the great Tabacco takers : view them well , I say , and prie into their noses , as much as ye please , and I will lay what wager you will , that you shall find them as faire nosed gentlemen , and as cleane mouthed , and throated , as any men aliue , I will warrant you . Againe to go a litle farther , and to proue that the smoke of a thing , worketh no such operation , or increaseth not melancholie , as you presuppose that it doth , let me giue you another instance , by another plaine demonstration . Behold your poore ploughmen , that liue continually in smokie houses : and your blacke Smiths , that are still moyling in sea-coale fire , all the day long : and Grim the Colier , that is all his life time almost , in continuall smoke , in somuch , as in a maner he feedes vpon it : and tell me , if you find many melancholie men among them . All to be smeered perchaunce you shall haue them , with smoke , and soote , on the outside , and with foule blacke , quarrie , scorched hands : but yet you shall see them as merrie , and as madde knaues , with as white teeth , and as good complexions , as any men aliue : and as litle touched with sadnesse , or melancholie ; as he that is least subiect to that disease . Vnlesse it be sometime now and then , when the poore Colier is set vpon the Pillorie for false measuring his coales : then perchaunce he may be somewhat sad , and melancholie for the time , while his fooles head stands peeping out , at the Pillorie hole . But assoone as he hath giuen them the slip , and gotten his head once from the Pillorie ; and is gone but some two or three miles out of London , he is as merrie againe as a Cricket : and all to be-knaues the Marshall for his labour , and biddes him come now , and he dare , to fetch him to the Pillorie againe . What ? must poore smoke , being so light a thing , and so soone vapoured away , and so , and so taken : as your selfe hath described , and by and by let out againe ; must smoke I say needes haue so great a force , as to increase such a sad soure humor as melancholie ? Is no possibly , as Domingo was woont to say . Marrie , if the smoke , were a matter of solide substance , so that it might be chewed , as other meates are , and swallowed downe , and concocted , and digested , and then distributed , and conueyed by the veines , to the particular parts of the bodie , to feede and cherish them : then perchaunce vpon this long abode , in the truncke of our bodie , and vpon the thorough fermenting , and working of it selfe , into the whole masse , or lumpe of our bloud , that giueth vs nourishment : if all this , I say were done , or might be done : then perchaunce , you had somewhat to say , and to warne good Students , to take heede , how they did meddle with Tabacco : for feare of increase of melancholie . Otherwise , in my iudgement , this needlesse feare of yours , doth somewhat sauour of melancholie in your selfe . For you know : that melancholie men , be sad , and fearefull , & non timenda , timent : which is one of the chiefest properties of a melancholie person . And thus much briefly ; touching the smoke of Tabacco . But now sir , it may be your opinion is also , that Tabacco increaseth melancholie , and worketh this great daunger and offence , by his purging facultie : and this perchaunce is that , which you seeme to glaunce at by the way , when you say : that , it auoideth that liquid Phlegmaticke matter , which would be good nourishment , and that which otherwise should be mingled with the rest of our bloud , and giue a moisture to the drinesse of melancholie , and so keepe all things in good tune , and temper , &c. If this be your opinion , that b●cause the smoke of Tabacco maketh the takers thereof to spit a litle , and to auoid by the mouth some waterish matter , that therefore I say when it is vsed in purging , it will purge the like matter also , as it seemes you do make your chiefest argument vpon that point : then I say , that euen in this point also , either you are ; or you may be deceiued . For there be many things , that will prouoke a man to spit much , and yet they will not purge at all . As for example , take but Mastich , and chew it vp and down in your mouth : and you shall spit for life : and yet it is no purgatiue . The like may be said , of an vnripe , sharpe , sower apple , or the like : for it will not onely do so to the eater thereof : but also prouoke the stander by sometime to spit , and spattle as much and more too , as I haue seene . And thereof I thinke comes this English Prouerbe : That a mans teeth doth water , at this , or at that , &c. And here is to be noted by the way , ( and it is worth the noting too , and hath bene remembred alreadie in another place before ) that , of that same liquid moist matter , which you so much talke of , and make it so necessarie , and precious a thing , as you do in all your discourse : there is I say such store and plentie of it in our bodies for the most part , and it is at all times , so readie at hand to come at a call , that there neede be no feare at all , of spending of that moisture by the vse of Tabacco , especially to vs , that are English men , and Ilanders , as hath bene declared alreadie before . But here , you come vpon me , and say : Yea sir , but Tabacco is a Purgatiue , there is no question of that : and because it is a Purgatiue ; therefore , it must needs purge the like matter , by the bellie , which it doth auoid by the mouth : and that is Phleame , and other liquide matter , and humiditie : and in purging of that , it maketh melancholie the drier ▪ and so consequently , it maketh it the worse , &c. No , not so good sir , and to answer this obiection fully : I doubt not , but that you do know right wel● that as touching purgatiue medicines , there be two opinions of antiquitie . The one affirmeth , that they do purge by election : and are called El●ctiuè purgantia : which is as much to say , as that they do purge , with a kind of choice , or iudgement , either this , or that humor alone , or else some one humor more then any other . And yet those Electiuè purgantia , do not so make speciall choise , of that onely one humor alone : as a Deere is wont to be singled out , from the rest of the heard , and so had in chace by himselfe alone without any other : but their meaning is , that those Purgatiues do expell and auoid some one humour more then the rest indeed , which they do most fancie , and haue a liking vnto : but yet with that principall humor , some one or other humor too , may in part , be expelled and auoided , at the same instant : as you , and I do know , many of those electiue Purgatiues , which do purge some one : yea some two : nay , some three humors , all at one time , though not all those humors indifferently at one time , but they shall not be named by me , of purpose , because I thinke it not meete , to acquaint the vulgar sort , with any such secrets . The other opinion is ( and those be iolly fellowes too , I can tell you , that be the authors of it : ) That there are no purgatiues at all by election or choi●e , which are called Electiuè purgantia , as I haue told you : but that all purgatiues do purge promiscuè ; or as a man would say , a like : or indifferently : or at a venture , so that nature ▪ being once set a worke by a purgation : and hauing as it were her sluces , or conduits , now open : looke what humour she findeth her self most aggrieued withall , or that lieth aptest and readiest in the way to be auoided , that she tumbleth out , hauing now the helpe of art , to assist her in her action . So that make your choise of these two opinions , which you will ; yet I see no reason why Tabacco , should be so much feared , and misliked in the purging of melancholy . For if you say with this latter crue of Phisitions : that all purgatiues do purge promiscuè : then the case is cleare : for then he may aswell purge melancholy , as any other humor ; or at the least he may purge melancholy with another humour , when nature is once set a worke to purge and auoide that which offendeth . But if you do say with the other sect of Phisitions : That all purgatiues do worke Electiuè : or by choise , and a kind of iudgement , then thus I say , that neither I , nor you , nor any man else can giue any reason , why Tabacco , should not aswell , as any other purgatiue , purge away melācholy , either alone , or principally , or at the least with some other humors , as well , as we see other purgatiues do : notwithstanding that his smoake doth seeme to keepe such a sturre , with a little spittering , and spattering by the mouth , as is already sayd . But it may be Sir : that you are of another opinion , then all this commeth vnto , and that you do thinke , that in melancholy matters , there should no purgatiues at all be vsed , and would haue no other course to be taken in the cure thereof : but only Alterantia , and Commoderantia , as we terme them , to be vsed : that is , you would haue them vse such things as might alter , temper , and mitigate the harshnesse of that melancholy humor , and so in time at the length alter the whole state of the body , without any more a do , &c If this I say be your opinion : then is all at an end : and I haue no more to say , either to it , or to you , at this time , but onely this : God speed you well : but therewithall yet still this I say : That if you will not seeme to swarue , from the steps of the learned ancient writers , who vsed in the cure of melancholy , as round , and as strong medicines , as Tabacco is , and such to , as were in their manifest qualities , as ho●e , and dry as Tabacco is , also : Then it shall be no discredit for you , to suffer Tabacco , to haue his place among those auncient allowed purgatiues , and to alter your opinion of this poore straunger , and hereafter to giue him no worse speeches , then vpon good proofe he shall deserue . And thus hauing made , a wise foolish speech , or a foolish wise speech in the behalfe of this poore Tabacco : now it is not much amisse , to haue a word or two for my selfe . It is like inough , that in this brag-speaking age , there will not want some store of those , that will be ready to start vp , and make hast to carpe , and reprehend ▪ all that euer is , or that can be sayd , either in this matter , or anie other , whatsoeuer . And marke it when ye will , and you shall see , that none will be so readie thereunto , as they : who either for lacke of wit , are least able to iudge and vnderstand what is well said : or else for lacke of learning , are most vnable , to amend that which is amisse . But making small reckening , or account of any such : my chiefe and onely desire is : that this sporting exercise of mine , may no whit displease , any of those learned sweete conceited gentlemen ( in regard of whose fauour only , I haue vnderta●en it ) in whom there is neither scornefull , nor wayward ▪ nor any such sullen sower humor , but that they can be contented to heare , a Philosophicall probleame , somewhat scholer-like handled : to passe the time these Christmasse holy daies . Moreouer , it may be , that some also , will muse to see any time at all to be spent , in so trifling an argument as this is ; in their conceit , and opinion : but yet , for their better satisfaction , let this be said : Seeing that as famous men , as euer haue bene , either in our age , or in our forefathers dayes , haue not disdained to write of meaner matters then these : as namely , some of baldnesse , others in the commendation of folly : yea , and other some , of farre baser matters to : as of a gnat , a flye , & a flea : and yet neuerthelesse , they haue thought no part of their credit either touched , or impeached thereby : then I hope , it may be permitted to him , that is no hater of learning , to attempt the like , in a matter not farre vnlike : and so much the more for that I was prouoked , or rather in some sort much vrged therunto , ( I protest ) for that to my thinking , I did perceiue , the credit of that most excellent knowledge of Phisicke , not a little touched and stained thereby , vnder his pretence of inueighing against Tabacco . And albeit his meaning perchance , was farre otherwise ( as like inough it was ) yet I thought it not amisse , that such an ouerslip as that was , should in some good sort , either be met withall : or else , at the least , be better vnderstood . FINIS . A16679 ---- A solemne ioviall disputation, theoreticke and practicke; briefely shadowing the lavv of drinking together, with the solemnities and controversies occurring: fully and freely discussed according to the civill lavv. Which, by the permission, priviledge and authority, of that most noble and famous order in the Vniversity of Goddesse Potina; Dionisius Bacchus being then president, chiefe gossipper, and most excellent governour, Blasius Multibibus, aliàs Drinkmuch ... hath publikely expounded to his most approved and improved fellow-pot-shots; touching the houres before noone and after, usuall and lawfull. ... Faithfully rendred according to the originall Latine copie. 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A16679) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 6456) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 656:09) A solemne ioviall disputation, theoreticke and practicke; briefely shadowing the lavv of drinking together, with the solemnities and controversies occurring: fully and freely discussed according to the civill lavv. Which, by the permission, priviledge and authority, of that most noble and famous order in the Vniversity of Goddesse Potina; Dionisius Bacchus being then president, chiefe gossipper, and most excellent governour, Blasius Multibibus, aliàs Drinkmuch ... hath publikely expounded to his most approved and improved fellow-pot-shots; touching the houres before noone and after, usuall and lawfull. ... Faithfully rendred according to the originall Latine copie. Disputatio inauguralis theoretico-practica jus potandi breviter adumbrans. English Multibibus, Blasius. Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673. aut Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, ill. [8], 80, [6], 87-194, [6] p., 2 leaves of plates At the signe of Red-eyes [i.e. printed by E. Griffin], Oenozphthopolis [i.e. London] : MDCXVII [1617] The imprint is fictitious; in fact printed in London by E. Griffin (STC). The "ph" in "Oenozphthopolis" is a Greek letter phi. The place name is probably a mistranscription of "Oenozytholpoli" in a Latin edition. The roman numeral date is made with turned C's. "The smoaking age, or, the man in the mist" has separate dated title page with imprint "Oenozphthopolis. At the signe of Teare-nose. MDCXVII."; pagination and register are continuous. "A solemn joviall disputation" is sometimes attributed to Richard Brathwait, but is in fact his translation, with additions, of the pseudonymous "Disputatio inauguralis theoretico-practica jus potandi breviter adumbrans" by Blasius Multibibus (pseudonym). "The smoaking age" is apparently Brathwait's alone. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Early works to 1800. Tobacco -- Early works to 1800. Smoking -- Early works to 1800. 2003-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2003-11 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-12 Rina Kor Sampled and proofread 2003-12 Rina Kor Text and markup reviewed and edited 2004-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE Smoaking Age , OR , The man in the mist : WITH The life and death of Tobacco . Dedicated To those three renowned and imparallel'd Heroes , Captaine WHIFFE , Captaine PIPE , and Captaine SNUFFE . To whom the Author wisheth as much content , as this Smoaking Age can afford them . Divided into three Sections . 1. The Birth of Tobacco . 2. PLUTO'S blessing to Tobacco . 3. TIMES complaint against Tobacco . Satis mi●…ipauci lectores , satis est unus , satis est Nullus . Upon TOBACCO . This some affirme , yet yeeld I not to that , 'T will make a fat man leane , a leane man fat , But this I 'm sure ( hows'ere it be they meane ) That many whiffes will make a fat man leane . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . At the Signe of Teare-Nose . M. D. CXVII . Upon the Errata's . The Authors absence , with the intricacie of this copie , caused these Escapes here committed , to be so many . But no wonder , if Subjects of this Nature become subject to Error , when they tre●… of so giddie an humour , as Liquour and Vapour . Correct them , as you shall meet them , with a consorious candor . PAg. 12. lin . 22. for abilished , read abolished . p. 24. l. 8. for priv●…tion , read privation . p. 53. l. 6. for Ference , r. Terence . p. 6●… . l. 20. for you , r. him . p. 66. l. 7. for Flap dragon , r. Slap-dragon . p. 76. l. 1. to deleatur . p. 78. l. 14. of suppleatur . p. 79. l. 23. for defie , r. define . p. 103. l. 24 for Celphalgia , r. Cephalgia . p. 104. l. 2. begge suppleatur . p. 111. l. 15. for though , r. thought . p. 118. l. 8. for either r. ever . ib. l. 22. for stop , r. s●…eepe . p. 121. l. ●…lt . for intricatest , r. intimatest . p. 135. l. 11. for and , r. one . p. 138. l. 1. for artificiall , r. artificially . p. 141. l. 19. for Sotary , r. Votary . ib. l. 22. for eares , r. yeares . p. 142. l. 3. for bath , r. have ▪ p. 143. l. 15. an suppleatu●… . ib. l. ul●… . ●…or resembrance , r. resemblance . p. 147. l. 26. for at , r. as . p. 150. l. 9. for Sole●…ysims , r. Soloecis●…es . ib. l. 6. for word-joyning , r. word ▪ coyning . ib. l. 23. for legatum , r. l●…gatum . p. 166. l. 8. for of . r. to . p. 178. l. 22. for diet , r. riet . To My Learned , judicious , and most experienced friend , T. C. Doctor of Physicke : All successe to his conscionable endevours . Sonnet . TO you , in whom knowledge & goodnesse meet , Whose ends are honest , and whose sole content Is to revive your heart-sicke patient , In humblest sort , as Clients use to greet Their pious Patrons , doe I make retrait : To whom I owe my selfe , my life , my love , My praise , my prayers , next to the Powers above . The high Physitian , in whose glorious hand The globes of Heaven and Earth contained are , Give blessing to your cure , cure to your care , Prosper your practice both by sea and land , And give successe to what you understand : For in you I have found , what 's rare to finde , A curious knowledge in a vertuous minde . For th'artlesse Mounteb anke , whose cure 's to care How to deceive a Gull , so much I hate it , I wish but execution of the Statute , To such penurious venters of base ware , Who , as Hippocrates relateth , dare Purchase , by Patients death , a little art , Which they by peece-meale sell at ev'rie Mart. For you , so long as life runs th'row these veines , I will retaine a gratefull memorie , And blaze the fame of your integritie ●…n such a●… these , or in some choycer straines , To gratifie your care , your cure , your paines : For if we honour him that gives us wealth , What owe we him that gives us life and health ? " For had I treasure offer'd , I 'de refuse it , " Wanting the sov'raigne meanes of health to use it . EUCAPNUS NEPENTHIACUS , NEAPOLITANUS . To my worthy approved and judicious Friend , Alexander Riggby Esquire , all generous content . ASsumpsits are Law-ties in Courts above , So be Assumpsits in respect of Love ; This hath induc'd me , Sir , to render you , Neare to my day , a tender of my due . For in Gants aged-towne last time we met , I promis'd you , and promises are debt , To publish some choice subject in your name , And in this Toy have I perform'd the same ; Which , give 't no pleasing relish to your minde , It shall by fire be purged and refin'd , Where by the airie substance of my booke , May be resolv'd to nothing else but smoake , But how so re this Subject you approve , It acts his life and death that many love ; So a●… , be you but pleas'd to see his death , Next time we meet wee 'll laugh him out a breath : Meane while accept this gage , till I have time To mold my love in an exacter line . For th' Court , where now my suit depending is , Hath forc'd me write in forma pauperis ; From whence dismist , your equall selfe shall heare My Muse can mount unto an higher Sphoere . Yours entirely , EUCAPNUS NEPENTHIACUS , NEAPOLITANUS . The Stationer to the Reader . THis Manuscript falling into my hand , for the deserving esteeme of the Author , whose name it bore , I communicated it to the serious perusall of sundrie judicious Censors , who highly approved the curious conceit and invention of the Author : who composed it ( as hee hath since ingenuously acknowledged ) in his infancie of judgement , which made him altogether averse from publishing it . Howsoever the subject seeme light , you shall finde it like a delightfull soile , so plenteously interveined with pregnant passages , pleasant allusions , liberall and unforc'd relations , as I make little doubt , but it will afford a pleasing relish to any ones palate , who through Criticisme of censure is not prejudicate . Read , reape , and returne . To Whomsoever , whensoever , or wheresoever . SOme few yeares agoe , one Boraccio Fumiganto , a Burmudan , made repaire unto me ; and upon discourse of the plantation of Tobacco , entreated mee upon all termes of love and familiarity betwixt us , that I would addresse my pen to treat of that Subject ; being , as ●…e verie truly affirmed , a principall help to discourse , especially to our young English Gallants , whose first salutation to their acquaintance is , Will you take a pipe of Tobacco ? But my answer was no lesse roughly than roundly returned , replying , that Alexander Severus would have smoaked such sellers of smoake , and Xerxes would have pulled their skin over their eares ; if these smoakie Merchants , being such as this Burmudan was , had vended , or vented those commodities in their time . With this answer , my fuming Fumiganto seemed much discōtented , taxing me of prejudicacie , in condemning a Science ( for so this Factor termed it ) which was not onely hugg'd but honoured by our hopefull Gentrie ; whose desire was rather to be matriculated in the exquisite taking of a Pipe , than in the tossing of a Pike ; in a quiffe and a quaffe , than shaking of a staffe . Presently upon this affront , came in a Trinidadan with a Varinan , who desi ou●… to heare what Subject it was that made us so hot , I replyed , it was Tobacco , the verie fume whereof , as it doth ever , had driven us to that distemper . O insolence , or rather impudence , quoth the Trinidadan ! shall a weed , the wealth of many Ilands , and the delight of the Queene of Ilands , receive that aspersion ? tellme , tellme ( quoth hee ) thou profest Mamothrept to all generous humours , how should long and lingri●…g hou●…es bee consumed , how should discourse , wanting matter , be continued , how should entertainment or the life of societie be preserved , how should hospitalitie now showne not so much in the ●…himney , is in the nose of the Gentrie , he discovered ? Nay more , how should some Companies be maintained , if this soveraigne receipt to all maladies , were not countenanced ? What Companies , said I ? Marrie the Company of Pipe-makers , Sirrah Stoicke ; whereof one Brachifort , who is no small Foole , hath procured a benefit , to inhance the rints of his pate by the rents of the pipe , and smoake them who made Pipes for others smoake . Is it possible , quoth I ? Yes , my cringing Criticke ( said the Varinan ) that it is , and yet you disesteeme our qualitie . Besides , I heare , quoth hee , that one Aestivus Nepenthiacus , a grand Monopolist , and a judicious Practist in his profession , hath of late renounced his practice , wherein hee was a right hopefull beginner , to betake himselfe to the plantation of Tobacco ; wherein I will not justifie his triall of experiments , being for the most part more deceiving than thriving ; but sure I am hi●… artificiall Stoves , Limbecks , 〈◊〉 , and other artfull inventions , have prov'd him a Dogmaticall Doctor in his profession . Whereto I answered , that indeed I had heard of his rare experiments , but how little Nepenthiacus had gained by them , might appeare by this , that as he had formerly left his Profession , so now of late he was enforced to leave his nation , to worke wonders among the wilde Irish. Where report was , hee intended to remaine till he had reduced all those bogs and marishes to plots of Tobacco ; so beneficiall is he to the State , though prejudiciall to himselfe . This , quoth the Trinidadan , may bee all easily done , if he exactly observe his geometricall ascents & descents , which by his mathematicall line , which hee hath alwayes in readinesse , with all facilitie may bee attained . For in that glorie of Ilands , wherein I have long time remained , works of greater difficultie than this have beene effected : but to insist on any of these I will not , because they would seeme incredible to the shallow and barraine apprehension of the vulgar : yet to make instance of one for all , I hold it not altogether fruitlesse . I have seene the seeds of Tobacco sowne in a bed of gourds , and in a moneths space the whole bed of gourds were into leaves of Tobacco changed . Where at smiling , I have read ( quoth I ) all Ovids Metamorphosis , and I finde there no such transmutation . No marvell ( answered he ) those were fictions , these true and native relations : besides , you are to know that Travellers in their surveyes , assume a priviledge above the authoritie of Authors . Traversing thus our ground , as one cloyed with this discourse , I had a desire to leave them to themselves , and addresse my selfe to mine owne affaires ; but Boraccio Fumiganto , my familiar friend , and one who had more interest in mee than the other two , st●…pt betwixt ●…ee and the doore , conjuring me upon that inviolable league of amitie so long professed & protested , that I would rest satisfied by giving way to their entreatie ; promising withall , that my travell should not be unrequited , if I would prosecute some thing touching the praise-worthy invention of Tobacco , which they with such importunitie desired : But modestly , as seemed me , did I answer : that my labours , as they deserved no such courtesie , so did I ever scorne they should bee mercenarie : besides , if I should give way to their request by publishing ought concerning the singular use of that commoditie , yet might my Taske seeme uselesse , the oyle of my Lamp fruitlesse , being employed in that Subject so much pressed , so frequently printed , and therefore needlesse . Whereat the Varinan seemed much incensed , vowing , that many yeares were not past since hee first set foot in this I le , how then could it appeare that any Author would doe him that favour , being no English-borne but a stranger , to undertake for the vent of his commoditie any labour ? To which objection I replyed , that the English were ever courteous unto strangers , many times approving better of them , than of their owne naturall inhabitants . And whereas , he could not be induced to beleeve that any Author would addresse his pen to write in his favour : I assured him , that I had read the Titles of divers bookes treating of the use and commerce of Tobacco ; as the Poem of that English Musaeus , 〈◊〉 , Tobacco battered . Likewise , another pleasant poeticall Paradox in the praise of the P. wherein is learnedly proved , and by impregnable reasons evinced , that Tobacco is the onely soveraigne experimentall cure , not onely for the Neapolitan itch , but generally for all maladies incident to mans bodie . Which discourse is with no lesse exactnesse prosecuted , than Rodolphus Agricola's was in his tract of the Vanitie of knowledge ; Cornelius Agrippa in his discourse of the Uncertaintie of knowledge ; or Erasmus in his so much admired Encomion in the Praise of folly . Besides many other judicious relations of late yeares published by our English Navigators , all tending to the praise of that excellent knowledge in the plantation of Tobacco : and those exquisite effects which in forraine countries it hath effected . So as the Herbe Moli , so highly prized and praised by Homer , could not bee more usefull to the wandring Ithacus , in repelling the charmes of Circe , than this Indian weed hath beene ever by their reports powerfull to the travelling Arabs , to inure them to all extremitie . What then should Tasks of this nature be any more revived , seeing so generous and generall an use of it hath made it approved ? so as , whoseever should write against it , might have more adversaries to oppose him ; than he had reasons through his whole discourse to alledge for him . Yea but , replyed the Trinidadan , for all this , it is not unknowne how the Emperour Eudorus hath divers times inhibited this to all his Courtiers : yea , and long since , so bitterly inveyed against the humorous and phantasticke use thereof ▪ as publikely all those great Professours , who formerly did partake of nature with the S●…lamander , to shew how conformable they would be to the opinion of their Empero●…r , broke their Tobacco-pipes , to manifest their distaste of what they so violently had affected , by throwing away those instruments by which their smoak was usually conveyed . All this , said I , i●… no lesse than truth ; yet , h●…w long did th●… distaste continue ? Did not th●…se brave Tindarian spirits quickly retai●…e what they had so seemingly disclaimed ? So as , no meat can be well digested ( so powerfull is custome being once retained ) till a pipe of Tobacco be exhaled , ●…ea some times a whole Petoun of Indian f●…me ●…e exhausted . For howsoever , to please the Emper●…ur , whose prince●…y ●…nd impartiall censure without respect to impost , seem 〈◊〉 of your profession a little bitter , their pipes were battered , their Tobacco scattered , and this late introduced relique of Gentilitie cashered ; yet by meanes of a meagre Matachin , o●…e Samius Argilloplastes , they were shortly supplyed , wheresoever , or whomsoever this pleasing humour had disfurnished . Since which time , both Court and Citie have no lesse steemed with your fume , my deare Trinidadan , than the Academie , that golden grove of Hesp●…rie , with your late-knowne smoak my Varinan , or the Country , that Court-Ape of vanitie , with your vulgar stuffe , my stale Burmudan . What Academie , said the Varinan ? Sure I am , if you meane either of those two Sisters , whose renowne our verie Coast admireth , and whose unequall'd paritie those Countries who never saw them affecteth , you erre much in your judgement ; for the Masters and Governours of private houses , ( this I dare avouch upon mine owne knowledge ) are such cautelous Guides and Guardians ●…ver that Charge wherin they stand interessed , as they cannot endure the smell of this Indian Hag , for so they terme it , to evaporate within their Cloysters . So as , being one time there ( whereby you shall easily gather how ignorant these sage Magnifico's were in the artfull profession of the pipe ) it was my fortune to consort with a joviall fri●… of young Pupills , all Freshmen save one or two , who had received seasoning from the Pump for their absurdities . With whom having traversed two or three pipes of rich Varina , with some bottles from Fons . Clitonius which procured Urina , just as we were canvassing a fresh pipe , in comes a Senior Master , Tutor ( as I afterwards understood ) to those lively Lads with whom I consorted ; who seeing the chamber all in a fume , grew into a monstrou●…●…ume himselfe , so as taking up some odde pipes which lay scattered upon the Table , I will henceforth ( quoth hee ) prevent you Boyes of your piping ; and with that , he threw all their pipes into the fire , intending to burne them ; and so he might , but not as he meant ; for his purpose was to consume them . At this conceited tale of the Varinan , after wee had a little space laughed , I replyed ; that such ignorance was now from the Academicks wholly exiled : for the grea●…est and gravest Students well perceived , that long studie would dull and rebate the understanding , being by no externall receipt cheered . Upon which speech , all these three Antagonists with joynt force , made towards me , reassailing me with new reasons to undertake the defence of their Trade , objecting , how by mine owne mouth they would condemnè me , if they could not now at last after many perswasions ; prevaile with me . For ( said they ) you confesse the Citie , Court , Countrey : Yea , the Treasurie of all knowledge , even the Academies affect , it , and will you in a Stoicke reluctancie oppose it ? Besides this , you have sundrie affectionate Allies , all Agents of happie employment and hopefull improvement , who since their plantation in Tortouga have dealt in this commoditie , to their profit and succeeding memorie , which may bee an irresistable motive to induce it . To which powerfull objections I a little relented , yet so , as I expressely told them , I would not much insist upon their conveniencies or inconveniencies of their trade , being of late time inured to dangerous sophistication , having knowne by report of an experienced Chymicke , divers ounces of Quick-silver extracted from one pound of Tobacco : but to discourse of the Life and Death of Tobacco ; as first of his birth and education ; secondly of his Planting and Propagation , I should doe my endevour : Whereto they all joyntly consented ; upon which consent I addressed my pen to this ensuing Tract here presented . THE SMOAKING AGE . OR , The Life and Death of TOBACCO . IN Tartarie ( I reade ) not farre from the Burmudoes , there dwelt a rich Hander , whose name was Nepenthes : enricht he was with all the best of temporall fortunes ; and to make his blessings more consummate , with a chaste and continent wife , called Vsque●…aughin . yet that he might acknowledge , there was nothing in this interins of mans life so absolute , which was not sometimes attended with crosses , or at least , all●…yed ▪ to make humane frailtie confesse a more soveraigne power : hee tasted ( one distaste ) in the overflow of his fortunes , which was , want of children . Much he had , and great possessions was he master of : but who should be his heire he knew not , being bereft ( of that onely one of humane blessings , hope of issue . Long had he now lived with his vertuous wife , when behold he was made happy in hope , though the event answered not his expectation so fully as hee imagined , and thus it fell out . These two good Inhabitants dwelling neere to the sea , they used now and then to walke upon the sea shoare , not onely to refresh themselves with the coole temperature of the aire , but in meere compassion to entertaine ( such shipwrack't soules as destitute of hope or meanes , were throwen upon that coast ▪ it chanced that an Apothecary of the Burmudoes , ( intending to goe into Hoemonia where the best and soveraignest herbes , plants , soots , and Aromotaries are said to be ) he was intercepted by Pirots , who rifling him of that poore estate hee had , threw him over ship-boord : but see what refuge he found in the ocean ? The Polype fish ( which naturally loveth sweet savours , & is exceedingly delighted with perfumes or any fragrant smell , taking this Apothecary in her nose , presently approches him , and swallowes him ( for he was but a little dapper knave ) quite downe . The poore Apothecary thus imprisoned , yet not quite bereft of sense , but to know where he was , remembers himself , recollects his spirits , & with an expert and successive hand , tries this conclusion ; he called ●…o mind how he had some purging Comsits about him , for ( he being costive in his body , used them upon all occasions : ) these he ministers to the fish , which she no sooner had received , then , as the Scolopendra is said to avoyd her very entrals , till she has rid her selfe of the hooke , so she purged backeward and forward : sicke she was , and heart-sick of the Apothecarie , and in great extremity , till delivered of him : for any mā may judge , if one pill had such extreme force , what force was he of that ministred these pils ? Not farre from the banke side , was this poore Apothecary set at liberty : when behold , he begins now to wrastle with a second death : the billowes of the sea menacing ruine ; the whirlepits gaping to devour him ; little hope or none is left him ; for there 's no Purge in all his Boxes will save him . The poore man thus distressed , though to dye hardly resolved , yet he sees no remedy , to die he must be enforced ; and surely had dyed , if thse two compassionate Ilanders , that ever were prest and addrest to pitty others miseries , had not rescued him . A little Cock-boat being tied to the shoare-side , ( though unfit to endure any rough tempest , ) Nepenthes unlooseth and in meere compassion ( though in this adventure he hazzarded himselfe , and was much disswaded by his wife to the contrary ) yet sets he forth towards him , and by the sudden calmnesse of the tempests intimating , that the gods themselves were pleased with a worke of that merit , he takes him up into his Boat , and brings him with a mutuall joy , in safety to the shoare . The Apothecary as yet amazed with his new-past danger , and as one new come out of a trance , thinking these two Ilanders had beene Neptune and Tethis his Queene , and no mortall creatures , made this druggary speech unto them following . BRAVE and puissant Neptune , and you sacred Queene of the nine Iles , Lady maioresse of the great Ocean , Governesse of the lower Elements , Commandresse of all the skaly generation , from the Sea-horse to the Sea-mouse , Umpiresse of all differences in this watery region , &c : may a poore ship-wrackt Pothecarie speake to your Excellence ? one that hath ministred Triackles , Antidotes , Receits & Cordials to all ( or most of your Patients ) within your flourishing Iles of the Burmudoes ; and now is enforced ( like a poore supplicant ) al Drugs of Rheubarbe , Carduus sanctus , Coloquintida , Artemisia , Oenanthe , and what herbes or plants soever were preservative against the Scotoma , Oedema , Lithiasis , Paralysis , Celphalgia , Lycanthropia ; all diseases , Ulcers , Morbs or Contagions wheresoever or howsoever arising , all these ( I say ) set aside , I am now enforced to crave pardon at your Highnesse feet . With this : the two Ilanders interrupted him , demanding the reason why hee should pardon ? O ( replied the Apothecary ) I see the judgements of Neptune be now ( and not without cause ) powred upon me ; oft have I ( and with watery eyes I speake i●… ) ministred instead of purging materials , such as were binding : This , this , ( and with that he beat his brest exceedingly ) have my false Drugs brought me to : I have oft times ministred for potions , poysons to torment my Patients ; that I might increase my estate by their infirmities : I never consulted with my Doctor for my Patients health , but how to augment my wealth , by his lingring sicknesse . Punish me therefore Great Neptune , throw me into the Sea , that I may poyson as many fish as I have poysoned men . Nepenthes willing to waine him from this strange distraction , bad him be comforted , and with this serious speech shewed him his errours . MY FRIEND , as thou ascribest , the cause of thy present misery , to thy forepast impiety , and as thou wishest Neptune might censure-thee according : o thy demerits , having deserved the worst of men : so I would have thee know I am neither Neptune that can or will censure , nor shee Tethis that should shew thee rigour ; Two Ilanders we are that will shew thee our best of welcome , and hospitality shall be the worst punishment we will inflict upon thee : onely , as thou ex : pressest thy owne sorrow for the contempt of thy profession : redeeme the time thou hast lost , and retire with us ; if we can yeeld thee comfort use us : for never past misery by this shore unpitied , if we could either remedy it , or redresse it . With great thankes went the Apothecary along with them to a neighbour Grange adjoyning , where with all curtesie he was entertained . It chanced one day , that Usquebaughin sitting discontentedly in her Garden , began to expostulate the cause of her barrennesse , and thus ( though hervertues never before so farre transgressed their limits , or lesse expressed themselves ) she proceeded . Wretched Vsquebaughin , what crime hast thou committed , what offence hast thou done , or what worke of hospitality hast thou omitted : That thou ( and that onely thou ) shouldst be deprived of that commune bounty of Nature ? Others have flourishing issues ; and though their estates be lesse , yet they know , who shall possesse them : But I ( that have no issue , bereft of the greatest of comforts , what avayleth it me to possesse abundance , when all this shall succeed to a doubtfull heire ? yet is my griefe enlarged ! who will not judge how Nepenthes got it ? that hath no issue to whom he may leave it ; sure ( will some imagine ) extortion hath been the meanes of his raising , which makes his house so quickly declining . True , true , ( unhappy woman ) many such surmises will arise from thy barrennesse : though thy husbands vertues be never so transparant . I will retire my selfe therefore to some desolate place , that as , I am deprived of comfort , I may be deprived of light ; nor would I have an imputation aspersed on my husbands honour , through my defect . Whilst she was descanting thus her own griefes silently , that the silence of the place and privacie of her passions might augment them : Cantharides ( for so was the Apothecarie called ) came into the garden , where seeing this disconsolate woman ( all a mort ) wiping her teare-swolne-eyes , to minister no lesse solace in her afflictions , than she had done before to his , he thus with milde aspect , and compassionate respect , spake unto her . IF griefes be best allayed when communicated , or afflictions best eased , when they find partners : be not such an enemie to your selfe ( sweet Mistris ) as so to engrosse your owne passions to your selfe , as to shrowd them from others . Nor indeed can griefes be concealed . The face is the best Secretary of the heart ; and will expresse in silence , what passions move disturbance . But it may be , you wish one of more secrecie to impart your woes unto ; of secrecie you cannot , of discipline you may . And though judgment wanteth yet shall secrecy and fidelity supply the place , where more serious advice cannot instruct : Suspect me you need not , for my life is due unto you ; and let this protestation serve for confirmance : when I cease to be yours , I will cease to be mine owne . The Gentle woman seeing the character of a good Nature in his ill face , and one that seemed willing to requite so inestimable a benefit as hee had received , subjecting and consecrating his life where it was due : apprehended this occasion of delivering her surcharged brest , recalling to mind how by his profession , there might be some cure to the cause of her griefe . Guest ( for so I will be bold to call you : ) I know sorrowes are best allayed when imparted , if hope of remedy , or least appearance of release be expressed : But so farre is the nature of my sore above the search or reach of cure , that in expressing them I seeme to augment them , because the opening of my malady , will instantly minister despaire of remedy : yet to satisfie your desire ( that generally our hospitality may afford content ) I will describe my griefes , though by the relation I expect no ease . Know ( my friend ) that many yeares have my husband and I lived together , without least difference or debate betweene us : and in that prosperity and happines of estate ( if happines can consist in having sufficient ) as we have not only a competency in our selves , but have expressed and extended our bounties unto others : Yet in this seeming Beatitude , in this height of riches ( know my friend ) that we are made miserable , yea , in our riches despicable ; the cause is drawne from our want of issue , which you know ( if ever experience gave you that comfort ) to be the principall motive of true content ; ministring best solace to the parents griefes ; yea , and reviveing their memory , whē raked up in the ashes of oblivion . Alas sir , what be these faire buildings , flourishing Medes , spacious Downes , which you see wee are here possessed of ? they must of necessity succeed to some , and it may be to some base Tartarian , that will raze and deface the memory of our providence , with his security , riot , and superfl●…ous expence . And what shall remaine of us ? scarce so much as that we were ; But why doe I beat the aire , with a vaine repetition of misery ? You have heard sir the occasion of my griefe , the motive of my discontent ; and I know you imagine it to bee above the compasse of remedy , let it be sufficient that I have satisfied you , that can satisfie my selfe in nothing save griefe . This discourse the Apothecary attentively observed : oftimes lifting up his hands to heaven , thanking the powers divine , that they had ministred him so ample and expedite an occasion , both of shewing argument of his thankfulnesse , and meanes to release this disconsolate woman of her pensivenesse . For this Cantharides was excellent for many Cures , but for none so famous as for sterility or barrennesse : for which exquisite Art and knowledge , hee was famous through all the Burmudoes Ilands : so that as no place was then more savage , so no Region or Countrey had more fruitfull women in it . Thus therfore , as soone as she had expressed the cause of her discontent , with cheerful countenance he thus addressed his speech ; I HOPE ( faire Mistris ) this present occasion of your grieving shall be ( ere long ) the motivest cause of your joying : there is no cloud but it presages a following cleerenesse , no●… tempest ( but if over-past ) moves the Mariners to more cheerefulnesse . The Halcyons song they say ( Mistris ) bodes a storme ; but the Dolphins playing , portends a calme . Some sing against their death , with the Swan ; and some sing against their birth , with the Lark●… . Some plants are for expelling sorrow , as the Mugwort ; as others to distract the senses with the Hemlocke . Some have vertue to cast sorrow on sleepe , as the Saffron ; others to keepe them waking , as the Moly . And Elements skirmish one with another , lest man should be though onely to skirmish with himselfe . Windes that rise in the shoares of L●…panthos , in the Morning , send forth gusts from the North , in the Evening , calmes from the West . This I speake ( Gentle woman ) to expresse the limit of your griefe extended , the web of your passions contracted , and now your calme approching , after so many billowes over-flowing . The cause of your griefe I know to be moving : for all creatures have , and doe repose their greatest joy in their progeny : Priam and his miserable Hecuba before the ruine and desolation of that great and populous Citie , which indured so many sieges ere it was sacked , were esteemed happy in all things , yet the complement of their happinesse consisted in their faire and flourishing issues . Herotinus had as much Temporall felicity , as humane debility could attaine unto , yet the extent of that felicity summ'd up it selfe in his 600 sonnes . And true it is you say , that the posterity gives life to the deceased parent ; for as long as their issue surviveth , their image seemes revived , and Nature seemes to proportion a second selfe in the child , being cast in the mould of the Parent . But whence this discourse ! in expressing comforts of this nature , and not ministring to your discomfort , I seeme to imitate a rigorous and remorselesse Physician , who before hee gives his Patienta Cordiall , applies unto him extreamest Corasives . I am heartily glad ( Gentle woman ) I am arrived here for your sake , and if divine powers , ( as sure they have ) may bee thought to have a hand in mens preservation , for a more excellent end or purpose , sure that Aesculapius ( which lenge that publique staine to deserved honour ; that corrupter of hospitalitie ; that pearle of greatnesse , bottle-nosed Bacchus . Doest not remember , how those ambitious Giants , had well nye scaled thy fathers palace ; overthrowne the mansions of Heaven ; and made the whole Fabricke of Iove a pile of ruine ? And whence proceeded this , but from Ioves too much lenitie ? Ixion would have ( like thy Bacchus ) beene a little too familiar with Iuno , if Ioves transpiercing eyes had not diverted his owne scandall , and preserved his Queenes honour . But see what just judgement he ( in his powerfull Majestie ) denounced on so impudent and ingratefull a Villaine : in stead of loving , he is now rolling , and must so perpetually , the wheele of eternall anguish : Blessed prevention ! Deserved censure ! But thou ( as one either secure of thine one shame , or ignorant of publique infamie ) ●…itst in a whoores lap , makes Carols to be sung in honour of thy Bastard : O , is not this brave sport for Bacchus ? Yes , yes , thy Tragedy yeelds ▪ him an ample and spacious argument of a delightfull Comedy : For lately , I heare , hee presented an exquisite Enterlude , all composed of thy follies : here presented one of his drunken Attendants , thy Queene laughing , another thy selfe sleeping , and Bacehus brought in himselfe horning ; where , like a second Al●…ides , he makes thy browes his columnes , on which he engraves his perpetuall motto , Non ul●…ra . Here is excellent worke for a silent asse to bee hood-winkt in ! What Pilot , seeing an imminent tempest approaching , will not cast anchor , or retire to harbour ? But thou , seeing the tempest of thy shame , not imminent , but transparent , sleep'st with the Dormouse , and risest with the Snaile , horned . I will be briefe , though a matter of this consequence , requires a world of instruction : make me Italian worke in their guts , play mee Tereus part : Thou hast no Progne , but a strumpet ; no Philom●…la , but an impudent prostistute . Cut out her tongue , and shee will not blab thy shame : hang up Bacchus for an Ivie bush at everie Taverne doore in Hell. Let Monsieur Claret ( who I am credibly enformed was his Pandor ) bee drunke of none but Tinkers , and let them drinke till they surfet , that they may spue him in the street againe . O that I could expresse the infinitenesse of the malady which thou art incident to , and knowes it not ; made a monster and observes it not ; laught at by thine owne Planter , and sees it not ; balladed at by a nastie troope of Gally-foists , Villaines of the last edition ; proclai med Recreants to the field of Vertue , and whipped in the Statute Booke of S●…turne . And yet ( my squeamish Cosin ) you cannot see into the eye●…ore of your reproach . P●…oebus so much respects you , hee will not visit you , lest his approach should publish your shame : Luna , like a modest and chaste matrone , because her ordinarie habiliment is an horne , will not see you , lest she put you in minde of that badge you weare . The Planets , as more favourable and auspicious than you are to your selfe , will not come neere your cave ( for they are verily resolved ) you are planet-strucke already . As I am your friend , so take my counsell ; put her away , that has put you in for all day ; live to bee your selfe , and not to be an impeachment to your selfe : Some here of my fraternitie laugh at you , others in compassion pitie your miserie . Neither pitie , nor scorne , are estates worth having : so cleere your disgrace , and wipe off the blemish laid upon your Deitie , that those friends which pitied you , may convert their pitie into joy , others that scorned you , may convert their hate to envie . Howsoever , remaine but your friend , as Mercurie will rest ever your Approved , &c. After the perusall of this letter , you may imagine what cold swounds came over poore Pluto's heart : so as in the increase of his distractions , and decrease of his comforts , which he imagined matchlesse , by the new birth of his supposed heire : in the retirednesse of his passions ( which seeme most bitter when most retired ) hee thus conferred with himselfe ; expostulating the probabilities of these suspects , with the sinceritie of his approved and ever trustie friend Mercurie ; of whose undoubted fidelitie hee made no question : yet because the long-rooted conceit of Proserpina's constancie , and her generall respect to honour ingendred in him a doubtfulnesse how to resolve : yet in the end Mercuries information is preferred before his first resolution . The divers enforcive causes whereof may appeare more amply in this private discourse to himselfe . Pluto's passions . A Letter Pluto ? Yes , and a bitter one : By these contents I should need an extraordinary night cap , for mine eares by all Heavens Consistories bee supposed hornes . And by whom should these monstrous Appendices bee created ? The letter saith by Bacchus . Verie good ; then consequently am I mine owne Pandor , that entertained a Villaine to lye with my wife . Yet I can hardly beleeve it : Proserpina hath lived many yeeres with me , and was never yet detected : shee ever preferred her estimation above any inordinate thought of breach , or violation of honour ; and as proper personages were in my Dominions , as ever Bacchu●… will make : and can I thinke a drunken Swad can so soone seduce my Queene from her respect to honour ? No , no : sure Mercurie would have me divorce my Queene , to possesse her himselfe : I know not , if there bee knaverie in Mercurie , there must needs be villanie in amitie . Yet Mercurie was ever a faithfull and approved friend to me : and sure such a report hee has heard , and that , no●… ordinarie neither , for it seemes it is confirmed by the generall rumour of the Gods. Why then Pluto ( to make the conclusion agree with the premises ) thou art a Cuckold : and that bladder-fac'd , goggle-ey'd , rheumaticke Rascall , Bacchus , has been penning a set speech in Proserpina's Note-booke . VVhat remedy ? I shall bee set in blacke and white for it : to bee the first Prince of hell that ever bore horne for his crest , and mine impresse shall bee about it , Inopem me copia fecit ; no rather , Haec sunt insignia Bacchi . Miserable Pluto . canst thou descant of thine owne shame without blushing ? to have thy Gem soiled by a Canker-worme ? a mop-fac'd Rogue , that seldome or never lyes in sheets , but makes the Taverne his lodging chamber , and the bulke his pillow . O inconstant Proserpina , to chuse a lowsie Knave , base in education , grosser in conversation , and odious to all but Flemmish Brittons ! Could none satisfie thee ( unsatiate Messalina ) but the dregs of pollution , and that never made difference twixt lust and love ? How thine eyes were dazled ? How farre thou disparagedst thy judgement ? Couldst thou see any such excellencie in Bacchus , or any one good condition to approve thy choyce ? Was hee so farre above thy Pluto , as thou preferredst him before thy Pluto ? Blush at thine impudence : Or if Bacchus grape have taken so deepe a tincture in thy blushlesse face , as thou canst not expresse thy shame by the outward character of a blush , at least send out a relenting teare , and that perhaps will mollifie the heart of thy abused husband . To whom should I appeale to ? If to mine owne Judges , I shall rumour mine owne shame in Hell , as it is dispersed already in Heaven . If I appeale to Earth , that rancorous Troope of incarnate Devils will answer mee , it is ordinarie with them to have Cuckolds , and they never enacted Law against that Veniall Errour . To bee briefe , they will absolutely conclude they have no Law for it . If I appeale to my father Iove , and present a bill of complaint to the Senate of Heaven against mine owne wife , I shall bee but laught at , and the cause will be protracted , and my selfe the while eternally tormented with delay of revenge : But what bids Mercurie mee doe ? Play Tereus part , cut out her tongue , and she will not blab my dishonour : That were a ready way ; and yet hardly were that course secure either ; a woman will make a shift to speake , if her tongue be cut out : there is no hope in so desperate a cure . Come , come , I have it : hang laughter : Am I a proclaimed Cuckold , and therfore a complete honest man , and will not I seeke remedy for mine imputation ? Is it not a reproach for Pluto , to bee termed a Wittall , a plaine honest well-meaning Cuckold ? By my regiment of S●…yx , Lethe , and Phlegeton : and by all my power I have in this inferiour Government , I had rather be entituled knave , than honest . But where 's my Revenge ? To Iupiter Pluto , to Iupiter ; he will pittie his sonnes misfortune , and censure Bacchus ( that slavering Hogshead ) according to his deserts . If I put up this injurie , let me be thrust from my chaire of state , my kingdome of Tartarie for ever . Shew remorse on me , and inflict revenge ( thou Tonitruous Iupiter ) upon this Horne-maker : for if thou doe not : Flectere si nequeo superos , Acheronta movebo . I will Iupiter , I will ; I 'le play the Giants part ; skale thy airy Turrets ; raze downe thy burnish'd Pyramids ; ravish the Beauties of thy Court ; and make one of my bas●…st slaves lye with thy Queene before thy face . Passion may be long silent , but not supprest : Injuries may be endured , but not quite supplanted : I will first , like a poore solicitor , attend thy Court with lenity , my next approach shall be in thunder . PLVTO seconds his passion with a complaint to Iupiter , the processe whereof how it fell out , you shall heare afterward . VVe must now returne to Plutoes young hei●…e , and how suspicion arose from Acarno the Midwife , touching the birth of this young Brat . One day swathling this wan●…on Bastard , she perceived a marke in the childs brest , resembling the proportion of a Vine : the feature of the leaves , spurges , and Grapes , so artificiall naturall , as made the old Trot exceedingly amazed : on she rowles to Proserpina , and shewes her this wonder ; the good Queene marvelled not a whit ( for she had no reason ) knowing it to be Ba●…chus stampe : yet least this should be occasion of difference twixt her and Pluto ; whose jealousie she had now a little perceived ; calls for Iris the Post-Boy in Hell , and commands him , after she had inchanted him with her Ebon wand , that he might goe and come invisible , to take his course instantly to the North-part of Ta●…tary , ( on which Border , the Iles of the Burmudoes are seated ) and there he should find 〈◊〉 child in the C●…adle . VVhich child she enjoyned him with all expedition and taciturnity to convey from thence , and bring it to her ; where , at his returne hee should heare the rest of her will ; intending , as after appeared , to convey her young Bacchus in his place , that all suspicion might be avoyded : and this stamp of the true father neither might ingender occasion nor argument of suspect or jealousie in the troubled head of her husband . On Iris goes in his Ambassage ( winged to make the course more speedy ) nor rests he his wearied body , till arrived at the utmost Cape of Burmudoes sea , where after long search , he findes the joyfull house of Nepenthes : in he goes ( and in the darke covert of night , when cares get repose , and the ambitious thoughts of men find harbou●… ) he easily takes the poore infant from beside his sleeping parents . Up hee mounts with the child , and with as much 〈◊〉 returnes to the care seased Chamber of Proserpina : where sitting alone ( for Pluto was turned 〈◊〉 in heavens conclave ) seeing 〈◊〉 come into the chamber , with as quicke 〈◊〉 ( as if her senses before estranged from her , had beene suddenly revived . The child she receives , and the child with as cheerefull a countenance , flies into her bosome . Pretty brat , that occasions no little griefe to thy poore parents , that in their sleepe possessed thee , but waking in the survey of their barrennesse makest their lives loathed , but their griefes must not be dilated by our pen ; we will leave them sorrowing , & returne to Plutoes successe in his suit . Pros●…rpina now at hearts ease , intending next morning to send her bastard to Nepenthes house , that it might remaine there fostred in stead of their owne ; was prevented by her husbands returne ; who came in as she was committing and commending the child to the care , tuition , and safe convoy of her Herald Iris. How these two encountred may be imagined by Plutoes former passion ; yet to make our discourse more complete , and the series of our tale with better concordance knit up ; You may suppose Pluto entring his Queenes chamber , and with sparkling eyes , severe looke and menacing aspect , thus chastising her . Proserpina encountred by Pluto . IMpudent Minion ! doest thou imagine Pluto has no eyes , because he weares horns ? Let go the bastard ; he that fathers it is able to keepe it ; Thou hast stuff'd my head with horne shavings ; made me infamous for ever ; derided in heaven ; contemned on earth ; and pittied in hell . None but Bac●…hus ( insatiate strumpet ) to flie to , That on my knowledge is buzling with every milke-maide ! Am I the Rhynoceros thou hast branched ? the first Cuckold of thy making ! and the first that ever was in hell created ! and thou it seemes ( to blinde my eyes ) wouldst cōvey this Brat to some desclate promontory , some Anchorage or Sotary , for to pray for thy lewdnesse ? Sure I thinke if ever it proved Fryer it were not of the mothers mind , but ere five eares were expired , it would sing , The Fryer has lost his breeches . Out Cockatrice , out : with what forehead canst thou plead for pardon ? I that tooke thee up , as earthly Gallants , take up light commodities , stragling from thy mother , hath found thee now strayed from thy honour . I will never keepe holiday in thy remembrance hereafter , so long as thy wind-pipe is open . Thy melody shall be converted to shriking ; thy best of delights to perpetuall dispairing ; and thy late banquetting to incessant tormenting . Cuckold Pluto , you strumpet , and none but Bacchus to doe him that dishonour ! Better could I have beene pacified , a●…d sooner had the passion of my eter●…all choll●…r been mittigated , if any within my owne Regiment had done it : But a drunken slave , that in the height of his Cups , will rumour my hornes to all his Cup-shot Assacinats ! Goe to Hell shall roare for ▪ t. Thy liberty shall be perpetuall imprisonment ; thy life horrour ; and though thou wish death , yet , he shal not be so thankfull as come , if it be but to augment and aggravate thy misery . And for thy Bastard , heare Ioves decree . Ioves Decree . BY the power of my command , Iove the supernall commander of heaven , soveraigne of earth , head Prince of the Mediteranean , and absolute Emperour of the Tartars , planter of Iles , establisher of Nations , Extirper of the Bastard Race , auspicious Protector of chaste affections , ratefies this decree following : Whereas Pluto our well-beloved sonne , upon just complaint of Bacchu●… , and his licentious Queene Pros●…rpina , hath informed us of illegitimate issue , descended from their unchaste loynes . And that the Bastard ( as an apparant and evident note of his dishonour , continues in the Court of Hell , to a publike contumelie of the said Pluto , and no lesse griefe to us . We therefore , to root out the very memory of such disgrace , and the being of so worthy an issue : doe in our power transforme the said Bastard ( in resembrance of Aca●…thus ) into a a Plant ; which , to expresse his father shall still reserve the name of his progenitor Bacchus : and therefore have we in his memory , called him ( as one commended to the care , protection , and tuition of his father ) Tobacco , the curse whereof we referre to the consideration of our sonne Pluto , whose injuries we in compassion feele in our selfe . And that our decree is not to be abbrogated nor disanulled ; We have here in our celestiall Consistory , Sealed it with the subscription of our glorious Synode subsined , Mars , Mercury , Saturn , Neptune , Aeolus ▪ &c. Our decree is not to be adjorned , but with expedition confirmed . For Proserpina , to pray is bootlesse ; prayers are out of season ; or to weepe and deplore her present misery , is fruitlesse ; teares cannot move remorse . The Decree must be performed , and so it was : for Medusa , that brave inchantresse , is sent for according to Ioves Decree : and she with her Snaky-rod catching the child , with the Decree read over it , transformes it presently . The Argument of the following Discourse . NOVGHT now but leaves for that same feature cleare , Which but of late did in the child appeare . The root , the feet , the body was the stemme , So much commended now of mortall men : His father heard it , that his child should take Anoth●…r feature , and another shape : Incenst at first , yet makes his sonne divine ; For Bacchus steepes Tobacco in his wine . The sonne makes sober , and the father drunke ; Thus by Hels birth , Earth's to confusion su●…ke . Now wee 'l proceed as times be worse and wors●… , From Bacchus blessing , to Tobacco's curse . The curse of Tobacco , or , Pluto's blessing to Tobacco . TO returne to the miserable state of those poore Ilanders , that were now deprived ( unawares ) of their choycest and selectedst comfort : I need not , onely to expresse the renuall of their hopes ; Know that Proserpina in remorse of her impietie , weaving a second errour in her first offence , and one no lesse ( if not more ) inexcusable than the other ; returnes their child againe with a sumptuous Armolet about the Arme of it , to recompence the wrong she had done , with advantage . VVhat joy the Parents conceived at the restitution of their child , I leave it to you to imagine : Meane time , we will proceed with the second branch of our discourse , to wit , the blessing ( or cursing rather ) which Pluto gave this Bastard Plant , foretelling , with what admiration it would be received on earth . Novv my brave Bastard , I will send you up wrapt in a Paper to that father of yours , Bacchus , and may my blessing follow thee . Thou art now to travell through many straits : first through the noses of the Burmudoes ; for there it is fit thou offer thy selfe first , because they challenge an interest in thee by thy birth . Thou shalt be hissed out of the schoole of Hypocrates , Aesculapius , and Galen . Not a Quack-salver Doctor upon the Universe , but shall reade Lectures on thee , as if it were upon an Anatomy . The mercinary Pedler shall counterfeat thee : and drying some VValnut leaves , shall forsweare himselfe for thee . The Frenchman shall love thee , for thou art restorative to his infirmities ; thou shalt be as familiar with the tatterd Indian ; as Slapdragons with the Flemming ; Potatoes with the Italian : or Flawnes with the Bohemian . Thou shalt be thy fathers Caterer , provide him victuall and victualers to 〈◊〉 his victuall . Yet my comfort is , thou shalt not be onely for the generous Gallant , but as well also for Aminadab the Pedant , and Hob-nayle the Pesant : The very Tinker ( with his fine Brasse ) shall tinckle on thy sides , and snuffe thee out like Neesing-powder . The Pox and Piles shall reverence thee : one fire strikes out another ; and whole families shall maintaine their Tatterdemallions with hanging thee out in a string . But of all Cities , Iles , Provinces , Dominions , or Segniories , none shall entertaine thee in that royalty , or with that generall state at the Albionacts : their Long Acres , Uplands and Downe-lands shall flie in a trice to retaine thee in their company ; Thou shalt soake them to the bone ( my renowned Bastard ) and make them skarre-Crowes to Nature . Yet , it cheeres my heart , when I thinke how every foole must have his Bable ; and not a good discourse without the suggestion of thy brave , pregnant and fiery spirit . Yet , as well as they love thee , they 'l spurt thee out , and make thy owne Mansion all be slubberd with thy owne Iuyce ; while this raiseth Pluto one pin higher : to see a yong Cavalero spit out his patrimony in Rhume . No entertainment without thee ; nor speech worth observing , that has not life from thee . Thou makesh the pursued Roarer forget the Serjeant is at doore to arrest him . Thou makest him valiant : not a Brasse button on the Universe dare attach him . Who dare encounter Phaeton , that is nought but fire and smoake ! Sending out the Tapers of his wrath , the fagots of his indignation ? The Cressets of his spleene , and the furnaces of his evaporated Ire at the Crevisses of his Nose ? Why , I shall be made to blesse thee : Thou wilt be the onely enlarger of my kingdome , the enricher of my state ▪ and the stablisher of my Empire eternally . I shall thanke my wife ( ere long ) for my Bastard honours . Never did Al●…ydes more for his stepmother Iuno ; than thou for thy stepfather Pluto . I see Charons boat over-burdened already : hoyse up sayles Charon , my hony Bastard sends thee them in Swoupes . But I see more vertue in them yet ; as the light of the fire darkens the light of the candle , so shall thy smoake ( the pure Elixir of a Gallants brain-pan ) draw to thee all the smoake that 's used to steme out of great mens Kitchins : Their habitations shall become as desolate as a Wildernesse ; as bare as trees in fall o' th' leafe ; as naked as a Frenchmans Scalpe ; and as destitute of hospitality , as a Wappin Broker of honesty . But this is nothing to that reverence those smoaking Albyonacts will do unto thee : there will a Scholler make a set speech to thee ; and canvase thee in a Blanket , with predicamentall words , above comparison or Gradation . VVith , O thou Hyble of Intelligence ; thou Ars●…nall of eminence ; thou Castalia of Ingenuity ; thou Hermyone of Harmony ; thou Systema of Logicke ; thou Anadema of Rhetoticke ; thou Anathema of choller ; thou Astraea of Honour . Thus will the word-joyning Scholler grace thee . Then the Lawyer with his Quillets and mentall reservations , Solecysims , VVrits , and Demurres without Demurres , will thus aboord thee . O , if Iohn a Styles , or Iohn an Oakes had knowne thee in their dayes , what cases couldst thou have put thē ? for by thee ( and none but thee ) thou Heantontymoreumenō of judicious pleading , we gain'd a Melius inquirendum , what it is , or what it meaneth ? as for example , if we find thee not in thy spirit and life here , we seeke thee elsewhere , and so by a Melius inquirendum , we possesse thee . By thee ( and none but thee ) we find what is a Capias ad legatum ; for being taken in the head , we are forc't to lie by it . By thee we find what an Injunction is at the first sight ; being injoyned to avoyd much corrupt matter , wherewith men of our profession be extraordinarily troubled . Wherefore , if thou have any action of Outlary , against any Gallant or Gallants , within our Precincts , in behalfe of Arrerages due to thy Master in thy behalfe ; we will procure thee expedition for nothing , ( and reason ) for thou art incorporated in us . Thus will the spruce Areopagite discourse to thee : where presently a Waterman , a Tankard carrier , or such necessary Hogs ▪ snout in the City will thus accoast thee . O smoake , no smoake but vapour , and no vapour but smoake●… thou makest my Tankard as light as a Pipkin ; thou makest us never thinke of our poverty , drawne in Sluces from Ware , and in Pipes to London . Nay , nose it ( neighbour Timothy ) nose it ; O Herbe of Grace ! surely he that founded thee was some Traitor , for thou hast betrayed me of my wits already . Come , another Pipe , good Master Flie-smoake ! why may not we send out a Tankard of water at our nose , as well as Master Had-land blowes out his Acres ? We will honour thee still ( my brave Trinidadicall spirit ) and we will take it i' th' snuffe whosoever wrongs thee . THUS ( my Noble and Heroycall Bastard ) shall all Professions honour thee ; all degrees reverence thee ; and the chiefe Metropolitan Cities shall maintaine their greatest Trafficke and Commerce by thee . Happy shall bee that man , who can engrosse a portion of thy quickest spirit to himselfe ! It shall stand instead of his Orisons in the morning ; and early will hee sacrifice the snuffe of his Candle to thy Incense ; not a complete Callant , that hath not his V●…ensiles to conduct thee to his nose : for thou ministers him a portion of joy , and tells him of building another Castle or Colosse in the aire . Thus thou playest Minister to Pluto , and estates me in an ample Government ; thy smoake shall be the conveyance to hale those snuffing Prodigalls to my smoaking Dominions ; for thou art but a preparative to the solemnizing of thy father Bacchus his Festivals . Thou , to open the passages to receive liquor : He , to poure in his unfathomed Bucket , and to rinse their Liver : Thou , like another Synon , burnes Troy ; sacks the Citie ; rases downe the walls ; and with thy per●…idious incursion , subjects all the inward parts of the Citie to desolation : He , when all things are done ( like a seeming friend ) protests affection , and with ceremoniall Ambages insinuates into that poore Fort which remaines : where like Sile●…i of the last Edition , they entertaine him , receive so much of his Complement , till they become complete and replete Gallants : then , - suror Arma ministrat . Bacchus sets them byth'eares , Buffet stooles walke , Pottles ( like pellets ) expresse their meaning by their clattering . Here ( my worthy step-child ) the comfort of my wronged bed , and the onely hope to eternize my soveraignty , beginnes my Joy ! for Discord and Dissention yeelds to me a perpetuall Union and Harmony . Thou art that Brand of Paris , shalt make earth flame for 't ; that Olympia serpent ( that snake of Adraste ) shalt winde thy selfe in the minds of men , and draw a greater fleet to thy Voyage of Tenarus , then ever were of Argonauts to Colchos . If those three Sisters , O●…to , Ocypete , and Celano ; those Arch-Pyrats , Harpies of the Atlanticke , brought such rich booties to their mother Cleona , what will my transformed Bastard doe for me , that hath the whole world to rome in ? Thou wilt make Bacchus call thee his white boy ; and I will crowne thee with a Diadem of burnisht gold ; with a plume of Estrich feathers : and thou at thy returne , like another Aquila , Affricane , or Pompey , shalt triumph in the streets of Hell ; we are as many Trophies , as thou hast enricht the Treasurie of Hell with soules . Heere shalt thou lead the Prodigall in chains , and with a shadow of smoake , draw him to follow thee , aut sequetur , aut trahetur . Here , my brave Spend-times , shall desire thy company ; but thou like a triumphant Hannibal , shalt contemne them , leading the Slaves in bonds ; and like another Tamerlane , make Earths Soveraignes follow thy Charriot wheeles , crouching like pedestals at the foot of thy Majesty . Hear my Cautions therefore ; and in observing them , thou shalt purchase thee a wreath of eternall honour : Not a Fiend but shall bend to thee ; and thou in the Majestie of thy state shalt contemne the greatest , being made miserable by thine inchantments . Especiall advertisements given by Pluto to Tobacco . FIRST caution I propound , is , that in everie place where thou commest , thou take the best Booth in the Faire . Plant thy selfe in the eye of the Citie : set mee the picture of some sallow-faced Blackamoore , or a Virginia-man , for that will rather draw custome upon the Frontespice of thy doore : A Zeuxes or Apelles would doe well in these cases , to enforce passengers by the picture , to draw neere the substance : make a partition in thy shop ; it may bee the hot Venetian comes to bathe with thee , rather than to drinke Tobacco with thee . Draw the curtaine close ( sinne would have no eyes poring upon her ) and when thou seest a young raw Novice , that never was yet matriculated in the schoole of vanitie , make a speech to him in commendation of thy vertue , power , and operation ; if hee listen thee with a greedy eare , continue thy discourse with arguments , and how insufficient soever , no matter , the Gudgeon will be taken , and having him once in , presume on his custome . Now and then to discourse of novelties , and unheard-of rarities , will not a little encrease custome : for the phantasticknesse of the age admires nothing so much as fabulous relations . Tell of thy strange birth , but neither of mee nor of the place of thy birth : though men come so frequently to me , yet they love not to heare of me : I would have thee in any case lay traines for the better sort , for the worser sort love to imitate the better : And then in thy profession thou maiest apologize thine errours ( as thou canst hardly bee without them ) if thou meane to live rich , or not to die a Beggar . THERE bee three persons I would have thee use with all observances , the Scholler , the Lawyer , and the Poet ; I distinguish them , for seldome makes Poet Lawyer , seldome becomes Lawyer Scholler , seldome exquisite Scholler either Poet or Lawyer . The Scholler to confirme thy profession by reason , the Lawyer by equivocation , and the Poet by invention : One to discusse , another to discourse , and the third to fable These , as by time observing , they may bee eternally won ; so by scurvie usage they may bee eternally lost . The Scholler will bee thine , if thou talke in his element ; sooth him in his arguments ; and call him most profound , dogmaticall , and literate Trismegistus : let not one reason ( though it be never so wide of sense ) passe from him without thine approbation ; and when thou art wearie in praising his imperfections , fall to admiration ; but let it be , — Ut pueri Iunonis Ave●… . If thou canst know what Universitie he is of , advance it with new-coyned and strangely-minted Hyperboles : Discourse a whole houre of the antiquities of the place ; not Mount Pernassus it selfe more ancient . Then dispatiate into the pleasantnesse of the seat ; the fruitfulnesse of the place ; and withall , of the greatnesse of their Commons ; for that they like to heare of , though they seldome see it . These discourses will make the Scholler thine owne ; he is thine individuate and incorporate friend ; the Ivie claspeth not neerer the Vine , nor the Missell-tow the Oake , than he will knit to thee . THE Lawyer will be thine , if thou compare these present times with those flourishing and impartiall dayes of Hortensius , Marcus Appius , Cornelius Graccus : swearing too ( for thou must make no bones of oathes ) that for pure eloquence , excellent conveyance , absolutenesse of method , and other proprieties , Rome in her glorie ( even in the maturitie of her time ) never attained so absolute and exact a course in pleading . Then in defence of corruption , ( because everie man must live by his trade ) talke of brave Senatours , and the bravest Councellours , would now and then be anoynted . and for unction dispense with conscience ; and tell him withall , examples of authoritie to confirme it . This discourse will so ensnare my young Mowter , as no question ( if hee distaste smoake ) hee will frequent thee for thy many good parts : An oyly tongue ( my nimble Bastard ) is worth a kingdome . FOR the Poet , I cannot tell what to say to it , he is so oft out of his wits , as he verily imagines himselfe the man in the Moone : There 's quick-silver in his braine ; and if he were not now and then encountred by Sergeants , and kept under locke and key , hee would verily turne Bedlame . Yet because phrensie must bee purged , and thou ( my Wag-halter ) hast vertue and operation to love such , becken to the thred-bare contemned Urchin , give him a pipe on my score , hee 'll pay it at the next new play he makes , if the Doore-keepers will bee true to him : and if not , hee 'll make thee up some scurvie end of a Ballad , deserves a pipe of smoake . But before thou humour him , I would have thee finde him , and I protest to thee I cannot direct thee to him : many have this name , but as farre different from the perfect straine of a Poet , as the glistering of the Gloworme from the light and splendour of the Sunne . Some come from the camp to the stage , from the pike to the pen ; and few Souldiers will prove good Poets . For the nature of these men ( I my selfe have had an itching inclination to this poeticall phrensie ) had rather fight with Bacchus than Mars ; and had rather cope with a barrell , than oppose themselves to a quarrell . Others , from an Indenture to a Theatre ; the Scribe turnes Pharisic ; and Asinus ad Lyram , expresseth his owne shame by his Scriveners fragments . Others , from mowting to comicke writing : a brave honour to descend to Poet from Lawyer . But amongst these ( my brave Spurio ) thou shalt finde many generous wits possest with this phrensie , call them to thee , smoake their wits , it may bee they are mustie , and desire soaking : These poore Gnats deserve thine acquaintance , even the lowest favorite in Parnassus Armourie , Qui nescit versus , tamen audet fingere . Take him to thee , hee shall , for his love to Ribauldrie , drinke a pipe on my score : What , shall vanitie want smoake ? No , ( my thrice-renowned Hermaphrodite ) smoake thou them here on Earth , and I will smoake them in Hell with pipes of Sulphur . But I pray thee retaine these last of all others ; they will draw company to thee ; they are made the verie Morio's of our time : and what good wit but either can draw thee into acquaintance with great ones ; or is so endeared to the other sex ; as by their meanes , thou shalt have creatures of both kindes ( and that will make thee for ever ) resort to thy shop continually ! Humor me these Poets ; extoll their devices , though thou never heard of any of them ; they love to be tickled : Flatterie they cannot judge of ; for they verily imagine their deserts out-strip all commendations . But now ( my Rogue in graine ) if thou couldst set up a private Refectorie , for the young effeminate sort ( for they would like Adamants draw continuall recourse ) I would hug thee eternally . Sell mee Potato-roots , Eringoes , all Electuaries , Confections , Receipts , Conceipts , Deceipts , Pomatum , Cerusse , with a large recitall of thy brave commodities ; and a little smooth-faced Ganymede standing at the doore , who ▪ like another Parret or Mag-pie , may crie ever in one tune : What doe you lacke ? Pomatum of the best , Cerusse ; what doe you lacke ? If thou be so blest , as to get these Syrenfaced things into thy confines , I shall be happie in thee . The best meanes to ensnare them , is to commend them ; and in comparison of sexes , to prefer theirs in many degrees before the grosse and distempered constitution of man ; fumming up some especiall records of their sexes worth . " Blessed creatures , Soveraignesses of earths happinesses ( thus mayst thou binde them to thee ; ) when Nature framed the best of her Art , shee examplified it in you , making you the founders of Cities and flourishing Countries , Provinces and Ilands . Asia first founded by a woman of that name . Europe by Europa , daughter 〈◊〉 Aegenor King of Phanicia : and Scythia of a woman that sprung out of the earth , who named her sonne Scytha . To describe the rare sit●…s and foundations of Iles ( matchlesse creatures ) Rhodes , Corcyra , Salamyna and Ae●… were all founded by women . Shall I ascend higher , and register your excellence in the Planets , and those celestiall bodies , which give humane bodies light ? There bee a thousand and twentie stars names knowne , all which have their Constellations of women . Shall I then expresse your incomparable natures , by essentiall goodnesse ? why ! Vertue her selfe makes your sex inimitable . Justice with a sword in her hand portrayed like a woman ; Prudence with a glasse ; Temperance with a diall ; Fortitude with an huge Colossus on her shoulder , that Hercules could not remove : all these in Imbroderies , as Tapistrie , Cloth of Arras , and the like , beare the formes of women . Thus commend them , and they will sooner buy Eringoes of the worst ( so they may have them by retaile at thy shop ) than at others of the best , that ▪ cannot with a glibberie tongue deifie them . But I hold thee all too long : last Caution I should give thee , have I reserved for the last , that it may take deepest and firmest root in thy memorie : on my blessing I warne thee to contemne honestie , as a poore whore that is neither for Court , Countrey , nor Citie . Spurne at her when shee offers to be acquainted with thee ; it is not fit that Pluto's Bastard should respect Honestie . Get and care not how ; forsweare thy selfe and thinke not when ; cheat , respect not where . Honestie could never thrive in the world ; as she is a beggar discard her ; as shee is simple scorne her ; and as she is base loath her . When shalt thou see Honestie ▪ approach a great mans palace , enter a Tradesmans shop , or get bed-roome in an Inne ? but Knaverie is ever reaping a commoditie : There is not a Comrade in all the Citie , but she can make use on ; that wind blowes ill , where she gaines not something . To bee short , ere thou ever set up shop , or hang out thy Blackamoore , disclaime honestie ; entertaine perjurie ; and the first part of knaverie may begin with a paire of uneven scales . Thus if thou proceed in thy trade , I shall thinke my Cautions well ▪ bestowed ; if not , to aggravate thy punishment , I will eternally banish thy strumpet-mother from mee ; and make those verie Gallants which frequent thy shop , kicke thee into the kennell for thy honest simplicitie . More should I say unto thee , but that Hell growes turbulent for want of government . Though I doe not leave thee as I found thee , in that thy shape is altered ▪ yet I leave thee in some respect better instructed : This is my last blessing ; Fly into the world , and may knaverie guide thee , false weights enjoy thee , and many phantasticke Asses be seduced by thee . HAVING shipp'd this plant in Charons vessell , and sent it into the world , what commerce it had in time , and what people of all conditions frequented it , shall appeare by this pitifull complaint made by Time ; whom you may imagine came forth of an old decayed and ruinous castle , bald-headed , with a sythe in his hand , and blubbered face , standing in the publique street of Troynovan●… , ( for there this Plant tooke first planting : ) where he exclaimes against Pluto's Bastard , in these or the like continuate passions . The Argument . The Complaint of Time upon Tobacco ; and the miserie of mans securitie , losing that treasure by Times expence , which can never be repurchased , or redeemed , but by bitter and incessant repentance . WHo CALS on Time ? Who makes use of Time ? Or who in meere compassion wil wipe these teares from the eyes of Time ? Unhappiest of men , that should offer the best of men , yet art despised by all men ! None here will negotiate in thy behalfe ; they make thee a stale to their pleasures , a Pandor to their filthinesse , a Brothell of shame , and a contempt to thy selfe . None esteemes thee as thou art , precious ; but makes thee different to thine owne nature , vitious . The ambitious man hugs thee , to climbe the ladder of preferment by thee . The wanton and licentious Courtier , to satisfie the phantasticknesse of his braine-sicke vanitie by thee . The covetous miser , to enrich his never-contented coffers by thee . The Prodig●…ll , to spend the gifts of Fortune , and the refined treasure of his sin-crazed soule by thee . Thus , who uses thee like thy selfe ? Who honours thee like thy selfe ? Or who embraces thee , but either by pleasing Earths Mammon , to displease himselfe , or by contemning thee utterly , to undoe himselfe ? If thou hadst that which thou hast not , it may be some would catch thee , but being bald ( as thou art ) none layes hold on thee ; what , none ? no , none ; Nemo , herculè , nemo ! Yet , me thinks , for all thy baldnesse , the Sergeant should clap hands on thee ; his fingers will grant a bald man no dispensation . Yet thee he never lookes at , for why ? thou art out of debt , though all be in arrerages to thee , all engaged to thee all in subjection to thee : And like an imperious Owner mayest command an hourely arrest ; yet , who is it of all my debtors braves me not ? who , of all my factors contemnes mee not ? and ( to my griefe ) who not of the basest revile me not ? Miserable Time ▪ unhappie Creditour●… to have so much pitie on such insolent Debtors . Here I heare my name contested by Truth , and presently my testimony is beat downe by Falshood ; there , the simple honest man craves that I may try the cause ; for ( saith hee ) Time tries all things ; and presently the poore man is cut downe , before his cause come to the verdict of Time. Thus Justice goes on stilts , and Time supports her ; Falshood goes under warrant , and Time secures her ; Simplicitie is opprest , and Time must delay her ; the good suffer , and Time sees it ; the ill are dispenc'd with , & Time confirmes it : Thus may all men impute the cause of all disorder to Time ; and so they doe , while I in pitie of the good , will in Time inflict due punishment on the evill . Meane time , like love himselfe , and those Aethereall Powers above , who for all their integritie were accused to be Authors of their owne impietie , Art thou blamed : O facinus ! mortale Genu●… nos Numin●… primum Incusat ; caus●…mque putat , fontemque malorum Quae veniunt . O wickednesse ! what h●…inous crimes surprize the hearts of men . To make us Authors of that ill which is commit by them ? MUST thou poore Time be a Maske to every fact unjustly committed ? to every bribe corruptly receaved ? to every oppressor , that is amongst the worst of men numbred ? What remedy ! thine owne sinceritie is thine owne best Apologie . Thou wilt once discover thy selfe what thou art , and detect the secretst of Imagination , that now seemes secure of thee or thy power . So long hath my Spring continued : I expected a better growth in this field of vanity , then Stubble and fruitlesse Darnell . Well , I will now make up my Harvest : I will see if my Sythe can cut downe , where my Lenitie could not make grow . I have too long seene ( the essence of my selfe ) opportunity offered , contemned ; too long , the estimation and repute of my name eclypsed . The worldling shall know he has a power to prune , as he had a desire to water : his infinite store of treasures got by oppression , shall be as pathes which conduct him to the Brinke of confusion . The lascivious Dame , that turnes my houre-glasse to observe fashions , shall not with all her painting allure mee ; Nor with her Trumperies entice me ; Nor with her whoorish-looke seduce me . I am too old to be a slave to a whoore ; too wise to be tempted by a whoore ; and too proud to serve a whoore . The wastfull prodigall , that becomes heire of his fathers bagges , but not his vertues , shall not affright me with his oathes ; awe me with his screw'd face ; or dismay me with his Bilboe blade : I have a weapon of a stronger temper , and it will pierce further then a Roarers Tolado . The unjust Regrater , that engrosseth wealth to himselfe , famine to the land ; I will make him open his two-leav'd granars , pull out his worme-sprowt corne , and lay his foysty victuall forth to the open Market . And this done ; I will bring him bound , before a better Purveyer . The proud ambicious arrogant Princocke , that glories in his out-side , ( and so he may , for it is worth more than his inside ) shall Player-like , be stript out of those silken Trappings : he plaid a brave mans part on the Theatre of this world , but he has his Exit , and I am in the Tyring-house and will dis-robe him ; he shall know , Mundus Universus exercet Histrionem ; Earth is but a stage , the life an Enterlude , the people Actors ; onely I am left to empty the Stage with my Epilogue , but none of these for my paines will give mee a Plaudite . Yet of all these , none to me so profest enemies as these smokers of our Age ; they whiffe me out in fume : and spend my best of houres in Candle-light ; their wits goe and come by Pipe and Pipe ; thus am I taken in snuffe by every Pesant . Alas ( poore aged Time ) was thy first race thus addicted ? were those ancient Heroes of renowne , which got glory by forraine Conquests , for their Pipe using a Pike , for an herbes vapour , fields terror , thus imployed ? No ; their time was spent ( and gloriously spent ) in their countries renowne ; Common-weales successe ; or publike managements of state , not in an airie vapour . These increased in generall respect by particular worth ; they had other imployments than piping ; Belonaes march relished better than the juyce of Necotiana ; then were the clattering of Armes , the ranking of battailes , the ranging of souldiers , and marshalling of fields , of more esteeme than smoake . Unworthy successors of so noble and imparalleld predecessors , shall Time be spent in nothing , being the precioust of all things , but in smoake and vapour , the lightest and trivialst of all things ? Shall your imployments which use to be so serious , be expended on an herbe , of all others , most obnoxious ? How Time weepes ▪ see his teares trickling ; his poore decrepit legges declining ; his tongue faltring ( as one ready to leave you ) and then where be your delights ended , how is that interim of your life concluded , when Time shall leave you , that so long bare with you ? when your dayes , as they were imployed in smoake , shall end in smoake ? Alas ! I doe pitty my childrens security , pitty them and grieve for them ; Nec longè a miseria est , qu●…squis miseratur . Your misery ( by a transumed nature ) becomes my misery ; and while you lose me in smoaking , I well-nigh lose my selfe in sighing . O Niobe , why weptst thou that thou shouldst be so soone deprived of children , since my greatest misery is derived from having children ? Thou weptst , not to possesse them , I to enjoy them ; Contemning their foster mother that first nurst them . I tell them , my teares are continuate ; my love intimate ; and my end approaching ; yet they answer me with hearts obdurate ; enmitie inveterate ; and ends despairing . I offer my selfe , and they spurne at me ; wooe them with best of Times rhetoricke , and they despise me ; and open the treasures of my heart to them , but they reject them and casheere me . And is not this miserable , to contemne him , casheere him , revile and inveigh against him , without whom they cannot live ; without whose breath they cannot grow ; and without whose supportance they cannot stand ? What have they which I give them not , ( or within the course of my houres ) that I minister not ? Puritie of aire , to breathe ; variety of sounds , to heare ; fragrancy of savours , to smell ; qualities and differences of taste , to relish ; Diversity of corpulent substance , to handle ; and rarities , with dissundred store of varieties , to behold . And doe these bounties deserve no requitall ? Doe these gifts merit no recompence ? Must these ample and indefinite beauties and bounties receive no thankes ? must this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , that gracefull remuneration , established by the Persians : that , whosoever should be readier to receive than give , was to be punished with extreme censure , be thus wrapt up in forgetfulnesse ? I have long expected substances , and am I payed with smoake ? a sweet Incence ! an excellent satisfaction ! More guerdon doe I receive of my love frō the sleeping Dormouse , than the smoaking Gallants ; shee sleepes but all Winter , but this Man i' th' Mist smoakes it all the yeare long : hee proportions his nose , like the Elephants snout ; and to make himselfe more terrible , like another Aetna , steemes Vapor and terror out of his nose . Sure this is none of my Boy ! I sent him not into the world smoaking , but shriking ; and now as soone as he came peeping into the world , to fall a piping ; he doth not that for which he was sent hither . VVell ; if this be the fruit of thy long education , the end of my travaile , and the period of my care , I must seeke out some other children , that will imploy their time better , and make use of my bounties with more circumspection . O Lord , that Diogenes had come in those dayes with his Lanterne and Candle at noone day , he should have found many at their Candle without Lanthorne , but none of those hee sought for , good men . Alas ! where may Time find those rare Phoenixes , those white Crowes , blacke Swans , those mirrours of mortality ? the Grecians Axiome was : 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; nothing that ever was , ever erred ; but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , now shall be changed into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , for all things now claime privilege in errour ; and yet what availes it thee poore Time , to weepe ? thou mayst sooner change thy selfe into Marble with Niobe , than dissolve the marble hearts of thy children with thy remorsefull teares . Vertue feldome mounts , but Vice is ever mounting ; Passion may shew thy griefe , but the extent of griefe ( much I feare it ) will not minister a remedy . As when Annibal , seeing his brothers head thrown into his Tents , cryed out : Now doe I behold the misery of Carthage ! so when I behold that Tawny-faced Aethiopian stand out pictured with a Pipe in ▪ his hand , to entice the poore passenger , may I justly cry out ; Now doe I behold the misery of the world ; the corrupter of Cities ; the depraver of youth ; the dotage of Age ; the dissolution of all ! And this griefe is no lesse than any other to me : when I see Pipes made occasions of discourse ; where nothing rellisheth , nothing de lighteth without them : O , how Idlenesse hath erected a throne for her to sit in ; and in majestie triumphes over the labours of poore men ! O baine of youth , why darest thou usurp the authoritie of a soveraigne , that 〈◊〉 at best , but a Vassall to the Divell ; a deluder of Novices with smoake and vanity ; a dissolver of states ; a weakener of spirits ; an enfeebler of strength ; an effeminator of youth ; and a besotte●… of Age ? why shouldst thou in thy selfe be so imperious , that art to all States so generally pernicious ? Shall that issue which I have bred and brought up in more generous discipline , in more heroicke affaires : not in smoake ▪ but in the consideration of themselves ; not in the expence of idle houres , but in the contemplacion of that soveraigne end wherto they must of necessity come ( or be miserably excluded ; ) imploy their time ( which time they borro●… but of me ) in vanity●… leaving their best and soveraign'st delights , to follow their owne phantasticke humours ? have they no other meanes to bestow that little remainder of time which is yet behind , but in those vanities which abridge their time , contract their dayes , and make me miserable in the eternall discomfort of my children ? Remaines there nothing now for all my time of labour in nurturing them , who have bin odious to that Power from whence I descended ? Ungratefull to mee , by whom they were releeved ? and worst to themselves , by whom they have perished ? I say , remaines there nothing for my labour in nurturing them , but teares of continuate affliction ? motives of perpetuate distraction ( and remedilesse ) being hopelesse of their conversion ? I was to them a second Nature , by my nurture pamphering them with my delights ; without occasion of surfet ; cherishing them with my essentiall Cordials of comfort ; and teaching them mannagements of Armes , all oppositions to discomfit ; and yet how soone may valour be turn'd to effeminacy , resolution to cowardise , and discreet government ( in a hopefull infancie ) to a distemporate dyet , by giving the reines of liberty ? But I see the cause ! while they lived under Times tuition ; and were observant of his worth ; they answered Times hopes , making a vertuous age succeed a vertuous birth : Then were they rained and ●…estrained ; but now giving windes to their sayles , they aspire higher , and must taste of an herbe that equals the aspiring of their minds . O , let time move you to a better and maturer aspiring ▪ not ●… smoaky suffrage of popular praise ; not the vaine Consorts of house-wasting Rake-hels : but to take hold of me , now while you may possesse me . I am wilfull , if you be neglectfull : I have no haire behind , as you see : take me then by the fore-locke , and make use of opportunity . Time is a precious jewell that must be sought after , if obtained ; feeke after me then , while I may be obtained . This Age ( I know ) hath many inducements to draw you from me , many allurements to seduce you : but shall your father , even the Diall of your youth , and the Haven of your Age , shall ●…e ( I say ) loose that excellence which was created , and at first ordained for him ? Must your Winter ( which seldome brings forth either flower or fruit ) be reserved for Time ; when your Spring , Summer , and Autumne have bin consumed in the losse of Time ? When Theseus came to the Temple of Delphos , he offered the first fruits of his haire to Apollo ; making the forepart of his head to be shaven , that he might take away all occasion of discomfiture from the Enemie ( as Homer writes of the Aba●…ts . ) Offer then your first fruits , your first endevours , and first intentions , to the use and service of time ; that in the surveigh of your readinesse , he may minister to you with all cheerfulnesse . Beleeve times words ! it is not the swarty-chopt Tobaccodrugge , that will yeeld you content in the expence of your time : You may smoake it long ere you better your owne discourse , or make your Accounts even , which Time expects at your hands . A whole ounce of Tobacco will hardly purchase one dram of wit : Repentance is the best fruit you shall reape out of such an unsavory herbe . Art thou yet reclaimed , or art thou hardned ? If the one , Time shall entertaine thee with his blessing : if the other ; Time will bid thee farewell , but farewell thou canst not ; being relinquished , and utterly forsaken by Time. I am yet staying heere in the street for thee : answer mee but with hope , that thou wilt come , and thou wilt revive poore Time , that droopes with despaire of thy returne . Yet , Spissum verbum est amanti , veniet : I pray thee foreslow not my hopes , frustrate not my expectance , but satisfie my love ; Never did pleasures with all their appearance , so much affect thee , nor any temporary delights so well deserve thee : Come then quickly to him that doth both love thee , and hath well deserved thee : Odit , nec patitur moras amor : That love which proceeds from the heart , hates delayes with her hart ; but where love is dissembling , there love without offence may be delaying . How long have I observed thee yonder smoaking , and was doubtfull whether thou wert ( as thou seemedst ) a man , or that Beast , which the naturall Historian talkes off , that sends out nought but fire ? In , I durst not come to thee ; for I doubted , if I had remembred thee of my abuse , I should have beene spurn'd and spurted at for my labour ; Thou art too great to be put in mind of thy errours : but the time will come ( Et nesci●… citius an facilius ) when thou wilt wish with briny eyes , relenting heart , and all attendants of a passionate and distracted soule , thou hadst received my instructions , attended to my advertisements , and made Use of my Cautions . I will therefore , with this publicke and irrevocable Edict , summon three maine infringers of my Will , contemners of my selfe , and corrupters of the Age : my summons shall serve for my last warning ; if they returne no more to those Stygian-shops ; those Cymerian hovels of darkenesse , I will remit their former errours ; if ( in despite of my summons ) they continue in the height of their Flaming vanities , their smoaky Impostures , Time shall whip those three Stygmaticall Catolounes to death , cutting them downe like Mugweedes , with the Sythe of Fate : Those three majesticke Tobacco-nosers , Captaine WHIFFE , Captaine PIPE , and Captaine SNUFFE . And first for Captaine WHIFFE . To Captaine WHIFFE . YOu Captaine , that glory in your Art of vanity , making a high Road-way 'twixt your mouth and your guttes , ( and with a cunning retrait ) bringing it backe same way it came ; you , that set up bils for your Novice to reade ; as thus : Whosoever wil be Disciplined , or Matricula ted in the Art , Science or Mystery of Tobacco-whiffing , let him subscribe his name , the place of his being ; and Captaine Whiff : will be ready there to attend his yong master-ships pleasure , with the profoundst of his skil . O my impudent Sharke , Art thou fled from thy Captaine , & dar'st thou now usurpe the name of Valour ? Thou : that durst not smell Gunpowder art now turn'd Tobacco-whiffer ? For thee , if there were no Time , yet there would remaine some few Minutes reserved , to commend thee to a halter , for thy flight from thy Captaine . I my selfe will present thee for altogether ; thou shalt not onely bee hanged ( I would have thee marke me ) before the eye of the world ; but I will have thee begg'd for an Anatomie , that thy Entrals ▪ ( like Tamerlaines blacke Bannaret ) may hang for Tropheyes in honour of Captaine Whiffe , and his thrice-puissant , and thrice-renowned Profession . Having brought thee to be this Anatomy , I will leave thee . To Captaine PIPE . YOu Captaine Pipe ( because your name is good ) and many Pipes we need in this our flourishing Troynovant , for conveyance of that pure Element water into our Citie . You I say , shall be imployed in conveying of water , ( because you have beene ever used by men which frequented those Alleyes ) to those despicable and forlorne creatures , those diseased Gally-foists of Turneball , Picke-hatch , Ram-Allie , and other Suburbane-traders , that in contempt of Vertue , make a Contract with Hell. This ( though it be no worke of Charity ) yet it is as good a worke as is expected of thee Captaine : thou wert once the Gallants Pander , beare now the Whoores Tankard : Where I will leave thee . To Captaine SNUFFE . CAptaine Snuffe , it may bee you will take it in snuffe , if Time tell you wherein you erre : but best is , as I am indifferent for thy hate , I am secure for thy power : Renounce the Devill , ( Captaine ) be not fired before thy time : be respective ( as thou art a Captaine ) of thine honour ; and take heed thou taste not , for thy Tobacco , Brimstone and Sulphur : I would not have thee snuffe at mine instructions ; for I may , and with unamated front must tell thee , that I have contested with a man of as great worth , and of far more grace , it may be . The higher Cedar ( if faultie ) deserves the rougher censure . Opposition to the malevolent disposition , is my recreation . Now it may bee , that in some drunken passion thou wilt sweare to stab me , what wilt thou gaine by it ? where wilt thou bee , when Time has no being ? Let not my precepts move thine indignation , but thy conversion : for thy threats , Time never feared them ( though spoken by valour ) much lesse by an indiscreet Asse , that is carried away with choler . Now for my Pipe-invective ; if it drive thee into a fume , from a fume to a flame , my heart is hoofed ; may thy gall with fume bee seared , thy guts with the flame be scorched , my fire-worke will bee secured , though with paper-squibs onely sconced . If Time should pray for thee , I thinke thou wouldst not thanke mee ; yet I will offer a few orisons up for thee , for I doubt thou canst offer none for thy selfe . Leave me that s●…uffing , and fall to sighing ; thou art neare thy grave , and then thou shalt bee smoakt for thy vaine time ▪ Receive my teares , as testimonies of my love ( for ill is that nature that sends them forth in hate : ) meane time , these succinct Cautions I dedicate , as remembrances to all the world ; that when Time shal surcease to bee , and shall leave them , Time-lesse Eternitie may afterwards crowne them . TIMES remembrances to the world . LIve in the world , as if thou meantst to leave it , being indifferent of loving it , and resolved to despise it . In honour , seeke it not ; for seldome is honour sought by deserts : if shee may by direct courses bee purchased , & without appearance of thine owne seeking , receive her : Gold should bee taken , if offered . In riches , bee not so prodigall , as thine owne expence may breed want ; or so miserable , as thou canst not use thine owne . In life , prepare for death : in time , for eternitie of time ; that when thy being is expired here , thou mayest live ever elsewhere . In eminent places , let not the object of Earth darken thine eye for Heaven : for Time had rather bee a poore sojournour twixt Earth and Heaven , than by being great on Earth , lose my portion of greatnesse in Heaven . In thy rising , looke to the staires of thine ascending : if the foundation be desert , thou mayest ( perhaps ) continue longer ; but if desertlesse high , I feare Ph●…tons pride will bee thy censure . Set an houre-glasse ever beside thee , and weepe at everie drop of sand that fals ; for everie drop of sand abridges of the number of thy dayes : wish not thine houre-glasse soone spent , unlesse thy fervencie in desire of dissolution , take thee from the thought of mortalitie , to the consideration of glorie . Happily are thy desires extended , if thus disposed ; and Time , which in thy happy expence of Time did love thee , shall in thy possession of Eternitie , leave thee . NEPENTHIACI Naenia : OR , MUSAEUS Elegie . Ista liquescens pluvia , lavet peccati diluvia . DRe●…ch thy drie soule in rivolets of teares ; Em●…athe thy panting heart in flouds of griefe ; Enhearse thy sable soule in lasting feares ; Enroule thy selfe amongst all mourners chiefe : Water thy bed with pe●…etentiall showers , And for wilde weeds bring forth delicious flowers . " For never did the Sun yet shine upon " That wretch , who sinned more than thou hast done . FINIS . In a little Tract , entitled Tobacco : published by especiall direction of the Author upon his death-bed , dedicated to Humphrey King , one well experienced in the use , benefit , and practice of that herbe , and printed for Will. Barlow ( with Tobacco Armes ) then keeping shop in Gracious street : wee have collected these observations . The divers●…ie of names given to this Herbe . THis Herbe with the French hath beene most known by the name of Nicotiana , from Mounsieur Nicot a Frenchman , Embassadour to the King of Portugall , who sent this herbe first into France . Others have called it , Queene mothers herbe ; for that when Mounsieur Nic●…t had sent it , commended to her , she first planted it . Others there want not , which call it Petum Masculine , though far different in qualitie and effect , from that the Portugals and Spanyards have called Petum Feminine . * Tobacco first sent from Florida to Portugall , by the testimony of Mounsicur Nicot , a serious and exact searcher of ancient Records . The Authors which have most amply writ of it . two French-men . Charles Stephen , Iohn Liebault , Aegidius Eurartus , and Monardes , a Spanyard . The effects or operations of it . MOunsieur Nico●… finding sundry soveraigne qualities in it , amongst other cures applide it to a Noli me tangere , and cur'd it . His Patient was Countesse of Ruffe , having her face perished with a wart . The like experiments were done by Iarnick●… Governour of Rochell ; reporting at a solemne feast , how by distilling this Tobacco , mixt with the juyce of another little herbe , casually found in the wood , he had cured one extremely pained with the Asthma . It hath healed these diseases ; the Wolfe , Canker , Kings Evill , all old sores , wounds , Tetters , broad biles , pricking of the Fish called Vives ( the nature of whose touch is to procure infinite bleeding , even to death : ) the Gout being rubbed in the infected place with oyle-olive , and afterwards by applying warme leaves of Tobacco , hath beene much allayed . It hath cleared the sight , and cured one long languishing in a consumption , which I could instance in a Lady of good account , at this day living . Aegidius Eurartus ▪ in his Discourse De herba Panac●…a , writeth , how a certaine woman had given her Cat a verie strong poyson ; when the poore Cat was in that taking , that she could not stand with dizinesse , and strived to voyd forth the poyson in vaine ; the woman remembring her selfe , found meanes to open her jawes , and making a little ball of bruized Tobacco , mingled with butter , to make it goe downe the better , thrust it into her mouth , and so swallowing it downe , within a short time shee cast up all the poyson , and so was saved . It will cure all pimples , carbuncles , and other red excrements , called Alebuttons . The Spanyards report , that the Indians , after their labour and travell , drinke unmeasurably Tobacco ; which not onely refresheth them , and takes away their wearinesse , but makes them apt and prompt to businesse . The description of it . THis herbe in forme much resembleth Consond●… . The figure or Proportion of it , you shall finde drawne in the same Tract . The maine stalke of Tobacco groweth upright , and big in proportion , his leaves are velveted , and are in growth bigger and larger at the stalke than towards the end of the leafe ; resembling the plaine forme , figure , or feature of any other leafe not ragged nor indented , save that you shall have some leaves broader and larger than both your hands , and in length ▪ as much as three hands breadth . The flower of the Tobacco is much like the flower of Niel ; sometimes yellow , and sometimes of a Carnation colour , and sometimes in forme like a Bell. And when it casteth the flower , it leaves the former proportion , & taketh the semblance of an Apple ; in which you may find the seeds inclosed very small , appearing not much unlike to Iusquiasme seeds , which are yellowish : but when they grow toward their full ripenesse , then they appeare more near to a blacke . The convenientst season for sowing it . FOr the time of sowing it in England ; I agree rather with Monardes than these two , who say it is best sowing it in the midst of Aprill ; but I would rather hold it better to sow it in March , for the same occasion that Monardes writeth : howbeit , Stephen and Liebault write , that the Spaniards and Indians sow it after harvest . The convenientst season for gathring it . LEo Suavius wils that we should gather the leaves in the moneth of Iuly ; and then bruise and distill them in a double Limbecke , with two Emissories or Spouts of glasse , and keepe this a yeere : for ( saith he ) this received to the quantity of an Ounce , for the increasing of health in a sicke or waterish stomacke , is most effectuall . The convenientst Soyle for increase of it . THe best place wherein it will most prosper , and be naturally planted in our countries , is , where the Sunne shineth most ; and if it be possible , against some wall , which may defend it from the North-wind , which is an infinite enemy to this herbe ; being so tender in stalke , nature and quality , as it may endure no distemper , nor extremity . It is hot and dry in the second degree ; and consequently of a purging quality ; but fit for persons of all degrees , upon necessity . FINIS . TIMES Sonnet . SWeet Youth , Smoake not thy time , Too precious to abuse ; Th' ast fitter feats to choose : What may redeeme that prime , Thy SMOAKING AGE doth loose ? Good Oldman , eye thy Glasse , See , how those Sands doe fall ! None can agraine recall : Old houres doe quickly passe , Shall SMOAKE consume them all ? Loves Lady , whom Sunne , Weather , Yea , the least airy touch , ( Complexion it is such ) May taint ; cinge not your feather , TOBACCO may doe much . Shunne SMOAKE , East , VVest , North , South , LOVES LADY , OLD MAN , YOUTH . CHAVCERS incensed Ghost . FRom the frequented Path where Mortals tread , Old-aged CHAVCER having long retir'd , Now to revisit Earth at last desir'd , Hath from the dead rais'd his impalled head , Of purpose to converse with humane seed , And taxe them too , for bringing him o' th Stage In writing that He knew not in his age . Las ; is it fit the stories of that Book , Couch'd and compil'd in such a various forme ; Which Art and Nature joyntly did adorne , On whose quaint Tales succeeding ages look , Should now lie stifled in the steems of Smoak , As if no Poets Genius could be ripe Without the influence of Pot and Pipe ? No , no , yee English Moo●…s , my Muse was fed With purer substance than your Indian weede ; My breathing Nosethrils were from Vapors freede , With Nectar and Ambrosia nourished , While Hospitality so flourished In Great mens Kitchins : where I now suppose , Lesse Smoake comes from their Chimneyes than their nos●… . But I heare some prepar'd to question mee , The reason why I am so freely bent In such sad straines to publish my complaint ; Or what strict Mamothrept that man should bee , Who h 'as done Ch●…ucer such an injurie ; Whose tongue , though weake , yet is his heart as strong , To call them to account that did him wrong . I 'le tell it yee , and must expect redresse ; Would any of you hold it not a blot To father such a Brat hee never got ? Or would he not ingenuously confesse , Hee 'd rather wish himselfe quite issuelesse ? Conceive this well ; for if it be a crime , As sure it is , such is the case of mine . Downe by a secret Vault as I descended , Pent in with darknesse save some little ray , Which by a private cranie made his way , By helpe whereof I saw what me offended , Yet found no meanes to have the fault amended . Fixt to a Post , ( such was poore Chaucers lot ) I found my name to that I never wrot . And what might be the Subject ? no relation Sad , solid , serious , morall , or divine , Which sorted with the humours of my time , But a late Negro's introduced fashion , Who brought his Drugs here to corrupt our Nation . 'Gainst which , because it 's used in excesse , My Muse must mount , that she may it suppresse . Now some may well object , as many will , This Taske addes rather glory to my name , Than any way seemes to impaire the same ; But I say no ; Chaucer would thinke it ill To plant Tobacco on Parnassus hill ; Sacred the Synod of the Muses bee , Nor can such W●…eds spring from Apollo's tree . Besides , what danger might Prescription bring ! For had the use of it been knowne to me , It might have pleaded well antiquitie ; But th' Poets of my time knew no such thing , How could they then of such a subject sing ? No ; th'age we liv'd was form'd of milder stuffe , Then to take ought , like Male contents , in snuffe . Pure are the Crystall streames of Hippocrene ; Choice the dimensions which her Bards expresse ; Cleare is their heart as th' Are which they professe ; How should they relish then ought that 's uncleane , Or waste their oyle about a Smoaky dreame ? Farre bee 't Minerva should consume her Taper In giving life or lustre to a Vapor . The * TALES I told , if morally applide , How light soe're , or wanton to the show , Yet they in very deed were nothing so ; For were the marke they aym'd at but descride , Even in these dayes they would be verifide ; And like Sybillas Oracles esteem'd , Worth worlds of wealth , how light soe're they seem'd ▪ Witnesse my Miller , and my Carpenter , The amorous stories of my Wife of Bath , Which such variety of humours hath ; My Priour , Manciple , and Almoner , My subtile Sumner , and the Messenger ; All which , though moulded in another age , Have rais'd new Subjects both for Presse and Stage . Yet note these times disrelishing my tongue , Whose Idioms-distaste by nicer men Hath made me mince it like a Citizen ! Which Chaucer holds a manifest wrong , To force him leave what he had us'd so long : Yea , he dislikes this polishing of Art , Which may refine the Core , but spoiles the heart . But yet in serious sadnesse I impute This to no fate or destiny of mine , But to the barraine Brain-wormes of this time ; Whose Muse lesse pregnant , present or acute , Affording nought that with the age may sute , Like to the truant Bee , or Lazie Drone , Robb●… other Bee-hives of their hony-combe . And which is worse , this Worke they make their owne , Which they have pruned , purged and refin'd , And aptly form'd it to the Authors mind ; When I 'm assured , if the truth were knowne , They reape the Crop which was by others sowne . Yea , these usurpers to that passe are brought , They 'l foyst in that wee neither said nor thought . This , This it was incens'd old ●…haucers Ghost , And caus'd him vent his passion in this sort , And for a while to leave th' ▪ Elysian Court , Where honest Authors are esteemed most ; But such as on the Deadmans Labours boast Excluded are , enjoyn'd by Fate to won Vpon the scorching Banks of Phlegeton . Yee then , whose measures merit well the Name And Title yee retaine , Poets , I meane , Bedew'd with influence from Hippocrene , As yee Professants seeme , so be the same , And with your owne Pennes eternize your fame ; Shun these Pipe-Pageants ; for there seldome come Tobacco-Factors to Elysium . FINIS . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A16679-e2940 The Apothecaries speech . Chap ▪ 3. Chap. 4. Vid Plin ▪ in Nat. Hist. Aelian . & ibid. Nihil quod natum est , errat . Agn●…sco ( inquit ) 〈◊〉 Ca●…thaginis . Thus still ( mee thinks ) I heare poore Time complaine , And chide her Brats , for being so prophane . TOBACCO . * The soveraigne qualitie of this herbe , may be gathered from the verie radicall derivative of it : drawne from the observance of a most judicious and accomplisht Knight , one , whose personall worth gives an ●…minent addition to his noble birth : For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Hebrew signifies ●…onum , and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek , Remedium ; implying , that it is a good remedie against any maladie . Thus have I prov'd TOBACCo good or ill ; Good , if rare taken ; Bad , if taken still . Notes for div A16679-e8130 * Whose pleasing Comments are shortly to bee published . A38822 ---- Panacea, or, The universal medicine being a discovery of the wonderfull vertues of tobacco taken in a pipe : with its operation and use both in physick and chyrurgery / by Dr Everard, &c. Everard, Giles. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A38822 of text R1871 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E3530). 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A38822 R1871 (Wing E3530). civilwar no Panacea; or The universal medicine, being a discovery of the wonderfull vertues of tobacco taken in a pipe, with its operation and use both Everard, Giles 1659 31702 201 30 0 0 0 0 73 D The rate of 73 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2003-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2003-11 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-12 Emma (Leeson) Huber Sampled and proofread 2003-12 Emma (Leeson) Huber Text and markup reviewed and edited 2004-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion PANACEA ; OR The Universal Medicine , BEING A DISCOVERY of the Wonderfull Vertues OF Tobacco Taken in a Pipe , WITH Its Operation and Use both in Physick and Chyrurgery . By Dr EVERARD , &c. LONDON , Printed for Simon Miller at the Star in St Pauls Church-yard , near the West-end , 1659. TO THE Right Worshipfull Sr Iames Drax , Alderman Maniford , M. Wainright , M. Ieffreys , M. Allen , M. Stacy , M. Ienkins , M. Pet , M. Newman , M. Phillips , M. Boggs , Capt. Fox , Capt. Price , Capt. Read , Capt. Pensax , Capt. Butler , Capt. Odiam . AND To all the worthy Merchants and Planters of Tobacco , for and in the WEST-INDIES , and AMERICA . Right Worshipfull , IT is well known , and confirmed by certain Experience , that by the great care , cost and charges of the Merchants ; and by the great industry and labour of the Planters of Tobacco in the West-Indies , multitudes of people that are under the present Government , are plentifully maintained , and very many of them get great estates for themselves and families , and the Customs of it are no small profit to the Commonwealth . I think there is no one kind of forreign Commodities that yeelds greater advantage to the publick ; and there is scarce any to be compared with it . Wherefore I dedicate this short History of Tobacco unto you , that are the Merchants and Factors in it , wherein you may at your leisure observe some thing that may conduce to your further content , if you please but to take notice of the great virtues it hath both in Physick and Chyrurgery . But if we reflect upon our Fore-fathers , and that within the time of less than one hundred years , before the use of Tobacco came to be known amongst us , ( For Captain Richard Grenfield , and Sr Francis Drake were the first Planters of it here , and not Sr Walter Raleigh , which is the common errour ) we cannot but wonder how they did to subsist without it ; For were the planting and traffick of Tobacco now hindred , millions of the Nation , in all probability must perish for want of food , their whole livelihood almost depending upon it . So many Druggists , Grocers , Tobacco-shops , Taverns , Inns , Ale-houses , Victuallers , Carriers , Cutters and Dryers of Tobacco , Pipe-makers , and the like , that deal in it , will prove no less . The necessity of Tobacco , and maintaining the Plantations of it , is almost as great , if we do but consider who they are that buy it only for their own drinking , and cannot abstain from it . Sea-men will be supplied with it for their long voyages : Souldiers cannot want it when they keep guards all night , or are upon other hard duties in cold and tempestuous weather : Farmers , Plough-men , Porters , and almost all labouring men plead for it , saying , they find great refreshment by it , and very many would as soon part with their necessary food , as they would be totally deprived of the use of Tobacco . The Nobility and Gentry , who find no fault with it , but that it is too common amongst the Vulgar , do ordinarily make it the complement of all their entertainment , and oft-times all their entertainment besides is but a complement . Scholars use it much , and many grave and great men take Tobacco to make them more serviceable in their callings . Tobacco is grown to be not only the Physick , but even the meat and drink of many men , women and children . In a word , it hath prevail'd so far , that there is no living without it ; that notwithstanding the vast Plantations of it in the West-Indies , all our corn-fields would soon be turned to gardens of Tobacco , were not men restrain'd from it by the Civil Magistrate . It is like Elias Cloud , which was no bigger at first than a mans hand , that hath suddenly covered the face of the earth : The Low-countreys , Germany , Poland , Arabia , Persia Turky , almost all Countreys drive a Trade of it ; and there is no commodity that hath advanced so many from small fortunes to gain great estates in the world . Don Ulafc● of Amsterdam , who , as I am told , never knew his own name nor parentage , by selling Tobacco , hangs out the sign of Don de Velasco , under whom he was once a poor souldier , and is called now by his Generals name . But though they that traffick in it seldom miscarry , yet others by the intemperate taking of it , have somtimes brought themselves and great estates to ruine by it , in whom this Martial Plant hath occasioned more diseases of the mind , than it can cure diseases of the body , though it be of very great use in Physick . I confess that Tobacco is a plant of Gods making , and it hath many admirable faculties in it , and the fault is not in the leaf , though it be sophisticated by some , and inordinately abused by others ; yet there is some reason to suspect , that there hath been much of the cunning of the Devil , and of mans perverse understanding imployed in the large propagation of it , because that Christians , Iews , Turks and Infidels , almost all mankind , who are naturally so averse from all that is good , and prone to nothing but mischief , are so much delighted with it . But in my opinion , the providence God intended by discovering this herb to Christians amongst the Indians , that by their daily commerce , the Gospel of Iesus Christ should be made known to those Heathen people , who sit in darkness and the shadow of death . The Devil was much afraid of it , as I was enformed by one born in England of Spanish parentage . For when the Christians came first among the Indians , and began to convert them to the Christian Faith , ( as there appeared some symptoms of zeal at the beginning , though it grew soon cold at the sight of gain ) the Devil threatned to revenge himself on the Christians , by teaching them to take Tobacco , which having once tasted they should never be able to refrain from it . We see indeed that Christians are so much affected with it , that they cannot forbear it ; but the Devil seems to be more afraid than hurt , to think that Christians now adayes are so zealous of Gods glory , as to make it their aim to withdraw those barbarous people from his service ; forasmuch as I can understand they have made this the least part of their imployment , not regarding the purpose of God , nor his dispensations for the saving of mens souls , who deseended from Adam as well as themselves , and may have a part in the righteousness of Christ as well as they ; who had they but a glimpse of that light Christians have , would doubtlesse bring forth better fruits than Christians do , who by their jarring and differences one with another , and by minding so much their own profit and advantage , have given great cause to those ignorant people to blaspheme the name of God , and to abhor the Sacrifices of the Lord . Insomuch that when they were told that the Spaniards went to Heaven , they said , They would go to Hell , that they might not be where those wicked Sp●niards were . So that it is likely that God seeing Christians now unworthy of his service , hath reserved the conversion of that people , untill such time as Christians shall be more charitable and more composed in love and unity amongst themselves . I must not tire your patience by writing a Volume upon this subject , left the portal prove too great for the house . I shall onely speak something more concerning Tobacco . And First , It is no great friend to Physicians , though it be a physical plant ; for the very smoke of it is held to be a great Antidote against all venome and pestilential diseases . It is also singular in Clysters against the wind-Cholick , and therefore King Iames merrily said , That was the way to take it : But the Duke of Savoy who was so cured by it was of another mind . The Irish they are altogether for snuff Tobacco to purge their brains . The Indians swallow down the smoke against weariness , till they fall into an Extasie . The upper Scout of Amsterdam , as some report , chews it against all diseases , and likes it better than Partridge or Pheasant . But the ordinary way to suck it from a pipe , and puff it out again , is held the best way to cure Rheums and disti●lations from the head . It works such contrary effects , that Philosophers contend almost about it , as much as Chymists do concerning Mercury : they cannot certainly conclude , whether it be hot and dry , or cold and moist , for it quencheth thirst , and yet is the fittest shoing-horn to draw down drink , and to make men dry ; it abates hunger , yet is excellent to provoke a mans appetite to meat : It is a fit companion for mirth or melancholy ; it will make one sleep , who wants rest ; yet will it keep a Scholar waking in his study , and a souldier upon his guard . It puts Physicians to a non-plus , for it agrees with all ages , sexes and tempers . D. Venner in his Via recta ad vitam longam , allows any man , be he Cholerick , Phlegmatique , Sanguine or Melancholique , six pipes a day . Wherefore some object , That it is a vain thing . I answer with Solomon , so are all things else , Vanity of vanities , all is vanity . Yet I should counsel no man to take it , who doth not stand in need of it ; and those that do , to use it with that moderation as is required in the use of all other things . When thou hast found honey eat not too muah of it ; Ubi mel , ibi fel , where honey is , there is gall ; and in every thing in this world there is something to be avoided . Nature her self speaks the same to us with a loud voice in this Tobacco plant as much as in any thing in the world . For those two groundleaves that grow upon it , which the Spaniards call Bascheros must be cut off , and thrown away , they smell and taste so unpleasantly , that should they be mingled with the rest , they would spoil all . As therefore the Planters are very carefull to cast these leaves away , so should Christians be in the use of all temporal things , to cast away all earthly thoughts and desires that are too near the ground , all that is vicious and offensive to God or man , that all their thoughts , words and deeds may be sweet sented in the nostrils of God , that they may be at length transplanted from their uncertain Plantations here on earth to an everlasting Plantation in Heaven , which is the prayer of him for your Worships , and for all the worthy Merchants and Planters of this Nation , who is Your Worships in all Christian duty I. R. THE PREFACE . IT is an Axiome of Aristotle in the first Chapter , Analyt . Post . All kind of Learning , and all Discipline proceeds from some precedent knowledge . I suppose that this Axiome belongs to all teaching whatsoever , that is undertaken concerning any matter according to the Rules of Reason , if it be Methodicall and handsome : and if the Philosopher doth not affirm the same , I am certain he doth not contradict it . Wherefore because I am minded to discourse of Tobacco by rule perfectly , I am bound to take great care , that I do it in a fit Method , as I ought to do ; and this I shall performe if I do it orderly , as is observed almost by all Authours in almost every matter propounded . First , Therefore I shall briefly Treat of the Etymologie , or Reason of the Name of this Universall Remedy . Secondly , I shall lay down the differences of it . Thirdly , I shall shew the Temp●rament . Fourthly , I shall teach the time when it must be Sowed , and when gathered . Fiftly , I shall enquire in what place it prospers best . Sixtly , I shall in brief set down the way to prepare the Leaves , which few Men know . Seventhly and Lastly , I shall search into the singular forces of it , and the known proved effects , and shall speak of all V●guents made with Tobacco , Plaisters , Balsams , Liniments , Cerats , Anodyus , &c. I shall discover how to make these to help the Apothecaries , and studious Men , that every one may be able to provide them himself , and when need is he may bring them out as from a store-house of his own . PANACEA , Or The Universall Medicine ; Being a Discourse and Discription of TOBACCO , With its Preparation and Use . The Reason of the Names . SInce that Galen . 1. de Meth. c. 2. &c. 3. & . lib. 1 ad Thrasybul , faith ; That to undertake to know a thing , without the knowing of the explication of the Name , is but to labour in vain : It is my part to Discourse first of the Names of this great Panac●● , and of their first Originals , and who they were that first taught us the use of it , which I shall exactly examine . Tobacco took the Name from the Name of that Country which is a Province in new Spain , in the WeIndies , or the new World , about Forty foure Miles above Mexico , the Metropolis of Hispaniola . In this lay the Province Tobacco which was under subjection to the government of Iucatan , ( the Spaniards afterward called it the Province of the Blessed Victorious Virgin , because in the Year , 1519. Ferdinand Cortesius , Founder of new Spain , won a great victory in that place ) here was this Noble Plant first found , that Cures almost all Diseases , and from thence afterwards it borrowed the Name . Those of Pern call it Petum , so do almost all the people that live toward the Antartick-Pole , or Picielt , as Monardis holds , or Perebecenuc , as Oviedus will have it ( yet this is not the proper name for Tobacco , but is ascribed to some other Indian Plant by Authours , and it differs from Tobacco , as it appears to me . Vulgarly it is called Nicotiana , or Nicosiana , from D. Iohannes Nicotius of Nismes , who was Counseller to Francis the second King of France , and Master of requests afterwards , and of petitions in the Court , who first discovered this Herb to France , ( as that most famous Knight and Sea Admirall . Sr Francis Drake , about the Year 1586. made it known in England ) for whose sake it ought to be gratefully received in Memory of him by all Men , unto whomsoever the same of this healing Plant shall be brought . This D. Nicotius , when in the Year 1560. he was sent by his King to be Embassadour in Portugal . It happened on a day that he went to view a Prison , or rather a work house for such as are punished at Lisbon , where at that time the Kings Court was . There a certain Noble Dutch - Man who was the chiefest keeper of the Kings Archives , presented him with this Plant , as being a stranger and newly brought thither from the Island Florida ; The Embassadour gladly received the Plant , and being rare and come from beyond the Seas , and which he had never seen before he takes , great care to have it planted in his Garden , for he understood before by hear say , of the great Vertues it had to cure Wounds and Ulcers , it having been often used with happy success . Wherefore the Fame of this Herb spread over all Portugall , and the Spaniards , and Portugals speak much in praise of it , and it began to be called the Embassadours Herb. Not long after he returning for France , preserved some of the Seed of it to Catharina de Medicis , Queen of France ; Shee understanding that this Plant was excellent for curing malignant Ulcers and Putrified Sores , and admiring at it , as being a new Universall Remedy , gave it her Name ; and after that , all France over , it was called the Queens Herb , and Catharinaria , and Medicea . The Virginians call it Vppowoc , others call it the great Priors Herb , because he sometimes Sayling from France to Portugall , and being entertained at Lisborn , by D. Nicotius , had many of these Plants bestowed upon him , which he transplanted and made th : ● to grow in their Gardens . Most Inhabitants of Hispaniola , call it Cozolba . The Lombards call it Tornabon● , because it was still brought into Italy , by meanes of the Nephew of Alphansus , Tornabonius , Bishop of Burg. who was also Bishop there himself , but at that time Embassadour with the French King . By Schwenckfeldius , and others that spake highly of the Vertues of it , it is called the Sacred Plant ; Camerarius calls it the Vulnerary Indian Plant ; others call it Piperina : but upon what reason I know not . They of Lions call it the Antarctick Bugloss , by Renealmus , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} . Dodonaus a most famous Writer upon Plants , gives it the name of Henbane of Peru , but falsly , as I shall shew in its place . Cordus gave this name not to Tobacco , but to Strammonia . The Reverend Cardinall of S. Cruce , when he was sent from Rome the Popes-Nuntio into Portugall , brought it first from thence to Rome , and therefore there they called it the Herb of S. Cruce . Some call it Sa●a Sancta , not without a Catalogue of the great praises of it , fetcht from evident experience . The Dutch's and English call it Taback . The Germans name it Heylig Wundkrat , Indianisch Wundtkraut , Indianissche Beinwelle . Theuet the French Cosmographer , ( who was in that Expedition , which Anno. 1555. Nicolaus Durandus Villagagnonus made to Brasil ) in his Book call'd Antarctick France , names it Angoulmoisine , and boasts that he was the finder , and the first man that brought this Seed into France . I know not whether he spake the truth ; It seems to me to be an old Wives story . Fabius Columna mentions Arabian Tobacco different from ours ; which we do not know . Read what the most Learned Columna hath written in his {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of Plants that are not well known . p. 142. There are many uncertainties in the writings of the Arabians , for that Nation hath but a few things of its own , and commonly the Arabian Authors have not well set things together , because they understood not rightly the Writings of the Greeks . Also the most famous Herbarist , D. Guilandinus , in his conjecturall synonimas of Plants , calls this Plant Onosmyos of Aegineta . The Differences . WE have observed three sorts of Tobacco , the greater with broad Leaves , the greater with narrow Leaves ; and the smaller Tobacco . The first Kinde . THe broader Leafe large Tobacco , hath a thicker stalk , and sends forth shoots from the Roots , that are wooddy , and are fortified by many small Fibras , they are White , bu● inwardly Yellow and bitter , the Stalk is as thick as a staffe , and sometimes grows three Cubits high ; it is green and hath a thin down over it , it is Unctuous especially when it is grown up , and is full of a White Pith , and hath many Leaves ; this is Fenced about from a broad Basis of the windings of the stalk , with Leaves resembling great Comfrey , but they are bigger , and about the middle more large , and as it were branched or Gibbous , and by degrees they grow to be very sharp pointed , they shine with a watry green , having no pleasant smell ; they are full of juyce , and are smeered over almost with a clammy Humour , so that it will stop small Creatures which sit upon them ; they tast sharp with some clamminess ; Amongst the frequent Branches of the Leaves , the Flowers come forth single out of the indented Leafy cups , standing severall upon a firme stalk , and from a narrow Basis , towards the upper part they are by degrees dilated as it were into a bordered Pentagon , resembling a Trumper , being White and pale Red , ( which is called Carnation Colour ) they Blush ; In the middle whereof are five threds that compass about the stalk , that is of a Pale Green , and sticking forth , when these decay , there follow the hollow long Cups , that something end in a point at the top , that are full of very small duskish or reddish black , but at first with green round seeds . The Herbalists vulgarly call this the Male Tobacco . Some think this is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , Dioscorides speaks of ; but I know not how those words can concern Tobacco . If conjecture may serve , that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} seems to be great Comfrey from the likeness of it , as the famous and learned D. Bauhinus observes in his Synonim●'s , wherewith he adorns Matthiolus . The second Kind . GReat Tobacco with narrow leaves hath woody stalks , cut in many jags , and hairy , with infinite fibras ; the stalks are about a foot and half , plaited , green , full of branches , to which by a small stalk are fastned leaves like to Nightshade , which is called Bella Donna , yet somewhat larger and greener , downy , thick , full of juice ; the flowers ou the tops of the stalks and branches are purple colour , and represent a round narrow Cup toward the basis , and are of a pale green . The husks succeed the flowers , and are rather long than round , and at the top they have a long furrow , in the middle whereof there comes forth a thick little point , but very short and red . From the extream part of each furrow there is drawn a trench to the basis , which is apparent in a yellow circle . The seed contained in it is small and yellow . Aegidius Everardus saith , That this kind often springs from the seed of Male Tobacco . For ( saith he ) if any of the grain of Male Tobacco fall to the ground , when it swels with seed , namely , to the ground , where Tobacco grew before ; this narrow leav'd Tobacco will doubtless grow up there the next year , and this is called Female Tobacco . Also if you sow the seed of Male or large leaved Tobacco in ground not hot enough , or which is barren , it will produce the Female , for the Male , in such abundance , that you will hardly get it out again , but it will yearly spring of it self . Renealmus cals this sort {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , because the leaves are born up by a small stalk , which the Greeks call {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} . Pennius cals it , Nicotiana minor . Lobelius , Tobacum minus ; Herba Sana sancta minor . The French call it , Nicotiane Petite . The Dutch , Kleyne Taback . The Germans , Schmalblaterch , Indianisch Wundtkran● . The third Kind . THe third fort , called the lesser Tobacco , is but a foot and half high , and farre lower than the former . The root is white , going deep downwards , the length of a span , as thick as ones finger , and is much set about with leaves on the sides . The stalk is round , fat , with fine down upon it , of a pale green , upon which the leaves are green , somewhat round , fat , full of juyce , somewhat hairy , not unlike to mad Nightshade , but they are greater and more white . The flowers are of a yellow pale colour , standing in dented leafie cups , farre smaller than those of great Tobacco , they are hollow , and are unfolded into five blunt once divided edges , and when these fall , there remains roundish heads , that are full of pale wan seeds , like to the small ones of the former Tobacco , but they are bigger and round . Bauhinus cals this kind yellow Henbane . Matthiolus cals it , the third sort of Henbane . At Lions they call it , black Henbane . Dodoneus will have it yellow Henbane ; so will Lonicerus . Gesner and Camerarius , Tabernomtanus , cals it Henbane of Peru. Gesner cals it Priapaeja of the Garden , and Caesalpinus a kind of Tornabona . The Neotericks call it smaller Tobacco like Henbane ; and at Lyons the lesser Tobacco . The Germans name it Wundbilsam , gelb Wundtkraut . Lobelius cals it a doubtfull kind of yellow Henbane , with leaves of Nightshade . But I with the most learned Herbalist Dalechampius , do not think this herb can be referred to Henbane , for their faculties are quite contrary , for the seed of this tasts sharp ; as also the leaves , if you chew them they are a long time of a hot tast in your mouth , and it cannot be extinguished , but in long time ; and this is a great argument of heat . Wherefore the famous Donanaeus did not well to call it Henbane of Peru , nor any of the rest , for it cannot be referred to any kind of it , for the leaves are notably acrimonious , which argues a hot and no cold temperament , like to Henbane . Noble Clusius cals this the fourth kind of Tobacco . The Temperament . VVHat concerns the faculties of the Male Tobacco ( for in this Discourse I chiefly treat of that ) there is great dissention amongst learned men . Monardes holds it to be hot and dry in the second degree , and moderate in the rest ; and Dalechampius holds the same . Caesalpinus faith , it is hot in the first , and dry in the third degree . Edward Done an English Writer , holds it to be hot and dry almost in the third degree . Others deny it to be hot , but say it is extream cold , because the smoke troubles the mind , and brings a man almost into an Extasis ; and therefore they referre it to some kind of Henbane , as I gave notice of before . Bauhinus he sayes as much , moved thereto by its stupefying quality , and likeness of the forme that it hath with Henbane . Mercatus saith , it is extream hot . Iacobus Gohorius dares not give his opinion , but puts it off to some other time . Lobelius thinks it is hot intensly in the second degree ; and he answers Dodonaeus , that it bites in taste , and is hot in the mouth ; yet Dodonaeus afterwards changed his opinion . I with Renealmus say , that the green leaves are hot and dry in the second degree ( which temperament the Sunne gives to them , as it doth to the root and stalk by its heat , and the Moon gives them their color ) but when they are dried , they are hot and dry in the end of the third degree . Tobacco is acrimonious , and causeth thirst , troubles the mind , makes the head heavy , which could not be , unless some hot vapour flew up , and fill'd the brain . They do but sport , that say it is cold , for it hath all symptoms of heat . The Time . IT is sowed in the Island Hispaniola , as also in other hot clymates about Autumn , where almost all the year long it brings leaves , flowers and buds . It will grow with us , if continual care be to help it . It is not sowed with us before the warm Spring , that is , about the Ides or Nones of April , as the weather is hot ; for it is chill , and at the first fall of the leaf or cold weather it fades , wherefore it must be well fenced from cold . Noble Clusius thinks it should be sowed in August or September , because the small seed lieth very long under ground before it spring forth , and being sowed in March , or in the Spring , in August it will bring flowers , and now and then seed . But we find by experience , that the seed of Tobacco sowed in April , in our Countrey , springs forth more happily and sooner , and the stalks are more fruitfull and longer , and the leaves are farre greater and fatt●● , than when the seed is sowed in September . The Plant is gathered , when the Sunne is in the 18 , 19. and 20. degree of Leo . Being once planted , when the seed comes to be ripe , it will sow it self plentifully of its own accord in many Gardens and Fields , whether it is carried by force of winds . It is sowed in the increase of the Moon , and cut when the Moon decreaseth . The seed is dedicated to Aquarius and Mars , being very hot , which quality it hath from Mars . In Winter it can hardly be kept but in pots or woodden chests , or little baskets made with osiers , and that in Panteries , and places under ground , or hot houses , or stowes , and so it may be preserved without hurt for three or four years . Caesalpinus would also have the stalks planted , yet Basilius Beflerus Eistettensis saith , he tried that in his Garden , but it proved in vain . The Place . IT loves a fat and pleasant soyl , the Bed to be plain , smooth , black , well dressed ; it loves not sandy nor clay ground , nor doth it delight in gravel ; wherefore it is no small charge , if every other year it be dunged with Oxe dung ; some fift ashes very fine and mingle them , but that comes forth very slowly , and makes it long before it come to perfection . It wonderfully desires water , and therefore it must be watered , especially in such dayes as are very fair when there fals no rain . Let the Lands upon which you sow it be long , and about three foot broad , that by the furrows between he may pass on both sides , that must pull or cut off the superfluous leaves , ( for otherwise these will suck to themselves the force and nutriment of the greater leaves ) dig the earth with your finger , or a little stick , and make a hole in it , and put into it ten or twelve grains , and put a piece of Oxe dung both at the botom and top of them . Do not put fewer seeds into one hole , for they are so small , that they would be choaked and lost . It hates cold exceedingly ( as I told you ; ) and therefore you must raise a wall with clay or stone upon the North side of it , that it may lie open to the S●uth Sunne , that so in Winter it may receive some warmth , for then it must be ●enced and covered with mats and straw . The Preparation of the Leaves . IT may at first be sowed in an open field , and when it is grown forth to the height of the leaves or tender branches of Col●worts , it may be transplanted , and be set apart in the f●resaid long bed● , three foot broad , and they must be planted in that order , that every plant may stand three or four foot off from another , least when the plants grow big , the greater leaves should touch and hurt one the other , and this would prove to be very great damage . B●t when they are growne so great that the flowers begin to peep forth , presently before the flowers open themselves , you shall cut away all the young shoots and tops , with all the small twigs on the sides , and the lesser leaves that use to grow between the rest . For Tobacco must not bring flowers or seeds , if you intend to preserve the force of it entire . Moreover at the lower end of the stalk of it there are commonly two leaves found ( the Spaniards call them Bascher●s ) which take away the pleasant taste of Tobacco , if they be mingled with the others . You shall therefore be sure to cut off these with the rest that are superfluous , and do not use them in any use with the rest ( for they tast ill , and do not smell well ) and leave but ten or twelve g●eat leaves upon the stalk commonly , when the foresaid smalleaves with the shoots on the top , and the two lowest , and such as are to be rejected , are cut off But have an esp●cial care that the Tobacco you desire to sell into these Germane Countreys , England , or France , you suffer it not to runne to flower , for all the forces of it will be lost when it flowers . Moreover you shall mingle and bruise together the foresaid smaller leaves cut off with the small sprouts and buds of the flowers , ( utterly rejecting those two greater leaves at the bottom called Boscheros , as being good for nothing , and unprofitable ) and having pressed forth the juice , you shall boyl it in the best sweet strong Spanish Malago wine ( others adde to it Dants Ale , and you shall skim it well , and when it is well purified , you shall put in good store of salt , that the juyce may be as salt as Sea water , then cast in a good quantity of Anni-seed , and Ginger beaten into very small pouder , and let it boyl one hour longer , then let it stand , that the dregs may settle to the bottom , and pour off all that is clear . You must keep this juyce thus boyled ( the Spanis● call it Caldo ) in a vessel close stopt , that the forces may be kept within , untill such time as the greater leaves , which you lef● upon the stalk ( for in these resides all the strength of the plant ) are grown full ripe , which when they are come to , you shall presently cut them off next to the stalk ; and you shall se● the foresaid juyce or Caldo upon the fire , and boyl it almost ( yet it must not boyl , for should it boyl , the strength of it would flie away to nothing ) and you must dip all the said leaves in that juyce severally . But if it be too troublesome to dip all the leaves in one by one , you must spread a woollen cloth on the ground upon a floor , or in a barn , or place where the wind hath no power , though it be in the open air ; and upon this y on shall lay a row of leaves , as close as to touch one the other , and upon this rank of leaves you shall lay another rank of leaves in the same order , yet not wet in the foresaid juyce ; and taking into your hands a great watering vessel , which you must dip into the said juyce or Caldo , you shall water by sprinkling all the foresaid leaves , and those being watered , you shall lay upon them a third and fourth rank , and so forward a fifth rank , and upon that a sixth of new leaves , sprinkling all the rows with the foresaid Ewer , or with a brush , still observing the same order , untill such time as the leaves thus disposed in order , rise to be a foot and half high . Then you must cover the leaves , yet hot with the liquor , newly sprinkled upon them , with other woollen clothes , that all the rows of the leaves may hold their former ●eat and lie to ferment . But if that heat or fermentation cannot be procured by those woollen clothes covering the leaves , you may lay Horse dung upon those clothes , to raise the heat , to cherish the leaves , and make them stand in a constant fermentation . But that they may not grow over hot , you must often look upon the leaves , untill they change colour And if by the heat they begin to look any whit red , and to appear so ( which may be seen , if the leaves be held against the light ) it is time to uncover the leaves , and to take the coverings away ; for being too much heated , they would grow black , which is a sign of burning , and of corruption , and there must be principal care taken that that befall not , for this is the chiefest thing to be ob●erved . Tobacco being thus warmed and fermented , the foresaid leaves must be hanged up with small packthreds , thrusting the needle through the greater nerve of the leaves , that is on the backside , and so they must be hanged up in a windy place , but not very high , where the Sunne shines ; for by the Sunnes heat all their forces would vanish . When the wind hath dried them enough , they must be bound in bundles , binding them with cords as hard as you can , so that each bundle must be as great about in the circumference of it , as a great Spanish Daller ; but above all , take care that th●y be most closely bound together . The leaves of Tobacco thus prepared , must be diligently and closely pack'd in vessels , thrusting them in as much as you can . And by this preparing and preserving of Tobacco , it will have excellent force and vertue . Note ( in Spanish or Malago wine ) This way of preparation is of later time , and invented by the Spaniards for the use of themselves and strangers . For it is probable that the Indians , that are the Inhabitants ( untill such time as wine was brought unto them from other parts beyond the Seas ) used wine of Dates , or of Coccos , or some other liquour , ( not to say piss , which is reported of them to their disgrace ) to prepare this juyce or Caldo : also the use of Aniseeds is from the Spaniard . To stand constantly to ferment ) we say Broyen , This signifies a moderate heat , next to strong heat , yet ●ot come so farre as to burne , but onely to foster and ferment . Such a heat Depilatories bring to the parts , and Birds to their egges , when they sit to hatch their young . The Aegyptians produce such a heat in their Ovens , when they by Art hatch abundance of Hen Egges , as Bellonius observes . Some despise the use of T●bacco that grows with us , yet Experience teacheth us that our green Leaves will cure Wounds , Vlcers , and other Diseases , sooner and more certainly , than the dried Leaves brought from the Indies ; It is cr●dible that those dried Leaves coming so farre , have lost great part of their strength oft-times . Others there are that maintain that our Tobacco Leaves dried and prepared after the Indian manner , are more effectuall here , than the Indian Tobbacco , because that our Leaves be they what they will , agree better with our temper , and we can have the choice of the fresh Leaves better than of those that are brought to us from other parts , whereof the greatest part is to be suspected , as being most frequently Sophisticated , ( Agrippa lib. de Vaintate Scient. c. 84 ) saith , Adulterated , or such as are to be rejected , or are Suffocated in the Ship in the Passage , or Sobbed in the water , or corrupted , with age , or not gathered in fit time and place , whereby there may be danger . The same Author saith well , it is folly to fetch out of India what we have plenty at home , not being contented with our own Land or Sea , prefering Forrain Commodities before those of our own Country , things costly before those that are cheap , and things hard to come by , before such as are easie , desiring to fetch them from the Worlds end , &c. At this day in Zeland there is a Merchant that soweth yearly about five Acres of ground with Tobacco Seed with great cost , and the Plants that grow he dresseth after the Indian manner , he drieth and prepareth the Leaves as the Indians do , and he sels them ●very where , which hitherto hath brought him ●● small profit . And now almost ten years , the use of this Tobacco hath so prevailed here , that men do not much care for Virginy Tobacco , or what comes from other Countries . The Vertues : THe Spaniards have learned that Tobacco is an enemy to the most deadly Poyson that the Cannibals were wont to dip their Arrows and Darts in . It happened that some Cannibals Sailed in their boats to St Iohns Port , to shoot all the Indians and Spaniards they could find and kill them with their Arrows , when they were Arrived they wounded some Indians and Spaniards , and some they killed . These wanting Sublimate ( which they were wont to strew upon their Wounds in such Cases ) they were taught by an Indian to annoynt their Wounds with the juyce of Tobacco pressed forth , and to lay a bruised Lease upon them : The pains presently ceased , and all those Symptoms which use to attend such Wounds , the Poyson was quickly conquered , and the Wounds were cured . It chiefly opposeth Hellebore ; the King of Spain would needs try this , and commanded a Huntsman to wound a Dog in the throat , to strew Hellebore into it , and after that to put in plenty of the juyce of Tobacco , and lay on the bruised Leaves ; this was done presently , and the experiment was made , the Wound being bound up , in a very short time the Dog was recovered , which made them all to wonder at it . I shall here adde what Aedigius Everhardus , reports concerning his Panacaea ; It fell out that at Antwerp one gave a Gentle Womans Cat that was somewhat fierce Poyson to drink ; The Cat run madding up and down , trying but in vain to vomit up the Venome . The Gentle Woman thought of a way how to wrap up a Leafe to Tobacco bruised in butter , and to thrust that down the Cats throat , this was done , and the Cat soon cast up the Poyson and escaped . It is worth observing what the most Learned Monardes Writes , that the Indians do stop hunger and thirst by the use of Tobacco in this fashion . They burn some shels of shell Fish of the Rivers , and then break them like Lime , they take as much Tobacco Leaves as of this Lime , and they chew them untill they come into one Lump , & of this they make Trochesks greater than Peas , and they dry them in the shade , and keep them for their use , when they journey in desart places where they cannot easily come by Meat or drink , they put one of these Pellets betwixt their lips and lower teeth , and they suck it , and they swallow down the moisture that comes from it instead of meat and drink , when that is spent they take another . This way they will live without Meat or Drink for three or four daies , and be never weary or lose any strength ; for by continuall chewing of these Pellets they draw Flegmatique Humours from their Brains , which their stomach digests into nutriment for want of better food . Pliny , l. 7. c. 2. Reports that at the furthest part of the Indies Eastward , toward the Fountaine of Ganges , there are men called Astomi , that want mouths , and live only by the Aire , and sweet smels they draw in by their Nostrils ; they have neither Meat nor Drink , but they live only by the sweet and fragrant sents of Roots , Flowers , and wilde Apples : which could not be unless they were truly nourished : for life and nourishment are almost all one . Iohannes Alexandrinus opening that place of Hippocrates sexto Epidemiorum , saith , that Democritus the Abderite a Philosopher ( when the Feasts of Ceres was nigh , being requ●sted that he would not pollute his house ) lived onely with the vapour and sent of Honey for four daies . This is the opinion of some men , from whom he relates it , but others say it was done by the smell of new bread hot from the Oven , Oribasius , 1. Aphor. Com. 12. mentions the same thing , saying , The Philosopher relates that one Man lived forty daies by the sent of Honey . But h●re is a most notable mistake to put 40 for 4. but by the figures it might be quickly overslipt . Also we read in the Book that hath that Title , who ever was the Authour , that Aristotle lived for sometime only by the smell of an Apple . Some there are that dip hot bread in good Wine and apply it to the Nostrils of sick people ; and if we apply it likewise to the Temples and sides , it will very much restore strength . Also Conciliator Aponensis reports that he used to restore his life , when he was dying , with Safron and Cas●oreum bruised and mingled together with Wine , and that he gave that composition to old people , and it did them as much good by smelling to it , as by drinking it . But these are no wonders , for as by Meat and Drink , whatsoever of the solid substance is wasted , is repaired again , so by Ayre and smoke is regain'd what is spent of aeriall , and moist substance . If therefore Ayre and smoake only , ( which is nothing else than a thin substance and aeriall quality ) do nourish , ( as Galen teacheth elegantly , l. 1. de Sanitat . tuend. c. 2. ) much more will an Odoriferous quality perform this , when it is mixed with a quality that is friendly to nature . Also Mathi●lus after Theophrastus reports that the Scythians will be content with Licoris only for ten or twenty daies , and desire no other Meat or drink . Object . 1. Truly for the Negative part very ma●y Arguments may be brought , as that of Aristotle , 2. de Anima , c. 3. Where he saith , that touching is the sense of Nutriment , as if he had said , that al●ment , as it is t●sted , is the Object of touching , for tasting is a kinde of touching , wherefore smoke being not to be touched cannot nourish . Object . 2. Again , Nothing can give nourishment to a body , unless it first concocted in the Stomach , Liver , and Spleen ( as Galen saith , 1. de temper . c. 1. ) Object 3. The same is the matter of Nutrition and Generation of the same , ( Galen 1. de sem c. 16. ) wherefore Man being not Born of Smoke , cannot be fed by smoke . Many more Arguments may be urged . Answ. We answer that smoke may be understood two waies . First , Formally , and then it is an insensible quality different from the first qualities , yet resulting from the actions of them . Secondly , Materially , that is for the substance it is inherent in , and that is Tobacco here . Now this is hot and dry , to be considered of for its heat and thin substance : I say then that an Aromaticall sweet smell doth refresh the forces , and strengtheneth the brain , heart and stomach , for it is a most welcome quality to these parts , and therefore it preserves their temperament and substance ; and the vitall and animall sprits are renewed and made most fit for natures operations , by a smoke joyned with a sweet sent , and sucked in with that Aromaticall Vapour . Apposition and Fasting together , must go before Nutrition , and this fume seems to be to thin and simpler than that we can imagine it can glew and fasten anywhere : therefore it cannot be said to be the matter of nourishment . Secondly , Water cannot nourish at all , ( 4. de usu part . and 3. acut . Com. 17. ) Therefore smoke that is more thin and unmixed cannot nourish , and Galen saith 10 Me●h 2.9 . That the Liver receives no profit by the Ayre that is drawn in , and of things we Eat and Drink , the Liver hath less profit than the stomach ; yet it receiveth some benefit as it is manifest ; and that reason is confirmed by Galen's Doctrine , 3. de usu . part . c. 1. and often elsewhere , when he faith , That the common , and greatest , and first way of nourishment is by the Mouth , and from thence the food is carried to the Stomach , as to the common Store-house for all the parts , and set in the middle of the living Creature , where being once concocted it penetrateth to the liver to be turned into Blood , whereby all the parts are fed ; but this smoke is not suckt in by the liver to be concocted into Blood theref●re it cannot nourish . But Hippocrates may be produced for the other part , lib. de Aliment , where he saith , that an Aery smoke drawn in by the throat may nourish , his Words are , The beginning of nourishment are , the Ayre , Nostrils , Mouth , Throat , Lungs , and Breathing , &c. To un●y this knot , observe , first , That a man bei●g in continuall motion , and consisting of a double matter , namely Earthy , and Watry , which forms the solid and fleshy parts , and of an Aery and fiery , which forms the Spirits , another principle of life ; Hence it is that he wants a double matter to repaire the decayed and dissipated substance of them both ; Namely , Meat and Drink to restore Earthy and Watry part consumed , but Fire and Water to make up the spirituall part , as Galen doth plainly teach , 1. de s●nit , c. 2. The second Note is , That though Hippocrates doth say , ( lib. de Aliment , now cited ) That the Spirits are no●rished , yet they are not truly nourished , since they are not the true and living parts of the body , nor have they any naturall faculty to nourish them , whereby they may change Aeriall matter like themselves , into their own substance , but they are perpetually bred fresh , by the most powerfull force of the heart and strong heat , tempering the thin vapours of blood with the Ayre that is drawn to it . But Hippocrates saith they are fed , because the life is perceived to be very much recreated and refreshed , when the proper instrument is refreshed , and again , when the Spir●ts are decayed , the life deprived of its proper instrument decaies also . Wherefore the Spirit is bred , not of its own faculty , but from that which is inserted into all the principall parts ; and they are bred the same way almost as the Chylus is made in the stomach , and blood in the Liver ; yet not so as if the Spirits as well as they , were the matter of nutriment , for they are so thin and subtill , that they can stick and joyn to no part . These things being first laid down it will be easie to answer the contrary Arguments . To the first I answer , That the Ayre 's not joyning needs not trouble us , nor the unfitness of it to nourish . For we do not think that the Ayre doth nourish the solid and fleshy parts really ; but being so mingled as I said , and concocted by the strong heat of the heart , I maintan it doth goe into the substance of the Spirits . To the second the answer is easie . For though the water alone be unfit for nourishment , yet mingled with other things that nourish , we find it gains a nourishing condition . I answer to the Confirmation , That it is true that Meats and Drinks can indeed be converted into nourishment , no where but in the stomach and liver , but I deny that the Ayre wants those Transmutations . But to return whence I digressed ; Thomas Hariot in his description of Virginy , reports that Tobacco is so much esteemed amongst the barbarous people , that they are perswaded 〈◊〉 gods take delight 〈…〉 also , wherefore they kindle sacred fires , and instead of Sacrafice they cast this in in powder , and when they sail , they will cast the powder of it into the Ayre , and Water . They observe the same custome ) saith the same Authour ) making strange mimicall apish gestures ( sometimes stamping the earth with their feet , sometimes leaping , sometimes rejoycing , clapping their hands , and lifting them up on high , sometimes looking towards Heaven , and speaking incongruous words ) if at any time they escape any great danger . I cannot let that pass , that you shall hardly meet any one of these Barbarians who hath not hanging about his neck a small bundle of Tobacco , with pipes made of Palme tree Leaves , and who also taking with his companions , doth not draw the smoke of it as through a tunnel , by his mouth and Nostrils , untill he be almost in an exstasie . There are some of them who to take away weariness , and to be refreshed in their labours , make use of this smoke , ●nd we found saith Monardes , that by their example , our servants and the Moors that came into the West-Indies from other parts , would do the same , for being weary by much le●ping and dancing , they draw it in by their Mouth and Nostrils . And the same thing be●als them as doth the Indians , for they lye as if they were dead for three or foure houres ; after this they are lusty and are better able to endure labour than they were before . And they take such delight in it , that they will now and than go out of mens sight to take it in pleasure , though they be not tired . Sometimes they grow so mad by it , that they will kill their Masters , who are carefull to burn their Tobacco , that they may take from them the occasion of this idle pleasure . What need more words , I saw saith Monardes , our servants and the Moors , who were not suffered to be drunk with Wine , to make themselves drunk with this smoke , wherein they take no small delight , and they boast that it takes all wearinesse from them , and that they suffer no hurt nor damage by taking of it . Referre to this what Alexander ab Alexandr● , l. 3. c. 11. hath left to Posterity , that the Scythians when they desire to be drunk , and abstain from Wine , that they may not break the custome , they cast bundles of Herbs into the fire , and suck in the smoke , and so become as drunk as if they had dranke Wine . So it is a tradition concerning the Thracians that at their banquets they go about their fires , casting the seeds of Herbs into the fire , and the fume of that will make them like those that are drunk , and they besotted as if they drank Wine , even like those that tasted the juyce of Nepenthes , who supposed sorrow to be removed by it . Also the Babilonians would make themselves so drunk by burning fruits of Trees , and drinking in the smoke , that they would sing and dance . After the same example the Indian Priests which they call Bulgiti , being in consultation concerning the event of any business , were wont to drink the smoke of Tobacco , to make themselves mad , and to enquire of the Divel concerning any business ; For the Indians were not accustomed to make warre , or to undertake any business of consequence , but they would first enquire of the Devill what should be the successe of it , who answered them by the Mouths of those lying Prophets made drunk with the smoke of Tobacco : The Priest being consulted with , did burn the dry Leaves of Tobacco , and he drew the smoke into his mouth by a cane or tunnel , as now a daies our Country Men do too much ( the more the pitty ) being made so drunk with the smoke , untill he fell fast asleep , being deprived of all his Senses , and being rapt into a certain extasie ; he fell down upon the ground , where he lay , most part of the day or night not able to move ; when his drunkenness was over , he told them , he had conferred with the Devil , and as he thought , so he delivered his mind ; Whether they should wage warre , or not , or undertake a journey , and so he gave answers for all things they asked him of ; yet so doubtfull , that let the event be what it would , he could easily perswade the ignorant multitude , that he fore-told it ; and thus he miserably deluded these barbarous people . Also the Indian Physicians made drunk with this smoke , and having lost their senses , would relate a thousand things concerning the counsel of the gods , and then they three or four times rubbed the sick Patients body with their hands . In the mean time they held a bone in their mouth , which the simple women afterwards kept as a relique . Being demanded concerning a disease , they answered all things to be well ; if it fell out otherwise , they had their excuse ready , the disease was mortal : and it was a capital crime for them to neglect their ordinary customes . Thus the enemy of mankind was wont to deceive the Gentiles . In some places the same men were both their Physicians , and their Priests . But since the Effects of Tobacco are found to be so excellent , I shall discourse of them more particularly . In Distillations , where a cold matter is the cause , make a Fumigation of the dry leaves of Tobacco . The Syrup of it is excellent , for this will wonderfully stay Defluxions of Rheum . The leaves chewed or bruised in the palate , do the same . These melt the flegme that is in the head , and dry up the cels where the Rheum lieth , by drawing forth the moisture from the foremost ventricles of the brain , by that part which is commonly called the Tunnel . I know not whether there can be a more happy or more certain Remedy found out for this purpose . Also to strengthen the memory the smoke is excellent taken by the Nostrils , for it is properly belonging to the brain , and it is easily conveyed into the cels of it , and it cleanseth that from all filth ( for the brain is the Metropolis of flegme , as Hippocrates teacheth us in his book concerning the Kernels ) it must be taken three hours before meat , for so it doth more conveniently discuss and cleanse the peccant humours . I do not write this for their sake , who by their daily miscarriage abuse themselves , and spend good time in Tobacco-shops , and make of their brain ( which is the most noble seat of the mind , and the store-house of all knowledge and learning ) a chimney , and a common shore , and disgrace a Medicament that is otherwise very good , and make themselves nothing but blowers of coles and ashes . A famous Practitioner at Leyden D. Henricus Flor●ntius , sometimes related unto me , that Dr. Pauvius , a most experienced and excellent Anatomist of his time , had once a subject for his Anatomical practice , whose smelling was quite lost , and there was not any thing left to be seen of the Processus Mammillares : And this he conjectured , by good Arguments , to have happened by reason of the parties immoderate drinking of Tobacco . About thirty years since ( or before ) that smoaking Tobacco through the nose hath been suspected and spoken against , as if the continual and over-using of it did fill the brain with all vapours , and last of all did corrupt it . Let us hear what the most learned Dr. Iustus Rapheiengius , who deserved exceeding much amongst Scholars , writ sometimes unto me . His words were these , I remember ( saith he ) that Dr. Pauvi●s , in his first Anatomical practices , dissected a strong young man , and otherwise very sound , whose brain was totally filled with black vapours like to soot . D. Pauvius inquiring into the cause of that accident , and referring it to Mania , or some other disease of the head ; they answered that were acquainted with that young man , that the man was never sick , nor had he the falling sicknesse , but was so given to drink Tobacco continually , that the pipe was seldom out of his mouth , and he was alwayes drawing in that fuliginous vapour ; whereupon D. Pauvius did co●jecture upon good grounds , that heap of soot and smoke was contracted in the cavities of his brain by that means . I could alledge many more examples of this kind , but for brevity sake I passe them over . Let these and the like dangerous effects teach thee , that lovest this smoke to avoid them , if thou lovest the truth , and take heed least that sweet Memory , which is the ●other of the Muses , and Gods delight , do turn her eyes from thee , and thou be deprived of that divine closet and lights , which are an incomparable treasure , as being unworthy to possess them . But young men especially must take great care how they suck in this smoke , for the custome and too much use of it , brings their brains out of order , and makes them to be over-hot , so that they lose their good temper , and are beyond the bounds of their health , and that sacred anchor is lost irrecoverably . For the nourishment of young men requires a gentle moisture , to strengthen them , and to make their bodies grow to their just perfection . Especially for those that are cholerick , whose brains cannot endure excess of heat , for the native heat would be oppressed by the accidental heat . See Galen his Comment , in lib. de vict. salub . Also this smoke doth veheme●tly move the stomack to nauseat , and to vomit , ( as daily experience teacheth u● ) namely by cleaving to the inward parts , and so offending the pec●liar juices contain'd in the stomack , and the Mesentary , it destroyes their ordinary operations . For in thrusting forth the matter from the stomack it cannot be , but also something must be cast out , wherein the force of nature resides ; and also , becau●e when nature is doing her office , she sends the nourishment into the habit of the body , as to the circumference , but all disturbing and purgative things draw the juyces and spirits to the center . Wherefore nature is wonderfully tired with these contrary motions , for she can endure nothing less than two contrary motions at the same time . Wherefore it is a most bitter enemy to the stomacks of very many men , especially if they use to take it presently after Supper or Dinner . And in this respect it is mischievous to the bodies of all sound men , according to Hippocrates his Rule . 2. Aphoris . 37. It is troublesom to purge those that are in good health . For frequent use of purging Medicaments will soon make a man old ; for the forces are broken by the resolving of the solid parts , by an Hypercatharsis of all nutrimental juyce . Also Cels●● in the beginning of his Book affirms , That Aliments only are fit for sound bodies , and Physick for those that are sick ▪ But grant , that it purge not ( which yet is most certain , as I shall shew elswhere ) yet it alters the body , which can never be done in young and strong bodies without great hurt . Moreover it drinks up the moisture , and augments the heat of a perfect constitution , as the fire and Sunne do sensibly heat such things as are exposed to them . Let us hearken to the e●ample of Plato , 2. de legibus , In the beginning ( saith he ) I confirm it by a Law , that children untill th●y come to be eighteen yeer old , shall be wholly ignorant of the use of wine , and we must admonish them , that we ought not to adde fire to fire , into the body and the soul , untill they become men , and begin to undergoe labour ; for we must take heed that young men be not furious in their habit of body , then let them learne to be moderate in drinking wine , untill they come to be thirty yeares old . If then Plato forbad young men to drink wine , because by its heat it fils their brains with vapours , and with many hot fumes , and over-heats their bodies , and not only hurts the body , but doth exceedingly hurt the soul by the use of it , as Galen saith , 1. Sanitat . tuend. Wine must not be given to young men , because it makes them prone to anger and to lust , and makes the rational part of the soul dull and out of temper ; and doth not the smoke of Tobacco do this farre more ? Wine is hot and moist , Tobacco is hotter than wine , and that excess is the cause of its strong smell , and corroding taste : moreover in place of moisture of the Wine , the heat of it is joyned with driness . He that hath only tasted of natural Philosophy , may easily perceive from hence , that it is a thing full of danger for Colerick Constitutions , and disposeth them to burning Feavers , Hecticks , and Frensies , and brings them into unseasonable Melancholy : For the unnatural heat , conquering the natural heat of the body , destroyes and wastes that , as I said , and by the same means ingenders a Melancholy distemper , by the continual use of it . Hence it is , that the dry and hot choler is afterwards inflamed ; but this is done by degrees , and insensibly in the younger age and also by reason of the frequent drinking in of Beer , ( for our Tobacconists use to do so ) and this hinders that the alteration cannot be so suddainly made . Galen de sanitat●tuend . saith , That the best manners , proceed from the best temperament . And he writ a whole Book for that end , that he might prove the affections of the mind , to follow the temperament of the body . Which thing , though it be principally to be understood of that Original temperament which we received from our Parents : Yet as that is changed either naturally by age , or accidentally by sucking to much smoak of Tobacco , or some other external meanes , so a great change of the affections and inclinations of the mind useth to go along with it ; and as heat and acrimony grow and dwell in the blood , so rashness and fury do in the soul . The Blood being now made thick and congealed , the mind grows stupid and sad ; and in some men this is too apparent , though others do prudently dissemble and cover it . Wherefore I cannot see how that overmuch drawing of smoak of Tobaceo to the brain and nostrils can be done , but it must overthrow the perfect state of mens bodies and minds , the proportions of the cold elements being subdued , and promoted unto heat ; being spoile●d of their former condition , and that not only in these smoaky Companions , but in their Posterity also ; since the nature and constitutions of the Parents are naturally passed over unto the Children : and withall , the affections of the mind that depend upon them . For saith the learned Fernelius , With what Disease soever the Father is troubled when he begets the Child , the same Disease passeth to the Child . And Galen writes thus : The Father gives the form , nature and essence to the Ghild . When therefore the Humours of the body have contracted this sharp heat and driness , by the too much smoaking of Tobacco , the Father gets a Son like himself ; but such an one as wants natural moysture , which should prolong his life , and should dispose him to ingenuous , pleasant and sociable manners . Let Avicenna speak , Fen. 1. p.c. It is in the power of Art to hinder that corruption shall not breed in us , and that natural moisture shall continue longer , that it be ●ot soon dissolved by drying and burning causes , and that every body may be made to hold out so long as it possibly may do by its natural temperament . And he shews afterwards in few words , by what helps Art can perform this ; namely , by a three fold Caution laid down by Art . One in a due Administration of Meats and Drinks , in the quantity , quality , substance ; manner , order , and measure and time of them : Not neglecting in the mean while , the occasion of the place , which is another Caution to take heed of Corruption . The third is in forbidding and forbearing those things , which since they can naturally hurt life , they do in a short time dissolve the radical moisture , and so they cut off life in a moment . Such are watchings , cares , griefs ; also the use of things that vehemently heat and dry , whence of necessity at length ( for want of convenient food ) the natural heat is extinguished , and the native moisture : And so we die by wasting and consuming away . Galen de Tabe , saith , that Tabes is a Consumption of a living body , by reason of driness . By these things mentioned , it is easie to collect , that the smoak of Tobacco shortneth mens daies . For being that our native heat is like to a flame , which continually feeds upon natural moisture , as a Lamp lighted , drinks up the Oyl by its heat ; it follows necessarily , that for want of food , life must needs fly away quickly , when the proper subject of life is dissipated and consumed : for with that moisture , the imbred heat fails also , and death succeeds . You understand therefore ( that are Tobacconists ) that the sooty fumes of Tobacco , wherein you are wallowing ( as it were ) in the deepest mire , are of great force to shorten your daies . Galen speaking of opeing Medicaments , asserts , that by the frequent use of them , the solid parts of the body are dried , and that the blood grows gross and clotted , which being burned in the Reines , breed the stone . The same thing may be truly maintained concerning Tobacco , which many use too frequently , and more then any do use those kind of opening Medicaments ; for this is more hot and dry then they are , and therefore is more forcible to hurt sound and well tempered bodies . Take warning therefore you that love Tobacco , that you do not exceed in using too much of it , and enslave your selves to this fuliginous smoak , by hunting after it , and making a god of it . The goods of the body , are beauty , strength , and sound health . The most grave Author Plutarch , commending the last as the best of all , affirmed most gravely and learnedly , That health is the most divine , and the most excellent property of the body , and a most precious thing . There is nothing in this world better ; nothhing more to be desired , and nothing can be found to be more pleasant . Without thi● ( as Hippocrates saith ) there is no pleasure or fruit of any other things . This is it , which in this life fils all perfection : Without this no man could ever be said to be happy : This farre exceeds the greatest Honours , Treasures , and Riches . Whence that of Horace is a Sentence ●emarkable . Not House nor Land , nor heaps of Gold or Brass , Can force the sick Lords Ague t' overpass : Nor move cares from his mind ; he must have health , Who thinks to use well what he gets in wealth . Cicero , who was both the Father and Prince of the Latin Tongue , seems to me , in L. 2. officiorum , to set down before all others most excellently , the generall reason of preserving health . Health ( saith he ) is preserved by knowing a mans own body , and observing those things that do a man good or harm ; and by moderate diet of all sorts ; and in cloathing to defend the body ; and in refrain●ng pleasures , &c. What could be said more divinely , or more fully , or more eloquently by any man , I cannot perceive ; for the universal method of maintaining health , is contained in it very elegantly . It is a most worthy Sentence , and fit to be ingraved in the mind of those who are studious of their health . Let us use such things whereby nature is helped and refreshed : Let us beware of such things that we find do us hurt , and that by Natures direction . Which ( as Cato said ) is the most excellent Leader for our life , declaring by many signs , what things she desires , what she abhorres : And to resist Nature , is nothing else , then to do like the Gyants , and to fight against God . This continence should be observed in all our food , cloathing , and abstaining from pleasures . Continence makes the body cheerfull , healthfull , and firm : And abstaining from pleasures doth the same . For as Plato writes , Pleasure is the bait of mischief . Since then , they that fume Tobacco , take so much delight and pleasure in it ( if that can be called a pleasure ) it is a wonder how much they rejoyce , not thinking in the mean time that Nature is debilitated , and they are unmindfull of that Verse of Ovid . Strange Poysons under Honeys sweetness lie . Socrates was wont to perswade men to avoid those Meats and Drinks that would allure men to an appetite , beyond what would serve to quench their thirst , and stay their hunger ; because these things , by their delight , did more entangle us , and bring great mischiefs upon us . For it is a true saying , — Pleasure that 's bought with pain , doth us no good . And is it not a filthy thing , and utterly to be detested , that man who is a most prudent creature , should be ensnared by the wanton enticements of this smoak of Tobacco , so that neglecting the precepts of the Art of health coveting this sordid fume , he should , wholly devote his health to it ? To be deprived of his stomach ? To consume by wasting his radical moisture ? To be tormented with Feavers , and to be vexed with many other Infirmities ? Are not these brave rewards for taking his pleasure ? I think with Galen , that it were better ( if any man have brains in his head ) to die a thousand times , then to lead such a life . And if it be so ( as I profess it is so ) to what end is it for a man to devote himself to these damnable smoaks , and to force nature to destroy and murther her self ? Are these things the properties of men , are they not rather of Beasts ? Pliny writes the the truth : All creatures that live , know what is good for them , only man doth not . And Senec● is in the right : This is one of the causes of our misfortunes , that we live by Examples , and are not guided by Reason , but follow Custom ; and if but few do a thing , we will not imitate them . When mamany begin to do a thing ( as if that were more honest ) we willingly follow them , and the Error of the multitude is held to be right by us . And elsewhere ; They cannot abstain from Pleasures , that are grown to be a Custom ; and in this they are the more miserable , that they proceed so farre , as to make things superfluous to be necessary . Wherefore they serve their pleasures , and do not enjoy them ; and they love their miseries , which is the greatest misery of all . Then is unhappiness come to the height , when filthiness , not only delights , but pleas●th us ; and there remains no place for remedy , when vices are grown to be our manners . But all our Admonitions are in vain . This Plague infects , and more thereto incline , One measeld Hog , will taint an heard of Swine . So that all die infected , thus we see , One rotten Grape , le ts not the next go free . To draw to a Conclusion ; I deny not , but that for cold and moist bodies where the brain is large , and where the parts are feeble , by reason of ●oo much moisture , and where there is aboundance of fleg● joyned with it , or where that juyce offends the brain with a shaking cold : ( The signs whereof are paleness , and no veins to be seen ; where the hair stands straight , firm , and are yellow ; where they cannot endure cold , and where the temper of the whole body is cold and stiffe ; where drowsiness and sleepiness are , and the Mouth , Nostrils , and Eyes , are full of moisture . ) this fumigation may be good to empty that sink of naughty and corrupt matter , and to shut it out . Yet I cannot think it safe at all , to take this smoak even in this respect , but with Cautions and Consideration ; and the chiefe is , that it be taken for necessity , and not for lust and intemperance : Let there be sparing and modertaion used . But first purge the head with sneezing , with the powder of Tobacco ( as I shall say in another place . ) I think the most convenient way is , to make the Pipes you suck it through , very long , such as the Indians use , whereby they draw the smoak from a great distance : And I remember , that many were wont to use the like , for the smoak will come cooler , and be taken with more pleasure ; nor will it reek forth with so foul and sharp fume . Also , since that the brain is enter-woven with very narrow small Veins , it will not willingly entertain those gross vapours that penetrate with difficulty , but only such that are thin and hot . The Persians , and the Turks also , cut Lingum Aloes small , and mingle it with Tobacco , for Diseases of the Head , and so through a long Pipe , made of Lattone ( which they put into cold water , that the smoak may come the cooler to the brain ) they draw forth the smoak . Some adde some drops of Oyl of Anniseed , I have seen others mingle Cloves with it , and some again adde other things that evacuate the cold and moist humours of the Head and of the Breast . What Instruments the barbarous people use , or rather Pipes or Trunks ( whereof I shall set down divers Figures at the end of this Discourse concerning Tobacco ) of which Monardus speaks Lib. 3. simpl . Medic. And I cannot use any mans words better then his own , which the most learned Clusius hath interpreted to us , and by which the courteous Reader may best understand it ▪ There are brought ( saith he ) from new Spain , some Trunks made of the inward part of Canes or Reeds , and smeered with some kind of gum , which I think is mingled with the juyce of Tobacco , for it trieth the head : If I am not mistaken , they annoint the Cane with that ; and as it is glutinous , it sticks fast , and is of a black colour . But when it grows hard , it will hold no longer . The Trunk is lighted at that that end where it is smeered with the Gum , or Pitch ; and the other end is put into the mouth , and the smoak is received● and this draws all flegme and corrupt humours out of the Breast . This they are wont to use when they are oppressed with short breath , and are ready to be choaked . Clusius addes to the same Chapter , That in the year 1585 Wing andecow ( which is now called Virginy ) being discovered to the English ( to their Captain Richard Grenfield , and is a Province of the new world , and is thirty six degrees from the Aequator toward the North Pole ) they found that the Inhabitans did frequenly use some Pipes made of Clay , to draw forth the fume of Tobacco leaves set on fire ; which grew amongst them in great quantity , or rather to drink it down , to preserve their health . The English returning from thence , brought the like Pipes with them , to drink the smoak of Tobacco ; and since that time , the use of drinking Tobacco hath so much prevailed all England over , especially amongst the Courtiers , that they● have caused many such like Pipes to be made to drink Tobacco with . These are Clusius words concerning the English . Let me adde that great part of the Low-Countries , Germany , France , Italy , Turkie , Arabia , Persia , and many of the Inhabitants of the whole earth ▪ ( if not the greatest part ) are taken with the scent of this smoak , that they do preferre this stinking and filthy smell , before the most pleasant perfumes that are in the world . But chiefly this ●umigation is of great esteem with with us in the Low Countries , and the Merchandize of Tobacco prepared , is not the least among other Trafique , and the Merchants make a huge gain by it , if they have but any good fortune . It is a very speedy way , and a vast profit to the Merchants of Holland and Zealand , who bring Tobacco prepared and dried from the Indies , and send it forth to other Countries , be they never so wide off from them , for they gain by it extraordinarily . How many thousands of men may be found in that most flourishing and mighty City for trafique Amsterdam ( to say nothing of Rotterdam , and other Cities in this Province ) who at first being but of a small meanes , for the most part , by selling Tobacco , have sustained themselves in their poverty , and also abundantly provided for their Families for food and rayment , and other necessaries , and have gained something more for themselves ; and there are some that have heaped up great wealth by it . Yet I do not defend them , who under a specious and faire pretence to gain food and some small matter , by keeping Tobacco shops , ( as also others that keep Wine Taverns , tap-houses and the like ) do in the mean time increase their estates by keeping Whores and Bawds which they live by . But that the Curious Reader may see how mightily this Merchandise of Tobacco encreaseth amongst the Dutch . I say undoubtedly that this may be foreseen and foretold by it , and it must be confessed , maugre all opposition , that the most illustrious and most mighty States of Holland , by a small and very tolerable tribute to be paid , imposed by them upon Tobocco , ( which I understand was lately done by them ) may collect above thirty thousand franks yearly at their pleasure , by the only custome upon Tobacco for the publick treasure , from the Merchants that are carefull to bring it from the Indies unto us . But to return again from whence we digressed . I said that this sume can draw forth wat●y and cold humours from the head ; yet Hippocrates his Doctrine seems to be against this , 5. Apharism . 28. Sweet Aromaticall smells will provoke the terms , and the same would be often good for other matters , did they not cause the head to ake . Where he teacheth , Galen subscribing in his commentary , that the whole body being duly fume , will send forth by the Matrix in all cold and moyst dispositions , were it not that we are affraid of that heaviness of the head , which proceeds from these fumes . Since then for a Flegmatique matter lying in the head , those things are not requisite , which load and fill the head , but rather those things that send ease and lighten it , fumigations that are made of things , that fill the head , as Galen himself teacheth , cannot be good to be used in such a disposition of the brain , nor yet in any other . But there are many most grave Authours for the other part , who exercise their practise with great praise , and teach and highly commend fumigations in such , or the like accidents , and to these men not only daily experience , but also most strong reason subscribes . For to cut and consume a cold and moyst humours collected in the brain , no fitter Remedies than those can be found , which have power to strengthen , attenuate , and dry the brain , and it is certain that the sume of Tobacco hath such a faculty . For it heats , cuts , attenuates , opens and resolves : Therefore this smoke drawn in by the Mouth and Nose to dry and heat the cold and moyst excrements of the brain , may be proper and usefull . To answer the former argument that is against it , observe that it is very necessary to consider , for the use of this remedy , what the temper of the brain is as I said , and what the humour is that abounds in it , for if it be hot it will be much filled and burdned with the smoke of Tobacco , and the cause of this event lyeth in the heat of the part , ( for heat naturally attracts heat ) and also in the largness of the passages of a hot head , whereby it easily admits the Vapours that ascend : but if the braine be over cold and moyst , and then heap up such excrements , it will not be filled with this fume , but will rather be refreshed and dried , unless perhaps by reason of so great naturall weakness , or weakness contracted by a disease , it can admit no vapours without pain and heaviness . These things premised , I answer to the contrary Argument , that Hippocrates in the quoted Aphorism , must be understood concerning those , who have a brain that is very hot and moist and weake withall , and that easily is offended with pain and heaviness . For a cold and moist brain filled with cold and moist Excrements , a hot and drying fume ( such as is the smoke of Tobacco , ) is most convenient , especially drawn in by a Pipe the way I mentioned before . Yet I think they ought to abstain from it , whose heads are not only weak , but are also of a delicate nature , and are easily disturbep and pain'd not only with fumes but with the most temperate smels . Here follows another question , namely whether the fume of Tobacco swallowed into the Stomach ( which custome I find to be in continuall use with many men , but chiefly amongst our Sea men ) can draw and purge superfluous humours out of the head and brain ? Reasons are very forcible for the affirmative part . The first is taken out of the 7. Aphorisme , 30. of Hippocrates who say thus ; Whosoever they be that in a diarrhaea void frothy excrements by stool , those excrements flow from the head , and from thence it is inferred that humours may be drawn from the head to the stomach by the faculties of purging medicaments , being derived by the tunnel . The second is taken from Actuarius , M●sues , and other approved Authours● , who commend Agarick to purge flegmatique humours contain'd in the head and the brest , which they would never have done , if the head and brest could not be vacuated by the belly . The Argument for the Negative part is , because according to Aristo 1. Sect. Probl. Quest . 42. When medicaments come to the belly , and are resolved , they are presently carried to the Veins by the same way that the meat is , and when they cannot be concocted , but remain conquerours , they slip back again , and carry with them those things that stay by them , and that is called purging . And from the stomach to the brain or brest , there are no passages found whereby a purging medicament can passe to allure the humours to it : Therefore the humour that is contain'd in the brain or thorax , cannot be drawn forth by the fume of Tobacco , as by a purgative medicament , which opinion also of Aristotle the most Learned Fernelius , 3. Meth. c 7. seems to defend . Note therefore for the resolving of this difficulty , that the more corpulent substance of this fume doth not pass from the stomach to purge the brain , but stayeth in it , or sticks in the Intestins , and from thence it draws forth those humours that are agreeing to it , which may be proved many waies . First , because medicaments applyed outwardly , as to the Navel , & therefore called Navel-medicaments , to the palme of the hand , or to the soles of the feet , and sometimes applyed to the Nostrils will purge the body , and yet they cannot proceed so far as to purge the humours . Secondly , Because we often observe that medicaments and pils are voided almost whole , after purgation , which could not be if they passed all the body over , to draw unto them such humours as are familiar to them . Thirdly , Serapiows argument proves the same , for saith he , if a medicament should pass to a humour , that is farre off from it , it would joyn lovingly with it , and would never draw forth that it delights in the society of ; as the Loadstone joyned to the Iron , doth not draw the iron to some other place , but detains and holds it there . Wherefore we must confesse that some thin fumie substance doth rise from the stomach , by the veins and other secret passages , not only to the brain , but also is diffused , we cannot say how , to all parts of the body . Hence it is clear , that Aristotle said not right , that purgatives pass all the body over , and so draw the peccant humour , as taken captive into the stomach . Those things being thus observed we answer to the difficulty , that purgatives do not pass through the body to attract humours that agree with them , but they stay in the stomach , and by their force and Vertue they draw them unto them from all parts of the body by waies , that though they are unknown to us , yet they are not unknown to nature . Here riseth another question , Namely , whether to much Drinking of Tobacco in a Pipe , can dry the brain , and yet leave the other parts of the body in a good temper ? For the Negatiue part , the Argument is this ; Because the great or small quantity of the humour of the whole body , follows the temperament contracted from the first generation . Since therefore the temperament belongs to the whole living Creature , and not to one part alone , the humour cannot be dried up in the brain nor in any other part of the body , but it must also be dried up in the whole body . Now that the temperament must be ascribed to the whole body , and not to one part only , is proved from the 1. and 3. Books of Hippocrates Epidem . From the grayness of the eyes , sharpness of the voyce , and black haire , you may conclude that the temperament of the whole body is either hot or cold ; as if one part could not be hot or cold , but the whole body must be so also . But Galen is for the contrary part , 2. de temper . c. ult. where he proves by many arguments , that it is not necessary tha● all the parts of the body should follow the temper of the whole . For though in a temperate body and very well constituted an equall temper may be found over all the body , but in others that are different from this exquisite temper and just dispensation , it cannot be Universally true ; for a man may have a large brest and full of haire , and therefore like a Lion have a most hot heart , and be exceeding bold ; yet it follows not that all●his body over must be so hot . So we find daily ( to pass by other examples ) that many men have hot livers , and yet cold brains , and the contrary in others , that it is no wonder that if one man who hath the rest of his veins of his body swelling forth , have the veins of his head and brain after a sort dried up . For Galen addes that this may be done , and that the excess of Intemperance in one part , may be the cause of the contrary excess in the rest , and make them weak , or the strength of one part may be answered by the strength or weakeness of another . To answer the contrary argument ; when Hippocrates collects from the colour of the eye or sharpness of the voice , what is the temperament of the whole body , this may be taken , as if he did search for the same things in the equall temperament of the whole body , whereof he finds some tokens in the parts ; or he may be understood thus , when other signs in the whole body concurre to signifie the same . For example , if there be signs of heat in the whole body , and a great voyce and large brest be joyned with them , it is evident by these signs that the whole body is hot : which must also be understoode concerning the complexion of the brain , and other parts , ●hat must be compared with the temperament of the rest . I say that such who for many years and by much taking of it are used to this smoke in their mouth and nostrills , to those it doth less harm , For custome is nature acquired , as Galen saith , 2. de motu musc. and 2 de tempament , or it is an acquired habit , by many actions concerning one thing used for a long time ; and this habit by custome is made agreeable to nature . Whence divine Hippocrates , 2. Aphorism . 50. speaks thus . Those things that we are accustomed to , though they be worse ; yet they do us less harm , than those that we are not used to , and therefore we must use what we are wonted to . This is a most true axiome and cannot be contradicted ; For all things that are accustomed , as they are so , are less hurtfull than things we are not wonted to : for by custome things that are worse are made familiar to nature , and therefore are not dangerous . For what nature is acquainted with , is wont to be harmless . Custome is of such consequence , that from that in preserving of health or curing of diseases we may have great indication , and not much less than we can from nature , as both Hippocrates and Galen intimate in many places . For since nature alwaies delights in what it is used to , ( as Galen saith , 8. Method . ) it is certain that every one ought to keep his custome : for from custome as well as from nature and age , great conclusions may be made . Since then Hippocrates and Galen affirme that we must hold to what we are wonted to ; what a great danger would it be to leave off this custome which is confirmed by so many years , as this is to smoke Tobacco , in a Pipe at the Mouth and Nostrils , and to change this to a contrary way , especially if it be done suddenly or immediately , as I am perswaded all men can easily perceive ? Whence Celsus also speaks , l. 1. c. 3. He is in danger who both once , and he that twice eats in a day contrary to his usuall custome ? Again , sudden ease from violent labour , and sudden labour from great ease cannot be safe . When therefore any man thinks to leave off this drinking of Tobacco for a time , he must not rashly nor suddenly change this custome , for it is almost as strong as nature . Therefore they who use to smoke it , easily bear it , and they that are not used to it cannot so well away with it . Custome makes not only healthfull things to be usefull for us , but also it makes those things healthfull , which were they not accustomed to us , would be the most dangerous . For it is of such force that it overcomes the malignity of any thing taken , and which is more to be wondred at , the very violence and virulency of poysons is conquered by it , and it spoils them of their malignity ; so I read of a maid that was fed with Wolfs-bane , and in time by degrees shee used it for her nourishment , Galen , 3. simpl . c. 18. speaks of an old woman of Athens , who beginning from a small quantity of Hemlock , proceeding by degrees learned to feed on it in great quantity and found no harm by it . We read also of a certain Maiden at Collen , who when she was but three years old would catch the Spiders creeping upon the walls and eat them , and being delighted with that kind of diet grew exceedingly ; Mithridates King of Pontus taking poyson daily , made it so familiar to him , that when he would have poysoned himselfe , that he might not fall into Pompeys hands , he drank deadly poyson without any harme . Oft Mithridates eating Poyson got , That the most cruell Poysons hurt him not . Sleydan , lib. 9. Writes , that Pope Clement the 7. being old , died of a great pain of his stomach , having changed his diet by the advice of Curtiu● his Physician . What should I say much of a thing confirmed of daily examples . We see that they who use to purg often have need of stronger physick than what they used to take before : for those that are usual wil hardly move them . So if one often take Clysters , the belly will hardly be moved , no● yet yield to other remedies , as it befell the Duke of Albanie , who could not go to stool without a Clyster , for nature had forgot her self , and depended wholly upon Physick . He that will read more concerning custome , let him read what Theophrastus l 9. c. 18. concerning the History of Plants , hath written of Thraciae and Eudemius Chius . FINIS . Dr Everard . Dr EVERARD HIS DISCOURSE Of the Wonderfull EFFECTS & OPERATION OF TOBACCO . I Am chiefly induced to write the History of Tobacco , a most excellent Plant , and for Physicall use , of admirable Vertue , because many have written singularly well of Plants ; yet besides Nicolaus Monardus a Spanish Physician ( who writ a peculiar History of Plants and Spices brought forth of the new found World ) very few have sufficiently set forth the worth of this noble Plant. But since , I doubt not but that many earnestly desire to know the Effects of it , that such may no longer be kept from their Enjoyments , as they know it by Name , they shall farther know the Vertues thereof . I willingly undertake this work , that I may as briefly and faithfully as I can , publish to the world , what I have partly got by reading , and by the relation of other men , and what I have had experience of my self , adding what others have scattered in their writings here and there , and what I have since by long study herein , approved to be effectuall . Tobacco in the form and faculties of it is much like to Comfrey , that I may not without reason think it to be of that kind , rather then a yellow Henbane , as some have supposed . It is observed to be of three sorts , the Male , the Female , and a third sort , more imperfect then them both . The Male hath large leaves , that are thick , long , fat , of a watry green co●our , sharp at the top , a little hairy , and clammy , but with no cuts in them ; so ●licking to the stalk , that they seem in a manner to embrace it : They smell strong , taste sharp and hot , and are larger at the top , then at the bottom ; It produceth a most upright stalk , which sometimes riseth to four or five foot high , and sometimes to some Yards , as the ground is hotter , that it is planted in , and is fatter and well dressed . The branches that from the knots at a distance spring forth , part the stalk a foot , or half a foot distance assunder . In the top of the branches a flower comes forth , that is white and red which they call a Carnation colour , ' like a small bell , and it comes out of a Pod as out of a Cup , which at length swelling round like to an Apple , when the flower witheres , is filled with very small seeds , very like to the yellow Henbane , which being ripe or black , but first they are green . At the root there is great plenty of syowrs , which doth after a sort renew it self , whereas the roots are but small threds , some greater and shorter then others , as the Plant is in height . They yeeld as the leaves do , a fat and rosine juyce , that is yellow , and smells like Rosin , not unpleasant , and the taste is sharp and biting . The most flourishing Plants have thicker and wooddy roots , which exceedingly abound with shoots of a yellow colour , bitter in taste , which are supposed to be equall to Rheubarbe in Vertue , though this be not sufficiently found out . The Female hath a smaller and lower stalk , the leaves are shorter , smaller and not so gummy . The flower is not so open and gaping , nor so ruddy a colour : The branches are not so tall nor stretcht forth as the Male Tobacco branches are ; wherefore they are out exceedingly that think this to be a kind of Satyrium . For this which we call Female Tobvcco , is not like to Satyrium either in form , fashion , root , colour or any other way . For it hath many small roots , a hairy stalk , many branches , many leaves , and those long and large ; and it is hot and dry , like to the Male Tobacco : but Satyrium hath fewer and thicker roots , the stalk is not knotty , it hath no branches , it hath fewer leaves , the flower appears on the top of the stalk , without any Pod or seeds , and is hot and moist to the third degree , and is most fit to provoke lust . The third sort of Tobacco is in all things smaller , the leaf is rounder , somewhat blackish , fat , somewhat hairy , though it be full of juyce : The flower is less , and round on the outside , and of a pale colour , and it is not above twenty years since it was known in Europe . Dodoneus called it yellow Henbane , but Mathielus before him called it black Henbane . It is sowed about the Calends , Ides , or Nones of Aprill , or near that time : sometimes sooner or later , as the weather is hot ; though the Indians in Peru , and the Inhabitants of new Spain , sow it in Autumn . In hot Countries it bears leaves , flowers , and buds at one and the self same time , for nine or ten Moneths together . But in the low Countries it flowers from August untill Winter , and forthwith brings forth seed ; after that , when the frost first comes , it fadeth and quite decayes , and it can hardly be kept all the Winter , unless it be in Pots or Baskets , and that in Stoves , or Store houses , or other places that are kept hot . This requires a fat and well manured ground , and in their cold Countries , the ground must be exceedingly well dung'd , and the dung ( especially Horse-dung ) must be so mingled with it , and incorporated , that it may seem to degenerate altogether into the Earth . Moreover it requires a shadowed and moist ground , and it must be large , and affording room enough : For where the place is narrow , it will not prosper nor yeeld any branches . It delights in a South Sun , and where there is a wall or sluce behind it , that it may be thereby defended from the injuries of the North winds that follow , and that the Sun beams lighting upon the wall , may reflect upon it . It must be free from all Tempests , because it is exceeding tender , and very great ; yet when it hath taken deep root , it hath almost escaped the danger of winds . It wounderfully delights in water , and therefore being oft●times watered , especially where the Climate is very hot , it thrives the better . It can endure no cold , and therefore in winter it must be preserved in hollow places , and where Chimneys or Stoves are provided for this purpose . Or else it must be compassed about with a double Mat , and a Painthouse upon the wall over it , and a coverlid raised up , and it must be covered with a covering of straw , in a shelter that lieth right against the Sun at noon day shining clear , that the Plant may be refreshed by the heat . Before you sow it , you must make a hole in the earth with your finger , and casting into that hole ●ten or twelve grains , you shall diligently cover them with the same earth . But do not cast in three or four grains into a hole , for they would be choaked being so small . If the Climate be very hot , you must water them for fifteen daies after you have sowed them ; also they may be sowed as Lettice seed , and o●her seed of that kind : namely by cu●iously mingling the earth and heaping of it together . Some there are who mingle the most pure and fine Ashes with the earth , but a very little , for it grows very gently and slowly . When it comes up , it must be accurately defended against all injuries of cold and frost , and in the night chiefly it must be covered when it grows up : and thus it will for ever keep its native vigour and splendor uncorrupted . When the Plant is grown a foot high , because all the grains severally bring forth their stalks , and the fibras of the roots stick together , and are in a manner glewed , you must cut the earth round about with your Knife , and cu● the turf round , and then take up the earth , and cast it into a bucket full of water , that the earth may the sooner be separated , and the small stalks may swim on the top . These you must take severally whole , and wrapping them up in their own earth , you must transplant into a ground that is well dunged , some three or four foot off from the wall , but somewhat deep , that the stalk may grow the stronger . But if the Earth neer the wall or fence be unfruitfull , you must help this barrenness by trans-planting the stalks and by diligent watering of them . Nicotiana took its name from Iohannes Nicotius , by whose direction it first was made known to the French : as also many Plants and Stalks bear the names of Men both amongst the Greeks and Latins , who by their care and study brought them into their own Countries , and Planted them there , where they were unknown before . This Nicotius Counsellour to the French King , being in the Years 1559 and 1560. Embassadour for his King , in Portingall , and was minded on a day to go to see the Castle at Lisborn ; A certain Noble Man of the Low Countries shewed unto him this forrain Plant , and gave it him freely ; saying , he brought it from Florida . Nicotius accepted it and took great care to have it set and maintained in his Garden , and to be propagated , untill being grown up , it shewd forth wonderfull miracles of the faculties it had . Thus it began to be esteemed much at Lisborn , and to be called the Embassadours Herb. But because it was sent from Nicotius to Francis the second King of France , and to the Queen Mother , and to some of the principall Countries , some called it the Queens Plant of Medicea , and honoured it with that name ; for shee gave it to divers to be Planted and to be made increase all France over . Some called it also the Plant of the great Prior , because he sometimes passing from France into Portugal , and being entertained by the Embassadour , and Feasted , received of him many of these Plants , by way of gift , and setting them in his Garden , he took great care to make them grow there above all the rest . The Spaniards call it Petum and Tobacco , from the name of the Island wherein it was first found , where it grows in abundance , and thence it got the name . The Indians that inhabit there call it Picielt ; The most illustrious Cardinall of Santa Cruce , being the Popes Nuncio , for the Church of Rome into Portingall , brought it first from thence to Rome , and therefore there it was called the Herb of Santa Cruce . Many call it the holy or sacred Plant , by reason of the divine and strange Vertues and forces of it . Many again call it Petum the Male , to distinguish it from the Female , and that is the most proper and native name of it , that the Inhabitants of Florida use to give it , from whom it came to us . Yet it is fit and reasonable , that we should call it Nicotiana , in regard of the Honourable memory of the foresaid Embassadour Nicotius , who first endowed France with so excellent and divine a Plant. The Second kind of Tobacco , as I said , is to be called the Female Tobacco , for experience the Mistris of all things teacheth us that it comes next to Male Tobacco , in form , root , and seed ; and more then that , because it often grows from the seed , of the Male Tobacco . For if it chance that any of the seed of the Male Tobacco , when it is full of Seed , fall to the ground , Namely , the same ground where Tobacco grew before , doubtless the next year Female Tobacco will grow in that very place . And if you sow the Male Tobacco Seed upon ground , that is not hot enough , but if barren and sandy ; In place of the Male , it will bring forth the Female , and in such abundance , that it will be hard to root it out of that place , but it will every year grow in of it self ; and this is an Argument that there is a double sex in Tobacco , as it fals out in most Plants , where there is an affinity betwixt them . By its Rosiny smell , not unpleasant , and it 's sharp and biting tast , it seems to be hot above the Second degree , and dry in the First , being very fit to Clense , Resolve , and Consolidate , and for this it is miraculously effectuall ; for because by its Smoake it sometimes makes men drunke , that doth not prove it to be a sort of He●bane , though it be very like it , both by the Leaves , Cups , Stalks and Seed ; for it is not credible it will do it so soon as Henbane , nor is it the effect of extreame cold ; but by the Aromaticall Vapour , that proceeds from it , which fill the cels of the brain . But the temperament of the Third sort of Tobacco , or rather nightshade yellow or black , is cold and moist . If you consider the effect of Tobacco , the Leaves are the principall , and next the Seed , though the Seed be farre below them . The Leaves must be used either greenwhen they are ripe , or else dryed , and in Winter brought to powder , for they are of the same force , as the juyce of the Leaves is . The way to dry them is this ; run a threed through the fairest Leaves of Tobacco , and those that are moderarely large , and hang them in the shade , in the roof of a Chamber , where neither the Sun , nor Fire , nor Wind may come at them . Others shew us another way to keep them any time of the year . Put the dry Leaves of Tobacco into a Viol full of Oyl of Olives ; and when you will use them , power off the Oyl , and wiping the Leavs with a thin Linnen Cloth , use them as if they were now gathered . Further , Amongest the effects of it this seems chiefly to be wonderfull . The West-Indians and the Inhabitants of Peru and Florida use this to take away weariness , and to make them chearfull of their work , and saith Nicolaus Monardus , we found that by their example our servants and the M●ors that come strangers into the West-Indians , used to do the same . for when they are weary and tired with many leapings , and danceings , they draw this Herb in by their Mouthes and Nostrils , and so the same thing befals them , that doth the Indians ; for about three or four houres they seem as if they were dead ; after this they are well refreshed , and more able and chearfull to work , then they were before : And they take such pleasure in this , that sometimes they will go out of sight , that they may the more freely take it though they be not weary . Yea , they grow so mad , that sometimes they are therefore punished for it by their Masters , who also take care that their Tobacco may be burnt , that so they may take from them all occasion of this pleasure . What need more words ? I saw , saith Nicholaus Monardus , both the Servants and Moores , that were not suffered to make ●hemselves drunk with Wine , to drink the juyce of Tobacco , and make themselves drunk , wherein they take not small pleasure , and they boast that it takes away wearinesse from them . It is also as strange and wonderfull that the Inhabitants of Florida at some set times of the year , will feed on the smoke only of this Plant , which they suck into their Mouths by horns made for this use . The Marriners are sufficient witnesses , and many more that newly returned from Florida , and more are daily coming back , who having some things like horns or tunnels , tide about their necks , made of Palm tree leaves , are much delighted with Reeds or Canes , in the ends whereof these Leaves are fastned in Bundles , when they are grown dry , and withered . Then put lighted Coles to the more narrow part of the Tunnel , and draw with open mouth the fume that is raised , as much as they can , and they swear and maintaine it , that hunger and thirst is thereby abated , their Strength is restored , their Spirits are cheared , and their Braine is comforted with a kind of pleasant Drunkennesse , and the superfluous Humours of it are consumed , and an incredible quantity of Flegmatique Humours are drawn into their mouths . Like to these , is that which the said Mona●dus left in writing in his own Spanish Language : The Indians ( saith he ) use Tobacco to stay hung●r and thirst , and to drive it away for some daies , that they may not need to eat or drink ▪ when they have cause to go abroad into Woods and Desarts , and inhospitable places where meat and drink can hardly be got . For they chew the leaves , and mingle them with powder of great Cockle shels , and these they hold in their mouthes together , untill they come to a Mass , and of that they make Trochisks so great as Pears , which being dried in the shade , when occasion is , they use after this manner . They put this pellet under their lips and fore-teeth , and suck it as they travell ; and having sucked it all , they swallow it down instead of meat and drink , and fill their stomach . By this means they will fast for three or four daies , and lose no strength , preserving ( as I think ) their native heat by the plenty of flegm which being suckt into the mouth , is swallowed down with it ; and the stomach for want of better juyce , turns it into nourishment . To these things I shall adde what the most famous Physician to the Emperour , Rombertus D●doneus a great Scholar , and who deserved much for his great skill in Plants , reports in his late History of Plants . I understand by the relation of my Friend ( saith he ) that drinking the juyce of this Plant about four or five Ounces in weight , their belly is mightily troubled , and they purge up and down , after that they fall into a long and deep sleep . There was a Countrey man that was strong , of a middle age , who had a Dropsy , and he took this juyce , and he when he awakened demanded for me●t and drink , and after that he was well . He relates also , that he cured many Countrey-men of Agues with the distilled water of the leaves of Tobacco , dr●nk a lit●le before his fit come ▪ But with the powder or the dry stalks and rabbish , he soon cured gallings , not only of men but of horses and other creatures . These ar●Dodon●us his words . But to come more particularly to the Effects of Tobacco . First of all the powder of the leve● of Tobacco , finely beaten and sifted , and blown into ●oth No●trils in the morning through ● Quill , is good against Catarr●s , and all de●luxions upon the eyes , and for pains and giddiness of the head , if these proceed from a cold cause . It purgeth all Humours that trouble the head , marvellously , like to an Errhine or nose-Purge , and diverts them , so we use it in the morning for some daies , the body being well purged before . The paines of the head , legs , armsf coming of wind or cold , abate , if you lay on one of Tobacco leaves green , rosted on the fire , upon the part ; If you want green leaves , use those that are dry , which you must moisten in Wine , and lay under hot embers , then sprinkling them with water of Naphtha , they will be applied happily to the part . You may do as much with the powder of the leaves dried , mingling such things as are proper for these Diseases . But you must repeat the cure so often untill the pain be gone . In Convulsions and such like Diseases , the leaves of Tobacco will do good , if they be laid to the nape of the Neck . Carolus Clusius affirms , that the distilled water is good for clouds of the eyes , to discuss them , and to preserve the sight , if you often wipe the eyes with it warm . It cures deafness , especially from a cold cause , if you drop in one drop of the oyl or juyce warm , into the ears , for some daies together . Doctor Monardus writes , that he saw a man , who for a long time , had Ulcers in his Nostrils , from whence there ran much fretting matter , and filth that eat his Nostrils ; but at length , when by his advice he snuft up the juyce of Tobacco into his Nostrils , first he hawked up above twenty small worms , then greater , untill there were none remaining ; so that the inward Ulcers of his Nostrils ( you would have thought it a kind of Polypus ) were cured , but the parts corroded and eaten up were not to be repaired , and so it had been with all the rest , had he not had the Physicians advice . The juyce and oyntment of Tobacco takes away the redness of the face , if you dip a fine rag in it , and apply it to the cheek-bones ; Anoynting with the oyl doth the same , or washing with the water of it . A little leaf of Tobacco wrapt up into a lump , be it a green or a dry leaf , and this held in the mouth ( but the teeth must be first rubbed clean with a linnin cloath wet in the juyce of Tobacco ) doth presently ease the pain of the teeth , coming from cold or wind , and takes away all corruption : but this remedy is nothing worth , if the pain proceed from a hot cause : Also it is good to rub aking teeth with the di●●lled water of Tobacco . To cure the Thrush and Ulcers of the Gums , a mixture is made with Honey of Roses , and the juyce of sour Pomgranats , which maudifies , scoures , and breeds flesh . The leaves of Tobacco ro●sted under the hot embers applyed to the pained part , ease the pains of the Throat over-cooled by rheume , and all other Diseases of the body proceeding from cold causes . And a gargarism may be made of the decoction of this Herb alone , or mingled with other Herbs , proper for this Disease . It wonderfully helps Diseases of the brest , and those that spit bloody matter . Also for short breath , and other inveterate Diseases , if a decoction of it be made with Sugar , and the Stomach being first purged , it be taken for som● daies together . So the leaves of Tobacco , boyled in water and Sugar put to the decoction : Or rather juyce of the leaves press●d forth , and boyled into a syrrup , Apozeme or Julep , taken daily upon an empty stomach , two or three ounces 〈◊〉 a time , abates the difficulty of breathing , and an old cough . It brings forth thick , clammy , corrupt humours ; but the sick must be first well purged , and generally his body must be well emptied by Physick . Also a Syrrup may be made of other pectoral means , adding the leaves of Tobacco to them , or Liquorish , Reasins , Jububes , Figges , Prunes , Dates , and Herbs fit for this use ; as Maydenhair , Scabious , Horehound ; and the like . Take Maydenhairs white and black , Horehound , Coltsfoot , of each one handfull ; Tobacco leaves two or three ▪ Reasins without stones , whole Barley of each one Pugill ; Liquorish scraped two drammes ; make a decoction to a pint , sweeten it with Sugar and Honey what is sufficient . Another that attenuates and cuts more : Take Scabious , Horehound , Maydenhairs , Wall-Ru● . of each one handfull and half , Figgs ten , Reasins one ounce ; Tobacco leaves five , Liquorish scraped two drammes ; make a decoction in a pound of Ho●ied water , untill two parts be consumed ; Adde to the strained Liquor of simple Oxymel , Syrrup of Maydenhair , of each two ounces , Oxymel compound one ounce , mingle them . Water of Tobacco , with Eybright water , drank daily upon an empty stomach , doth the same ; as Doctor Iarnacus Goverour of Rochel hath proved , who was an intimate acquaintance of Nicotilus and private to the counsels and businesses of the French King , and whom he chiefly desired to communicate the Knowledg of this Plant to . This man being at a Banquet of the Kings , with the Embassodour , professed that by this means he cured one of an Asthma . I ( saith Nicolaus Monardus ) observed some men ( troubled with an Asthma , returning from the WestIndies or from Peru ) chewing Tobacco leaves in their mouthes , and swallowing the juyce of them , to make them spit forth corrupt matter : but though ▪ these men were drunk by it , it appears they found much good by it , to bring out matter and flegm that stuck in their stomach● . The dry powder of Tobbacco performs the same , if you hold as much of it as you can take between the top of your fore-finger and thumb , at the root of your tongue , near your palate ( taking care that you swallow not the powder ) for in a short space you shall perceive great plenty of flegmatique humours to run forth at your mouth , and this will endure untill that you may fill a small dish with flegme . When you think this watry hu●our is come forth in sufficient quantity , wash your mouth with some good white Wine : Do this every morning upon an empty stomach . If this be to troublesome , do it every third day , alwaies according to art , premising universals . The same way it is profitable for the Diseases of the Brest , and the parts adjoyning , as the Lungs , Wesand , Throat , offended by afflux of humours . It is wonderfull good for pains proceeding from a defluxion of humours upon the mouth of the stomach , or bred there ; and for all old paines of it , or preternatural long-during paines of the Reins , and for contractions of parts , from chronical and lasting Diseases , to chew the powder of dry leaves of Tobacco in the mouth , to make an Apoph●egmatism with them . The women of the West-Indies mightily commend the leaves of Tobacco , because they take away the crudities of the stomachs of young and old ; and dispell winds , restore concoction , soften the belly , if it be first annointed with oyl of Olives ; and the leaves being made hot under hot embers , be applyed to the region of the belly , and be renewed as oft as occasion is : The ashes must not be wiped off , but more must be laid on to make it more effectual . Also , if you lay the said leaves so prepared , to one that is surfeitted with meat or drink , you shall very much remove his Crapula , and repletion . The same reason serves for the powder of the dry Herb , if you put so much of it as you can hold between your finger and thumb , into a spoonfull or two of Aqua vitae when you go to bed : For it takes away your surfet , and makes you sleep , and resolves flegm . They that swound away , presently recover their former strength , if the smoak of the leaves come into their mouthes or nostrils , drawn by a Pipe or Reed . Tobacco wonderfully helps the torments of the Guts and Belly , and pain of the Colick , and other paines proceeding from wind , or cold , if you lay the leaves on very hot , and change them often , untill the pain abate . The powder of the leaves dried , is good for the same use , taken in white Wine , or some other liquor when you go to bed , about half a dram or a dram weight , or thereabouts . The leaves used the same way , cure the wringing of the small Guts , and it is proper to put this Herb with others in decoctions for Clysters , as also to use them for Plasters and Fomentations , that will do great service . For Example , take Mercury , R●e , Marsh Mallows , Little Cent●ury , of each one handfull ; Hysop , Calamint , Wormwood , of each one handfull and an half ; Tobacco leaves six , roots of Marsh-mallows half an ounce ; Linseed , Fenegrek , of each three drams ; Cumminseed , Anniseed , of each one dram and half : let them bo●l in sufficient quantity of water , untill the third pa●t be consumed , then take of the liquor boil'd and strained , one pound ; Hiera Picra , half ●n ounce , Benedicta Laxativa , ●ix drams ; fresh Butter , Honey of Rose● strained , of each six drams ; Oyl of Rue and Dill , of each one ounce and half ; common Salt one dram : Mingle them all , and make a Clyster . If Tobacco leaves be distilled with Fumitary , it wonderfully helps all Diseases of the Liver : But observe , you must take less quantity of Fumitary then of Tobacco . The juyce of the leaves of Tobacco , bruised with a little Vineger , or the Oyntment of them rubbed in the morning upon the place of the Spleen obstructed or hardened , from a cold cause , softneth and dissolveth it ; but after ann●inting , you ●ust apply a leaf to it roasted in the embers , or a cloath wet in the juyce of the leaves . Others use instead of this , unguents proper to this Disease with which they mingle the juyce of the leaves , and adde also the leaves themselves ; and by this means it is found out , that hard and inveterate humours may be dissolved . The distilled water drank daily upon an empty stomach , wonderfully helps hydrophical persons . Moreover , if you put the dry leaves of Tobacco upon the live Coles in a Kettle , and so roste them , and draw in the smoke of them by your mouth , with a Pipe or Reed , or Tunnell , haveving your head and throat close covered , you shall spit out so much flegme , and clammy humours , that you shall be so lank , as if you had fasted a long time . Wherefore it seems that a Dropsy not yet confirmed may be cured by this fume , since it chiefly doth good to A●●hmaticall short●winded people , and such as are vexed with an old cold , and with Rhumes ; for it makes them to spit out much thick and clammy matter . The juyce of the Leaves of Tobacco Clarified , and with Sugar ●ade into a Syrup , and taken in the Morning in a small quantity , drives forth Stomack and Belly Worms ; yet you must bruise the Leaves and wrap them in a Cloth , and lay them to the Navel of the Patient , and give him a Clyster of Milk and Sugar . Also the powder of the same alone or mingled with other Le●itives , is a present remedy for the Emrods : for it perfectly cures them . The Leaves heat under the Embers as I shewed before , do with no less force drive away pains of the Matrix , if they be laid to the Navell , but it must be first Annoynted with Oyle wherein the juyce of the Leaves is boyled . But the suffocation of the Matrix is taken away , by receiving the fume of the Leaves by the privities . Hip Go●t it abated , if you rub it with Oyle of Olives , and apply one Leafe of Tobacco Rosted at the fire . This is good for any Gout coming from Cold ; Some bid the Patient chew every Morning fasting some of the ●eaves , to free him from pains of the Gout . This will draw much Fl●gme into his Mo●th , and hinder it from running down upon the lower parts . Wherefore the powder of the dryed Leaves will preserve men from pains of the Gout of the Feet that came at certain times , if they use to Snuf● up this Powder often into both Nostrils . Likewise they that are now in pain with it , shall manifestly find an abatement of it , and the Disease to decline , if they Snuff up the Powder into their Noses , and in time often using it they will be freed from it . Also the Powder may be held in the Mouth instead of an Apophlegmatism : for either way it draws much Humours from the head , and directs them from falling down upon the parts affected , by reason of Defluxions . Lastly , The fresh Leaves of Tobacco , laid on hot to resolve the cold are good for any part of the body affected from a cold cause : for they take away the pains , and forcibly resolve them ; either applyed by themselves , or with other Remedies , good for the same Diseases , where there needs strong resolving means . Take Sagupenu● , Bdelli●m , Gri●●●l●●y , of each one Dram ; dissolve them in Vinegar , and about the end adde of the Leaves of powder of Tobacco dried one ounce , Oyle of Camomile one ounce , wax what is sufficient ; make a Plaister according to art , for this most powerfully resolves , and abates pain ; Also you may make it thus . Take Tacamaha● , Caranna , of each three Drams ; dissolve them according to art , in Wine , or a little of the strongest Vinegar ; after this adde powder of Tobacco six Drams , Oyle of Lillies , and of Wall Flowers , five Drams , wax what is sufficient , make an Em●plaister according to art . To these adde Tumours , Impostumes , Inflations , and Childrens kibe heels , or any sort of Itch ; for the Leaves of Tobacco laid to them , or the juyce warm , with Rags , or Lint wet therein cure them , for they resolve the Humours and ease the pains . To cure Kibes , the part affected must be Annoynted with the juyce , and be rubed with Linnen Raggs ; but first , putting the Feet or Hands , if the cold be in them , into very hot water , wherein you have put a little Salt , for this is often proved to do good . It is tried that Tobacco will cure Burns ; A certain drunken Companion had a Glass of Beer in his hand , and he stumbling , and loth to break the Glass , fell into the fire and burned his hand . Women laid their heads together , and they after an howre or two , laid on some Clay . This did no way ease the pain , for he could not sleep by day nor by night , wherefore being no longer able to endure the pain , he comes to a Matron of Antwerp , and asks her advice , who , as he had heard , knew the Vertues of Tobacco . Shee strewing the brims of the burnt place , with the powder of Tobacco , attempted to help him , but for three daies little good was done by it . When therefore he grew impatient , he murmured at the Woman secretly , because he came to her to be cured , and Shee went to make experiment of the Vertues of Tobacco upon him , and he commanded that such Medicaments as are gentle should be applied : but the pain being nothing lessened with this , he comes back to the Matron , desiring her to go on with the cure as Shee began , and Shee ( as Shee was a very good Woman ) strewed the Powder on again , and in three daies made him well . Moreover , for inveterate Wounds , malignant cancerous and spreading Ulcers , Scabs , Noli me tangere , Itch , Tetters , Scrophula's , Bubo's , Impostumes , fleshy Excrescences , and the like almost innumerable Diseases , it is very effectuall , if the juyce be applied with rags or lint . Green Wounds , if they are not to deep , are cured in one day , by the juyce of the Leves and Lint . But if the Wound be very deep , it may be washed with Wine , and be bound with bands wet in the juyce . And it is excellent to heal a Wound quickly , to wash it with the juyce of the Leaves , the Inflammation being over . Not long after that the Embassadour came to have the knowledg of Tobacco at Lisbon , one of his Cooks had almost cut off his whole Thumb ; the Steward presently runs for Tob●cco , which being sometimes applied to the Wound , the Cook was well cured ; And thus this Herb grew to be so much esteemed at Lisborn , where the Court them was , and it began to be called the Embassadours Herb. It is as good for contusions and all hurts , to which nothing else useth to be applied besides the juyce with Rags , and the part affected must be swathed with a Roller . But diet must be chiefly ob●erved , and if need be , the Patient must be well purged , and this is often proved good . Tobacco hath notable force to stay blood running forth immoderately from a Wound , or from the Nostrils , or from any hurt , only applying the juyce with with Lint to the Wounds , ●ut the juyce must be sn●ffed up into the Nostrils , or the Powder must be drawn into the Nose by a Cane or Tunnell . To cleanse and heal foul Ulcers of the French-Pox , and in dainty people ; especially if the part that is Ulcerated be of exquisite feeling , the decoction of Tobacco in a Gargarism is very effectuall , or mingled with other things . Such a remedy you find in the small Book of Iulius Palmarius , concerning contagious Diseases ; Take two pugils of whole Barley , Agrimony , Tobacco , Plantane , Chick-Weed , Red Roses , of each one Handfull , boyl all in foure Pounds of water to three Pounds , and straine it , th●n mingle with it Honey of Roses , and Syrup of dried Roses , of each three Ounces , burnt Allum , burnt Vitrioll , of each half a Dram ; This Remedy is very abstergent and drying , and cures Ulcers . The falling off the hair of the head , old corrupt Ulcers of the Arms , Legs , & other parts , and ready to G●ngreen , are by this brought to Cicatrize if they be first washt in white wine or Urine , and wiped with a wet Cloth , with one or two green Leaves of Tobacco bruised , and be made moist with the juyce of it , which ma● also be used alone , and bound on with a Swath of Linnen ; this being continued for some daies , makes them perfectly well . If green Leaves be wanting , strew upon the Leaves the Powder of the dried Herb , but the Patient must first be Purged by the Physician , and if need be , a Vein must be opened , and and a good Diet observed . Yet let no man be dismayed , if he see the Sore grow bigger by degrees ; for so all faulty flesh is consumed , and good flesh will come in the place , without Chyrurgery or use of any other Medicament . A certain Noble Man , who was Father to one of the Embassadours Pages , hearing the report of this Plant , came to Lisbon , he had an eating Ulcer upon his Leg for two whole years , when he had for ten or twelve daies used the Plant as the Embassadour directed him , he was well cured and returned home . A certain young Man had a foule eating Ulcer hard to be cured upon one of his Cheeks , and it began to seaze upon the gristle of his nose . He first made triall of this Herb , without the Embassadours knowledge , wherefore applying Lint with the juyce of the Leaves ●o the Ulc●s , he found incredible help by it . Which when the Embassadour understood by another of his Pages Kinsman to the other that was in this Case , he called the young Man to him , and he observing for eight daies the same way of cure , rooted a Noli me tangere quite out ; but in the mean while that he was curing of him , he sent him to the chiefest Physician of the King of Portugall , that he should set down the order of his cure ; and he being eight daies after called for by the Embassadour to look upon his sore face , he professed openly that the Noli me tangere was quite killed and dead , and it was more clearly known by that , because the young Man complained not any more of a pain of his Cheek . A Woman had a horrible Tetter in her Face , you would think Shee Painted , and Shee was cured in eight daies by help of Tobacco , and departed home , giving great thanks to the Embassadour before abundance of People . It will not be impertinent to adde one Memorable example which Monaerdus relates in his book of simple Medicaments , brought from the new found World . A Matron saith he that had the charge of a Knights Daughter of Spain , remembring what I had said concerning the Vertues of Tobacco in the audience of many People , undertook to cure the Child committed to her Charge , ( whose Head was overrun with a foule Scall , and to whom I and others had applied many Remedies in vain ) with Tobacco , which Shee fetched of me , nor did Shee loose her Labour . For when Shee had rubbed the Scab so sharply with Tobacco Leaves , that for pain the Child fainted often away the same day , the day following , not regarding her crying or pains , Shee rubbed the Leaves on again , untill such time as the S●als falling of by degrees , the Girls was cured , yet when Shee saw the S●als fall , Shee rubbed her Head something more gently . A Captain of Souldiers , who had a Sonne miserably afflicted with the Kings Evill , was resolved to send him into France , ( because the common opinion is that none but the King of France can cure that Disease ) this Captain came to the Embassadour , who made tryall of Tobaco in this case , and in a very few daies , he cured the Boy of his Disease ; The way of cure is this . Apply Lint wet in the juyce of Tobacco , taken from the bruised Leaves , but do it nine or ten times . If a man apply the juyce of Tobacco or Lint wet in it , or the green Leaves bruised with his hands , to any part of the body stung with Nettles , he shall presently perceive the pain gone , and the part cured . It is good to cure Warts , if you lay the juyce with Lint upon the Wart , making first an open place in it with your Pen-knife untill the Blood come , or else Annoynt the place only with U●guent of Tobacco , this I know to be true ; and may be it may do the same to Corns that grow upon the joynts of the Feet . So also the juyce of Tobacco applyed to any pestilent Carbuncle is a present Remedy . Also used the same way , it is good for Venomous Stings , Pricks , and Bites . So it heals the Bitings of Mad Dogs , if it be applied presently in a quarter of an Honre after the bite is given . It is good also for the Indians called the Carybes ; for it is a singular Antidote for the venomous weapons of their Enemies . For when they go to Warre they carry with them two hoofs of hearts , in one of them there is a present Venome , which so soon as it Wounds but the skin , that it may come at the Blood , it brings present death : but in the other they carry the juyce of Tobacco , and applying this , they are freed from Death , as experience Witnesseth : If they have no green Tobacco , they use the dry , or beaten into Powder . The Carybes Indians , in the Province of Savina , Were the first that ever made triall of this , when in a Battle they were many Wounded and Killed . For when as they were wont , to cured venomed Wounds with Sublimate , for want of that they used the juyce of Tobacco pressed forth of the leaves , and this presently took away the pain , and made them well ; tryal hath been often made of this in Spain . Moreover , the leaves and juyce of Tobacco , applyed with lint , cures all hurts that befall bruit Beasts ; and kill the worms in foul Ulcers , and all creeping Ulcers , like as sublimate doth . Also this cures hard flesh , growing upon the legs of Cattle , and Pack-horses , whose backs are galled with burdens and Pack-saddles , or if they be more hurt , though the wound or wounds encline to a Cancer ; only apply the leaves or juyce with lint , or use the dried Herb. They will be so well cured without any other Medicament , that you need not to forbear your Journey . Tobacco is an Antidote against Hellebore . The Hunters of Spain are wont to use Hellebore , because it is a present poyson to kill Deer , and wild Beasts . The Catholick King to try the truth of it , bad a Hunter to hurt a little Dog in the throat , and to put Hellborne into the wound , and by and by after , the juyce of Tobacco upon lint , and so to bind all up , and the Dog received no harm , to the wonder of them all . The like happened last Winter at Antwerp , where one gave to a Cat , of a Matron of the Town , a Bolus mingled with venome , because the Cat was to fierce . After this , the Cat could stay no where , but ran up and down , and tryed in vain to vomit up the poyson ; the Matron observing this , found a way to open the Cats mouth , and to thrust in a little Ball of Tobacco , made up with butter : The Cat presently after , cast up the poyson and escaped death . Thus much for Male Tobacco ; but the use and faculties of the Female , are almost the same as of the Male : and when the Male is wanting , we used the Female ( as I have directed you before for the Male ) to cure by . Observe this , that the leaves of the Female Tobacco are good in decoctions for Clysters : They are excellent against Dysenteries , and the Balsam of it yeelded to no Medicament to cure a Cancer , especially of the Brests . The third sort of Tobacco , which some call black , others yellow Henbane , is contrary to Tobacco in nature and qualities , and therefore they do ill , that foolishly use it for the true Tobacco . Yet it may serve to revulse hot humours , and in part to resolve hot Impostumes ; also in a Cancer it may restrain the heat of black choler . Iohan. de vigo . capite de hernia , useth Henbane to resolve humours . It is strange ( saith Monardus lib. 3. of simple Medicaments , that are brought out of the new world ) what notable vertues and faculties are daily discovered in Tobacco : For besides those related , I can ( saith he ) relate as many were , which I have heard others speak of , and I my self have observed The juyce pressed out of the fresh leaves of Tobacco , and drank the quantity of two ounces , vehemently purgeth water and flegme above and beneath , and therefore it is profitably given in Dropsies and the Falling-sickness . Also , water is distilled from the leaves of Tobacco cut in pieces , in a glass Limbeck , which is afterwards rectified in the Sun . This is almost as good as the juyce of the Plant , chiefly for Wounds , Tumours , Kibes , and for nails that fall off from the fingers of themselves , if the water be but poured into the part affected , or now and then a lint or cloath wet in it and applyed . Leo Suavius bids us gather the leaves in Iuly , bruise them , and distill them in a double Vessell with glass Instruments , presently set it in the Sun , and keep it a year . This water taken fasting , the quantity of an ounce or an ounce and half , is good for an Asthma , and an old cold . The Oyl by infusion is thus made . Take the leaves torn or cut in pieces , boyl them in Oyl Olives , which will be coloured ; press it forth rejecting the leaves : then infuse fresh leaves , and expose them to the Sun in a Violglass , or boyl them untill the juyce be consumed ; this is good against Scabs , Wounds , and Ulcers : It cures pains of the head , and foulness of the skin . Also , Oyl may be drawn from the Seeds of Tobacco , which drank in a small quantity , is excellent against venome and bites of Vipers . Distilled Oyl is made by descent ( as the Chymists call it ) is a Glass retort . Salt is made by the Art of Chymistry from Tobacco , and both of these , namely the Oyl distilled , and the Salt far exceed the leaves or juyce , the powder , or distilled water , to cure Diseases ; because the most thin and excellent essences of it , are separated , which are better then the terrestriall matter ; for these are the next and immediate seat and subject of the faculties themselves . Let no man despise or scornfully laugh at the name of Essence ; for Galen used it , explaining the thing very fitly . For I understand nothing else then he doth , when he saith , that some Herbs are of a more thick ; thin , or fiery nature and essence then others are . Iacobus Gohorius of Paris , shews the way to make Salt of Tobacco , thus . Calcins Tobacco , dissolve the Calx , strain , filtrat , evaporate it ; there will be a Salt which will do no harm in a Caustick , and not so Corrosive in dissolving malignant Ulcers ; wherefore this is the common way to extract Salt from all Vegetables . Burn the Herb in the fire , the place being swept clean with Brooms ( some first set it in the Sun , others dry it in the shade ) let it burn untill it stick together in a lump : Or if you proceed further to burn it , to burn it to ashes , you shall have more Salt . Put the ashes into a glazed earthen Pot , and pour fair water upon them , and let it seeth some hours at the fire ; pour it forth into another Vessell , and when the dregs are setled , strain it through a linnen cloath ; set the strained liquour at an easie fire with few Coles , that the water may evaporate , and the Salt remain in the bottom . The next way is more curious . Burn the dried Herb in an ●arthen Pot covered , by a long and strong fire , untill the ashes come to be pure white , and that is a sign it is perfectly calcined : then let it boyl in Rain or distilled water in a Glass vessell , in sifted ashes ; let it boyl untill a fourth part of the water be wasted , then let it stand a while : Pour it into another Glass , and putting in some new very fine Tongues to filter it , the pure and salt water will be strained into the Receiver underneath it . What is filtrated , must be evaporated at an easie fire , in a Glass Vessell , and the salt will remain at the bottom clear and pure . The third way is the most exact : Gather the Herb green , and bruise it , distill the water of it by a Limbeck , calcine the faeces at a moderate fire , the Vessell being stopt , untill they come to ashes . Let the fire be gentle , that it may not consume the proper and radical moisture of the Plant , for that will make it run to glass ; pour the water upon the earth of it , and it will thirstily devoure it : Digest it in Horse dung , or in a Bath some daies . Pour it out as before , that it be not mingled with the faeces , then filtrat it , lastly evaporate what is filtrated . These are the various waies to make artificial Salt , not only of Tobacco , but of all Vegetables that are prepared by the fire , and the use of them may be wonderfull in curing those that are dainty , and such as abhorre all Medicaments , putting that Salt in their Broth , or Salt-seller to season their meat . To this may be referred what the famous Physician and Philosopher of his age Liona●dus Fioravantus hath written in his Physicall Observations . I took ( sath he ) Tobacco , with Seed and Root , and I stamped them all ; the leaves weighed LIV ounces , I hid them in Horse dung to ferment thirty daies , and that they might not corrupt , I put some salt to them , and six ounces of aqua vitae ; then I distilled them in B●l●eo M●riae , untill all the moisture were drawn from them , and that it might keep the better ; I added so much Oyl of Brimestone as might make it taste sharp . I used this composition in many things . In all Feavers , a spoonfull drank cured them : Wounded men , if they drank it , or annointed their wounds with it , they were cured to admiration . Oytments are made of Tobacco divers waies , though the Herb used by it self is far more effectuall . Take the fairest , greatest , greenest most rosiny leaves of Tobacco , freed from all filth and dust diligently , that are no waies wet with Rain or Dew , one pound ; bruise them with a Pestle in a Morter of Marble , or of Wood ; half a pound of Hogs-grease prepared , that is purged from all its skins ▪ and melted in a brazen Vessell : to this must be added the juyce of Tobacco , and the thick substance bruised : Let them boyl together upon a Trevot in a brazen Pot , with a very small gentle fire , namely live Coles being put under the Trevot , or else in Balneo , untill you see the watryness of the juyce to be vanished and gone , and the unguent brought to a Consistence . Or an unguent may be made of the manifold infusion of Tobacco , in Oyl of Roses , three or four times renewing the leaves in Balneo ; and when you press it out , adding so much of the juyce of the same Herb , and wax what may suffice , and make an ●nguent according to art . Or thus , Take juyce of Tobacco , one pound , common Oyl , new Wax , Rosin of the Pine-Tree , of each two ounces ; Oyl of St Johns Wort , one ounce : Let them boyl at a gentle fire for three hours ; strain it , and adde to it two ounces of Turpentine . Boyl them to the consistence of an unguent . It is good for old Ulcers of the Pox , Scrophulas , Ulcers or Spots contracted by the fire in Winter . Kibes , chaps of the hands ; especially if you rub the part affected first with the green Herb , and put it into hot salt water . and after anoint it with the said unguent . Take Pitch , Rosin , new Wax , Turpentine , of each three ounces . Let them melt and boyl together in a brass Vessell with live Coles under it ; when all are melted and boyl'd , then adde of the juyce of Tobacco and bruised substance , one pound ; let all boyl together five or six hours at an easy fire , upon a Tripod in a double Vessell , that is a Kettle full of boyling water : move them constantly , untill all the watryness be consumed , and the rest be thickned to an unguent ; then press them out through a thick hempen cloath , and put them again into the brass Skillet , adding half an ounce of Venice-Turpentine yet let them not boyl , but stirre them carefully , then let them cool , and keep them for use . Take leaves of Tobacco bruised , one pound ; Yellow Wax , Turpentine , Oyl Olives , Pitch , white Rosin , of each three ounces : Let them boyl together two hours in a new Pipkin , to the consistence of an unguent , then use it in a small quantity , spread on leather or linnin . Some there are that in both descriptions do not adde the juyce of Tobacco with the thick substance , but they only strain it , and crush it through a thick cloath ; and they reserve the juyce alone , which is not the best way . But the first unguent is farmore effectual for Wounds , cancerous Ulcers , Tetters , Itch , Knots upon the face ; because it hath a greater force to resolve and cleanse away , which is the property of Tobacco , if it be not hindered by other things that are joyned with it . The latter is better to heal wounds , and repair flesh ; to resolve Impostumes , to ease paines , and such like Operations . But it seems needless to Iacobus Gohorius , to edde new Wax , Rosin , common Oyl , Turpentine ; because one of these is sufficient for the clamminess of Tobacco . For such an heap of Simples that are in that Oyntment , make the Oyntment only fit for Wounds , which otherwise is good for cancerous Ulcers , Itch , Imposthumes , Tetters , and other Maladies . It is no reason also , so to waste the juyce of Tobacco , that nothing should remain besides the bruised substance , and strange Ingredients . It will not be amiss to set down an unguent to cure wounds made with Gun-shot , and fit for all other purposes ; the proper making whereof is taught by Iosephus Quercetanus . Take the juyce of Tobacco , one pound , Turpentine five ounces ; compound Oyl of St Johns Wort , eight ounces ; the best white Wine , half a pound ; let these digest for eight daies : afterwards , boyl them untill the Wine be consumed , then adde Colophonia , Wax , of each three ounces ; Mummie , Amber , of each two drams ; melt them again at the fire , and make an unguent according to Art . Iacobus Weckerus teacheth to make an unguent against the Scabs , thus : Take the juyce of Tobacco , one ounce and half ; powdred Brimestone , Salt , of each one ounce ; Oyl of Tobacco , Oranges , of each two ounces ; Oyl of Wax , Goats suet , of each two ounces ; make an unquent according to art . Iacobus Weckerus saith , That he received another unguent from a Frenchman to cure wounds . Take juyce of Tobacco , one pound ; new Wax , Pitch , Rosin , common Oyl , of each two ounces ; boyl all together untill the juyce be consumed , then adde Venice Turpentine , three ounces ; strain all through a linnen cloath , and keep it in a Box . This cures Wounds and Ulcers certainly . Adde to all this , that a most fragrant Balsam is compounded of Tobacco ; Take as many leaves of Tobacco as you please , bruise them in a Mortar , and press forth the juyce ; cast away the gross body , and set the juyce with an equall part of Oyl of Olives in a glass Viol in the Sun for a long time ; stop the glass close with Gums and Wax , and fasten it with a sound skin of leather : Or if you like it best , set it in a Kettle full of boyling water , or in Balneo , or hide it in Horse dung , and leave it there full forty daies , renewing the dung sometimes ; when the forty daies are ended , you shall find a Balsam in the Glass , no less effectual for all Causes , then the Quintessence of Tobacco it self . Quercetanus describes another kind of Balsam for Wounds made by Gun-shot , after this manner . Take the glewy substance of Tobacco and Comfry , of each four ounces ; Oyl Turpentine , one pound ; Flowers of S● Johns Wort , and Mallou's , of each two handfuls ; Elm-tree , Aples , three ounces ; of the poplar buds , four ounces ; Spirit of Wine , one pound and half : Digest them in Horse-dung , or leave them in a hot stove , in a glass Vessell , well stopt for a whole moneth ; then press them , and strain them forth : Adde Frankincense , Mastich , Myrrhe , of each two ounces ; Dragons Blood , half an ounce ; Mummie six ounces , Terpentine half a pound , Benivio one ounce . Circulate them together in a Pellicane for eight daies , then distill of the Spirit of Wine , at a moderate fire , and there will remain in the bottom a most precious Balsam . FINIS . Courteous Reader , These Books following are Printed and Sould by Simon Miller , at the Starre in St Pauls Church-yard . Small Folio . DOctor Lightfoot his Harmony on the New Testament , which will shortly be re-printed with large Additions . The Civill Warres of Spain in the Reign of Charles the fifth , Emperour of Germany , and King of that Nation , wherein our late unhappy differences are paralleled in many particulars . A general History of Scotland , from the year 767. to the death of King Iames , containing the principal Revolutions and Transactions of Church and State , with Political Observations , and reflections upon the same : by David Hume of Gods-croft . The History of this Iron Age . Mr Paul Baine on the Ephesians . The Queen of Arragon , a Play : In fol. In Quarto large . Io. Barklay his Argenis , Translated by Sir Robert le Grise Knight , by his Late Majesties speciall Command . Quarto Small . Abraham's Faith , or the good Old Religion , proving the Doctrine of the Church of England to be the only true Faith of Gods Elect : By Iohn Nicholson Minister of the Gospel . The Anatomy of Mortality : By George Stroad . Three Treatises : 1. The Conversion of Nineveh touching Prayer and Fasting . 2. Gods Trumpet sounding to Repentance . 3. Sovereign preservative against distrustfull Thoughts and Cares : By Will . Attosall Minister of Gods Word at Isfield in Sussex . Ay●sworth on the Canticles . Paul Baine , his Diocesans Trial. Gralle against Appolonius . A Treatise of Civil Policy , being a clear Decision of 43 Queries , concerning prerogative , right and priviledge , in reference to the supream Prince and People : By Samuel Rutherford Professor of Divinity of St Andrews in Scotland . Politick and Military Observations of Civil and Military Government , containing the Birth , Encrease , Decay of Monarchies , the carriage of Princet and Magistrates . Mr Pinchin his Meritorious price of mans Redemption , cleared . Astrology Theologized , shewing what nature and influence the Starres and Planets have over men , and how the same may be diverted and avoided . Wells his Souls Progress . 4o . Christ Tempted , the Devils Conquered ; Being a plain Exposition on the fourth Chapter of St Mathews Gospel : By Iohn Gumbledon Minister of the Gospel : In 4o . The Saints Society . Dr Stoughto●s 13 choice Sermons , with his Body of Divinity : In 4o . The Reasons of the dissenting Brethren concerning the PresbyterianGovernment , together with the answer of the Assembly of Divines : In 4o . Camdens Remains . The Harmonious Consent and Confession of Faith , of all the Protestant Reformed Churches in Christendome : In 4o . Large Octavo . Florus Anglicus , with the Lively Effigies of all the Kings and Queens since the Conquest , cut in Brass . The Reconciler of the Bible , wherein above two thousand seeming Contradictions are fully and plainly Reconciled . Evidences for Heaven , containing infallible Signs and real Demonstrations for assurance of Salvation , published by Edm. Calamy Minister of Aldermanbury , Lond. The Life and Reign of King Charles from his Birth to his Death , By Lambert Wood . The Night-Search , the second part : By H. Mill . 8o . A view of the Jewish Religion , with their Rites , Customes and Ceremonies . Small Octavo . Ed. Waterhouse Esq His Discourse of Piety and Charity . Panacea , or the Universall Medicine ; being a Discourse of the Admirable Nature and Virtues of Tobacco : By Dr Everard and Others . A view and defence of the Reformation of the Church of England , very usefull in these times . Mr Pet du Moulin , his Antidote against Popery ; published on purpose to prevent the Delusions of the Priests and Jesuites who are now very busie amongst us . Herberts Devotions , or a Companion for a Christian , containing Meditations and Prayers , usefull upon all occasions . Ovid de Ponto , in English . The Loves of Clivio and Lozio a Romance . Mr Knowles , his Rudiment of the Hebrew Tongue . A Book of Scheams or Figures of Heaven , ready set for every four Minutes of times , and very usefull for all Astrologers . Florus Anglicus , or an exact History of England , from the Reign of William to the death of the Late King . Lingua , or the Combate of the Tongue , and the five Senses for superioritie : a serious Comedy . The Spirits Touchstone ; being a clear discovery how a man may certainly know whether he be truly taught by the Spirit of God , or not . The Poor mans Physician and Chyrurgion . Physicall Rarities , containing the most choice Receipts in Physick and Chyrurgery , for the cure of all Diseases Incident to mans body : By R. Williams . To which is added the Physical Mathematicks : By Hermes , Tres. Maggistus . The Idol of Clowns , or the Relation of Wat Tiler's Rebellion ▪ The Christian Moderator , in 3 parts . The Golden-fleece , or a Discourse of the cloathing of England . Dr Sibbs his Divine Meditations . Vigerius Preceptes of Idiolismes . 8o . Grotij Poemata . 8o . Duodecim . Doctor Smith's Practice of Physick . The Grammar Warre . Possellius Apothegmes . Fasciculus Florum . Crashaw's Visions . The Juniper Lecture . Helvicus Colloquies . The Christian Souldier , his Combate with the three arch-enemies of mankind , the world , the flesh , and the devil . Hensius de Crepundiis . The History of Russia , or the Govern ▪ of the Emperour of Muscovia , with the manner and fashions of the people of that Countrey . Drexeliu's School of Patience . Drexelius his right Intention of every ones Action . 12o . Viginti Quat . The New Testament . The third part of the Bible . Sr Richard Baker's Med. and Prayers for every day of the Week . 24o . Playes . The Ball . Chawbut . Conspiracy . Obstinate Lady . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A38822e-1270 l. Hist. 11. 6.5 . Pares prafat. in Chirnrg . See Petr. Martyr , Dec. 1. ● 9. Of the new world . Tobacco , an Antidote to poyson . Against Helebore . A History . It staies hunger and thirst . See Strabo lib. 15. & Cael. Rhodigin . li● . 24. c. 21. Laert. 1.9 de vit & morib . Philos. Valleriol . lib. 2. l●cor . commuu . Cae●ius l. 24. cap. 21. Ferror l. 9 . Meth. Whether the smoke of Tobacco can nourish . Another question . Arg. 1. Confirmation . For the other side . N●t 〈◊〉 Answer . Answer to the Confirmation . The esteem of Tobacco amongst the Barba●i●●● . It takes away weariness . The Scythians will be strangly drunk with smoke . Max. T●riSerm . 11. ●lso the Thracians , See Pon●ponius , Mela l. 2. Solinus ▪ c. 5. The Babilonians , Herodotus l. 1. near the end . The Indian Priests . The wonderfull craft of the devil amongst the Indians . The custome of the Indian Physicians Iohannes Metellus . It prepares a Ca●a●re in a cold matter . For the memory . Note . History 1. The smoke of Tobacco is very hurtful for young mens bodies . Especially for the Cholerick It will cause vomit . Therefore it is an enemy to the stomack . It alters the body . L. 2. de siguis . Lib de cau . sis Morbor . What is Tabes . 1. de Medic fimp. facul . Forgetting God for smoak . Commendation of health . lib. 1 ▪ ep. 2. The way to preserve health . Cic. lib 2. de Sence . In Philoeb . de summ● bon● . lib. 1. Elig . Pl●t lib. de ●uend . val . Horat. 1. ●p . 12. lib. 27. c. 3. Epist. 39. Ep. 32. I●enal . Sat. 2.8 . What Pipes the barbarous People use . An Objection . The negative part . The affirmative part . Reason . Note . Answer to the opposite argument . Another question whether the smoke if Tobacco swallowed into the stomach can bring forth sufluous moisture of the Brain . The affirmative part . For the negative part . How purging is made . Aristotles reason confu●ed . The question decided . Another question whether the Brain can be dried , other parts of the body remaining in medioerity . The negative part . The contrary part . Answer to the argument contrary . Custome , what ? Avicen . 6. 4. tr . i. c.1 . Caliu● l. 11 . c.13 . Plini . ● . 25 . c. 2 . Martiall , . 5. 17. Heurn . in meth. ad prax . l. 3 . c. 17. Notes for div A38822e-7910 The kind . The differences . Description of the Ma●e . The branches . The Root . Description of the Female . The third sort of Tobacco called commonly black or yellow , Henbane . The time . The Lote Tree . The way of ●sowing it . Transplant●tion . The name . The Embassadours Plant. The prior Plant. Petum . Tobacco . Picielt , the Herb of the holy Cross . Whence it is called Nicotiana . Female Petum . The temperament of Tobacco , Male and Female . The use and effects . It takes away weariness . The juyce of Tobacco makes one drunk A fume from the dried leaves of Tobacco . To stay hunger and thirst . A History for the Dropsy . For Diseases of the Head . Catarers . Head-ach . Dimnes● . Deafness . Ozena . Redness of the face . Tooth-ach . The Ulcers and fores of the Gums Swelling of the Throat from Rheum● Diseases of the Thorax . Short Wind. An old Cough . Use of the powder of Tobacco . Stomach pain . Crudities . Surfeit . Swounding . The Colick . The Iliac . The Liver . The Spleen . The Dropsie . Worms . ●mrods . The Womb . Suffoca●●-● on of the Matrix . Sciatica . Tumours , Impostumes , Kibes . For Burns . Old Wounds , Scabs , malignant and cancerous Ulcers , Tetters , Scrophulus . Green Wounds . F●ux of Blood . Sordid Ulcer of the Pox . Old Ulcers . A speck on the Face , Ulcerated For Scrophulas For the stinging of Nettl●s . Warts . Corns . A Plag● ▪ Carbuncle . Venomous stings and bites of mad dogs . Poysoned Weapons . Against Poyson . For Cattel . Hurts of Horses or other Beasts by galling . Against Hellebore An Experiment of a Dog poysoned . An Experiment for Venome . The use of Female Tobacco . To cure Breasts with Cancers . The third sort of Tobacco . The forces of the juyce of Tobacco . The distilled water , Oyl by Infusion . Oyl of the Seeds . Oyl distilled . The way to make Salt of it . The first way . Another way . The third way . Compound water . Oyntment of Tobacco Otherwise Otherwise Otherwise Otherwise Another against Wounds with Gun-shot . Another for the Scabs . Another for Wounds . Balsam of Tobacco . Another for wounds of Gun-shot . A01425 ---- Wine, Beer, and Ale Together by the Ears anon. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A01425 of text S102807 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 11542). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. 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VVine, beere, ale, and tobacco. Contending for superiority. A dialogue. Wine, beere, ale, and tobacco Wine, beere, and ale, together by the eares Wine, beere, ale, and tobacco. Contending for superiority. Gallobelgicus. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A01425 of text S102807 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 11542). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread [28] p. By T[homas] C[otes] for Iohn Groue, and are to be sold at his shop at Furniuals Inne Gate in Holborne, Printed at London : 1630. 1630

A revision of "Wine, beere, and ale, together by the eares", which was attributed to Gallobelgicus.

Printer's name from STC.

Signatures: A-C4 D2.

The first leaf is blank.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Wine -- Early works to 1800. Beer -- Early works to 1800. Ale -- Early works to 1800. Tobacco -- Early works to 1800. Smoking -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. A01425 shc Wine, Beer, and Ale Together by the Ears Anon. Melina Yeh 1624 play closet drama shc no A01425 S102807 (STC 11542). 8290 0 0 0 0000AThis text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. Incorporated ~ 10,000 textual changes made to the SHC corpus by Hannah Bredar, Kate Needham, and Lydia Zoells between April and July 2015 during visits, separately or together, to the Bodleian, Folger and Houghton Libraries as well as the Rare Book Libraries at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago

VVINE , BEERE , ALE , AND TOBACCO . Contending for Superiority .

A Dialogue .

The second Edition , much enlarged .

HORAT . Siccis omnia dura Deus proposuit .

Printed at London by T. C. for Iohn Groue , and are to be sold at his shop at Furniuals Inne Gate in Holborne , 1630 .

THE STATIONER TO THE READERS . GENTLEMEN ;

for in your Drinke , you will bee no lesse , I present you with this small Collation : If either Wine and Sugar , Beere and Nutmeg , a Cup of Ale and a Toste , Tobacco , or all together , may meete your Acceptation , I am glad I had it for you . There is difference betweene them ; but your Palat may reconcile all . If any thing distaste you , there is Water to wash your hands of the whole Pamphlet . So hoping you will accept a Pledge of my Seruice , and haue a care of your owne health , I begin to you .

I. Gr.
THE SPEAKERS . WINE , A Gentleman . SVGAR , His Page . BEERE , A Citizen . NVTMEG , His Prentice . ALE , A Countrey-man . TOST , One of his rurall Seruants . WATER , A Parson . TOBACCO , A swaggering Gentleman .
VVINE , BEERE , ALE , and TOBACCO , Contending for Superiority . Sugar and Nutmegge from seuerall doores meete . Sugar .

NVtmegge ?

Nut.

Sugar ? well met , how chance you waite not vpon your Maister , where 's Wine now ?

Sug.

Oh sometimes without Sugar , all the while he 's well if I bee in his company , t is but for fashion sake , I waite vpon him into a roome now and then , but am not regarded : marrie when hee is ill , hee makes much of mee , who but Sugar ? but to my remembrance I haue not beene in his presence this fortnight , I hope shortly hee will not know me , though he meete me in his drinke .

Nut.

Thou hast a sweete life in the meane time Sugar .

Sug.

But thou art tied to more attendance Nutmegge vpon your Maister Beere .

Nut.

Faith no , I am free now and then , though I bee his Prentice still , Nutmegge hath more friends to trust to then Beere : I can be welcome to wine thy master sometimes , and to the honest Countrey man Ale too . But now I talke of Ale , when didst see his man prethee ?

Sug.

Who , Tost ?

Nut.

The same .

Sug.

I meete him at Tauerne euery day .

Nut.

When shall thou , and he , and I , meete and be merry ouer a Cuppe ?

Sug.

I le tell thee Nutmegge , I doe not care much for his company , he 's such a chollericke peece , I know not what he 's made of , but his quarrelling comes home to him , for hee 's euery day cut for it , I maruell how he scapes , this morning he had a knife thrust into him .

Nut.

Indeed he will be very hot sometimes .

Sug.

Hot ? I , till he looke blacke i th' face agen , besides , if he take an opinion ther 's no turning him , hee 'l be burnt first . I did but by chance let fall some words against Ale , and hee had like to haue beaten me to powder for it .

Nut.

How ; beaten Sugar ? that would be very fine ifaith ; but hee being bread , and thou a loafe , you should not differ so . Stand , looke where he is .

Enter Tost drunke . Sug.

Then I le be gone , for we shall quarrell .

Nut.

Come , feare not , I le part you , but hee 's drunke , ready to fall ; whence comes he dropping in now ? How now Tost ?

Tost .

Nutmeg ? round and sound and all of a colour , art thou there ?

Nut.

Heere 's all that 's left of me .

Tost .

Nutmeg , I loue thee Nutmeg . What 's that a Ghost ?

Nut.

No , t is your old acquaintance Sugar .

Tost .

Sugar : I le beat him to peeces .

Sug.

Hold , hold . Nutmegge .

Nutmeg and Sugar hang vpon Tost . Tost .

Cannot Tost stand without holding ?

Nut.

Where haue you beene Tost ?

Tost .

I le tell thee , I haue bin with my M. Ale . Sirra , I was very drie , and he has made me drunke : doe I not crumble ? I shall fall a pieces ; but I le beate Suger for all that : I doe not weigh him , hee is a poore Rogue , I haue knowne him solde for two pence , when hee was young , wrapt in swadling clouts of Paper . I know his breeding , a Drawer brought him vp , and now hee 's growne so lumpish .

Sug.

Y' are a rude Tost .

Tost .

Rude ? Let me but crush him : Rude ? Sirra , t is well known you come from Barbary your selfe , and because of some few Pounds in a Chest , you thinke to domineere ouer Tost : y' are a little handsome , I confesse , & Wenches licke their lips after you ; but for all that , would I might sinke to the bottome , if I doe not � : I will giue Sugar but one box .

Nut.

Come , come . you shall not .

Sug.

Prethee Nutmeg , take out Tost a little , to morrow wee le meet and be drunke together .

Exit Nutmeg with Tost .

So , so , I am glad hee 's gone : I doe not loue this Tosts company , yet some occasion or other , puts me still vpon him . Ha , who 's this ?

Enter Wine .

T is Wine my Master .

Wine .

Sugar , you are a sweet youth , you wayt well .

Sug.

A friend of mine call'd me forth , to cure a cut finger .

Wine .

You le turne Surgeon or Physician shortly .

Sug.

But your diseases need none : for inflamations , which are dangerous to others , makes you more acceptable , nor doe you blush to haue it reported sir , how often you haue beene burnt .

Wine .

So sir , now you put me in minde on 't , I heare say you runne a wenching , and keepe womens company too much .

Sug.

Alas sir , like will to like , Sugar being of his owne nature sweete , has reason to make much of women , which are the sweetest creatures .

Wine

But some of them are sower enough .

Sug.

I sir , Widdowes at fifteene , and Maides at twentie fiue ; but I keepe them company , for no other thing , then to conuert them , some of them could eu'n eate me , but for feare of spoiling their teeth .

Wine .

Indeed one of your sweet hearts complained t'other day you made her teeth rotten .

Sug.

Alas sir , t was none of my fault , she bit me first , and I could doe no lesse , then punish her sweet tooth .

Wine .

Well sirra , I say , take heed of women .

Sug.

Nay sir , if I may credit my owne experience they are the best friends I haue , for I am alwaies in their mouthes . If I come to a banquet , as none are made without mee , in what fashion soeuer I appeare , euery woman bestowes a handkercher vpon me , and striue to carry me away in their cleanest linnen : nay , but for shame , to betray their affections to mee , they would bring whole sheets for me to lie in .

Wine .

Why sure thou wert wrapt in thy mothers smocke .

Sug.

I thinke if the Midwife were put to her oath , I was wrapt in hers , oth Christing day .

But see sir , here 's Master Beere .

Enter Beere . Wine .

How , Beere ? we are not very good friends , no matter , I scorne to auoid him .

Beere .

Beere-leaue sir .

Iustles Wine . Wine .

So me thinkes ? how now Beere , running atilt , dost not know me ?

Beere .

I doe meane to haue the wall on you .

Wine .

The wall of me , you would haue your head and the wall knockt together , learne better manners , or I may chance to broach you .

Beere .

Broach me , alas poore Wine , t is not your Fieri facias can make Beere afraid , thy betters know the strength of Beere . I doe not feare your high colour sir .

Sug.

So , so , here will be some scuffling .

Wine .

You 'le leaue your impudence , and learne to know your superiours Beere , or I may chance to haue you stopt vp . what neuer leaue working ? I am none of your fellowes .

Beere .

I scorne thou shouldst .

Wine .

I am a companion for Princes , the least droppe of my blood , worth all thy body . I am sent for by the Citizens , visited by the Gallants , kist by the Gentlewomen : I am their life , their Genius , the Poeticall furie , the Helicon of the Muses , of better value then Beere ; I should be sorry else .

Beere .

Thou art sorie wine indeed sometimes : Value ? you are come vp of late , men pay deere for your company , and repent it : that giues you not the precedencie ; though Beere set not so great a price vpon himselfe , he meanes not to bate a graine of his worth , nor subscribe to Wine for all his braueries ,

Wine .

Not to mee ?

Beere .

Not to you : why whence come you pray ?

Wine .

From France , from Spaine , from Greece .

Beere .

Thou art a mad Greeke indeed .

Wine .

Where thou must neuer hope to come : who dares denie that I haue beene a trauailer ?

Beere .

A trauailer ? in a tumbrell , a little Beere will go farther : why Wine , art not thou kept vnder locke and key , confinde to some corner of a Cellar , and there indeed commonly close prisoner , vnlesse the Iaylor or Yeoman of the Bottles turne the Key for the chamber-maid now and then , for which shee vowes not to leaue him , till the last gaspe , where Beere goes abroad , and randeuous in euery place .

Win.

Thou in euery place ? away hop of my thumbe : Beere , I am a sham'd of thee .

Beer ,

Be asham'd of thy selfe , and blush Wine thou art no better . Beere shall haue commendations for his mildnesse and vertue , when thou art spit out of mens mouthes , & distasted : thou art an hypocrite , Wine , art all white sometimes , but more changeable then Proteus : thou wouldst take vpon thee to comfort the blood , but hast beene the cause that too many noble veines haue beene emptied : thy vertue is to betray secrets , the very preparatiue to a thousand rapes and murders , and yet thou darest stand vpon thy credit , and preferre thy selfe to Beere , that is as cleare as day .

Sug.

Well said Beere , hee beares vp stiffe like a Constable . Now will I play my part with 'em both . Sir , Tn Wine This is intollerable .

Wine .

The vessell of your wit leakes , Beere , why thou art drunke .

Beere .

So art thou Wine , euery day i' th weeke , and art faine to be carried foorth of doores .

Sug.

How sir ?

To Wine . Win.

I scorne thy words , thou art base Beere : Wine is well borne , has good breeding , and bringing vp ; thou deseruest to be carted , Beere .

Sug.

Suffer this , and suffer all , to him againe .

Beere .

Carted ? thou would be carted thy selfe , rackt and drawne for thy basenesse , Wine . Welborne ? Did not euery man call you Bastard tother day ? borne ? ther 's no man able to beare thee much : and for breeding , I know none thou hast , vnlesse it bee Diseases .

Sug.

How , diseases ? you haue beene held alwayes to bee wholsome Wine , sir .

Wine .

Sirra , if I take you in hand , I shall make you smal Beere .

Beere .

Take heed I doe not make Vineger of you first .

Sug.

Doe , doe , make him pisse it , in my opinion sir , it were not for your honor to run away : yet Beere being a common quarreler , I feare may prooue too hard for you .

Wine .

Too hard for me ? away Boy , I le be as hard as he for his hart : alas , hee 's but weake Beere , if I giue him but a tap , it shall stay him from runing out thus .

Sug.

So , so , they are high enough fall too , and welcome .

Enter Ale .

Who 's this ? Ale ? Oh for the three-men-Song : this Ale is a stout fellow , it shall go hard , but Sugar which makes all sweet sometimes , shall set him in his part of Discord .

Wine .

Come , come , Beere , you forget how low you were tother day : prouoke mee not too much , lest I bestow a firkin on you .

Beere .

Strike and thou dar'st Wine , I shall make thee answere as quicke as the obiection , and giue you a dash .

Ale .

Vmh : what 's this ? it seemes there 's great difference betweene Wine and Beere . Sugar , what 's the matter ?

Sug.

Oh goodman Ale , I am glad you 'r come , heare 's nothing but contention : I haue gone betwixt 'em twice or thrice , but I feare , one or both will be spilt .

Ale .

What doe they contend about ?

Sug.

For that , which for ought I can apprehend , belongs as much to you , as to either of them .

Ale .

Hah ? to mee ? what 's that ?

Sug.

Ale , by iudicious men hath been held no despicable drinke , for my owne part , t is nothing to me : you are all one to Sugar , whosoeuer be King , Sugar can be a subiect , but yet , t were fit , Ale had his measure .

Ale .

Are they so proud ?

Sug.

They mind not you , as if you were too vnworthy a Competitor ; See , t is come to a challenge .

Wine throwes downe the gloue , which Beere takes vp .

Pray take no knowledge that I discouered any thing of their Ambition ; Sugar shall euer bee found true to Ale , else would I might neuer be more drunke in your company .

Ale .

No matter for protestation .

Sug.

So , so , now I haue warmed Ale pretty well , I le leaue 'em : if Wine Beere and Ale agree together , would Sugar might neuer bee drunke but with Water , nor neuer helpe to preserue any thing but old women , & elder brothers .

Exit .
Wine .

Remember the place , and weapon .

Ale .

Stay , stay , come together agen , why how now , what fight , and kill one another ?

Wine .

Alas poore Beere , I account him dead already .

Beere .

No sir , you may find Beere quick enough , to pierce your Hogshead . I shall remember .

Ale .

But i th meane time you both forget your selues : d ee heare ? Ale is a friend to you both , let me know your difference .

Beere .

Hee has disgrac'd mee .

Wine .

Thou hast disgrac'd thy selfe in thy comparisons . Wine must be acknowledged the Nectar of all drinks , the prince of Liquors .

Beere .

To wash Bootes .

Ale .

Harke you , are you both mad ? who hath heat you , that you run ouer , do you contend for that in iustice belongs to another ? I tell you Wine and Beere , I do not rellish you , I le tell you a tale : Two spruce hot-spurre fiery gallants meeting i th streets , iustled for the wall , drew , would he been fighting : there steps mee forth a correcter of soles , an vnderlaid cobler , and cries out , Hold , hold your hands Gentlemen , are you so simple to fight for the wall ? why the wall 's my Landlords . Haue you but so much wit as to apply this , you shall neuer neede fence for the matter . Superioritie is mine , Ale is the prince of liquors , and you are both my subiects .

Both .

Wee thy Subiects ?

Wine .

O base Ale .

Beere .

O muddy Ale .

Ale .

Leaue your railing , and attend my reasons , I claime your duties to mee , for many prerogatiues : my antiquitie , my riches , my learning , my , strength , my grauitie .

Wine .

Antiquitie ? your first reason 's a very small one .

Ale .

Dare any of you denie my antiquitie ? I say .

Wine .

We must beare with him , t is in his Ale .

Ale .

It onely pleades for mee : who hath not heard of the old Ale of England ?

Beere .

Old Ale ; oh there t is growne to a Prouerbe , Iones Ale'new .

Ale .

These are trifles , and conuince me not .

Wine .

If wee should grant your argument , you would gaine little by 't , goe together , I doe allow you both a couple of stale companions .

Beere .

Wine , you 're very harsh .

Ale .

Let him , my second prerogatiue is my riches and possessions ; for who knowes not how many howses I haue ? Wine and Beere are faine to take vp a corner , your ambition goes no further then a Celler , where the whole house where I am is mine , goes onely by my name , is cald an Alehouse ; but when is either heard , the Wine-house , or the Beerehouse ? you cannot passe a streete , wherein I haue not houses of mine owne , besides many that goe by other mens names .

Beere .

I confesse you haue here and there an Alehouse , but whose are all the rest ? hath not Beere as much title to them ?

Wine .

And yet I haue not heard that either of you both haue fin'd for Aldermen , though I confesse something has bin attempted out of nicke and froth . Be rul'd by me , Beere and Ale , & aspire no heigher then the Common-Councell-houses . Oh impudence , that either of you should talke of houses , when sometimes you are both glad of a tub : d ee heare Ale ? doe not you knowe the man that did the bottle bring ?

Ale .

Thou art glad of a Bottle thy selfe , Wine , sometimes , and so is Beere too , for all he froaths now .

Beere

So , so .

Ale ,

My third Prerogatiue , is my Learning .

Wine .

Learning ? If you haue the Liberall Sciences , pray be free , and le ts heare some .

Ale .

For that , though I could giue you demonstration , for breuities sake I remit you to my bookes .

Beere .

Bookes ? printed Cum priuilegio no doubt on 't , and sold for the Company of Stationers : what are the names ?

Ale .

Admire me , but when I name learned , though not the great Alexander Ale and Tostatus the Iesuite .

Wine .

O learned Ale , you scorne to make Indentures any more , but you might as well haue concluded this without booke .

Beere .

Why , you will shortly be Towne-Clerke , the Citie Chronicler is too meane a place for you .

Ale .

Now for my strength and invincibilitie .

Beere .

But heere let mee interrupt you , talke no more of strength , none but Beere deserues to bee call'd strong , no pen is able to set downe my victories . I ? why , I haue been the destruction . �

Wine .

Of Troy , hast not ? heere your owne mouthes condemne you : if killing be your conquest , euery Quacksaluing knaue may haue the credit of a rare Phisician , that sends more to the Church and Churchyard , then diseases doe : I Wine , comfort & preserue , let that be my Character . I am cosen German to the blood , not so like in my appearance as I am in nature , I repaire the debilities of age , and reuiue the refrigerated spirits , exhilarate the heart , and steele the brow with confidence . For you both the Poet hath drawne you memoriall in one . � nil spissus illa Dum bibitur , nil clarius est dum mingitur , vnde Constat quod mult as foeces in corpore linquat . Nothing goes in so thicke , Nothing comes out so thinne : It must needs follow then , Your dregs are left within .

And so I leaue you Stygiae monstrum conforme paludi , monstrous drinke , like the riuer Styx .

Ale .

Nay but hearke , t is not your Latine must carry it away , I will not loose a drop of my reputation , and by your fauour , if you stand so much vpon your preseruing , I le put you to your Latine agen , and prooue my selfe superiour , for Ale as if it were the life of mankind , hath a peculiar name and denomination , being cald Ale from Alo , which euery Schoole boy can tell , signifies to feed and norish , which neither Wine nor Beere can shew for themselues ; and for my strength and honour in the warres , know that Ale is a Knight of Malta , and dares fight with any man beares a head , t is more safe to beleeue what a Souldier I am , then trie what I can doe .

Beere .

If you looke thus ilfauouredly Ale , you may fright men well enough , and be held terrible by weake stomacks ; but if you call to mind the puissance and valour of Beere , invincible Beere , tumble downe Beere , you must sing a Pallinode . I ? why I haue ouerthrowne armies , how easie is it for me to take a cittie , when I can tame Constables , which in their presence are formidable at midnight , in the middest of their rugged Bill-men , make 'em all resigne their weapons , and send 'em away to sleepe vpon their charge .

Wine .

How ? vpon their owne charge ? take the Constable committing that fault , and hee 'l neuer bee good in his office after it .

Beere .

Now for my vertue in preseruing and nourishing the body wherein you both so glory , you are not to compare with mee , since thousands euery day come to receiue their healths from me .

Wine .

Kings and Princes from me , and like them I am serued in plate .

Ale .

But thou art come downe of late to a glasse , Wine : and that 's the reason I thinke , so many Vintners haue broake : now obserue my last Reason .

Beere .

Yes , pray where lies your grauitie ?

Ale .

Not in my Beard , I speake without mentall reseruation , I le tell you , and you shall confesse it : the Wise men of ancient time were called Sages , and to this day it signifies iudgment , discretion , grauitie ; for by what other would you excite to good manners more aptly , then to shew a young man to bee sage , that is graue : and with what title can you better salute him that is graue , or more honour him , then to call him one of the Sages ? Now this appellation neither of you can challenge , yet euery man giueth mee the attribute ; for who knowes not I am called Sage Ale ?

Wi.

One may guesse what braines he caries by the Sage now .

Ale .

And thus hauing giuen you sufficient reasons for your acknowledgment of my principalitie , let your knees witnesse your obedience to your King , and I will grace you both by making you Squires of my body , right honorable Ale-Squires .

Wine .

This is beyond suffering : was euer Wine so vnder-valued ? Barbarous detractors , whose beginning came from a dunghill , I defie you Bacchus , looke downe , and see me vindicate thine honour , I scorne to procrastinate in this , and this minute you shall giue account of your insolencies : my spirit 's high , I am enemy to both .

Ale .

Is Wine drawn ? then haue at you , I le make good Ale .

Beere .

I stand for the honour of Beere , were you an army .

As they offer to fight Water comes running in . Water .

Hold , hold , hold .

Wine .

How now ? what comes water running hither for ?

Wat.

Let my feare ebbe a little .

Beere .

What tide brought you hither , Water ?

Water .

The pure streame of my affection : oh how I am troubled ! I am not yet recouered .

Ale .

So me thinks you looke very thin vpon 't Water : but why doe we not fight ?

Water .

Doe not talke of fighting , is it not time that Water should come to quench the fire of such contention ? I tell you , the care of your preseruation made me breake my banks to come to you , that you might see the ouerflowing loue I beare you : your quarrell hath ecchoed vnto me ; I know your ambition for superioritie : you are all my kinsmen , neere allyed to Water , and though I say it , sometimes not a little beholding to Water , euen for your very makings . Will you referre your selues to mee , and wade no further in these discontentments ? I will vndertake your reconcilement and qualification .

Wine .

To thee , Water ? wilt thou take vpon thee to correct our irregularitie ? Thou often goest beyond thy bounds thy selfe . But if they consent , I shall .

Beere .

I am content .

Ale .

And I .

Water .

Then without further circumlocution or insinuation , Water runnes to the matter : you shall no more contend for excellencie , for Water shall allow each of you a singularitie . First , you Wine , shall be in most request among Courtiers , Gallants , Gentlemen , Poeticall wits , Qui melioris luti homines , being of a refined mould , shall choose as a more nimble and actiue watering , to make their braines fruitfull , Fecundi calices quem non ? but so as not confin'd to them , nor limitting them to you , more then to exhilarate their spirits , and acuate their inuentions .

You Beere , shall bee in most grace with the Citizens , as being a more stayed Liquor , fit for them that purpose retirement and grauitie , that with the Snaile carries the cares of a house and family with them , tyed to the atendance of an illiberall profession , that neither trot nor amble , but haue a sure pace of their owne , Bos lassus fortius figit pedem , The black Oxe has trod vpon their foot : yet I bound you not with the Citie , though it bee the common entertainement , you may bee in credit with Gentlemens Cellars , and carry reputation before you from March to Christmas � tide I should say ; that Water should forget his Tide .

You Ale I remit to the Countrie as more fit to liue where you were bred : your credit shall not be inferiour , for people of all sorts shall desire youre acquaintance , specially in the morning , though you may be allowed all the day after : the Parson shall account you one of his best Parishioners , & the Church wardens shall pay for your companie , and drawing their Bills all the yeere long , you shall bee loued and maintained at the Parish charge till you be old , bee allowed a Robin-hood , or Mother Red-cap , to hang at your doore , to beckon in Customers : and if you come into the Citie , you may be drunke with pleasure , but neuer come into the fashion . At all times you shall haue respect , but i th Winter Morning without comparison . How doe you like my censure now ?

Ale .

Water has a deepe iudgement .

Wat.

And yet the world sayes sometimes Water is shallow : nay , I le see you shake handes , and tie a new knot of friendship .

Ale .

We are henceforth brothers .

Wine .

Stay , who 's here ?

Enter Tost , Sugar , and Nutmeg : Tost whetting a knife on his shooe . Tost .

I tell thee , Sugar , I am now friends with thee . But if it bee as you say �

Wat.

What 's the matter ?

Ale .

Let 's obserue him a little , Tost is angry .

Nut.

What need you be so hote , Tost ?

Tost .

Hote ? t is no matter , Sugar : you will iustifie that Wine and Beere offered this wrong vnto Ale .

Sug.

I know not whose pride began ; but I was sorry to see Wine , Beere , and Ale at such odds .

Tost .

Ods quotha ? I do meane to be euen with some body .

Nut.

An euen Tost shewes well ,

Tost .

They shall find that Ale has those about him that are not altogether dowe .

Sug.

Thou hast been baked , I le sweare .

Nut.

And new come out of the Ouen too , I thinke : son he is very fierie .

Tost .

Ale must not be put downe so long as Tost has a crum of life left . Beere too ?

Nut.

What doe you meane to doe with your knife , Tost ? that will scarce cut Beere and 't were buttered .

Tost .

Come not neere me , Nutmeg , least I grate you , and slise you : Nutmeg , doe you marke ?

Wine .

Let 's in , and make 'em friends . How now Tost ?

Tost .

T is all one for that : Oh , are you there ? pray tell me which of 'em i st ?

Ale .

Is what ?

Nut.

Why they are friends : what did you meane Sugar , to make Tost burne thus ?

Ale .

No such matter .

Tost .

You will not tell me then . Harke you Beere , March-Beere , this way a little .

Beere .

What dost thou meane to doe with thy knife ?

Tost .

I must stirre you a little Beere : what colour had you to quarrell with my Master ?

Beere .

Ale . VVe are sworne brothers .

Ale .

We were at difference , and Wine too . but �

Tost .

Wine too But , but me no buts , I care not a strawe for his buts ; d ee here sir , doe you long to be Graues Wine ?

Wine .

We are all friends .

Water .

I , I , all friends on my word , Tost .

Tost .

Fire and water are not to bee trusted , away new Riuer , away , I wash my hands on thee .

Ale .

Come hither againe , Tost .

Tost .

Ouer head and eares in Ale .

Wine .

How comes this about , Sugar ?

Sug.

The truth is , sir , I told him of some difference betweene you , for he and I had been fallen out , and I had no other securitie to put in for my selfe , then to put him vpon some body else .

Nut.

Nutmeg durst scarce speake to him , hee was ready to put me in his pocket .

Tost .

I am coole agen : I may beleeue you are friends ; then I am content to put vp .

Puts vp his knife .

Sugar and Nutmeg , come , we be three .

Sug.

Let 's be all one rather : and from hencefoorth since they are so well accorded , let 's make no difference of our Masters , but belong to 'em in common : for my part , though I wait vpon Wine , it shall not exempt my attendance on Beere , or Ale , if they please to command Sugar .

Tost .

A match . I am for any thing but Water .

Nut.

And I .

Sug.

But my seruice shall be ready for him to , Water and Sugar I hope , may be drunke together now and then , and not bee brought within compasse of the Statute , to bee put i th stockes for 't ,

Wat.

Godamercy Sugar with all my hart , I shall loue thy company , fer I am solitary , and thou wilt make mee pleasant . Stay .

Musicke .

Harke Musicke ? Oh some friends of mine , I know 'em , they often come vpon the water : let 's entertaine the ayre a little , neuer a voice among you ?

THE SONG . Wine , I Iouiall Wine exhilarate the heart . Beere . March Beere is drinke for a King . Ale . But Ale , bonny Ale , with Spice and Tost , In the Morning 's a daintie thing . Chorus . Then let vs be merry , wash sorrow away , Wine , Beere , and Ale , shall be drunke to day . Wine . I generous Wine , am for the Court . Beere . The Citie calls for Beere . Ale . But Ale , bonny Ale , like a Lord of the Soyle , In the Countrey shall domineere . Chorus . Then let vs be merry , wash sorrow away , Wine , Beere and Ale shall be drunke to day .
Water .

Why , now could I dance for ioy .

Ale .

Now you talke of dancing , Wine , t is one of your qualities , let 's pay the Musicians all together : wee haue often made other men haue light heads and heeles , there 's no hurt a little in tripping for our selues , what say you ?

Beere .

Strike vp Piper .

Wine

Lustily , make a merry day on 't ; nay , leaue out none , at Dancing and at Foot-ball , all fellowes .

Enter Tobaco . Tobaco .

Be your leaue gentlemen � wil 't please you be here sir ?

Wine .

Who 's this Tobaco ?

Beere .

Why comes he into our company ?

Tobaco .

I do heare say there is a controuersie � among you , and I am come � to moderate the businesse ,

Ale .

It shannot need , wee are concluded sir .

Water .

Your name is Tobaco I take it .

Tobaco .

No sir you take it not � deesee , t is I that take it .

Wine .

But wee take it very ill , you should intrude your selfe into our mirth .

Water .

I did guesse , by the chimney your nose that you might stand in neede of water , to quench some fire in your kitchin .

Tobaco .

Hoh ? Water .

spets . Water .

He has spit me out already

Exit .
Tobaco .

Sugar tost and nutmeg . puh . vanish .

Wine .

He has blone away the spice too .

Ex. S. t. n. Tobaco ,

Now , doe you not know mee � what do yee stand at gaze � Tobacco is a drinke too .

Beere .

A drinke ?

Tobaco .

Wine , you and I come both out of a pipe .

Ale .

Prethee go smoke somewhere else , we are couetous of your acquaintance .

Tobaco .

Do not incense me , do not inflame Tobacco .

Wine .

We do not feare your puffing sir , and you haue any thing to say to vs be briefe and speake it .

Tobaco .

Then briefely � and without more circumstance � not to hold you in expectation .

Wine .

Heida , this is prolixity it selfe .

Beere .

Oh sir his words are not well dyed in his mouth .

Ale .

Or his vnderstanding is not sufficiently lighted yet giue him leaue I pray .

Tobaco .

I do come �

Wine .

Not yet to the purpose methinkes .

Tost .

And I do meane �

Beere .

Somewhat � wo'd heare out .

Tobaco .

And I entend �

Ale .

Yet againe , thinke , thinke , till to morrow , wee may chance meet agen .

Tob.

Stay , I command you stay .

Wine .

How , you command vs by whose autority . ?

Beere .

That must be disputed .

Tob.

Attend my argument ; The soueraigne ought to co�mand , I am your soueraigne , the soueraigne drinke Tobaco . Ergo . �

Wine .

I see Tobacco is sophisticated .

Tob.

I ought to command you , and it will become your duty to obey me �

Bee.

You our soueraigne a meere whiffler .

Tob.

I say agen I am your Prince , bow , and doe homage .

Al.

You haue turnd ouer a new leafe Tobacco .

Wine .

You are very high Tobacco , I see ill weedes grow apace .

Bee.

Most high and mighty trinidado .

Wine .

For whose vertue would you be exalted , if it shall please your smoaky excellence ?

Tob.

Not yours , � nor yours � nor yours � but altogether , all the vertues which you seuerally glory in , are in me vnited , � looke not so coy , Call water to spread your faction , and you are but like the giddy elements changing and borrowing creatures , whilst I Tobacco am acknowledged a Heauenly quintessence , a diuine herbe .

Bee.

Tobacco you are out .

Al.

After what rate is this an ounce ?

Wine .

Let vs beseech your excellence , for lesse title wee must not giue you hauing so much vertue as you pretend , to let vs vnderstand fome of your particular graces and qualities .

Bee.

I pray discourse alitle , what 's the first ?

Tob.

You haue nam'd it � t is discourse which you are so farre from being able to aduance that you destroy it , in all men when you are most accepted , when my diuine breath mixing with theirs , doth distill eloquence and oracle vpon the tongue , which moueth with such deliberation � words flowing in so sweet distinction , that many eares are chained to the lips of him that speaketh .

Da puer accensum selecto fictile Poeto , vt Phaebum ore bibam .

Ale .

And yet wee are not inchanted with the musick of your pipe to dance after it . My most excellent discourser .

Bee.

And a helpe for the imperfections of nature . For when a man ha's not wit enough to expresse himselfe in words , you being taken , do presently helpe him , � to spit forth gentleman like .

Al.

Indeed the most part of our common complement is but smoke , and now I know how Gentlemen come by it .

Tob.

Thus swine do value pearle �

Wine .

But as you haue the eloquence of Vlysses , I suppose you haue not the strength of Aiax , wee should moue in great feare , if you were valiant , I hope you are but weake Tobacco .

Tob.

Weake ? whose braine hath not felt the effects of my mightinesse ? He that opposes me shall find me march like a tempest , waited vpon with lightening and black Cloudes .

Wi.

Here is no cracke .

Bee.

Yet he thunders it out .

Ale .

Yes yes , I remember I haue heard him reported a soldier , and once being in company with a knap-sack man a companion of his , I obtained a coppy of his military postures , which put downe the pike and pot-gun cleane , pray obserue 'em .

1 Take your seale . 2 Draw your box . 3 Vncase your pipe . 4 Produce your rammer . 5 Blow you pipe . 6 Open your box . 7. Fill your pipe . 8. Ramme your pipe . 9. Withdraw your Rammer . 10. Returne your rammer . 11. Make ready . 12. Present . 13. Elbow your pipe . 14. Mouth your pipe . 15. Giue fire . 16. Nose your Tobacco . 17. Puffe vp your smoake , 18. Spit on your right hand . 19. Throw off your loose ashes . 20. Present to your friend . 21. As you were . 22. Cleanse your pipe . 23. Blow your pipe . 24. Supply your pipe .

Exercise this discipline till you stinke , defile the roome , offend your friends , destroy your liuer and lungs , and bid adiew to the world with a scowring fluxe .

To.

You haue a good memorie . �

Ale .

I 'me sure Tobacco will spoyle it .

Tob.

These are but childish inuentions .

Wine .

They are most proper to illustrate your magnificence , for howsoeuer you pretend that you conuerse with men , it is apparant , that you make men children agen , for they that vse you most familiarly , doe but smoake all the day long .

To.

You dishonour me .

Wine .

Not somuch as Gentlemen dishonour themselues , to turne common pipers : but if you haue any more conditions , pray enrich vs with the story .

Tob.

I am medicinall .

Be.

How ?

To.

And preserue the health of man .

Wine .

I hope they are not come to drinke healthes in Tobacco .

To.

I repaire the bodies which your immoderate cups haue turnd to fennes and marishes . The wisest Phisitians prescribe my vse , and acknowledge me a salutary herbe .

Ale .

Phisitians are no fooles , they may commend you for their profit , you are one of their herbingers to prouide for a disease ; yet howsoeuer you call them wise , and glorie in their flatteries , they make but a very simple of you .

Wine .

Methinkes this should cut Tobacco .

Tob.

Not at all , I am aboue their poore derision ; at my pleasure I could reuenge their malice , for I am in fauour , and growne to be the delight of poets and princes .

Bee.

How poets and princes ? Ego & Rex meus , a stopper for Tobacco , wee shall haue pretty treason anon else .

Tob.

Does it scruple your iudgement Mr. small beere that I say poets and Princes ? I am not to learne their distinction , nor doth it take from any allegiance , they are both sacred names : yet I am confident it is easier for a poet not borne to soueraigntie to aspire to a kingdome , then for a King not borne with fancie to be made a poet . I mentiond these names , not in their methode aud order , but to shew my grace with them , that are most able to punish insolence , such as your's ,

Ale .

How the vapour rises .

Wine .

This ruffler may be troublesome , wee were best admit him to our society , he is a dry companion , and you may obserue , how he hath insinuated already with the greatest ; the ladies begin to affect him , and he receiues priuate fauors from their lips , euery day he kisseth their hands , when he appeares in a faire pipe ; though wee allow him not a prioritie , for our owne sakes , let vs hold correspondence with him , least he seduce men to forsake vs , or at least to make vse of vs but for their necessity .

Ale .

Hum ! he sayes well , now I better consider 't were safest to vse him kindly , least by degrees he ouerthrow vs , and iett vpon our priuiledges , for I heard a geutleman t'other day affirme , he had fasted 3 or 4 dayes , only with Tobacco .

Wine .

Beside , if we continue friends he will be a preparatiue for our reception , without vs he may subsist , but with him wee are sure of liberall entertainement .

Beere .

I am conuerted , Wine you are the best orator , speake for vs .

Wine .

Tobacco , you are a good fellow , all ambition laid aside , let vs embrace as friends ; excuse vs , that wee haue been a little merry with you , wee acknowledge you a gentle drink and you shall haue all the respect will become Wine , Beere , or Ale to obserue you with : what should we contend for primacie , quarrell about titles , which if to any wee acknowledge most properly belong to you , for they are all but smoake . Let vs vnite and be confederate states for the benefit of mens low countreyes , liue and loue together . Wine doth here enter into league with Tobacco .

Be.

And beere .

Al.

And Ale .

Tob.

Are you in earnest ? why then Tobacco is so farre from pride , that he vowes to serue you all , and when I leaue to be a true friend , may fire consume me , and my ashes want a buriall .

W. B. A. and when wee falsifie , may thunders shrike vs dead .

The Dance .

In which wine falling downe , one taketh sugar by the heeles and seemes to shake him vpon Wine .

In the second passage , beere falleth , and 2 take Nutmegge , and as it were to grate him ouer beere .

In the Third Ale falleth , one bringeth in a Chafendish of coles , and another causeth Tost to put his breech to it ; afterwards it is dapt to Ale 's mouth , and the Dance concludeth .

FINIS .
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� No , tis your old acquaintance Sugar . � would bring whole sheets for me to lie in . � by the Gallants , kist by the Gentlewomen : I am their life , their Genius , the Poeticall � Ale . repuration carry it away , I will not loose a drop of my reputation , and by your fauour , if you stand so much Suaile purpose retirement and grauitie , that with the Snaile carries the cares of a house and family gine vnderstanding is not sufficiently lighted yet giue him leaue I pray . solidier , I remember I haue heard him reported a soldier , and once being in company with a knap-sack knap-Iack soldier , and once being in company with a knap-sack man a companion of his , I obtained a coppy
A87472 ---- The touchstone, or, Trial of tobacco whether it be good for all constitutions : with a word of advice against immoderate drinking and smoaking : likewise examples of some that have drunk their lives away, and died suddenly : with King Jame's [sic] opinion of tobacco, and how it came first into England : also the first original of coffee : to which is added, witty poems about tobacco and coffe [sic] : something about tobacco, written by George Withers, the late famous poet ... Two broad-sides against tobacco. 1676 Approx. 180 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 40 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A87472 Wing J144A ESTC R42598 36282425 ocm 36282425 150099 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. 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James I, King of England, 1566-1625. Counterblaste to tobacco. 1676. Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699? Thomson, George, fl. 1648-1679. Aimatiasis. Selections. 1676. Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640. Woe to drunkards. 1676. Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618. Tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered. 1676. Everard, Giles. De herba panacea. English. Selections. 1676. Wither, George, 1588-1667. [6], 72 p. : ill. Printed and are to be sold by the several booksellers, London : 1676. Dedication signed: J.H. (i.e. John Hancock). Previously published under title: Two broad-sides against tobacco (London : Printed for John Hancock, 1672). Signatures: [A]⁴ B-K⁴. Illustrations: 1 print : woodcut ; full-page. Subject: "The picture represents the tobacchonists [sic] armes, and Turks coffee-house." Woodcut and type flower headpieces; ornamental and criblé initials. Reproduction of original in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. 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Alcoholism -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. 2008-04 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-10 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-11 John Pas Sampled and proofread 2008-11 John Pas Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion The Touchstone OR , TRIAL OF TOBACCO Whether it be good for all Constitutions . With a Word of Advice against immoderate Drinking and Smoaking . LIKEWISE Examples of some that have drunk their Lives away , and died suddenly . With King JAME's Opinion of Tobacco , and how it came first into England . Also the first Original of Coffee . To which is Added Witty Poems about Tobacco and Coffe ; something about Tobacco , written by George Withers , the late Famous Poet. The Picture Represents the Tobacchonists Armes , and Turks Coffee-House . COFFEE , a kind of Turkish Renegade , Has late a match with Christian water made ; A Coachman was the first ( here ) Coffee made , And ever since the rest drove on the trade ; Me no good Engalash ? and sure enough , He plaid the Quack to salve his Stygian stuff ; Ver boon for de stomach , de Cough , de Ptisick , And I believe him , for it looks like Physick London , Printed and are to be Sold by the several Booksellers . 1676. To all Taverns , Inns , Victualling-Houses , Ale-houses , Coffee-houses , Strong-water-shops , Tobacconists-shops , in England , Scotland or Ireland . Gentle Readers , HEre is presented to you a Brief , Learned , and a very seasonable Treatise for the Age we live in : It was many years since Penned by King James of happy and blessed Memory , Entituled , A Counterblast to Tobacco ; It it here verbatim , faithfully transcribed out of the large and learned Volume of His other Works in Folio , which are rare and scarce to be had for money , and of too great a price for the common sort of Tobacco-smokers to purchase : It is granted , the thing may be good , and Physical , and healthful , being moderately and but seldom taken ; but for men to take ten or twenty Pipes in a day in all Companies , Morning , Noon and Night , before and presently after Meals ; this is a strange way of taking Physick . Now the King understanding the evil Custom of taking Tobacco , or , as we now call it , smoking a Pipe , was grown to a great head , he seems to be very much insensed at it , and discovers how it first came into England , and its first Original ; and how that it was used much amongst the savage Indians , to cure Lewes Venerea , a Disease among them : His Majesty wisely fore-seeing the evil consequences that would follow , by such immoderate sucking in the foul smoke of this Indian Weed , and He being the Physician of the Body Politick , doth by many strong and excellent Arguments , disswade his Subjects from imitating the practise of the Heathen Indians , in drinking this noxious fume . It was in his Time but a Novelty , and practised but a little , except amongst the Nobility , Gentry , or great Ones : But now what is more frequently used in every Ale-house and Coffee-house , besides great Inns and Taverns in London , and all the Three Kingdoms over . Whereas if men were so wise for their own good , both in Body , Soul , and Estate , as to handle a good Book , either of Divinity , or of Morality , half so often as they do the Pipe of smoke , it would be better for them in all respects , more precious time and money would be saved . I shall detain you no longer from a more learned Epistle and Treatise of the matter in hand : And as King Solomon , who was the wisest of Kings , saith in his Book of Ecclesiastes , That where the word of a King is , there is power ; so I say , If what our famous King James hath written , be not of Power sufficient to divert all English men , &c. from this evil and hurtful Custom ; It is here seconded , and backed home , by the words and advice of an able and learned Doctor of Physick now living ; it being so sutable to the purpose , was thought fit to be added to this Counterblast . And that it may not be said ( as the common Proverb is ) To be only one Doctors opinion , I have thought fit to add another , Collected out of a Treatise Of the Bloud , written by that learned Physician Dr. George Thompson , who agreeth with the former against smoking Tobacco , as dangerous . I apprehend , that what hath been spoken against drinking Tobacco , may much more be said against immoderate drinking of Wine , Ale , Beer , or any strong Liquors , and Dishes of Coffee , &c. Thus hoping thou wilt make a good use of what is here gathered together , and offered for thy good , I rest . A Well-wisher to thy Health , J. H. To the Reader . AS every humane body ( dear Country-men ) how wholsome soever , is notwithstanding subject , or at least naturally inclined to some sorts of Diseases or Infirmities : So is here no Common-wealth , or Body-Politick , how well governed or peaceable soever it be , that lacks their own popular Errors , and naturally inclined Corruptions ; And therefore it is no wonder , although this our Country and Common-wealth , though peaceable , though wealthy , though long flourishing in both , be amongst the rest , subject to their own natural Infirmities . We are of all Nations the people most Loving , and most reverently Obedient to our Prince ; yet we are ( as time hath often born witness ) too easie to be seduced to make Rebellion upon very slight grounds . Our fortunate and oft-proved Valour in Wars abroad , our hearty and reverent Obedience to our Princes at home , hath given us a long , and thrice-happy Peace ; our Peace hath bred wealth : And Peace and Wealth hath brough forth a general sluggishness , which makes us wallow in all sorts of idle Delights , and soft Delicacies , the first seeds of the subversion of all great Monarchies . Our Clergy are become negligent and lasie , our Nobility and Gentry prodigal , and sold to their private Delights ; Our Lawyers covetous , our common People prodigal and curious ; and generally all sorts of People more careful for their private ends , then for their Mother the Common-wealth . For remedy whereof , It is the King's part ( as the proper Physician of his Politick Body ) to purge it of all those Diseases , by Medicines meet for the same ; as by a certain mild , and yet just form of Government , to maintain the Publick quietness , and prevent all occasions of Commotion ; by the example of his own Person and Court , to make us all ashamed of our sluggish Delicacy , and to stir us up to the practice again of all honest Exercises , and martial shadows of War ; as likewise by His , and His Courts moderateness in Apparel , to make us ashamed of our Prodigality : By his quick Admonitions , and careful over-seeing of the Clergy , to waken them up again , to be more diligent in their Offices : By the sharp Tryal , and severe Punishment of the partial , covetous , and bribing Lawyers , to reform their Corruptions : And generally by the example of His own Person , and by the due execution of good Laws , to reform and abolish piece and piece , these old and evil-grounded Abuses : For this will not be Opus unius Diei , but as every one of these Diseases , must from the King receive the one Cure proper for it ; so are there some sorts of Abuses in Common-wealths , that though they be of so base and contemptible a condition , as they are too low for the Law to look on , and too mean for a King to interpose his Authority , or bend his Eye upon ; yet are they Corruptions , as well as the greatest of them . So is an Ant an Animal as well as an Elephant ; so is a Wren Avis , as well as a Swan ; and so is a small dint of the Tooth-ach a Disease , as well as the fearful Plague is . But for these base sorts of Corruption in Common-wealths ; not only the King , or any inferiour Magistrate , but Quilibet ê populo may serve to be a Physician , by discovering and impugning the error , and by perswading reformation thereof . And surely in my Opinion , there cannot be a more base , and yet hurtful Corruption in a Country , then is the vile use ( or rather abuse ) of taking Tobacco in this Kingdome , which hath moved me shortly to discover the abuses in this following little Pamphlet . If any think it a light Argument , so it is but a Toy that is bestowed upon it . And since the Subject is but of Smoke , I think the sume of an idle Brain , may serve for a sufficient battery against so fumous a feblean Enemy . If my grounds be found true , it is all I look for ; but if they carry the force of perswasion with them , it is all I can wish , and more then I can expect . My only care is , my dear Country-men may rightly conceive even by this smallest trifle , of the sincerity of my meaning in greater matters , never to spare any pains , that may tend to the procuring of your Weale and Prosperity . A COUNTERBLAST TO TOBACCO . THat the manifold abuses of this vile custome of Tobacco-taking , may the better be espied ; It is fit , That first you enter into Consideration both of the first Original thereof , and likewise of the Reasons of the first entry thereof into this Countrey ; for certainly as such Customs that have their first Institution , either from a godly ; necessary , or honourable ground , and are first brought in by the means of some worthy , vertuous , and great Personage ; are ever , and most justly holden in great and reverent estimation and account by all wise , vertuous and temperate Spirits : So should it by the contrary , justly bring a great Disgrace into that sort of Customs , which having their Original from base Corruption and Barbarity , do , in like sort , make their first entry into a Country , by an inconsiderate and childish affectation of Novelty , as is the true case of the first Invention of Tobacco-taking , and of the first entry thereof amongst us . For Tobacco being a common Herb , which ( though under divers Names ) grows almost every where , was first found out by some of the Barbarous Indians to be a Preservative , or Antidote against the Pox , a filthy Disease , whereunto these Barbarous People are ( as all men know ) very much subject , what through the uncleanly and adust constitution of their Bodies , and what through the intemperate heat of their Climate . So that as from them , was first brought into Christendome , that most detestable Disease : So from the likewise was brought this use of Tobacco , as a stinking and unsavory Antidote , for so corrupted and execrable a Malady ; the stinking suffumigation whereof they yet use against that Disease , making so one Canker or Vermine to eat out another . And now , good Country-men , let us ( I pray you ) consider what Honour or Policy can move us to imitate the barbarous and beastly Manners of the wild , godless and slavish Indians , especially in so vile and stinking a Custome . Shall we that disdain to imitate the Manners of our Neighbour France , ( having the stile of the great Christian Kingdome ) and that cannot endure the Spirit of the Spaniards ( their King being now comparable in largeness of Dominions , to the greatest Emperour of Turky ; ) Shall we , I say , that have been so long civil and wealthy in Peace , famous and invincible in War , fortunate in both ; We that have been ever able to Aid any of our Neighbours ( but never deafed any of their Ears with any of our Supplications for assistance ; ) Shall we , I say , without blushing , abase our selves so far , as to imitate these beastly Indians , Slaves to the Spaniards , Refuse to the World , and as yet Aliens from the holy Covenant of God ? Why do we not as well imitate them in walking naked , as they do , in preferring Glasses , Feathers , and such toys , to Gold and precious Stones , as they do ? Yea , why do we not deny God , and adore the Devil , as they do . Now to the corrupted baseness of the first use of this Tobacco , doth very well agree the foolish and groundless first Entry thereof into this Kingdom : It is not long since the first entry of this abuse amongst us here , as this present Age cannot yet very well remember , both the first Author , and the form of the first Introduction of it against us . It was neither brought in by King , great Conqueror , nor learned Doctor of Physick . With the Report of a great Discovery for a Conquest , some two or three Savage men were brought in , together with this Savage Custome : But the pity is , the poor , wild , barbarous men died ; but that vile barbarous Custome is yet alive , yea in fresh vigour , so as it seems a miracle to me , how a Custome springing from so vile a Ground , and brought in by a Father so generally hated , should be welcomed upon so slender a warrant : For if they that first put it in practice here , had remembred for what respect it was used by them from whence it came ; I am sure they would have been loath to have taken so far the Imputation of that Disease upon them as they did , by using the Cure thereof ; for Sanis non est opus medice , and Counter-Poysons are never used , but where Poyson is thought to proceed . But since it is true , that divers Customs slightly grounded , and with no better warrant entred in a Common-wealth , may yet in the use of them thereafter , prove both necessary and profitable ; it is therefore next to be examined , if there be not a ful sympathy and true proportion between the base ground and foolish entry , and the loathsome and hurtful use of this stinking Antidote . I am now therefore heartily to pray you to consider , first upon what false and erroneous grounds you have first built the general good liking thereof ; and next , what Sins towards God , and foolish Vanities before the World , you commit in the detestable use of it . As for those deceitful grounds , that have specially moved you to take a good and great conceit thereof : I shall content my self to examine here onely four of the Principals of them , two founded upon the Theorick of a deceivable appearance of Reason , and two of them upon the mistaken practick of general Experience . First , It is thought by you a sure Aphorisme in the Physick ; That the brains of all men being naturally cold and wet , all dry and hot things should be good for them , of which nature this stinking suffumigation is , and therefore of good use to them . Of this Argument both the Proposition and Assumption are false , and so the Conclusion cannot but be void of it self : For as to the Proposition , That because the Brains are cold and moist , therefore things that are hot and dry are best for them ; it is an inept Consequence : For man being compounded of the four Complexions ( whose Fathers are the four Elements ) although there be a mixture of them all , in all the parts of his body , yet must the divers parts of our Microcosme , or little World within our selves , be diversly more inclined , some to one , some to another Complexion , according to the diversity of their uses ; that of these Discords a perfect Harmony may be made up for the maintenance of the whole Body . The application then of a thing of a contrary nature to any of these parts , is to interrupt them of their due function , and by consequence hurtful to the health of the whole Body ; as if a man , because the Liver is as the fountain of Bloud , and , as it were , an Oven to the Stomach , would therefore apply and wear close upon his Liver and Stomach a Cake of Lead , he might within a very short time ( I hope ) be sustained very good cheap at an Ordinary , besides the clearing of his Conscience from that deadly fin of Gluttony : And as if because the Heart is full of vital Spirits , and in perpetual motion ; a man would therefore lay a heavy pound stone on his Breast , for staying and holding down that wanton Palpitation ; I doubt not but his Breast would be more bruised with the weight thereof , then the Heart would be comforted with such a disagreeable and contrarious Cure. And even so is it with the Brains ; for if a man because the Brains are cold and humide , would therefore use inwardly by smells , or outwardly by application , things of hot and dry quality ; all the gain that he could make thereof , would onely be to put himself in great forwardness for running mad , by over-watching himself ; the coldness and moisture of our Brains being the onely ordinary means that procure our Sleep and Rest . Indeed , I do not deny , that when it falls out that any of these , or any part of our Body , grows to be distempered , and to tend to an extremity beyond the compass of Natures temperate mixture , that in that case Cures of contrary qualities to the Intemperate inclination of that part being wisely prepared , and discreetly ministred , may be both necessary and helpful for strengthening and assisting Nature in the expulsion of her Enemies ; for this is the true definition of all profitable Physick . But first , These Cures ought not to be used , but where there is need of them ; the contrary whereof is daily practiced in this general use of Tobacco , by all sorts and Complexions of people . And next , I deny the minor of this Argument , as I have already said , in regard that this Tobacco is not simply of a dry and hot quality , but rather hath a certain venomous faculty joyned with the heat thereof , which makes it have an Antipathy against Nature , as by the hateful smell thereof doth well appear ; for the Nose being the proper Organ and Convoy of the sence of smelling to the Brains , which are the onely fountain of that sence , doth ever serve us for an infallible witness , whether that Odour which we smell be healthful or hurtful to the Brain , ( except when it falls out that the sence it self is corrupted and abused , through some infirmity and distemper in the Brain : ) And that the suffumigation thereof cannot have a drying quality , it needs no further probation , then that it is a smoke , all smoke and vapour being of it self Humide , as drawing near to the nature of the Air , and easie to be resolved again into water , whereof there needs no other proof but the meteors , which being bred of nothing else but of the vapors and exhalations sucked up by the Sun out of the Earth , the Sea and Waters ; yet are the same smoky vapors turned and transformed into Rains , Snows , Dews , Hoar-Frosts , and such like watry meteors ; as by the contrary , the rainy Clouds are often transformed and evaporated in blustering Winds . The second Argument grounded on a shew of Reason , is , That this filthy Smoke , as well through the heat and strength thereof , as by a natural force and quality , is able and fit to purge both the Head and Stomach of Rheumes and Distillations , as experience teacheth by the spitting , and avoiding Flegm , immediately after the taking of it . But the fallacy of this Argument may easily appear , by my late proceeding Description of the meteors ; for even as the smoky vapours sucked by the Sun , and stayed in the lowest and cold Region of the Air , are there contracted into Clouds , and turned into Rain , and such other watry meteors ; So this stinking Smoke being sucked up by the Nose ; and imprisoned in the cold and moist Brains , is by their cold and wet faculty turned and cast forth again in watry Distillations , and so are you made free , and purged of nothing , but that wherewith you wilfully burdened your selves ; and therefore are you no wiser in taking Tobacco for purging you of Distillations , then if for preventing the Cholick , you would take all kind of windy Meats and Drinks ; and for preventing of the Stone , you would take all kind of Meats and Drinks that would breed gravel in the Kidneys ; and then when you were forced to avoid much wind out of your Stomach , and much gravel in your Urine , that you should attribute the thank thereof to such nourishments as breed those within you , that behoved either to be expelled by the force of Nature , or you to have burst at the broad side , as the Proverb is . As for the other two Reasons founded upon Experience ; The first of which is , That the whole people would not have taken so general a good liking thereof , if they had not by experience found it very soveraign and good for them : For answer thereunto , How easily the minds of any people , wherewith God hath replenished this World , may be drawn to the foolish affectation of any Novelty , I leave it to the discreet Judgment of any man that is reasonable . Do we not daily see , that a man can no sooner bring over from beyond the Seas any new form of Apparel , but that he cannot be thought a man of Spirit , that would not presently imitate the same ; and so from hand to hand it spreads , till it be practised by all ; not for any commodity that is in it , but only because it is come to be the Fashion ; for such is the force of that natural self-love in every one of us , and such is the corruption of envy bred in the Breast of every one , as we cannot be content , unless we imitate every thing that our Fellows do , and so prove our selves capable of every thing whereof they are capable , like Apes , counterfeiting the Manners of others to our own destruction . For let one or two of the greatest Masters of Mathematicks in any of the two famous Universities , but constantly affirm any clear day , that they see some strange Apparition in the Skies ; They will , I warrant you , be seconded by the greatest part of the Students in that Profession ; So loath will they be , to be thought inferiour to their Fellows either in depth of Knowledge or sharpness of Sight : and therefore the general good liking , and embracing of this foolish Custome , doth but onely proceed from that affectation of Novelty and popular Error , whereof I have already spoken . And the other Argument drawn from a mistaken experience , is but the more particular probation of this general , because it is alledge to be found true by proof , That by the taking of Tobacco , divers , and very many , do find themselves cured of divers Diseases , as on the other part no man ever received harm thereby . In this Argument , there is first a great mistaking , and next a monstrous absurdity ; for is not a very great mistaking , to take non causam proeausa ; as they say in the Logicks ; because peradventure when a sick man hath had his Disease at the heighth , he hath at that instant taken Tabacco , and afterward his Disease taking the natural course of Declining , and consequently the Patient of recovering his health , O then the Tobacco forsooth was the worker of that Miracle ! beside that , it is a thing well known to all Physicians , That the apprehension and conceit of the Patient hath by wakening and uniting the vital Spirits , and so strengthening Nature , a great power and vertue to cure divers Diseases : For an evident Proof of mistaking in the like case , I pray what foolish Boy , what silly Wench , what old doting Wife , or ignorant Country Clown , is not Physician for the Tooth-ach , for the Cholick , and divers such common Diseases ; yea , will not every man you meet withall teach you a sundry Cure for the fame , and swear by that mean , either himself , or some of his nearest Kindsmen and Friends was cured ; and yet , I hope , no man is so foolish as to believe them : And all these toys do onely proceed from the mistaking non causam pro causa , as I have already said ; and so if a man chance to recover one of any Disease after he hath taken Tobacco , that must have the thanks of all : But by the contrary , if a man smoke himself to death with it ( as many have done ) O then some other Disease must bear the blame for that fault ! So do old Harlots thank their Harlotry for their many years , that Custom being healthful ( say they ) ad purgandos renes , but never have mind how many die of the Pox in the flower of their Youth : And so do old Drunkards think they prolong their days by their Swine-like Diet , but never remember how many die drowned in Drink before they be half old . And what greater absurdity can there be then to say , that one Cure shall serve for divers , nay contrarious sorts of Diseases . It is an undoubted ground among all Physicians , That there is almost no sort , either of Nourishment or Medicine , that hath not some thing in it disagreeable to some part of mans body , because , as I have already said , the nature of the temperature of every part is so different from another , that according to the old Proverb , That which is good for the Head is evil for the Neck and the Shoulders : For even as a strong Enemy that invades a Town or Fortress , although in his Siege thereof he do belay and compass it round about , yet he makes his Breach and Entry at some one or few special parts thereof , which he hath tryed and found to be weakest and least able to resist : So sickness doth make her particular assault upon such part or parts of our Body as are weakest and easiest to be overcome by that sort of Disease which then doth assail us , although all the rest of the Body , by sympathy , feel it self to be as it were belaid and besieged by the affliction of that special part , the grief and smart thereof being by the sence of feeling dispersed through all the rest of the members ; and therefore the skilful Physician presses by such Cures to purge and strengthen that part which is afflicted , as are onely fit for that sort of Disease , and do best agree with the nature of that infirm part ; which being abused to a Disease of another nature , would prove as hurtful to the one , as helpful for the other ; yea , not onely will a skilful and wary Physician be careful to use no Cure , but that which is fit for that sort of Disease ; but he will also consider all other circumstances , and make the Remedies sutable thereunto , as the temperature of the Clime , where the Patient is , the Constitution of the Planets , the time of the Moon , the season of the Year , the Age and Complexion of the Patient , the present state of his Body in strength or weakness : For one Cure must not ever be used for the self same Disease but according to the varying of any of the aforesaid Circumstances , that sort of Remedy must be used which is fittest for the same : where by the contrary in this case , such is the miraculous Omnipotency of our strong-tasted Tobacco , as it cures all sorts of Diseases ( which never any Drug could do before ) in all Persons , and at all times . It cures all manner of Distillations , either in Head or Stomach ( if you believe their Axioms ) although in very deed is do both corrupt the Brain , and , by causing over quick digestion , fill the Stomach full of Crudities . It cures the Gout in the Feet , and ( which is miraculous ) in that very instant when the smoke thereof , as light , flyes up into the Head , the vertue thereof , as heavy , runs down to the little Toe : It helps all sorts of Agues ; it makes a man sober , that was Drunk ; it refreshes a weary man , and yet makes a man hungry ; being taken when they go to Bed , it makes one sleep soundly ; and yet being taken when a man is sleepy and drowsie , it will , as they say , awaken his Brain , and quicken his Understanding ; As for curing of the Pox , it serves for that use , but among the Pocky Indian Slaves . Here in England it is refined , and will not deign to cure here any other then cleanly and gentlemanly Diseases . O omnipotent power of Tobacco ! And if it could by the smoke thereof chase out Devils , as he smoke of Tobias Fish did ( which , I am sure , could smell no stronger ) it would serve for a precious Relict , both for the superstitious Priests , and the insolent Puritans , to cast out Devils withall . Admitting then , and not confessing , that the use thereof were healthful for some sorts of Diseases , should it be used for all Sicknesses ? should it be used by all men ? should it be used at all times ? yea , should it be used by able , young , strong , healthful men ? Medicine hath that vertue , that it never leaves a man in that state wherein it finds him ; it makes a sick man whole , but a whole man sick : And as Medicine helps Nature , being taken at time of necessity ; so being ever and continually used , it doth but weaken , weary , and wear Nature . What speak I of Medicine ? Nay , let a man every hour of the day , or as oft as many in this Country use to take Tobacco ; let a man , I say , but take as oft the best sorts of Nourishments , in Meat and Drink , that can be devised , he shall , with the continual use thereof , weaken both his Head and his Stomach , all his members shall become feeble , his Spirits dull , and in the end , as a drowsie , lasie Belly-god , he shall ●vanish in a Lethargy . And from this weakness it preceeds , that many in this Kingdom have had such a continual use of taking this unsavory Smoke , as now they are not able to forbear the same , no more then an old Drunkard can abide to be long sober , without falling into an incurable Weakness , and evil Constitution ; for their continual custom hath made to them habitum , alteram naturam : So to those that , from their Birth , have been continually nourished upon Poyson , and things venemous , wholesome Meats are onely poysonable . Thus having , as I trust , sufficiently answered the most principal Arguments that are used in defence of this vile custome . It rests onely to inform you , what Sins and Vanities you commit in the filthy abuse thereof : First , Are you not guilty of sinful and shameful lust , ( for lust may be as well in any of the Sences as in feeling ) that although you be troubled with no Disease , but in perfect health , yet can you neither be merry at an Ordinary , nor lascivious in the Stews , if you lack Tobacco to provoke your Apetite to any of those sorts of Recreation ; lusting after it as the Children of Israel did in the Wilderness after Quails . Secondly , It is as you use , or rather abuse it , a branch of the sin of Drunkenness , which is the root of all Sins ; for as the onely delight that Drunkards take in Wine , is in the strength of the tast , and the force of the some thereof that mounts up to the Brain ; for no Drunkards love any weak or sweet Drink ; So are not those ( I mean the strong heat and fume ) the only qualities that make Tobacco so delectable to all the Lovers of it ? And as no man likes strong heady Drink the first day ( because nemo repente fit turpissimus ) but by custom is piece and piece allured , while , in the end , a Drunkard will have as great a thrist to be drunk , as a sober man to quench his thirst with a draught , when he hath need of it . So is not this the very case of all the great takers of Tobacco , which therefore they themselves do attribute to a bewitching quality in it ? Thirdly , Is it not the greatest sin of all , that you , the people of all sorts of this Kingdom , who are created and ordained by God , to bestow both your Persons and Goods for the maintainance both of the honour and safety of your King and Common-wealth , should disable your selves in both ? In your Persons , having by this continual vile Custom brought your selves to this shameful imbecillity , that you are not able to ride or walk the Journey of a Jews Sabbath , but you must have reeky coal brought you from the next poor House to kindle your Tobacco with ; whereas he cannot be thought able for any Service in the Wars , that cannot endure oftentimes the want of Meat , Drink and Sleep , much more then must he endure the want of Tobacco : In the times of the many glorious and victorious Battles fought by this Nation , there was no word of Tobacco ; but now if it were time of Wars , and that you were to make some sudden Cavalcado upon your Enemies ; if any of you should seek leisure to stay behind his Fellow for taking of Tobacco , for my part , I should never be sorry for any evil chance that might befall him : To take a Custome in any thing that cannot be left again , is most harmful to the people of any Land. Mollities and delicacy were the rack and overthrow , first of the Persian , and next of the Roman Empire . And this very custom of taking Tobacco ( whereof our present purpose is ) is even at this day accompted so effeminate among the Indians themselves , as in the Market they will offer no price for a Slave to be sold , whom they find to be a great Tobacco-taker . Now how you are by this Custome disabed in your Goods , let the Gentry of this Land bear witness , some of them bestowing three , some four hundred pounds a year upon this precious Stink , which , I am sure , might be bestowed upon many far better Uses . I read indeed of a Knavish Courtier , who for abusing the favour of the Emperour Alexander Severus , his Master , by taking Bribes to intercede for sundry Persons in his Masters Ear ( for whom he never once opened his mouth ) was justly choked with smoke , with this doom , Fumo pereat quifummum vendidit . But of so many Smoke-Buyers as are at this present in this Kingdom , I never read nor heard . And for the Vanities committed in this filthy Custome , is it not both great Vanity and Uncleanness , that at the Table , a place of Respect , of Cleanliness , of Modesty , men should not be ashamed to sit tossing of Tobacco-Pipes , and puffing of the smoke of Tobacco one to another , making the filthy smoke and stink thereof to exhale athwart the Dishes , and infect the Air , when very often men that abhor it are at their Repast : Surely smoke becomes a Kitchin far better then a Dining-Chamber , and yet it makes a Kitchin also oftentimes in the inward parts of men , soyling and infecting them with an unctious and oylie kind of soot , as hath been found in some great Tobacco-Takers , that after their Death were opened : And not onely meat-time , but no other time nor action is exempted from the publique use of this uncivil trick ; so as if the Wives of Diep list to contest with this Nation for good Manners , their worst Manners would in all reason be found at least not so dishonest ( as ours are ) in this point , the publick use whereof at all times , and in all places , hath now so far prevailed , as divers men very sound both in Judgment and Complexion , have been at last forced to take it also , without desire , partly because they were ashamed to seem singular , ( like the two Philosophers that were forced to duck themselves in that Rain-water , and so became Fools as well as the rest of the people ) and partly to be as one that was content to eat Garlick ( which he did not love ) that he might not be troubled with the smell of it in the breath of his Fellows . And is it not a great vanity that a man cannot heartily welcome his Friend now , but straight they must be in hand with Tobacco : No , it is become in place of a Cure , a point of good Fellowship ; and he that will refuse to take a Pipe of Tobacco among his Fellows ( though by his own election he would rather smell the savor of a sink ) is accompted peevish , and no good company ; even as they do with tipling in the cold Eastern-Countries , yea the Mistriss cannot in a more mannerly kind entertain her Servant , then by giving him out of her fair hand a pipe of Tobacco ; but herein is not only a great vanity , but a great contempt of God's good Gifts , that the sweetness of mans breath being a good gift of God , should be wilfully corrupted by this stinking smoke , wherein I must confess it hath too strong of vertue , and so that which is an Ornament of Nature , and can neither by any artifice be at the first acquired , nor once lost be recovered again , shall be filthily corrupted with an incurable stink , which vile quality is as directly contrary to that wrong Opinion which is holden of the wholesomeness thereof , as the venome of putrifaction is contrary to the vertue preservative . Moreover , which is a great iniquity , and against all humanity , the Husband shall not be ashamed to reduce thereby his delicate , wholesome , and clean-complexion'd Wife to that extremity , that either she must also corrupt her sweet Breath therewith , or else resolve to live in a perpetual stinking torment . Have you not reason then to be ashamed , and to forbear this filthy Novelty , so basely grounded , so foolishly received , and so grosly mistaken in the right use thereof : In your abuse thereof sinning against God , harming your selves both in Persons and Goods , and raking also thereby the marks and notes of Vanity upon you ; by the Custome thereof , making your selves to be wondered at by all forreign civil Nations , and by all Strangers that come among you , to be scorned and contempted ; a custome loathsome to the Eye , hateful to the Nose , harmful to the Brain , dangerous to the Lungs , and in the black stinking fume thereof , nearest resembling the horrible stigian smoke of the Pit that is bottomless . Dr. Maynwaring's serious Cautions against Tobacco , collected out of his Treatise of the Scurvy , Page 70. ANother grand procuring and promoting cause of the Scurvy is , Tobacco ; not taken notice of by any I meet with in print . And here we may charge much of the frequency , and the unwonted Phaenomena , or symptomatical appearance of this Disease , upon the late custome of taking Tobacco . Many wonder that the Scurvy should so much abound now in most places , and become so common and obvious now to every Eye , that was so rarely taken notice of in former times , notwithstanding some of its procuring causes were very Antique . But we need not wonder so much , if we consider the manner of living in former Ages , compared with our own ; new Customes and Diets beget new Diseases , or modifie the old so , as they seem to be new , in their unwonted manner , or frequency of appearance . The Scurvy being altered and differenced now from what it was in ancient times ; that the Phaenomena or symptomes of the Disease in the Syndrome and Concurrence , is not exact alike with the description of the Ancients ; which hath caused a doubt , and it is held by some Physicians , That the Scurvy is a new Disease : But it is the old Scurvy dressed in a new garb , which by new procuring causes , and additional complications , is become more depravel , more frequent , and more enlarged : few persons but harbour this unwelcome Guest . As an additional procurer of the Scurvy , Tobacco comes now to be examined , since whose general use the Scurvy hath much increased , and is become the most Epidemical . That this Plant is injurious and destructive to Nature , and consequently an introducer of the Scurvy will appear , if we consider the effects that supervene and follow the taking of it . The Consequents or Effects may be divided into two sorts ; First , Such as accompany or supervene the first use of it . Secondly , Such as follow the long and constant use of it . Symptoms arising upon the first and unaccustomed use of smoking it , are Vomiting , Giddiness , Fainting , Drunkenness Sleepiness , depravation of the Sences , and such like as follow upon the taking of some kind of Poysons . Effects upon the accustomed familiar use of it , are , Salivation , drawing a Flux of moisture to the mouth , and drayning the Body ; heat , dryness , lassitude and weariness of the Spirits , a dulness and indisposition of mind after ; apt to sleep , a filthy unsavory tast in the mouth , a check to to the Stomach or Appetite . The latent and more secret Effects wrought in the Body by the constant smoking of Tobacco , are ; the inducing a Scorbutick disposition , and promoting it where it is already radicated . And this is procured these wayes : First , By depressing the Spirits , and alienating them from their genuine propriety and purity . Secondly , By vitiating the Stomach , and depraving the Palate . Thirdly , By exhausting the dulcid good juyce of the Body , leaving behind and procuring the remainder more viscous , acrid and sharpe . Fourthly , By prejudicing and weakening the Lungs and vital Parts . That it hath a property to depress and clog the Spirits , is apparent by its narcotick vertue , causing a dulness , heaviness , lassitude , and disposing to sleep after the use of it . That it alienates the Spirits , is concluded from its virulent nature , and discord with our nature , and that is argued from the symptoms that attend the first use . That it is noxious to the Stomach ( the first grand Laboratory of the Body ) is rational to assert ; For as Tobacco affects the mouth with an ill stinking tast , so the Stomach also goes not free , but is tainted with it , which is communicated to the Food received . Now considering the nature of Tobacco , as it is hot and dry , acrid , salt , biting , Purgative , or rather virulent , altogether medicinal , and not alimental ; and this constantly to impregnate and tincture our nutimental success with these properties and qualities , we cannot otherwise expect by length of time and daily use , but that it will shew its power and vertue to change and alter our Bodies ; since it is not nutritive , but medicinal , estranged , and at a great distance from the nature of our Bodies , not fit to nourish , but to alter and produce some notable effects . So great a sympathy there is between the Stomach and Mouth , that the one is not affected , but the other is drawn into consent ; if the Stomach be foul , the Mouth hath an ill relish ; and if the Mouth distasts any thing , the Stomach nauseates at it . Now this great Harmony and consent between these two , ariseth upon this accompt ; the Mouth is appointed by nature the Stomachs taster , to judge and discern what is fit and agreeable for the Stomach to receive ; and therefore the same membrane which invests the Mouth , and is the instrument of tasting , does also line the Stomach , so that hereby what is pleasant and acceptable in the Mouth , is gratefully received into the Stomach ; now by this affinity and sympathy , you may rationally conclude , that vitiating of the tast by Tobacco and tainting the Mouth with its stinking scent , must of necessity communicate the same to the Stomach , which takes Physick every time you take Tobacco , does mix with and infect the chile of the Stomach , and is conveyed with it into all parts of the Body ; and having so great a medicinal power , must needs alter and change the Body , according to the properties it is endowed with , by the constant use , and daily reception of it . Now Tobacco being of an accrimonious , hot , dry , &c. nature , does pervert and change the Balsamick juyces of the Body into a more sharpe and fiery temper , and alienate them , whereby they are not so amicable and fit for nutrition , as many scorbutick Tobacconists do evidence upon examination , and their constitution changed by the evil use of this Plant ; and it is very reasonable to expect it , and impute such alterations to the use thereof , since they are the proper effects of such a Cause ; the more remarkable discovery , and frequency of the Scurvy , may well and justly be imputed to Tobacco , since of latter years that Tobacco hath been in use , and in those Countries where Tobacco is much taken , it doth abound most . Although I discommend the use of Tobacco by smoking it , as an injurious Custome , yet I highly applaud it , as very medicinal , being rightly used . I remember about fifteen years since , a Patient of mine in Derby-shire fell into a great Paroxysm of an Asthma , almost to suffocation , I exhibited a Dose of the Sirrup of Tobacco , which gave him present help , and within a few hours was relieved , that he could draw his Breath with much ease and freedome : And about a year after , at Maxfield in Cheshire , I cured a Gentlewoman of an Ulcer in Ano of seven years standing , chiefly with the Ointment of Tobacco ; and although other things were used , yet I ascribe most of the Cure to that Unguent . And in many other cases Tobacco is of good use , which I have experienced ; but smoking of it I find to be hurtful , if it be customary . I shall not be so strict and severe against the use of it , as to forbid all persons the smoking it upon any score whatever ; for that which may be used at certain times as medicinal , upon just occasions requiring in some persons , may prove very bad and pernicious upon the constant and general use ; and this is the case of Tobacco . Tobacconists , whom custome hath ensnared , and brought them to delight in it , are willing to be perswaded and deluded , that it is good and wholesome , at least harmless ; the pretences which they urge in defence of it , are such as these : Some plead for it , and use it after Meat , as a help to Digestion , and therefore take it as a good remedy against a bad Stomach and weak Digestion . To this I answer , They are much mistaken herein , not distinguishing between digestion , and precipitation of meat out of the Stomach ; digestion is not performed but in due time , by retexture , alteration , fermentation , and volatization of Meat , and till then , is not fit to pass out of the Digestive-Office , which requires some hours more or less , according to the nature of the Food received , of facil or difficil digestion ; now that which provokes the Stomach to a distribution of semi-digested Chyle , and unloading it self before digestion be finished and perfected , offers great injury to the Body ; and this is the case of Tobacco ( by its lavative stimulating properties ) which error committed in the first Digestive-Office is not corrected , nor the damage recompenced by the accuteness and strong elaborations of the subsequent digestions ; and for this reason in part , the Scurvy is procured hereby . Some take Tobacco for refreshment after labour , and divertisement of serious thoughts , being tired with business , study and musing . True it is , Tobacco puts a suspension upon serious thoughts , and gives a relaxation for a time in some persons ; others contemplate , and run over their business with more delight , by the help and during the taking of a Pipe : But both these persons though seemingly delighted and refreshed for a short time , yet afterwards the Spirits are lassated and tired , and are more flat , dull and somnolent , when the Pipe is out ; this was but a cheat , the Spirits were not truly refreshed , invigorated and reinforced ; as Wine does enliven and make brisk the Spirits , by affording and communicating an additional supply ; but by the fume of Tobacco the Spirits are a little inebriated and agitated by an other motion then their own , which is a seeming refreshment , and short , not real , substantial and lasting . Others plead for Tobacco , and take it as a Remedy against Rheume , because a great dryer and exhauster of superfluous Moisture . To evince the Error of this Opinion , consider what is the cause whereby Rheumes and crude moisture in the Body do abound ; and then you will plainly see , whether smoking Tobacco be a proper or likely Remedy to prevent or oppose it . Phlegm and superfluous moisture does arise and abound in the Body , from a deficiency and debility of the Digestions , as also impediment or impotency of the expulsive faculty , that the remainders after digestion be not transmitted by the common ductures . Now this fume of Tobacco gives no Roboration , adds no strength to the digestive faculties , having no symbolical qualities to comply with , and assist them , is very plain . Also that separation and expulsion of superfluous moisture by this fume , is not promoted and transmitted through the more commodious ductures and passages appointed by nature for emission ; onely a salivation by the mouth is procured , which brings no advantage , but detriment ; for this Flux of moisture doth not arise as critical , from the impulsion of Nature , separating and protruding ; but from a promiscuous attraction of fluid moisture , ( by vertue of its acrimonious heat ) as well the landable , util succus , as the degenerated and superfluous ; so that constantly draining the Body of this dulcid serosity , must cause many inconveniencies through the want of it , in as much as it is very serviceable to the Body , in the integrity of its nature , but being alienated , is then reduced or vented by better means , nature concurring with the medicine : But admit this did attract only excrementitious moisture ( which it does not ) yet considering it Vitiates the Stomach , and Impregnates the Chyle , with its evil properties , 't is much better to forbear then to use it ; that benefit would not recompence this injury . And further , that which is a preventing or curative remedy of superfluous Moisture , Rheume , or Phlegmatique matter , applies à Priori to the Digestions , the Springs from whence such Effects do arise ; not à Posteriori to the producted matter , which this fume seems to pump out , but does not stop the Leak , is therefore no radical Medicine ; and they that smoke Tobacco upon this accompt as a great dryer , and exhauster of superfluous moisture , are much deceived in the expected benefit ; it onely brings a current of moisture , which ought to be expended otherwise , but it abates nothing in the Fountain or Springs ; rather augments , and makes an overflow , ( for the Reasons aforesaid ) as Tobacconists do evidence by their much spitting . Object . Some may say , I never took Tobacco , and yet I have the symptomes of the Scurvy as bad as any that have taken it . Answ . This may be so , from other great procuring causes ; and yet Tobacco notwithstanding may be one great procurer in other persons . The Scurvy does not require all the procuring causes to concur in its production , but sometimes one , and sometimes another is able to do it ; and although you take no Tobacco , yet perhaps your Parents did , or theirs ; and it is sufficient to make you fare the worse ; bad customes and abusive living extends farther then the person so offending : it is transmitted to their Off-spring , as in another Work I have noted in these words . But yet the Crime were less , if onely to themselves the prejudice did extend , but also to Posterity their Diseases are propagated ; the Children having impressed upon them , and radicated in the principals of their nature , the seminal power and productive vertue of inordinate and intemperate living of their Genitors and Progenitors , that the Children may bear witness to the following Age , the vice and folly of their Parents and Predecessors , recorded and characterised in them , &c. Hereby you may understand , that evil customes ( as of smoking Tobacco ) do not injure onely the person doing so , but the Generation after them are prejudiced : And , here by the way , we may take notice of the many Rickity Children in this latter Age , since the use of Tobacco , which Disease was not known , before the frequent use of it . Tobacco does enervate and debilitate the faculties , that we may rationally expect the Children from this Generation to be Scorbutick , Rickity , and more feeble then formerly . Amurath the Fourth of that Name , Grand Seignior of the Turkish Empire , put forth his Edict againgst the smoking of Tobacco , and made it a Capital Crime for any that should so use it ; the Reason of this severe Prohibition was , that it did render his People infertile : I shall not urge the inconvenience of . Tobacco so far , but this I may assext , that it causeth an infirm Generation , by debilitating the Parents , and rendering them Scorbutick , which Impressions are carried in semine to their Children , and makes a diseased Issue . And I observed in Virginia , being some time in that Colony , that the Planters who had lived long there , being great Smokers , were of a withered decayed Countenance , and very Scorbutick , being exhausted by this imoderate fume ; nor are they long-lived , but do shorten their dayes by the intemperate use of Tobacco and Brandy . King James , that learned Philosophical Prince of this Nation , wisely considering the nature of this Plant , and having a good Stoxastick Head to foresee the inconveniencies that would arise to his People , by the ill custome of smoking it , he being the great Physcian of the Body Politick , does excellently dehort his Subjects ( being tender of their future welfare ) from this noxious fume , and writes an Invective against it ; whose Oratory and solid Arguments were enough to have broken the neck of this Custome , had they any regard to his kindness , or sense of their own good , and of their Posterity . I might have enlarged my self upon this Subject , and run over most Scorbutick symptomes , shewing how they are either first procured or aggravated by this fume : But from what hath been said already , it plainly appears , that Tobacco is a great procurer and promoter of the Scurvy , in as much as many Scorbutick symptomes are the proper effects of smoking Tobacco , as lassitude , dulness , somnolency , spitting , ill tast in the mouth , &c. And although some few persons either by the strength of nature , do strongly resist the bad impressions it sets upon several parts of the Body , or by the peculiarity of nature is less offensive and hurtful to some , or brings some particular benefit ( amongst its many ill properties ) that makes it seemingly good ; yet insensibly and by time it damageth all ; and those few good effects in some few persons are not of validity to give it a general approbation and use , and free it from the censure of a great procurer of the Scurvy , but may be justly reckoned in that Catalogue . Preservation of Health in the choice of Drinks , and Regular Drinking . DRink for necessity , not for bad fellowship ; especially soon after meat , which hinders the due fermentation of the Stomach , and washeth down before digestion be finished : but after the first concoction , if you have a hot Stomach , a dry or costive Body , you may drink more freely then others : or if thirst importunes you at any time , to satisfie with a moderate draught is better then to forbear . Accustom youth and strong Stomachs to small drink , but stronger drink , and Wine , to the infirm and aged : it chears the Spirits , quickens the Appetite , and helps Digestion , moderately taken : but being used in excess , disturbs the course of Nature , and procures many Diseases : for corpulent gross and fat Bodies , thin , hungry , abstersive penetrating Wines are best , as White-Wine , Rhenish , and such like . For lean thin Bodies ; black , red and yellow Wines , sweet , full bodied and fragrant , are more fit and agreeable ; as Malaga , Muscadel , Tent , Alicant and such like . For Drink , whether it be wholsomer warmed than cold , is much controverted ; some stifly contending for the one , and some for the other : I shall rather chuse the middle way , with limitation and distinction , then impose it upon all as a rule to be observed under the penalty of forfeiting their health , the observations of the one or the other . There are three sorts of persons , one cannot drink cold Beer , the other cannot drink warm , the third , either : You that cannot drink cold Beer , to you it is hurtful , cools the Stomach , and checks it much : therefore keep to warm drink as a wholsome custome : you that cannot drink warm Beer , that is , find no refreshment , nor thirst satified by it , you may drink it cold , nor is it injurious to you : you that are indifferent and can drink either , drink yours cold , or warmed , as the company does , since your Stomach makes no choice . That warm drink is no bad custom , but agreeable to Nature in the generality ; First , Because it comes the nearest to the natural temper of the Body , and similia similibus conservantur , every thing is preserved by its like , and destroyed by its contrary . Secondly , Though I do not hold it the principal Agent in digestion , yet it does excite , is auxiliary , and a necessary concomitant of a good digestion , ut signum & causa . Thirdly , Omne frigus per se , & proviribus destruit ; Cold in its own nature , and according to the graduation of its power , extinguisheth natural heat , and is destructive ; but per accidens , and as it is in gradu remisso , it may contemperate , allay , and refresh , where heat abounds , and is exalted . Therefore as there is variety of Palates and Stomachs liking and agreeing best with such kind of Meats and Drinks , which to others are utterly disgustful , disagreeing and injurious , though good in themselves : so is it in Drink warmed or cold ; what one finds a benefit in , the other receives a prejudice ; at least does not find that satisfaction and refreshment , under such a qualification ; because of the various natures , particular appetitions , and idiosyncratical properties of several bodies , one thing will not agree with all : Therefore he that cannot drink warm , let him take it cold , and it is well to him ; but he that drinks it warm , does better . And this is to be understood in Winter , when the extremity of cold hath congelated and fixed the spirits of the Liquor in a torpid inactivity ; which by a gentle warmth are unfettered , volatile and brisk ; whereby the drink is more agreeable and grateful to the Stomachs fermenting heat being so prepared , then to be made so by it . There are three sorts of Drinkers : one drinks to satisfie Nature , and to support his body ; without which he cannot well subsist , and requires it as recessary to his Being . Another drinks a degree beyond this man , and takes a larger dose , with this intention , to exhilarate and chear his mind , to banish cares and trouble , and help him to sleep the better ; and these two are lawful Drinkers . A third drinks neither for the good of the body , or the mind , but to stupifie and drown both ; by exceeding the former bounds , and running into excess , frustrating those ends for which drink was appointed by Nature ; converting this support of life and health , making it a procurer of sickness and untimely death . Many such there are , who drink not to satifie Nature , but force it down many times contrary to natural inclination ; and when there is a reluctancy against it : as Drunkards , that pour in Liquor , not for love of the drink , or that Nature requires it by thirst , but onely to maintain the mad frollick , and keep the Company from breaking up . Some to excuse this intemperance , hold it as good Physick to be drunk once a moneth , and plead for that liberty as a wholsome custome , and quote the authority of a famous Physician for it . Whether this Opinion be allowable , and to be admitted in the due Regiment for preservation of Health , is fit to be examined . It is a Canon established upon good reason ; That every thing exceeding its just bounds , and golden mediocrity , is hurtful to Nature . The best of things are not excepted in this general rule ; but are restrained and limited here to a due proportion . The supports of life may prove the procurers of death , if not qualified and made wholsome by this corrective . Meat and drink is no longer sustenance , but a load and overcharge , if they exceed the quantum due to each particular person ; and then they are not , what they are properly in themselves , and by the appointment of Nature , the preservatives of life and health ; but the causes of sickness , and consequently of death . Drink was not appointed man , to discompose and disorder him in all his faculties , but to supply , nourish , and strengthen them . Drink exceeding its measure , is no longer a refreshment , to irrigate and water the thirsty body , but makes an inundation to drown and suffocate the vital powers . It puts a man out of the state of health , and represents him in such a degenerate condition both in respect of body and mind , that we may look upon the man , as going out of the World , because he is already gone out of himself , and strangely metamorphosed from what he was . I never knew sickness or a Disease , to be good preventing Physick ; and to be drunk , is no other then an unsound state , and the whole body out of frame by this great change . What difference is there between sickness and drunkenness ? Truly I cannot distinguish them otherwise then as genus and species : Drunkenness being a raging Disease , denominated and distinguished from other sicknesses , by its procatarctick or procuring cause , Drink . That Drunkenness is a Disease or sickness , will appear in that it hath all the requisites to constitute a Disease , and is far distant from a state of health : for as health is the free and regular discharge of all the functions of the body and mind ; and sickness , when the functions are not performed , or weakly and depravedly : then Ebriety may properly be said to be a Disease or sickness , because it hath the symptoms and diagnostick signs , of an acute and great Disease : for , during the time of drunkenness , and some time after , few of the faculties perform rightly , but very depravedly and preternatually : if we examine the intellectual faculties , we shall find the reason gone , the memory lost or much abated , and the will strangely perverted : if we look into the sensitive faculties , they are disordered , and their functions impedited , or performed very deficiently : the eyes do not see well , nor the ears hear well , nor the palate reMifh , &c. The speech faulters and is imperfect ; the stomach perhaps vomits or nauseates ; his legs fail : Indeed if we look through the whole man , we shall see all the faculties depraved , and their functions either not executed , or very disorderly and with much deficiency . Now according to these symptoms in other sicknesses , we judge a man not likely to live long ; and that it is very hard he should recover ; the danger is so great from the many threatning symptoms that attend this sickness , and prognosticate a bad event : here is nothing appears salutary ; but from head to foot , the Disease is prevalent in every part ; which being collated , the syndrom is lethal , and judgment to be given so . Surely then Drunkenness is a very great Disease for the time , but because it is not usually mortal , nor lasts long ; therefore it it slighted , and look't upon as a trivial matter that will cure it self . But now the question may be asked ; Why is not Drunkenness usually mortal ? since the same signs in other Diseases are accounted mortal , and the event proves if so . To which I answer ; All the hopes we have that a man drunk should live , is ; first , From common experience that it is not deadly : Secondly , From the nature of the primitive or procuring Cause , strong Drink or Wine ; which although it rage , and strangely discompose the man for a time , yet it lasts not long , nor is mortal . The inebriating spirits of the liquor , flowing in so fast , and joyning with the spirits of mans body , make so high a tide , that overflows all the banks and bounds of order : For , the spirits of mans body , those agents in each faculty , act smoothly , regularly and constantly , with a moderate supply ; but being overcharged , and forced out of their natural course , and exercise of their duty , by the large addition of furious spirits ; spurs the functions into strange disorders , as if nature were conflicting with death and dissolution ; but yet it proves not mortal . And this , first , because these adventitious spirits are amicable and friendly to our bodies in their own nature , and therefore not so deadly injurious , as that which is not so familiar or noxious . Secondly , Because they are very volatile , light , and active ; Nature therefore does much sooner recover her self , transpires and sends forth the overplus received ; then if the morbifick matter were more ponderous and fixed ; the gravamen from thence would be much worse and longer in removing : as an over-charge of Meat , Bread , Fruit , or such like substances not spirituous ; but dull and heavy ( comparativè ) is of more difficult digestion , and layes a greater and more dangerous load upon the faculties , having not such volatile brisk spirits to assist Nature , nor of so liquid a fine substance , of quicker and easier digestion : So that the symptoms from thence are much more dangerous , then those peracute distempers arising from Liquors . So likewise those bad symptoms in other Diseases are more to be feared and accounted mortal ( then the like arising from drunkenness ) because those perhaps depend upon malignant causes ; or such as by time are radicated in the body ; or from the defection of some principal part : but the storm and discomposure arising from drunkenness , as it is suddenly raised , so commonly it soon falls , depending upon benign causes , and a spiritucus matter , that layes not so great an oppression ; but inebriates the spirits , that they act very disorderly and unwontedly ; or by the soporiferous vertue , stupefies them for a time , untill they recover their agility again . But all this while , I do not see , that to be drunk once a moneth , should prove good Physick : all I think that can be said in this behalf , is ; that by overcharging the Stomach , vomiting is procured ; and so carries off something that was lodged there , which might breed Diseases . This is a bad excuse for good Fellows , and a poor plea for drunkenness : for the gaining of one supposed benefit ( which might be obtained otherwise ) you introduce twenty inconveniences by it . I do not like the preventing of one Disease that may be , by procuring of one at the present certainly , and many hereafter most probably : and if the Disease feared , or may be , could be prevented no otherwise , but by this drunken means ; then that might tollerate and allow it : but there are other wayes better and safer to cleanse the body either upwards or downwards , then by overcharging with strong drink , and making the man to unman himself ; the evil consequents of which are many , the benefit hoped for , but pretended ; or if any , but very small and inconsiderable . And although , as I said before , the drunken fit is not mortal , and the danger perhaps not great for the present ; yet those drunken bouts being repeated ; the relicts do accumulate , debilitate Nature , and lay the foundation of many chronick Diseases . Nor can it be expected otherwise ; but you may justly conclude from the manifest irregular actions which appear to us externally , that the functions within also , and their motions are strangely disordered : for , the outward madness and unwonted actions , proceed from the internal impulses , and disordered motions of the faculties : which general disturbance and discomposure ( being frequent ) must needs subvert the oeconomy and government of humance Nature ; and consequently ruine the Fabrick of mans body . The ill effects , and more eminent products of ebriety , are ; first , A changing of the natural tone of the Stomach , and alienating the digestive faculty ; That instead of a good transmutation of food , a degenerate Chyle is produced . Common experience tells , that after a drunken debauch , the stomach loseth its appetite , and acuteness of digestion ; as belching , thirst , disrelish , nauseating , do certainly testifie : yet to support nature , and continue the custom of eating , some-food is received ; but we cannot expect from such a Stomach that a good digestion should follow : and it is some dayes before the Stomach recover its eucrasy , and perform its office well : and if these miscarriages happen but seldom , the injury is the less , and sooner recompenced ; but by the frequent repetition of these ruinous practices , the Stomach is overthrown and alienated from its integrity . Secondly , An unwholsome corpulency and cachectick plenitude of body does follow : or a degenerate macilency , and a decayed consumptive constitution . Great Drinkers that continue it long , few of them escape , but fall into one of these conditions and habit of body : for , if the Stomach discharge not its office aright ; the subsequent digestions will also be defective . So great a consent and dependance is there upon the Stomach ; that other parts cannot perform their duty , if this leading principal Part be perverted and debauched : nor can it be expected otherwise ; for , from this Laboratory and prime office of digestion , all the parts must receive their supply ; which being not suteable , but depraved , are drawn into debauchery also , and a degenerate state ; and the whole Body fed with a vitious alimentary succus . Now that different products or habits of body should arise from the same kind of debauchery , happens upon this score . As there are different properties and conditions of bodies ; so the result from the same procuring causes shall be much different and various : one puffs up , fills , and grows hydropical ; another pines away , and falls Consumptive , from excess in drinking ; and this proceeds from the different disposition of parts : for , in some persons , although the stomach be vitiated , yet the strength of the subsequent digestions is so great , from the integrity and vigor of those parts destinated to such offices ; that they act strenuously , though their object matter be transmitted to them imperfect and degenerate ; and therefore do keep the body plump and full , although the juyces be foul , and of a depraved nature . Others è contra , whose parts are not so firm and vigorous ; that will not act upon any score , but with their proper object ; does not endeavour a transmutation of such aliene matter , but receiving it with a nice reluctance , transmits it to be evacuated and sent forth by the next convenient ducture , or emunctory : and from hence the body is frustrated of nutrition , and falls away : So that the pouring in of much liquor ( although it be good in sua natura ) does not beget much aliment , but washeth through the body , and is not assimilated . But here some may object and think ; That washing of the body through with good Liquor , should cleanse the body , and make it fit for nourishment , and be like good Physick for a foul body . But the effect proves the contrary ; and it is but reason it should be so : for , suppose the Liquor ( whether Wine , or other ) be pure and good ; yet when the spirit is drawn off from it , the remainder is but dead , flat , thick , and a muddy flegm . As we find in the destillation of Wine , or other Liquors ; so it is in mans body : the spirit is drawn off first , and all the parts of mans body are ready Receivers , and do imbibe that limpid congenerous enlivener , freely and readily : but the remainder , of greatest proportion ; that heavy , dull , phlegmy part , and of a narcotick quality ; lies long fluctuating upon the digestions , and passeth but slowly ; turns sowr , and vitiates the Crases of the parts : So that this great inundation , and supposed washing of the body , does but drown the Faculties , stupefie or choak the Spirits , and defile all the Parts ; not purifie and cleanse . And although the more subtile and thinner portion , passeth away in some persons pretty freely by Vrine ; yet the grosser and worse part stayes behind , and clogs in the percolation . A third injury , and common , manifest prejudice from intemperate drinking , is ; An imbecillity of the Nerves ; which is procured from the disorderly motions of the Animal Spirits ; being impulsed and agitated preternaturally by the inebriating spirits of strong Liquors : which vibration being frequent , begets a habit , and causeth a trepidation of Members . Transcribed verbatim out of Doctor Maynwaring's Treatise Of long Life . That it may not be said to be onely one Doctors Opinion , here is added another Collection against Tobacco-smoking , written by the learned Doctor George Thompson , in his Book Of Preservation of the Bloud . A Bove all , I much condemn the common abuse of Tobacco ; out of which , no other symptomes , than a scorbutical Venome is accidentally sucked . Agreeable to which Judgment of mine , is that of the Legitimate Artist Doctor Maynwaring , who marks where Tobacco is much taken , the Scurvy doth most abound : I wish those who are too forward to condemn Chymical Preparations , ordered by true Philosophers , would reflect upon themselves and others , as yet ignorant of Pyrotomy , how that they are too forward in rushing into this Science ; Indirectly making use of a Retort with a receiver , I mean a Pipe , and the mouth for the reduction of this Plant into Salt and Sulphur , proving not a little injurious to them . If they were conscious how subtil an enemy it is , how hardly to be dealt withall , in a moderate sense ; how insinuating , tempting , deluding ; how disagreeing to nature , as is manifest at first taking it , pretending an evacuation onely of a superfluous moisture , when it also generates the same ; how it wrongs the Ventricle ; by reason of a continuity of its membrane , with that of the mouth ; how it taints the nutricious Juyce ; how it dozes the Brain , impairing its Faculties , especially the memory : They would quickly commit this Herb to the hand of those that know what belongs to the right management and improvement thereof . I confess it hath a Dowry bestowed upon it , which may make it very acceptable to all ingenious Artists , for inward and outward uses ; yet as the matter is handled indiscreetly , I know nothing introduced into this Nation hath discovered it self more apparently hurtful , in aggravating and graduating this scorbutical evil among us then Tobacco . I am not ignorant what some Object , That there are those who taking an extraordinary quantity of Tobacco , have lived a to great age , as Sixty or Seventy Years . 2. That multitudes not taking this fume , are yet notwithstanding over run with the Scurvy . 3. That some have protested , they have received certain benefit by this Plant , when other Remedies prescribed by able Physitians have been invalid to relieve them . 4. That there are places where Man , Woman and Child , take in this Smoke , none of these sad effects appearing . As to the first , I answer , One Swallow makes no Summer ; I reckon this among raro contingentia : I have known one very intemperate in Dier , live to the fore-mentioned age ; but doubtless had he Regulated himself according to the Rules of Mediocrity , he might have doubled that age . Innate Strength of Body doth carry a man sometimes through that , without any great damage , which destroys another . 2. I do not affirm , that this Vegetable is the sole Co-adjuvant cause of the Scurvy , it being certain there are many Promoters thereof . Besides , yet granted that your great Compotators , Ventricolae , Gormandizers , who have as the Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Lazy panches , little else to do but to take Tobacco , to pass away the time ; filling Pipe after Pipe , as fast as possible they can exhaust it , are commonly incident to this feral Malady . Hereupon this very same specifick Disease may be diffused and communicated to others , by expiration or ffluvium , sent out of a Body infected therewith ; so that it seems rare to me , that the Wife should be exempted from this Cacoettick Sickness , if the Husband be afflicted therewith ; or the Husband be free , if the Wife be vexed : Doubtless some Peoples Breath doth exceedingly taint the Air , to the great annoyance of others . 3. I condemn not medicinal appropriation and application of this Drug , for I knòw it to be of excellent Vertue : There is great difference , Inter dictum secundum quid & dictum simpliciter , between the censure of any thing as absolutely evil , and the indirect practise of it : Moreover , what is one man's Meat , may be anothers Poyson . 4. The generality of smoking it in some places , without those ill effects we find , doth not at all frustrate my assertion : For I have observed a more moderate course of life in Diet , the goodness of the Air , with an hereditary Custome , hath in great measure ballanced the nocument or inconveniences , which otherwise they would have contracted by excess thereof ; neither are these numerous Tobacconists acquitted from this evil , as it appears by those frequent eruptions in the skin , whereby a greater mischief is prevented within , they being only efflorescences of a scorbutical pravity . There are , as I apprehend , two principal Reasons to be given , why this Weed hath captivated so many Thousands in such sort , that they become meer Slaves to it . One is , the seeming delight it affords in the present taking thereof , inducing a pleasing bewitching melancholy , exceedingly affecting their Fancies , so that they could wish with him in the Poet , Hic furor , ô superi , sit mihi perpetuus , O that I might alwayes thus melancholize ; not considering though the Prologue be chearful , the Epilogue is often sad ; though the Spirits are as it were titillated , and charmed into a sweet complacency for a short space ; yet afterward a dulness , gloominess , seizes upon them ; indeed , how can it be otherwise , seeing they are but forcibly lulled into this secure placid Condition , by that which is as far remote from the Vitals , as the Beams of the Sun are from a black Cloud . I find in this Smoke , a stinking , retunding , condensing Opiatelike Sulphur , and an acrid Salt , profligating , extimulating , so that by the bridling much of the one , and the excessive spurring of the other ; the spirits , like a free metalsome Horse , are quite tired out at last : It is impossible that the frequent insinuations of this subtil fume , making shew of affinity , but quite of another tribe with the animals , should not at length ( let a body be never so strong , and custom how ever prevalent ) either pervert or subvert his well constituted frame . Another Reason ( observable only by those that are true Gnosticks of themselves ) why Tobacco is so highly set by , and hath so many Followers ; is its meretricious kisses , given to those that embrace it : oftentimes secretly wounding them mortally , yet are they not throughly sensible who gave them the stroke . I have taken notice of very temperate Persons in other things , who , for diversion , have indulged their genious , ad Hilaritatem , continuing for urbanitysake in Company they liked , longer then ordinary , have so closely pursued this pernicious Art of sucking in the smoke of this Herb , that never any Chymist was more solicitous , in greater hast to fetch his matters over the Helm by Distillation : Behold what the event was ! the next morning I have heard complaints come from them , that their Brains were something stupid , dozed , their Stomach nauseous , being thirsty , also feaverish : All this they attribute to their transgressing limits of Sobriety in drinking , or to the sophisticated adulterated Liquors , not finding the least fault with the extravagant use of Tobacco , which above all did them the most hurt privately : Something I can speak experimentally to this purpose , for having been wedded to it many years past , supposing I had got an Antidote against Hypochondriack melancholy with an Apophlegmatism , to discharge crude matter ; I applauded it in all Company , without advertency at that time , how false and treacherous it was , which afterward perceiving , I withdrew my self from the use thereof by degrees , at length was altogether divorced from it . Praevisa spicula levius feriunt ; Could we see the poysoned Arrows that are shot from this Plant , questionless we would indeavour to avoid them , that they might less intoxicate us . Latet anguis in Herba ; We are suddenly surprized by this Serpentine Plant , before we are aware ; thus that which we take for an Antidote , becomes meer Poyson to us , supplanting and clancularly confounding the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , or good government of this Republick , consisting in the strength and goodness of a seminal Archeus , vigorous ferments , the just constitution and harmony of every part . Needs must then Indigestions , Crudities , Degeneration and Illegitimation of the nutricious juyce follow , promoting Causes and products of the great Poyson of the Scurvy . My advice therefore to any immoderate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , a Fumesucker , is , That he would , as he tenders the Salvation of Body and Soul , wean himself by degrees from excess herein ; If so , doubtless he will find if the Scurvy infest him much , an abatement of the tedious symptoms therefore . Such as are so accustomed to Tobacco , that they cannot forbear it , let what can be said against it ; So that neither the good and solid Perswasions of a great , wise , and learned King , nor the wholsome and rational Arguments of two able and skilful Physicians , will be of force to prevail with them : My Advice to such is , while they take it , To meditate on this Poem following , by which they may be able to make this double spiritual use of it , Viz. I. To see the Vanity of the World. II. The Mortality of Mankind . Which , I think , is the best use can be made of it and the Pipe , &c. The Indian Weed withered quite , Green at Noon , cut down at Night ; Shews Thy decay , all Flesh is hay : Thus think , then drink Tobacco . The Pipe that is so lilly-white , Shews Thee to be a mortal Wight , And even such gone with a touch : Thus think , then drink Tobacco . And when the Smoke ascends on high , Think thou behold'st the Vanity Of worldly stuff , gone with a puff : Thus think , then drink Tobacco . And when the Pipe grows foul within , Think on thy Souldefil'd with Sin , And then the Fire it doth require : Thus think , then drink Tobacco . The Ashes that are left behind May serve to put thee still in mind , That unto Dust return thou must : Thus think , then drink Tobacco . Answered by George Withers thus , Thus think , drink no Tobacco . Woe to Drunkards : A SERMON Preached many Years since By Mr. Samuel Ward , PREACHER OF IPSWICH . PROV . 23. Verse 29 , 32. To whom is Woe ? to whom is Sorrow ? to whom is Strife ? &c. In the end it will bite like a Serpent , and sting like a Cockatrice . SEer , art thou also blind ? Watchman , art thou also drunk , or asleep ? Or hath a Spirit of slumber put out thine Eyes ? Up to thy Watch-Tower , what descriest thou ? Ah Lord ! what end or number is there of the Vanities which mine Eyes are weary of beholding ? But what seest thou ? I see men walking like the tops of Trees shaken with the wind , like Masts of Ships reeling on the tempestuous Seas . Drunkenness , I mean , that hateful Night-bird ; which was wont to wait for the twilight , to seek Nooks and Corners , to avoid the howting and wonderment of Boys and Girls ; Now as if it were some Eaglet to dare the Sun-light , to fly abroad at high Noon in every Street , in open Markets and Fairs , without fear or shame , without controul or punishment , to the disgrace of the Nation , the out-facing of Magistracy and Ministry , the utter undoing ( without timely prevention ) of Health and Wealth , Piety and Vertue , Town and Countrey , Church and Common-wealth . And doest thou like a dumb Dog hold thy peace at these things , dost thou with Solomon's sluggard fold thine hands in thy Bosome , and give thy self to ease and drowsmess , while the envious man causeth the noisomest and baseth of weeds to over-run the choisest Eden of God ? Up and Arise , lift up thy Voice , spare not , and cry aloud ? What shall I cry ? Cry , woe and woe again unto the Crown of pride , the Drunkards of Ephraim . Take up a parable , and tell them how it stingeth like the Cockatrice ; declare unto them the deadly poyson of this odious sin . Shew them also the soveragin Antidote and Cure of it , in the Cup that was drunk off by him , that was able to overcome it : Cause them to behold the brasen Serpent , and be healed . And what though some of these deaf Adders will not be charmed nor cured , yea though few or none of this swinish herd of habitual Drunkards , accustomed to wallow in their mire ; yea , deeply and irrecoverably plunged by legions of Devils into the dead sea of their filthiness ; what if not one of them will be washed , and made clean , but turn again to their Vomit , and trample the Pearls of all admonition under feet ; yea , turn again , and rend their Reprovers with scoffs and scorns , making Jests and Songs on their Alebench : Yet may some young ones be deterred , and some Novices reclaimed , some Parents and Magistrates awakened to prevent and suppress the spreading of this Gangrene : And God have his work in such as belong to his Grace . And what is impossible to the work of his Grace ? Go to then now ye Drunkards , listen not what I , or any ordinary Hedge-Priest ( as you style us ) but that most wise and experienced Royal Preacher hath to say unto you . And because you are a dull and thick eared Generation , he first deals with you by way of question , a figure of force and impression . To whom is woe ? &c. You use to say , Woe be to Hypocrites . It 's true , woe be to such and all other witting and willing sinners ; but there are no kind-of Offenders on whom woe doth so palpably inevitably attend as to you Drunkards . You promise your selves Mirth , Pleasure , and Jollity in your Cups ; but for one drop of your mad mirth , be sure of Gallons , and Tuns of Woe , Gall , Wormwood , and bitterness here and hereafter . Other Sinners shall taste of the Cup , but you shall drink off the dregs of God's Wrath and Displeasure . To whom is Strife : You talk of good fellowship and friendship , but Wine is a rager and tumultuous make-bate , and sets you a quarreling , and medling . When wit 's out of the head and strength out of the body , it thrusts even Cowards and Dastards , unfenced and unarmed , into needless Frayes and Combats . And then to whom are Wounds , broken Heads , blue Eyes , maimed Limbs ? You have a drunken by-word , Drunkards take no harm ; but how many are the mishaps and untimely misfortunes that betide such , which though they feel not in drink , they carry as marks and brands to their Grave . You pretend you drink Healths , and for Health ; but to whom are all kind of Diseases , Infirmities , Deformities , pearled Faces , Palsies , Dropfies , Head-aches ? If not to Drunkards . Upon these premises , he forcibly infers his sober and serious advise . Look upon these woful effects and evils of Drunkenness , and look not upon the Wine ; look upon the blue . Wounds , upon the red Eyes it causeth , and look not on the red colour when it sparkleth in the Cup. If there were no worse then these , yet would no wise man be overtaken with Wine : As if he should say , What see you in the Cup or Drink , that countervaileth these dreggs that lie in the bottom . Behold , this is the Sugar , you are to look for , and the tang it leaves behind . Woe and alas , sorrow and strife , shame , poverty and diseases ; these are enough to make it odious , but that which followeth withall , will make it hideous and fearful . For Solomon duely considering that he speaks to men past shame and grace , senseless of blowes , and therefore much more of reasons and words , insisteth not upon these party woes ; which they , bewitched and besotted with the love of Wine , will easily over-see and over-leap : but sets before their Eyes the direful end and fruit , the black and poyfonful tail of this sin . In the end it stingeth like the Serpent , it biteth like the Cockatrice , ( or Adder ) faith our new Translation . All Interpreters agree , That he means some most virulent Serpent , whose Poyson is present and deadly . All the woes he hath mentioned before , were but as the sting of some Emmet , Waspe , or Nettle , in comparison of this Cockatrice which is even unto death ; death speedy , death painful , and woful death , and that as naturally and inevitably , as Opium procureth sleep , as Hellebore purgeth , or any Poyson killeth . Three forked is this sting , and three fold is the death it procureth to all that are strung therewith . The first is , the death of Grace ; The second is , of the Body : The third is , of Soul and Body eternal . All sin is the poyson wherewithall the old Serpent and red Dragon envenomes the soul of Man , but no sin ( except it be that which is unto death ) so mortal as this , which though not ever unpardonably , yet for the most part is also irrecoverably and inevitably unto death . Seest thou one bitten with any other Snake , there is hope and help : as the Father said of his Son , when he had information of his Gaming , of his Prodigality , yea , of his Whoring : But when he heard that he was poysoned with Drunkenness , he gave him for dead , his case for desperate and forlorn . Age and experience often cures the other ; but this encreaseth with years , and parteth not till death . Whoring is a deep Ditch , yet some few shall a man see return and lay hold on the wayes of life , one of a thousand , but scarce one Drunkard of ten thousand . One Ambrose mentions , and one have I known ; and but one of all that ever I knew or heard of . Often have I been asked , and often have I enquired , but never could meet with an instance , save one or two at the most . I speak of Drunkards , not of one drunken ; of such who rarely and casually have Noah-like been surprised , over-taken at unawares : But if once a Custome , ever Necessity . Wine takes away the Heart , and spoils the Brain , overthrows the Faculties and Organs of Repentance and Resolution . And is it not just with God , that he who will put out his natural light , should have his spiritual extinguished ? He that will deprive himself of Reason , should lose also the Guide and Pilot of Reason , God's Spirit and Grace : He that will wittingly and willingly make himself an Habitation of Unclean Spirits , should not dispossess them at his own pleasure ? Most aptly therefore is it translated by Tremelius Hamorrbois , which Gesner confounds with the Dipsas , or thirsty Serpent , whose poyson breedeth such thirst , drought , and inflamation ; like that of Ratsbane , that they never leave drinking , till they burst and die withall . Would it not grieve and pitty and Christian-soul , to see a towardly hopeful young man , well natured , well nurtured , stung with this Cockatrice , bewailing his own case , crying out against the baseness of the sin , inveighing against-Company , melting under the perswasions of Friends ; yea , protesting against all enticements , vow , covenant , and seriously indent with himself and his Friends for the relinquishing of it : And yet if he meet with a Companion that holds but up his Finger , he follows him as a Fool to the Stocks , and as an Oxe to the Slaughter-house , having no Power to withstand the Temptation ; but in he goes with him to the Tipling-house , not considering that the Chambers are the Chambers of Death , and the Guests , the Guests of Death ; and there he continues as one bewitched , or conjured in a Spell ; out of which he returns not , till he hath emptied his Purse of Money , his Head of Reason , and his Heart of all his former seeming Grace . There his Eyes behold the strange Woman , his Heart speaketh perverse things , becoming heartless , as one ( saith Solomon ) in the heart of the Sea , resolving to continue , and return to his Vomit , whatsoever it cost him , to make it his daily work . I was sick , and knew it not : I was struck , and felt it not ; when I awake , I will seek it still . And why indeed ( without a Miracle ) should any expect that one stung with this Viper should shake it off , and ever recover of it again . Yea , so far are they from recovering themselves , that they infect and become contagious and pestilent to all they come near . The Dragon infusing his Venome , and assimulating his Elses to himself in no sin so much as in this , that it becomes as good as Meat and Drink to them , to spend their Wit and Money to compass Ale-house after Ale-house ; yea , Town after Town , to transform others with their Circean-Cups , till they have made them Bruits and Swine , worse then themselves . The Adulterer and Usurer desire to enjoy their Sin alone ; but the chiefest pastime of a Drunkard is to heat and overcome others with Wine , that he may discover their nakedness and glory in their foyl and folly . In a word , excess of Wine , and the spirit of Grace are opposites ; the former expels the latter out of the Heart , as smoke doth Bees out of the Hive : and makes the man a meer Slave and Prey to Satan and his snares ; when , by this Poyson , he hath put out his Eyes , and spoyled him of his strength , he useth him as the Philistins did Sampson , leads him in a string whither he pleaseth , like a very drudge , scorn , and make-sport to himself and his Imps ; makes him grind in the Mill of all kind of Sins and Vices . And that I take to be the reason why Drunkenness is not specially prohibited in any one of the Ten Commandments , because it is not the single breach of any one , but in effect the violation of all and every one : It is no one sin , but all sins , because it is the In-let and Sluce to all other Sins . The Devil having moistened , and steeped him in his Liquor ; shapes him like soft Clay , into what mould he pleaseth : having shaken off his Rudder and Pilot , dashes his Soul upon what Rocks , Sands , and Syrts he listeth , and that with as much ease as a man may push down his Body with the least thrust of his Hand or Finger . He that in his right wits , and sober mood , seems religious , modest , chast , courteous , secret ; in his drunken fits , swears , blasphemes , rages , strikes , talks filthily , blabs all secrets , commits folly , knows no difference of Persons or Sexes , becomes wholly at Satans command , as a dead Organ , to be enacted at his will and pleasure . Oh that God would be pleased to open the Eyes of some Drunkard , to see what a Dunghill and Carrion his Soul becomes , and how loathsome effects follow upon thy spiritual death , and sting of this Cockatrice , which is the Fountain of the other two following , temporal and eternal death ! And well may it be , that some such as are altogether fearless and careless of the former death , will yet tremble , and be moved with that which I shall in the second place tell them . Among all other sins that are , none brings forth bodily death so frequently as this , none so ordinarily slays in the act of sin as this . And what can be more horrible then to die in the act of a Sin , without the act of Repentance ? I pronounce no definitive Sentence of Damnation upon any particular so dying , but what door of hope or comfort is left to their Friends behind of their Salvation ? The Whore-Master he hopes to have a space and time to repent in age , though sometimes it pleaseth God that death strikes Cozbi and Zimri napping , as the Devil is said to slay one of the Popes in the instant of his Adultery , and carry him quick to Hell. The Swearer and Blasphemer hath commonly space , though seldom Grace , to repent and amend : and some rare examples stories afford , of some taken with Oaths and Blasphemies in their mouths . The Thief and Oppossor may live , and repent , and make restitution , as Zacheus : though I have seen one slain right-out with the Timber he stole half an hour before ; and heard of one that having stoln a Sheep , and laying it down upon a stone to rest him , was grin'd and hang'd with the strugling of it about his Neck . But these are extraordinary and rare cases : God sometimes practising Marshal-Law , and doing present execution , left Fools shall say in their Hearts , There were no God , or Judgment : but conniving and deferring the most , that men might expect a Judge coming , and a solemn day of Judgment to come . But this sin of Drunkenness is so odious to him , that he makes it self Justice , Judge and Executioner , slaying the ungodly with misfortune , bringing them to untimely shameful ends , in brutish and beastial manner , often in their own vomit and ordure ; sending them sottish , sleeping , and senseless to Hell , not leaving them either time , or reason , or grace to repent , and cry so much as Lord have mercy upon us . Were there ( as in some Cities of Italy ) an Office kept , or a Record and Register by every Coroner in Shires and Counties , of such dismal events which God hath avenged this sin withall , what a Volume would it have made within these few years in this our Nation ? How terrible a Threater of God's Judgments against Drunkards , such as might make their Hearts to bleed and relent , if not their Ears to tingle , to hear of a taste of some few such noted and remarkable Examples of God's Justice , as have come within the compass of mine own notice , and certain knowledge ; I think I should offend to conceal them from the World , whom they may happily keep from being the like to others , themselves . An Ale-wife in Kesgrave , near to Ipswich , who would needs force three Serving-men ( that had been drinking in her House , and were taking their leaves ) to stay and drink the three Ou ts first , that is , Wit out of the Head , Money out of the Purse , Ale out of the Pot ; as she was coming towards them with the Pot in her hand , was suddenly taken speechless and sick , her Tongue swoln in her mouth , never recovered speech , the third day after died . This Sir Anthony Felton , the next Gentleman and Justice , with divers others Eve-witnesses of her in Sickness related to me ; whereupon I went to the House with two or three Witnesses , and inquired the truth of it . Two Servants of a Brewer in Ipswich , drinking for a rumpe of a Turkie , strugling in their drink for it , fell into a scading Caldron backwards : whereof the one died presently , the other lingringly and painfully since my coming to Ipswich . Anno 1619. A Miller in Bromeswell , coming home drunk from Woodbridge ( as he oft did ) would needs go and swim in the Milpond : his Wife and Servants knowing he could not swim , disswaded him , once by intreaty got him out of the water , but in he would needs go again , and there was drowned : I was at the house to inquire of this , and found it to be true . In Barnewell , near to Cambridge , one at the Sign of the Plough , a lusty young man , with two of his Neighbours , and one Woman in their Company , agreed to drink a Barrel of strong Beer ; they drank up the Vessel , three of them dyed within twenty four hours , the fourth hardly escaped after great sickness . This I have under a Justice of Peace his Hand near dwelling , besides the common same . A Butcher in Hastingfield hearing the Minister inveigh against Drunkenness , being at his Cups in the Ale-house , fell a jesting and scoffing at the Minister and his Sermons : And as he was drinking , the Drink , or something in the Cup , quackled him , stuck so in his Throat , that he could get it neither up nor down , but strangled him presently . At Tillingham in Dengy Hundred in Essex , three young men meeting to drink Strong waters , fell by degrees to half pints : One fell dead in the Room , and the other prevented by Company coming in , escaped not without much sickness . At Bungey in Norfolk , three coming out of an Ale-house in a very dark Evening , swore , they thought it was not darker in Hell it self : One of them fell off the Bridge into the water , and was drowned ; the second fell off his Horse , the third sleeping on the Ground by the Rivers-side , was frozen to death : This have I often heard , but have no certain ground for the truth of it it . A Bayliff of Hadly , upon the Lords-day , being drunk at Melford , would needs get upon his Mare , to ride through the Street , affirming ( as the Report goes ) That his Mare would carry him to the Devil ; His Mare casts him off , and broke his Neck instantly . Reported by sundry sufficient Witnesses . Company drinking in an Ale-house at Harwith in the night , over against one Master Russels , and by him out of his Window once or twice willed to depart ; at length he came down , and took one of them , and made as if he would carry him to Prison , who drawing his Knife , fled from him , and was three days after taken out of the Sea with the Knife in his hand . Related to me by Master Russel himself , Mayor of the Town . At Tenby in Pembrokeshire , a Drunkard being exceeding drunk , broke himself all to pieces off an high and steep Rock , in a most fearful manner ; and yet the occasion and circumstances of his fall were so ridiculous , as I think not fit to relate , lest , in so serious a Judgment , I should move laughter to the Reader . A Glasier in Chancery-Lane in London , noted formerly for Profession , fell to a common course of drinking , whereof being oft by his Wife and many Christian friends admonished , yet presuming much of God's mercy to himself , continued therein , till , upon a time , having surcharged his Stomach with drink , he fell a vomiting , broke a Vein , lay two days in extreme pain of Body , and distress of Mind , till in the end recovering a little comfort , he died : Both these Examples related to me by a Gentleman of worth upon his own knowledge . Four sundry instances of Drunkards wallowing and tumbling in their drink , slain by Carts ; I forbear to mention , because such examples are so common and ordinary . A Yeoman's Son in Northamptonshire , who being drunk at Wellingborough on a Market-day , would needs ride his Horse in a bravery over the plowed-lands , fell from his Horse , and brake his Neck : Reported to me by a Kinsman of his own . A Knight notoriously given to Drunkenness , carrying sometime Payls of drink into the open Field , to make people drunk withall ; being upon a time drinking with Company , a woman comes in , delivering him a Ring with this Posie , Drink and die ; saying to him , This is for you ; which he took and wore , and within a week after came to his end by drinking : Reported by sundry , and justified by a Minister dwelling within a mile of the place . Two Examples have I known of Children that murthered their own Mothers in drink ; and one notorious Drunkard that attempted to kill his Father ; of which being hindred , he fired his Barn , and was afterward executed : one of these formerly in Print . At a Tavern in Breadstreet in London , certain Gentlemen drinking Healths to their Lords , on whom they had dependance ; one desperate Wretch steps to the Tables end , lays hold on a pottle-pot full of Canary-sack , swears a deep Oath ; What will none here drink a health to my noble Lord and Master ? and so setting the pottle-pot to his mouth , drinks it off to the bottom ; was not able to rise up , or to speak when he had done , but fell into a deep snoaring sleep , and being removed , laid aside , and covered by one of the Servants of the House , attending the time of the drinking , was within the space of two hours irrecoverably dead : Witnessed at the time of the Printing hereof by the same Servant that stood by him in the Act , and helpt to remove him . In Dengy Hundred , near Mauldon , about the beginning of his Majesties Reign , there fell out an extraordinary Judgment upon five or six that plotted a solemn drinking at one of their Houses , laid in Beer for the once , drunk healths in a strange manner , and died thereof within a few weeks , some sooner , and some later : witnessed to me by one that was with one of them on his death-bed , to demand a Debt , and often spoken of by Master Heydon , late Preacher of Mauldon , in the hearing of many : The particular circumstances were exceeding remarkable , but having not sufficient proof for the particulars , I will not report them . One of Aylesham in Norfolk , a notorious Drunkard , drowned in a shallow Brook of water , with his Horse by him . Whilest this was at the Presse , a man Eighty five years old , or thereabout , in Suffolk , overtaken with Wine , ( though never in all his life before , as he himself said a little before his fall , seeming to bewail his present condition , and others that knew him so say of him ) yet going down a pair of stairs ( against the perswasion of a woman sitting by him in his Chamber ) fell , and was so dangerously hurt , as he died soon after , not being able to speak from the time of his fall to his death . The Names of the Parties thus punished , I forbear for the Kindreds sake yet living . If conscionable Ministers of all places of the Land would give notice of such Judgments , as come within the compass of their certain knowledge , it might be a great means to suppress this Sin , which reigns every where to the scandal of our Nation , and high displeasure of Almighty God. These may suffice for a tast of God's Judgments : Easie were it to abound in sundry particular Casualties , and fearful Examples of this nature . Drunkard , that which hath befaln any one of these , may befal thee , if thou wilt dally with this Cockatrice ; what ever leagues thou makest with Death , and dispensations thou givest thy self from the like . Some of these were young , some were rich , some thought themselves as wise thou ; none of them ever looked for such ignominious ends , more then thou , who ever thou art : if thou hatest such ends , God give thee Grace to decline such courses . If thou beeft yet insensate with Wine , void of Wit and Fear , I know not what further to mind thee of , but of that third , and worst sting of all the rest , which will ever be gnawing , and never dying : which if thou wilt not fear here ; sure thou art to feel there , when the Red Dragon hath gotten thee into his Den , and shalt fill thy Soul with the gall of Scorpions , where thou shalt yell and howl for a drop of water to cool thy Tongue withall , and shalt be denied so small a refreshing , and have no other liquor to allay thy thirst , but that which the lake of Brimstone shall afford thee . And that worthily , for that thou wouldest incur the wrath of the Lamb for so base and sordid a sin as Drunkenness , of which thou mayest think as venially and slightly as thou wilt . But Paul that knew the danger of it , gives thee fair warning , and bids thee not deceive thy self , expresly and by name mentioning it among the mortal sins , excluding from the Kingdom of Heaven . And the Prophet Esay tells thee , That for it Hell hath enlarged it self , opened its mouth wide , and without measure ; and therefore shall the multitude and their pomp , and the jollyest among them descend into it . Consider this , you that are strong to pour in drink , that love to drink sorrow and care away : And be you well assured , that there you shall drink enough for all , having for every drop of your former Bousings , Vials , yea , whole Seas of God's Wrath , never to be exhaust . Now then I appeal from your selves in drink , to your selves in your sober fits . Reason a little the case , and tell me calmly , would you for your own , or any mans pleasure , to gratifie Friend or Companion , if you knew there had been a Toad in the wine-pot ( as twice I have known happened to the death of Drinkers ) or did you think that some Caesar Borgia , or Brasutus had tempered the Cup ; or did you see but a Spider in the Glass , would you , or durst you carouse it off ? And are you so simple to fear the Poyson that can kill the Body , and not that which killeth the Soul and Body ever ; yea , for ever and ever , and if it were possible for more then for ever , for evermore ? Oh thou vain Fellow , what tellest thou me of friendship , or good fellowship , wilt thou account him thy Friend , or good Fellow , that draws thee into his company , that he may poyson thee ? and never thinks he hath given thee right entertainment , or shewed thee kindness enough , till he hath killed thy Soul with his kindness , and with Beer made thy Body a Carkass fit for the Biere , a laughing and loathing-stock , not to Boys and Girls alone , but to Men and Angels . Why rather sayest thou not to such , What have I to do with you , ye Sons of Belial , ye poysonful Generation of Vipers , that hunt for the precious life of a man ? Oh but there are few good Wits , or great Spirits now a-days , but will Pot it a little for company . What hear I ? Oh base and low-spirited times , if that were true ! If we were faln into such Lees of Time foretold of by Seneca , in which all were so drowned in the dregs of Vices , that it should be vertue and honour to bear most drink . But thanks be to God , who hath reserved many thousands of men , and without all comparison more witty and valorous then such Pot-wits , and Spirits of the Buttery , who never bared their knees to drink health , nor ever needed to whet their Wits with Wine ; or arm their courage with Pot-harness . And if it were so , yet if no such Wits or Spirits shall ever enter into Heaven without Repentance , let my Spirit never come and enter into their Paradise ; ever abhor to partake of their bruitish pleasures , lest I partake of their endless woes . If young Cyrus could refuse to drink Wine , and tell Aftyages , He thought it to be Poyson ; for he saw it metamorphose men into Beasts and Carcases : what would he have said , if he had known that which we may know , that the wine of Drunkards is the wine of Sodom and Gomorrah ; their grapes , the grapes of gall ; their clusters , the clusters of bitterness , the Juyce of Dragons , and the venome of Asps . In which words , Moses is a full Commentary upon Solomon , largely expressing that he speaks here more briefly , It stings like the Serpent , and bites like the Cockatrice : To the which I may not unfitly add that of Pauls , and think I ought to write of such with more passion and compassion , then he did of the Christians in his time , which sure were not such Monsters as ours in the shapes of Christians , Whose God is their Belly , ( whom they serve with Drink-Offerings ) whose glory is their shame , and whose end is damnation . What then , take we pleasure in thundering out Hell against Drunkards ? is there nothing but death and damnation to Drunkards ? Nothing else to them , so continuing , so dying . But what is there no help nor hope , no Amulet , Antidote or Triacle , are there no Presidents found of Recovery ? Ambrose , I temember , tells of one , that having been a spectacle of Drunkenness , proved after his Conversion a pattern of sobriety . And I my self must confess , that one have I known yet living , who having drunk out his bodily Eyes , had his spiritual Eyes opened , proved diligent in hearing and practising . Though the Pit be deep , miry and narrow , like that Dungeon into which Jeremy was put ; yet if it please God to let down the cords of his Divine mercy , and cause the Party to lay hold thereon , it is possible they may escape the snares of death . There is even for the most debauched Drunkard that ever was , a soveraign Medicine , a rich Triacle , of force enough to cure and recover his Disease , to obtain his Pardon , and to furnish him with strength to overcome this deadly Poyson , fatal to the most : And though we may well say of it , as men out of experience do of Quartane Agues , that it is the disgrace of all moral Physick , of all Reproofs , Counsels and Admonitions ; yet is there a Salve for this Sore ; there came one from Heaven that trode the Winepress of his Fathers fierceness , drunk of a Cup tempered with the bitterness of God's Wrath , and the Devils Malice , that he might heal even such as have drunk deepest of the sweet Cup of Sin. And let all such know , that in all the former discovery of this Poyson , I have only aimed to cause them feel their sting , and that they might with earnest Eyes behold the Brasen Serpent , and seriously repair to him for Mercy and Grace , who is perfectly able to eject even this kind , which so rarely and hardly is thrown out where once he gets possession . This Seed of the Woman is able to bruise this Serpents head . Oh that they would listen to the gracious offers of Christ ! if once there be wrought in thy Soul a spiritual thirst after mercy , as the thirsty Land hath after rain , a longing appetite after the water that comes out of the Rock , after the Blood that was shed for thee ; then let him that is athirst come , let him drink of the water of life without any money ; of which if thou hast took but one true and thorow draught , thou wilt never long after thy old puddle waters of Sin any more . Easie will it be for thee after thou hast tasted of the Bread and Wine in thy Father's House , ever to loath the Husks and Swill thou wert wont to follow after with greediness . The Lord Christ will bring thee into his Mothers House , cause thee to drink of his spiced Wine , of the new Wine of the Pomegranate : Yea , he will bring thee into his Cellar , spread his Banner of Love over thee , stay thee with flagons , fill thee with his love , till thou beest sick and overcome with the sweetness of his Consolations . In other Drink there is excess , but here can be no danger . The Devil hath his invitation , Come , let us drink ; and Christ hath his inebriamini , Beye filled with the Spirit . Here is a Fountain set open , and Proclamation made . And if it were possible for the bruitishest Drunkard in the World to know who it is that offereth , and what kind of water he offereth ; he would ask , and God would give it frankly without money ; he should drink liberally , be satisfied , and out of his Belly should sally Springs of the water of Life , quenching and extinguishing all his inordinate longings ofter stoln water of Sin and Death . All this while , little hope have I to work upon many Drunkards , especially by a Sermon read ( of less life and force in God's Ordinance , and in its own nature , then preached , ) my first drift is , to stir up the Spirits of Parents and Masters , who in all Places complain of this evil , robbing them of good Servants , and dutiful Children , by all care and industry to prevent it in their Domestical Education , by carrying a watchful and restraining hand over them . Parents , if you love either Soul or Body , thrift or piety , look to keep them from this Infection . Lay all the bars of your authority , cautions , threats and charges for the avoyding of this epidemical Pestilence . If any of them be bitten of this Cockatrice , sleep not , rest not , till you have cured them of it ; if you love their Health , Husbandry , Grace , their present or future lives . Dead are they while they live , if they live in this Sin. Mothers , lay about you as Bathsheba , with all entreaties , What my Son , my Son of my loves and delights , Wine is not for you , &c. My next hope is , to arouse and awaken the vigilancy of all faithful Pastors and Teachers . I speak not to such Stars as this Dragon hath swept down from Heaven with its tayl : for of such the Prophets , the Fathers of the Primitive , yea , all Ages complain of . I hate and abhor to mention this abomination : to alter the Proverb , As drunk as a Beggar , to a Gentleman is odious ; but to a Man of God , to an Angel , how harsh and hellish a sound it is in a Christians ears ? I speak therefore to sober Watchmen , Watch , and be sober , and labour to keep your Charges sober and watchful , that they may be so found of him , that comes like a Thief in the night . Two means have you of great vertue for the quelling of this Serpent , zealous Preaching and Praying against it . It 's an old received Antidote , that mans spittle , especially fasting spittle , is mortal to Serpents . Saint Donatus is famous in story for spitting upon a Dragon , that kept an High-way , and devoured many Passengers . This have I made good Observation of , That where God hath raised up zealous Preachers , in such Towns this Serpent hath no nestling , no stabling or denning . If this will not do , Augustine enforceth another , which I conceive God's and Man's Laws allow us upon the reason he gives : If Paul ( saith he ) forbid to eat with such our common Bread , in our own private Houses , how much more the Lord's Body in Church-Assemblies : If in our Times , this were strictly observed , the Serpent would soon languish and vanish . In the time of an Epidemical Disease , such as the Sweating or Neezing Sickness , a wise Physician would leave the study of all other Diseases , to find out the Cure of the present raging Evil. If Chrysostome were now alive , the bent of all his Homilies , or at least one part of them , should be spent to cry drown Drunkenness , as he did swearing in Antioch : never desisting to reprove it , till ( if not the fear of God , yet ) his imporunity made them weary of the fin . Such Anakims and Zanzummims , as the spiritual Sword will not work upon , I turn them over to the Secular Arm , with a signification of the dangerous and contagious spreading of this poyson in the Veins and Bowels of the Common-wealth . In the Church and Christ his name also , intreating them to carry a more vigilant Eye over the Dens and Burrows of this Cockatrice , superfluous , blind , and Clandestiné Ale-houses I mean , the very Pest-houses of the Nation ? which I could wish had all for their fign , a picture of some hideous Serpent , or a pair of them , as the best Hieroglyphick of the genius of the place , to warn Passengers to shun and avoid the danger of them . Who sees and knows not , that some one needless Ale-house in a Countrey-Town , un does all the rest of the Houses in it , eating up the thrift and fruit of their Labours ; the ill manner of sundry places , being there to meet in some one Night of the Week , and spend what they they have gathered and spared all the days of the same before , to the prejudice of their poor Wives and Children at home ; and upon the Lords day ( after Evening Prayers ) there to quench and drown all the good Lessons they have heard that day at Church . If this go on , what shall become of us in time ? If woe be to single Drunkards , is not a National woe to be feared and expected of a Nation over-run with Drunkenness ? Had we no other Sin reigning but this ( which cannot reign alone ) will not God justly spue us out of his mouth for this alone ? We read of whole Countreys wasted , dispeopled by Serpents . Pliny tells us of the Amyclae , Lycophron of Salamis ; Herodotus of the Neuri , utterly depopulate and made unhabitable by them . Verily , if these Cockatrices multiply and get head amongst us a while longer , as they have of late begun , where snall the people have sober Servants to till their Lands , or Children to hold and enjoy them . They speak of drayning Fens ; but if this Evil be not stopped , we shall all shortly be drowned with it . I wish the Magistracy , Gentry , and Yeomanry , would take it to serious consideration , how to deal with this Serpent , before he grow too strong and fierce for them . It is past the egge already , and much at that pass , of which Augustine complains of in his time , that he scarce knew what remedy to advise , but thought it required the meeting of a general Council . The best course I think of , is , if the great Persons would first begin through Reformation in their own Families , banish the spirits of their Butteries , abandon that foolish and vitious Custom , as Ambrose and Basil calls it , of drinking Healths , and making that a Sacrifice to God for the health of others , which is rather a Sacrifice to the Devil , and a bane of their own . I remember well Sigismund the Emperor's grave Answer , wherein there concurred excellent Wisdom and Wit ( seldom meeting in one saying ) which he gave before the Council of Constance , to such as proposed a Reformation of the Church to begin with the Franciseans and Minorites . You will never do any good ( saith he ) unless you begin with the Majorites first . Sure , till it be out of fashion and grace in Gentlemens Tables , Butteries and Cellars , hardly shall you perswade the Countrey-man to lay it down , who , as in Fashions , so in Vices , will ever be the Ape of the Gentry . If this help not , I shall then conclude it to be such an Evil as is only by Soveraign Power , and the King's Hand curable . And verily next under the word of God , which is Omnipotent , how potent and wonder-working is the Word of a King ? when both meet as the Sun , and some good Star in a benigne Conjunction ; what Enemy shall stand before the Sword of God and Gideon ? what Vice so predominant which these subdue not ? If the Lion roar , what Beast of the Forest shall not tremble and hide their head ? have we not a noble experiment hereof yet fresh in our memory , and worthy never to die , in the timely and speedy suppression of that impudent abomination of Womens mannish habit , threatning the confusion of Sexes , and ruine of Modesty ? The same Royal Hand , and care the Church and Common-wealth implores for the vanquishing of this Poyson , no less pernicious , more spreading and prevailing . Take us these little Foxes was wont to be the suit of the Church , for they gnabble our Grapes , and hurt our tender Branches : but now it is become more serious . Take us these Serpents , lest they destroy our Vines , Vine-Dressers , Vineyards and all : This hath ever been Royal Game . How famous in the story of Diodorus Siculus , is the Royal munificence of Ptolomy King of Egypt for provision of Nets , and maintenance of Huntsmen , for the taking and destroying of Serpents , noxious and noisome to his Countrey . The like of Philip in Aristotle , and of Attilius ReGulus in Aulus Gellius . The Embleme mentioned at large by Plutarch , engraven on Hercules Shield ; what is it but a Symbol of the Divine honor due to Princes following their Herculean labours , in subduing the like Hidraes , too mighty for any inferior person to take in hand ? It is their honor to tread upon Basilisks , and trample Dragons under their Feet , Solomon thinks it not unworthy his Pen to discourse their danger . A royal and eloquent Oration is happily and worthily preserved in the large Volume of ancient Writings , with this Title , Oratio magnifici & pacifici Edgari Regis habita ad Dunstanum Archiep. Episcopos , &c. The main scope whereof is , to excite the Clergies care and devotion for the suppressing of this Vice , for the common good . Undertakers of difficult Plots promise themselves speed and effect , if once they interest the King , and make him Party . And what more generally beneficial can be devised or proposed then this , with more Honour and less Charge to be effected , if it shall please his Majesty but to make trial of the strength of his Temporal and Spiritual Arms ? For the effecting of it , if this help not , what have we else remaining , but wishes and prayers to cast out this kind withall . God help us . To him I commend the success of these Labors , and the vanquishing of this Cockatrice . TOBACCO BATTERED , AND THE PIPES SHATTERED ( About their Ears , that id'ly Idolize so base and barbarous a WEED : OR , At least-wise over-love so loathsome Vanity . ) Collected out of the famous POEMS of Joshua Sylvester , Gent. WHat-ever God created , first was good , And good for man , while man uprightly stood : But , falling Angels causing man to fall , His foul Contagion con-corrupted all His Fellow-Creatures for his Sin accurst , And for his sake transformed from the first ; Till God and man , man's Leprie to re-cure , By Death kill'd Death , re-making all things pure . But to the Pure , not to the still Prophane , Who Spider-like turns Blessing into Bane ; Usurping ( right-less , thank-less , need-less ) here , In wanton , wilful , wastful , lustful chear , Earths plenteous Crop , which God hath onely given Unto his own ( Heirs both of Earth and Heaven ) Who only ( rightly ) may with Praise and Prayer , Enjoy th' increase of Earth , of Sea , of Air , Fowl , Fish and Flesh , Gems , Mettals , Cattel , Plants , And namely ( that which now no Angle wants ) Indian Tobacco , when due cause Requires , Not the dry Dropsie of Phantastick Squires . None therefore deem that I am now to learn , ( However dim I many things discern ) Reason and Season to distinguish fit , Th' use of a thing , from the abuse of it ; Drinking , from Drunking , Saccharum cum Sacco , And taking of , from taking all Tobacco . Yet out of high Disdain and Indignation Of that stern Tyrant's strangest Usurpation , Once Demi-captive to his puffing pride , ( As millions are too-wilful foolifi'd ) Needs must I band against the needless use Of Don Tobacco , and his foul abuse ; Which ( though in Inde it be an Herb indeed ) In Europe is no better then a Weed , Which to their Idols Pagans Sacrifice , And Christians ( here ) do well-nigh Idolize : Which taking , Heathens to the Devils bow Their Bodies , Christians even their Souls do vow ; Yet th' Heathen have , with th' ill , some good withall , Sith their con-native , 't is non-natural : But see the nature of abounding sin , Which more abounding , punishment doth win ; For knowing Servants wilful Arrogance , Then silly Strangers savage Ignorance , For what to them is Meat , and Med'cinable , Is turn'd tous a Plague intolerable . Two smoky Engins , in this latter Age , ( Satan's short Circuit ; the more sharp his Rage ) Have been invented by too-wanton wit , Or rather vented from th' infernal Pit ; Guns and Tobacco-Pipes , with fire and smoke , ( At least ) a third part of Mankind to choke , ( Which , happily , th' Apocalyps fold-told ) Yet of the two , we may ( think I ) be bold In some respect , to think the last the worst , ( However , both in their effects accurst , ) For Guns shoot from-ward , only at their foen , Tobacco-Pipes home-ward , into their own , ( When for the touch-hole firing the wrong end Into our selves the Poysons force we send ; ) Those in the Field , in brave and hostile manner , These , cowardly , under a covert banner ; Those with defiance , in a threatful Terror , These with affiance , in a wilful Error , Those , ( though loud-roaring , goaring-deep ) quick-ridding ; These , stilly stealing , longer Languors breeding , Those , full of pain ( perhaps ) and fell despight , These with false pleasure , and a seem-delight , ( As Cats with Mice , Spiders with Flyes ) full rife , Pipe-Playing , dallying and deluding life . Who would not wonder in these sunny-days , ( So bright illightned with the Gofpel's Rays ) Whence so much smoke and deadly vapors come , To dim and dam so much of Christendom ; But we must ponder too , these days are those , Wherein the Devil was to be let lose , And yawning broad-gate of that black abyss To be set ope , whose bottom boundless is , That Satan , destin'd evermore to dwell In smoky Fornace of that Darksom Cell , In smoke and darkness might inure and train His own deer minions , while they here remain ; As Roguing Gipsies tan their little Elves , To make them tan'd and ugly like themselves . Then in despight , who ever dare say nay , Tobacconists keep on your course ; you may , If you continue in your smoky ure , The better far Hells sulphury Smoke endure ; And herein ( as in all your other evil ) Grow nearer still , and liker to the Devil , Save that the Devil ( if he could revoke ) Would fly from filthy , and unhealthy Smoke ; Wherein ( cast out of Heav'n for Hellish-pride ) Unwilling he , and forced , doth abide ; Which herein worse than he ( the worst of ill ) You long for , lust for , lye for , die for , still ; For as the Salamander lives in fire , You live in smoke , and without smoke expire . Should it be question'd ( as right well it may ) Whether discovery of America , That New-found World , have yielded to our old More hurt or good , till fuller answer should Decide the doubt , and quite determine it , Thus for the present might we answer fit ; That , thereby we have ( rightly understood ) Both given and taken greater hurt then good : And that on both sides , both for Christians , It had been better , and for Indians , That only good men to their coast had come , Or that the Evil had still staid at home ; For , what our People have brought thence to us , Is like the head-piece of a Polypus , Wherein is ( quoted by sage Plutarch's quill ) A Pest'lence great good , and great Pest'lence ill . We had from them , first to augment our Stocks , Two grand Diseases , Scurvy and the Pocks ; Then two great Cordials ( for a Counterpoize ) Gold and Tobacco ; both which , many wayes , Have done more mischief , then the former twain ; And all together-brought more loss then gain . But true it is , we had this trash of theirs , Only in barter for our broken Wares ; Ours for the most part carried out but sin , And , for the most part , brought but Vengeance in ; Their Fraight was Sloth , Lust , Avarice and Drink , ( A burden able with the weight to sink The hugest Carrak ; yea , those hallowed Twelve Spain's great Apostles-even to over-whelve ) They carried Sloth , and brought home scurvy skin ; They carried Lust , and brought home Pox within : They carried Avarice , and Gold they got ; They carried Bacchus , and Tobacco brought : Alas poor Indians ! That , but English none , Could put them down in their own Trade alone ! That none but English ( more alas ! more strange ! ) Could justifie their pittiful exchange . Of all the Plants that Tellus Bosom yields , In Groves , Glades , Gardens , Marshes , Mountains , Fields : None so pernicious to mans life is known , As is Tobacco , saving Hemp alone , Betwixt which two there seems great sympathy , To ruinate poor Adam's Progeny ; For in them both a strangling vertue note , And both of them do work upon the Throat ; The one , within it ; and without the other ; And th' one prepareth work unto the tother : For there do meet ( I mean at Gaile and Gallows ) More of these beastly , base Tobacco-Fellows , Then else to any prophane Haunt do use , ( Excepting still the Play-house and the Stews ) Sith 't is their common lot ( so double-choaked ) Just bacon-like to be hang'd up and smoked ; A destiny as proper to befall To moral Swine , as to Swine natural . If there be any Herb in any place , Most opposite to God's good Herb of Grace , 'T is doubtless this ; and this doth plainly prove it , That , for the most , most graceless men do love it ; Or rather doat most on this wither'd Weed , Themselves as wither'd , in all gracious deed : 'T is strange to see , ( and unto me a wonder ) When the prodigious strànge abuse we ponder Of this unruly , rusty Vegetal , From modern Symmists Jesu critical , ( Carping at us , and casting in our dish Not Crimes , but Crums , as eating Flesh for Fish ; ) W' hear in this case , no Conscience-cases holier , But , like to like , the Devil with the Collier . For a Tobacconist ( I dare aver ) Is first of all a rank Idolater As any of the Ignatian Hierachy ; Next as conformed to their foppery Of burning day-light , and good Night at Noon , Setting up Candles to enlight the Sun ; And last the Kingdom of new Babylon , Stands in a dark and smoky Region , So full of such variety of smokes , That there-with-all , all Piety it choaks . For there is first of all the smoke of Ignorance , The smoke of Error , smoke of Arrogance , The smoke of Merit super-er'gatory , The smoke of Pardons , smoke of Purgatory , The smoke of censing , smoke of thurifying Of Images , of Satans fury flying , The smoke of Stews ( from smoking thence they come , As horrid hot , as torrid Sodom some ) Then smoke of Powder-Treason , Pistol Knives , To blow up Kingdoms , and blow out Kings Lives : And lastly too , Tobacco's smoky mists , Which ( coming from Iberian Baalists ) No small addition of adustion fit , Bring to the smoke of the unbottom'd Pit Yerst opened , first ( as openeth St. John ) By their Abaddon and Apollyon . But sith they are contented to admire What they dislike not , if they not desire ; ( For , with good reason , may we ghess that they Who swallow Camels , swallow Gnatlings may ; ) 'T is ground enough for us in this dispute , Their Vanities thus obvious to refute ( Their Vanities , Mysterious mists of Rome , Which have so long besmoked Christendom . ) And for the rest , it shall suffice to say , Tobacconing is but a smoky Play ; Strong arguments against so weak a thing , Were needless , or unsuitable , to bring ; In this behalf there needs no more be done , Sith of it self the same will vanish soon ; T' evaporate this smoke , it is enough , But with a breath the same aside to puffe . Now , my first puff , shall but repel th' ill savour Of Place and Persons ( of debaucht behaviour ) Where 't is most frequent ; second , shew I will , How little good it doth ; third , how great ill : 'T is vented most in Taverns , Tipling-cotts , To Ruffians , Roarers , Tipsy-tosty-pots , Whose Custom is , between the Pipe and Pot , ( Th' one cold and moist , th' other dry and hot ; ) To skirmish so ( like Sword-and-Dagger-fight , ) That 't is not easie to determine right , Which of their Weapons hath the Conquest got Over their Wits , the Pipe or else the Pot ; Yet 't is apparent , and by proof express , Both stab and wound the Brain with drunkenness ; For even the derivation of the name , Seems to allude , and to include the same : Tobacco , as Τω Βακχω , one would say , To Bacchus ( Cup-god ) dedicated ay . And for conclusion of this Point , observe The places which to these abuses serve ; How-ever of themselves noysome enough , Are much more loathsome with the stench and stuff , Extracted from their Limbeckt Lips and Nose , So that the Houses , common haunts of those , Are liker Hell than Heav'n , for Hell hath smoke , Impenitent Tobacconists to choak ; Though never dead , there shall they have their fill ; In Heav'n is none , but Light and Glory still . Next , multitudes them daily , hourly , drawn In this black Sea of smoke , tost up and down In this vast Ocean , of such latitude , That Europe only cannot it include ; But out it rushes , over-runs the whole , And reaches well-nigh round , from Pole to Pole Among the Moors , Turks , Tartars , Persians , And other Ethnicks full of Ignorance Of God and good ; and , if we shall look home , To view ( and rew ) the State of Christendom ; Upon this Point , we may this Riddle bring ; The Subject hath more Subjects then the King : For Don Tocacco hath an ampler Reign , Than Don Philippo , the great King of Spain , ( In whose Dominions , for the most it grows , ) Nay , shall I say ( O horror to suppose ! ) Heathenish Tobacco ( almost every where ) In Christendom ( Christ's outward Kingdom here ) Hath more Disciples than Christ hath , I fear , More Suits , more Service ( Bodies , Souls , and good ) Than Christ that bought us with his pretious Bloud : O great Tobacco , greater then great Can , Great Turk , great Tartar , or great Tamerlan ! With Vulturs Wings thou hast ( and swifter yet Then an Hungarian Ague , English Sweat ) Through all degrees flown , far , nigh , up and down , From Court to Cart , from Count to Country-Clown ; Not scorning Scullions , Coblers , Colliers , Jakes-farmers , Fidlers , Ostlers , Oysterers , Rogues , Gipsies , Players , Pandars , Punks , and all , What common Scums in Common-Sewers fall ; For all as Vassals at thy beck are bent , And breath by thee , as their new Element : Which well may prove thy Monarchy the greater , Yet prove not thee to be a whit the better ; But rather worse , for Hells wide-open road Is easiest found , and by the most still trod , Which , even the Heathen had the Light to know , By Arguments , as many times they show . Here may we also gather ( for a need ) Whether Tobacco be a Herb or Weed ; And whether the excessive use be fit , Or good or bad , by those that favour it ; Weeds , wild and wicked , mostly entertain it ; Herbs , wholsome Herbs , and holy minds disdain it . If then Tobacconing be good , how is 't , That lewdest , loosest , basest , foolishest ; The most unthrifty , most intemperate , Most vitious , most debaucht , most desperate , Pursue it most : The wisest , and the best , Abhor it , shun it , flee it as the Pest , Or piercing poyson of a Dracons whisk , Or deadly eye-shot of a Basilisk If Wisdom baulk it , must it not be folly ? If Vertue hate it , is it not unholy ? If men of worth , and minds right generous , Discard it , scorn it , is 't not scandalous ? And ( to conclude ) is it not , to the Devil , Most pleasing , pleasing so ( most ) the most evil ? My second puff , is proof , how little good This smoke hath done ( that ever hear I cou'd : ) For first , there 's none that takes Tobacco most , Most usually , most earnestly , can boast , That the excessive and continual use Of this dry-suck-at ever did produce Him any good , civil or natural , Or moral good , or artificial ; Unless perhaps , they will alledge , it draws Away the ill , which still it self doth cause ; Which course ( me-thinks ) I cannot liken better , Then to a Userers kindness to his Debter ; Who under shew of lending , still subtracts The Debters own , and then his own exacts , Till , at the last , he utterly confound him , Or leave him worse , and weaker then he found him . Next , if the Custom of Tobacconing Yield th' Users any good in any thing , Either they have it , or they hope it prest , ( By proof and practice , taking still the best : ) For , none but Fools will them to ought beslave , Whence benefit they neither hope nor have . Therefore yet farther ( as a Questionist ) I must enquire of my Tobacconist , Why if a Christian ( as some sometimes seem ) Believing God , waiting all good from him ; And unto him all good again referring , Why ( to eschew th' Ungodly's graceless erring ) Why pray they not not ? why praise they not his name For hoped good , and good had by this same ? As all men do , or ought to do for all , The gifts and goods that from his goodness fall ; Is 't not , because they neither hope nor have , Good ( hence ) to thank God for , nor farther crave : But as they had it from the Heathen first , So heathenishly they use it still accurst ; And ( as some jest of Jisters ) this is more , Ungodly meat , both after and before . Lastly , if all delights of all Mankind Be vanity , vexation of the Mind , All under Sun , must not Tobacco bee , Of Vanities , the vainest Vanity ? If Solomon , the wisest earthly Prince That ever was before , or hath been since ; Knowing all Plants , and then perusing all , From Cedar to the Hysop on the — Wall ; In none of all professeth , that — he sound A firm Content , or Consolation found : Can we suppose , that any shallowing , Can find much good in oft Tobacconing ? My third and last Puff points at the great evil , This noysome Vapor works ( through wily Devil ) If we may judge ; if knowledge may be had , By their effects , how things be good or bad : Doubtless , th' effects of this pernitious Weed Be many bad , scarce any good indeed ; Nor doth a man scarce any good contain , But of this Evil justly may complain ; As thereby made in every part the worse , In Body , Soul , in Credit , and in Purse . A Broad-Side AGAINST COFFEE : OR , THE Marriage of the Turk . COFFEE , a kind of Turkish Renegade , Has late a match with Christian water made ; At first between them happen'd a Demur , Yet joyn'd they were , but not without great stir ; For both so cold were , and so faintly meet , The Turkish Hymen in his Turbant swet . coffee was cold as Earth , Water as Thames , And stood in need of recommending Flames ; For each of them steers a contrary course , And of themselves they sue out a Divorce . Coffee so brown as berry does appear , Too swarthy for a Nymph so fair , so clear : And yet his sails he did for England hoist , Though cold and dry , to court the cold and moist ; If there be ought we can , as love admit ; 'T is a hot love , and lasteth but a fit . For this indeed the cause is of their stay , New castle's bowels warmer are than they . The melting Nymph distills her self to do 't , Whilst the Slave Coffee must be beaten to 't : Incorporate him close as close may be , Pause but a while , and he is none of he ; Which for a truth , and not a story tells , No Faith is to be kept with Infidels . Sure he suspects , and shuns her as a Whore , And loves , and kills , like the Venetian Moor ; Bold Asian Brat ! with speed our consines flee ; Water , though common , is too good for thee . Sure Coffee's vext he has the breeches lost , For she 's above , and he lies undermost ; What shall I add but this ? ( and sure 't is right ) The Groom is heavy , ' cause the Bride is light . This canting Coffe has his Crew inricht , And both the Water and the Men bewitcht . A Coachman was the first ( here ) Coffee made , And ever since the rest drive on the trade ; Me no good Engalash ! and sure enough , He plaid the Quack to salve his Stygian stuff ; Ver boon for de stomach , de Cough , de Ptisick , And I believe him , for it looks like Physick . Coffee a crust is charkt into a coal , The smell and taste of the Mock China bowl ; Where huff and puff , they labor out their Lungs , Lest Dives-like they should bewail their Tongues . And yet they tell ye that it will not burn , Though on the Jury Blisters you return : Whose furious heat does make the water rise , And still through the Alembicks of your eyes , Dread and desire , ye fall to 't snap by snap , As hungry Dogs do scalding porrige lap . But to cure Drunkards it has got great Fame ; Posset or Porrige , will 't not do the same ? Confusion huddles all into one Scene , Like Noah's Ark , the clean and the unclean . But now , alas ! the Drench has credit got , And he 's no Gentleman that drinks it not ; That such a Dwarf should rise to such a stature ! But Custom is but a remove from Nature . A little Dish , and a large Coffee-house , What is it , but a Mountain and a Mouse ? Mens humana novitatis avidissima . I have heard it is good for one thing ( and that falls out too often ) when men are so drunk with Wine , Beer or Ale , or Brandy , that they are unfit to manage their Imployment ; then a Dish of hot Coffee is a present Remedy to settle their Heads . No doubt , but a Dish of Broth , or Beer , will work the same Cure , if it be drank as hot . This short Collection should more properly have taken place next to what was collected out of the other Doctors , but it came not to my sight , till it was too late : And because it agrees with what is mentioned in the first Epistle , that it is a strange way of taking Tobacco , as Physick , just before , and presently after Meals ; I thought fit to put it in here . And if any are so wise as to be convinced by what hath been written , That immoderate smoking of Tobacco is hurtful for them , they were best to leave it gradnally ; for that is most safe , for such as have been accustomed long to it ; or else it is good to chew the leafe in the mouth ; or as some do , smoke a Pipe with other Ingredients , as Rosemary , Bitony , or Mints : This Collection was taken out of that Book of Dr. Everard's , Entituled , The Vertue of Tobacco . YOung men especially must take great care how they suck in this smoke , for the custome and too much use of it , brings their brains out of order , and makes them to be over-hot , so that they lose their good temper , and are beyond the bounds of their health , and that sacred anchor is lost irrecoverably . For the nourishment of young men requires a gentle moisture , to strengthen them , and to make their bodies grow to their just perfection . Especially for those that are cholerick , whose brains cannot endure excess of heat , for the native heat would be oppressed by the accidental heat . See Gallen his Comment , in lib. de vict . salub . Also this smoke doth vehemently move the Stomach to nauseat , and to vomit , ( as daily experience teacheth us ) namely , by cleaving to the inward parts , and so offending the peculiar juyces contain'd in the Stomach , and the Mesentary ; it destroys their ordinary operations . For in thrusting forth the matter from the Stomach it cannot be , but also something must be cast out , wherein the force of nature resides ; and also , because when nature is doing her office , she sends the nourishment into the habit of the body , as to the circumference , but all disturbing and purgative things draw the juyces & spirits to the center . Wherefore nature is wonderfully tired with these contrary motions , for she can endure nothing less then two contrary motions at the same time . Wherefore it is a most bitter enemy to the Stomachs of very many men , especially if they use to take it presently after Supper or Dinner . And in this respect it is mischievous to the bodies of all sound men , according to Hippocrates his Rule . 2. Aphoris . 37. It is troublesome to purge those that are in good health . For frequent use of purging Medicaments will soon make a man old ; for the sorces are broken by the resolving of the solid parts , by an Hypercatharsis of all nutrimental juyce . By these things mentioned , it is easie to collect , that the smoke of Tobacco shortneth mens days . For being that our native heat is like to a flame , which continually feeds upon natural moisture , as a Lamp lighted , drinks up the Oyl by its heat ; it follows necessarily , that for want of food , life must needs fly away quickly , when the proper subject of life is dissipated and consumed : for with that moisture , the imbred heat fails also , and death succeeds . You understand therefore ( that are Tobacconists ) that the sooty fumes of Tobacco , wherein you are wallowing ( as it were ) in the deepest mire , are of great force to shorten your days . Galen speaking of opening Medicaments , asserts , that by the frequent use of them , the solid parts of the body are dried , and that the blood grows gross and clotted , which being burned in the Reins , breed the stone . The same thing may be truly maintained concerning Tobacco , which many use too frequently , and more then any do use those kind of opening Medicaments ; for this is more hot and dry then they are , and therefore is more forcible to hurt sound and well-tempered bodies . Take warning therefore you that love Tobacco , that you do not exceed in using too much of it , and enslave your selves to this fuliginous smoke , by hunting after it , and making a god of it . The goods of the body , are beauty , strength , and sound health . The most grave Author Plutarch , commending the last as the best of all , affirmed most gravely and learnedly , That health is the most divine , and the most excellent property of the body , and a most precious thing . There is nothing in this World better ; nothing more to be desired , and nothing can be found to be more pleasant . Without this ( as Hippocrates faith ) there is no pleasure or fruit of any other things . This is it , which in this life fills all perfection : Without this no man could ever be said to be happy : This far exceeds the greatest Honours , Treasures , and Riches . tobacconist's arms in a Turkish coffee house A POSTSCRIPT By way of APOLOGY . Honest Reader , THis intended Porch being so Impolished , and so rude a Draught , I have judged it more fit to make a Back-Door , then a Fore : Neither durst I presume to set it in the Forefront , for I count it but as an over-plus Sheet ; however it may serve for wast Paper to wrap up the learned Collections , or else to light a Pipe of Tobacco , and will make as good Smoke : It lies at thy mercy , to use or to abuse as thou pleasest . For my part , I pretend to no great Learning , yet am a Lover of it , and a well-wisher to it : Neither am I worthy to carry the Books after these learned Authors , out of whose Works I have made this Collection ; therefore I make this humble Apologetical Postscript . I know for my labour of reviving this noble Counterblast , &c. I can expect no better , but to be counterblasted by the black and foul mouths of many Tobacconists , and common Tobacco-Smokers ; for endeavoring to pull down their great Diana , which they labour Demetrius like to cry up , because of the much gain it brings them . If I meet with Reproaches and Scorns , it is no more then I expected from them , and I value it not : Neither is it any news or wonder ; for we live in the last dayes , and as the Apostle Peter fore-told many hundred years since , in 2 Pet. 3.3 . That in the last dayes should come Scoffers , walking after their own lusts . To such King Solomon propounds a , question , which they can hardly be able to answer , in Prov. 22. How long ye simple Ones will ye love sumplicity ? and ye Scorners delight in scorning , and Fools hate Knowledge ? There have been many such in all Age , of the World , as it may easily be instanced . Before I conclude , I thought it not amiss , or improper , to say something briefly against excessive drinking of Healths , and Drunkenness , which calls to remembrance , amongst other , of His Majesties noble and gracious Acts , since his Restuaration , wherein he hath had merciful Respect to the Lives , Estates , Souls and Bodies of his good Subjects , and therein gone beyond his Predecessors . I shall but name to his perpetual Honour these three , viz. In the first place , His Act of Oblivion , passing by all that was done against Him or his Father , excepting only those that were his Royal Fathers Judges . In the next place , He was pleased to publish a Proclamation to all His loving Subjects , against that sinful Custom of drinking his Health , His Majesty wisely considering how apt many would be to fall into that evil extreme , doth in that Proclamation , rebuke such as can express their Love him in no better way , then drinking His Health . In the next place , I cannot but take notice , and mention , to His Majesties Renown , His late gracious Declaration , For Liberty and Indulgence to tender Consciences , that could not in all things conform to the Ceremonies and Discipline of the Church of England , by Law established : This by the way . But now to speak a little more against drinking Healths , which is to our purpose in hand . There was many years since a Book Published , by Mr. William Prynne , against drinking of Healths , Entituled , Healths Sickness , but not now to be had , or seldom thought of ; he shews the greatness of that Sin , and the dangerous consequence of it both to the Souls and Bodies of Men. There is another large Treatise published by Mr. Robert Younge , Entituled , The Drunkard's Character : Also a Sermon preached long since by Doctor Robert Harris , called The Drunkard's Cup , out of Isaiah 5. from the 11. to the 18. verse . And a Sermon published many years since , Preached at Pauls Cross , by Doctor Abraham Gibson , Entituled , The Lands mourning for vain Swearing ; out of these words , Because of Oaths the Land mourns . And now the Land may mourn , not only for vain Swearing , but for vain Drinking of Healths and Drunkenness . After His Majesties Restauration , there was , I remember , a great Feast , at which time there was a Health drank for His Majesty , and when it came to the turn of an able learned grave Minister there present , he utterly disliked and refused it : Answering , That he would pray for His Majesties Heath . And if all that are Well-wishers to his Majesties Health , would obey his Proclamation against that Vice , in leaving off drinking , either of the Kings Health , or any others , & leave of swearing and prophaning the Sabbath ; and would constantly , earnestly , and heartily pray for His Majesties Health , according as the Apostle St. Paul exhorts Timothy , 1 Tim. 2.3 . That Supplication and Prayer be made for Kings , and all that are in Authority ; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty . I say , then we should be in hopes to see better Times , and better Trading : The generality cry out of their want of Trading , and of the Sins of the Rulers ; but our chief Work and Duty is to look more narrowly at home , and to find out the Plague of our own Hearts . Who smites upon his Thigh ? who saith , what have I done ? We are apt to forget the late dreadful Judgments of God ; as that of the Destroying-Sword , the sad destroying Pestilence , when from the 20th of December , 1664 , to the 15th of December , 1665. there died of all Diseases 97396 , and of the Plague 68596 ; and in one week , which I find to be the greatest of all , was in September 19. 1665 , there died of the Plague in London and Liberties 7165 , of all Diseases 8297 that one week . Can London ever forget those sad and lamentable consuming Flames , that brake forth the Second of September , 1666 ? The ruinous heaps on 373 Acres within , and 63 Acres without the old Line , the ghastly walls of 89 Parish-Churches , and stately Houses and Halls , with the Royal Exchange , and as it was computed Thirteen thousand and two hundred Houses , with a vast deal of Goods , Houshold-stuff , and rich Commodities ; and , I think , Book-sellers may easily remember the many Ware-houses of good Books of all sorts , then turned to Ashes , at St. Faiths Church , and in other places about the City . There was a Book published by Mr. Thomas Brooks , Dedicated to Sir William Turner Lord Mayor ( who deserved much Love and Honour , for being so great a Furtherer of building the City and Royal Exchange , that lay long in Ruins ) Entituled , London's Lamentations , being a serious Discourse of the late fiery Dispensation , that turned our Renowned City into a ruinous Heap . In the second part , or application of that Book , Page 36. is shewed , That the burning of London was a National Judgment , and that God in smiting London , did smite England round : And what Sins bring desolating Judgments upon Persons and Places ? Intemperance and Drunkenness is one Sin , and that we are to see the hand of the Lord in that dreadful Fire , and to take heed of those Sins that bring the fiery Rod , with the several Lessons and Duties we are to learn by it . We may easily see that the Lord will not suffer us to be forgetful of his great Judgments , by the several fresh Remembrances he hath given us , by sad Fires in divers places since , in and near the City . Not long after the dreadful Fire , there was a Merchants great house , almost finished , in Mincing Lane , burned and quite defaced ; after that , two great Fires brake forth in Southwark at several times and places : Another at the Savoy , which did much harm ; Another at the corner of St. Bartholomew Lane , a Herald Painter's House , Mr. Francis Nowers himself , his Child and Nurse was burned . Another in White-Chappel , and several persons burned there . Another sad Fire was in or near Thames street , which burned to the ground a great Sugar-Baker's House , with many thousand pounds worth of Sugar , belonging to several Partners ; it began September the Second , the Lords-day , 1671. And now last Whit-Sunday morning , at St. Katherines near Tower-hill , brake forth a very grievous lamentable Fire , which , as it is Reported , consumed above one hundred Dwelling-houses , and divers Ships , and some people were burned and killed by it . After that , another great Fire that consumed about a dozen Houses , and part of Sir Paul Pindar's house , without Bishopsgate , in June , 1672. A few dayys after brake forth another Fire , which burned several Houses in Crutched Friers . One at Camomile-street : At the Swan at Holborn-Bridge : A Brick house in Grub-street . We may do well to take that Counsel of our Saviour to the impotent man that he had cured , and had been at the Pool of Bothsaida , who had an Infirmity thirty eight years , John 5.14 . Christ bid him go and sin no more , least a worse thing befal him ; it was old Mr. Wheatlyes Text of Banbury , after it was burned : Read the 26. of Leviticus , how greatly the Lord threatned the people of Israel , if they were Disobedient to him ; He threatens great Judgments , and to make their Cities wast , and the Land desolate ; and in the verses 18 , 21 , 24 , 28. it is four times threatned , That he will punish them seven times more for their Iniquities . God hath shot Three Arrows against us , and how easily can he shoot a Fourth sore Arrow , that of the Famine , unless we turn from our Sins by true Repentance . It is to be feared , that after all that hath or can be said to reclaim men from their evil Courses , and excesses in Drinking , that they will be swayed by Custome , which is a second Nature ; and it will be found as difficult for them to be temperate in Smoking , and Drinking , and Feasting , as it is for the Blackmore to change his Skin , or the Leopard his Spots . So that they will rather say , as he that being advised by his Physician to leave of his evil Courses , or else he would loose his Sight , answered , Tum valeat lumen amicum , Then farewel sweet Light. To such it may be said , as Solomon saith , Rejoyce O young man in thy Youth , walk in the sight of thine Eyes , and let thy Heart chear thee ; but remember that for all these things God will bring thee to Judgment . We all know , That Sin is the fore-runner of all Plagues and Calamities , that ever came upon any People or Nation under Heaven ; it is the Plague of Plagues : What provoked God to drown the old World , but Sin ? What caused God to rain down Fire and Brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah , but their Sins of Pride , Idleness , and fulness of Bread ? And whilst Abraham interceded for Sodom , had there been but Ten righteous persons found amongst them , God would have spared them for their sakes . Thus I have spoken against Sin in general , as that which draws down Judgments upon our Heads : I will only lay a few Scriptures before you , touching the Lord's anger against Sin , which he cannot indure to behold without great indignation : For it is only Sin that makes a separation between God and our Souls ; and I desire the Reader to turn to them at his leisure , and to make the best use and application of them , Hosea 4.1 , 2 , 3. Isaiah 22.12 , 13 , 14. Isaiah 24.7 , 8 , 9. Genesis 12.10 . Chap 26.1.42.5.43.1 . Chap. 41.30.36.50.56 . 57. Prov. 15.26.29 . That Sea-man that being ingaged in a Ship , and sees it in danger to sink or to be cast away ; is but an ill and unworthy Sea-man that will not put to his helping hand to save her . And are not all English-men engaged in the Ship of the Kingdom , or Common-wealth of England ? and is it not in a Storm , compassed with Enemies without , and within molested and assaulted with the most dangerous Enemies of all ; over-laden with our grand Enemies , Sins of all sorts ? Is it not the part of an honest true English-man to help to save this Ship , by lightening its burden , and casting these bad Commodities over-board ? I mean its Sins , that by so doing , we may engage God , the Lord of Hosts on our side , and then , si Deus nobiscum cuis contranos : Did but England's Sins weigh lighter then her Enemies Sins , then we were more likely to be Victorious and Conquerors over all our Forreign Enemies . Doth not England match any of her Enemies in Sins and Provocations , namely Drunkenness ? Doth it come behind the Dutch , Dane , or Swede , which are counted the highest Drinkers in the World , of the highest form , and so for swearing most horrible Oaths , and scoffing at Religion and Piety . Within ten days since I began this Collection or Postscript I was an Eye and Ear-witness , That a swaggering Blade rapt out this Oath , God damn me , about a trifle in a scoffing Frolick , saying , He had got a Presbyterian Band on he thought . Another man on Whitson-Eve I saw so sadly drunk , he could neither go nor stand , but sate down on a Door-stone , I asked him , Where he had been ? He would give no other Answer but this , That he was troubled with the Megromes . So I and others about him left him , and know not what became of him : These two were in the heart of the City , near the Exchange . After I had seen King James his Counterblast against Tobacco , and taken a liking to it : I did at the first intend only to get that printed alone , but afterwards meeting with these pertinent , sutable , and profitable Directions , for the preservation of long , Life , both against Tobacco , and intemperate drinking ; Published in the Works of that learned Physician Doctor Maynwaring , now living : I thought it not amiss to joyn them together , and likewise to add a good old Sermon at the latter end , Preached , in or near the time of King James , by a famous Learned Divine , Mr. Samuel Ward then Preacher of Ipswich , printed 1627. It is but brief , and the best I know of in print against the Sin of Drunkenness and Health-drinking , wherein are discovered divers sad Examples of many that have been notorious Drinkers or Drunkards , called Woe to Drunkards , that have kill'd themselves by drinking immoderately . In the last place I shall but commend to the Reader a few good useful Books , viz. Mr Thomas Brook's Londons Lamentations , also his Book called Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices , and his Twenty two Sermons on Ephes . 3.8 . Of the unsearchable Riches of Christ , His Cabinet of Jewels , His Closet Prayer , and a profitable and very delightsome Book of good Counsel for all young Persons , called His Apples of Gold for young Men and Women &c. Mr. Thomas Watson's new Treatise , Entituled , The mischief of Sin , it brings a person low , on Psal . 106.43 . Mr. Ralph Venning's Book , called Sin the Plague of Plagues , or sinful Sin the worst of Evils , on Rom. 7.13 . These Books do set forth Sin in its own proper colours ; it is compared in Scripture to filthy Rags , and to a menstruous Cloth ; and I think it cannot be called by so bad a name as it is . Also lately Published Mr. Robert Perrot's new Book called Englands Sole , and Soveraign way of being saved . Mr. Calamie's Godly mans Ark , which I think is a useful and seasonable Book these stormy Times : Now we are pursued by Enemies on all sides , outward and inward , it 's good to get into an Ark , or City of Refuge : These are sold at the Three Bibles in Popes head Alley , where the best and newest short-hand Books , and Books of Divinity are to be had : Also History , Husbandry Astronomy , Mathematicks , Arithmetick , Law , Sea , Physick , the best Poetry , School Books , &c. Five Books of the learned Doctor Maynwarings . 1. His Preservation of Health , and Prolongation of Life . 2. His Treatise Of the Sourvy , shewing , That Tobacco is a procuring Cause . 3. The rise and progress of Physick Historically , Chromologically and Philosophically illustrated , shewing , The abuse of Medicines &c. 4. His Treatise Of Consumptions , demonstrating their Nature and Cure. 5. The ancient and modern Practice of Physick examined , stated and compared . The true Elixir Proprietatis of Van Helmont , Paracelsus & Crollius , with a Book of its use and vertue , highly commended by Mr. Lilly. As for other Books of vain idle Romances , Lascivious and Vitious Poetry and Drollery , which are worse then the Smoke of Tobacco , and more fit for the Fire to make Smoke of , then for the Study ; I wish the Lovers of them to take notice of this one Passage about such , in Mr. Philip Goodwin's Mystery of Drunkenness , printed for Francis Tyton ; it is in Page 50. Satan sends out his Books as Baits , by which many are cunningly caught , with the Venome of which so many are poysoned . FINIS . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A87472-e790 Aphorism . Tutela sanitatis . Amurath His Counter blast to Tobacco . ' Primum crater ad sitim pertinere , secundum ad hilaritatem , tertium ad voluptatem , quartum ad insaniam dixit Apuleius . Omne nimiun naturae est inimicum . A Cacotrophy , or Atrophy . Quicquid recipitur , recipitur per modum recipientis . Ax. Notes for div A87472-e5740 Esay 2. Esay 5.11 , 22. Esay 28.1 . Joel 1.5 . Hab 2. James 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Basil . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A charito & tanquam chena hash , veche Siphgnoni iaphresh ; novissimo tanquam Serpens mordebis , regulas punget Montinur & Mercerus ; tanquam haemorihois vel dissas , Tremelius . 1 Cor. 6.10 . Esay 5.14 . Deut. 32.32 . A19997 ---- Tobacco tortured, or, The filthie fume of tobacco refined shewing all sorts of subiects, that the inward taking of tobacco fumes, is very pernicious vnto their bodies; too too profluuious for many of their purses; and most pestiferous to the publike state. Exemplified apparently by most fearefull effects: more especially, from their treacherous proiects about the Gun-powder Treason; from their rebellious attempts of late, about their preposterous disparking of certaine inclosures: as also, from sundry other their prodigious practices. ... 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A19997) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 9959) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 986:03) Tobacco tortured, or, The filthie fume of tobacco refined shewing all sorts of subiects, that the inward taking of tobacco fumes, is very pernicious vnto their bodies; too too profluuious for many of their purses; and most pestiferous to the publike state. Exemplified apparently by most fearefull effects: more especially, from their treacherous proiects about the Gun-powder Treason; from their rebellious attempts of late, about their preposterous disparking of certaine inclosures: as also, from sundry other their prodigious practices. ... Deacon, John, 17th cent. [28], 194, [6] p. Printed by Richard Field dwelling in Great Woodstreete, London : 1616. Dedication signed "Iohn Deacon". The author's name also appears in monograms on the title page and on p. 194. In two dialogues. The last leaf is blank. 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Smoking -- Early works to 1800. 2003-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2003-12 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2004-01 Olivia Bottum Sampled and proofread 2004-01 Olivia Bottum Text and markup reviewed and edited 2004-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion TOBACCO TORTVRED , OR , THE FILTHIE FVME OF TOBACCO REFINED : Shewing all sorts of Subiects , that the inward taking of Tobacco fumes , is very pernicious vnto their bodies ; too too profluuious for many of their purses ; and most pestiferous to the publike State. Exemplified apparently by most fearefull effects : More especially , from their treacherous proiects about the Gun-powder Treason ; From their rebellious attempts of late , about their preposterous disparking of certaine Inclosures : as also , from sundry other their prodigious practises . Prov. 27.9 . If sweete oyntments and perfumes do vndoubtedly reioyce the heart of a man : then surely , all noysome sauours , and poysonsome smels ( such as is the filthie fume of Tobacco ) inwardly taken , must necessarily disquiet , and driue the same into a dangerous condition . Dignitatis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deus . LONDON , Printed by RICHARD FIELD dwelling in Great Woodstreete . 1616. TO THE MOST POTENT , LEARNED , AND RELIGIOVS PRINCE , IAMES ( by the grace of God ) King of great Brittaine , France and Ireland , &c. be multiplied the abundance of spirituall sinceritie , of earthly prosperitie , and of eternall felicitie in Iesus Christ , Amen . RENOWMED SOVERAIGNE , THe Almightie Iehouah ( being in very deed ) the God of a order , hath created all things in so excellent and absolute an order , respecting b number , weight , and measure , as no one man liuing on earth may iustly challenge any one of his works , for being ( in any their seuerall orders ) the one either c better , or worse then another : if we exactly consider the exquisite order obserued among any his different operations in heauen , or in earth . For if we first consider what an absolute order he hath obserued in any the superior creatures ( more especially in the firmament it selfe , with other the Celestiall orbes ) we may find the same ( by Mathematicall demonstrations ) made apparently manifest to vs. Then next , if we obserue ( in like sort ) the like most admirable , and absolute order among all other the inferiour creatures ( more especially in Man whom he hath purposely made a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , I meane , an abstract epitome , or a liuely represent of all the rest ( as by Physicall obseruations and sundry Methodicall proportions may be made apparent vnto vs ) I doubt not at all but that the truth of this point will more plainly appeare then the Sun-shine at mid-day : so as the simplest on earth may soundly conceiue the same in that one speciall creature , if ( besides his admirable creation ) they will likewise consider how the vniuersall societies of mankind here on earth , are ( by the Almightie his most absolute wisedome ) very proportionably reduced into a fourefold corporall condition . Namely , first into a meere naturall bodie : ● meane a corporall substance consisting ioyntly in an healthfull estate of sundry particular members sympathically combined in one . Then next , into an Oeconomicall bodie , I meane a domesticall , or well ordered houshold condition proportionably plotted together . Then next , into a meere Polititicall bodie , I meane the publike estate of kingdomes , and countries collaterally compact in one mutuall consort . And then fourthly , into an Ecclesiasticall bodie : I meane , into that holy and blessed communion of Saints which religiously consisteth vpon the mutuall and ioynt societie of a Nationall Church , disciplinated and gouerned in a most solemne and sanctified order . As this fourefold order of bodies doth comprehend , and vphold to the full , the seuerall conditions of men here on earth : so surely , the second and the last of these foure seuerall estates I do purposely pretermit for the present , as hauing heretofore in d some part , and also intending hereafter ( if God say amen ) to bend my cogitations more fully that way . hang downe the head , but all the other states else ( by a common consent ) they do collaterally become very crazie and weake , concerning any the dutifull discharge of their peculiar designements . As for example , the said stomacke it selfe , namely , the poore husbandmen , they are fearefully subiected to an intollerable feeblenesse concerning the timely performance of any their appointed functions ; to offensiue yelkings , and vomitings forth of sundrie discontentments against the whole State ; to an immoderate thirsting after other mens places ; to many most bitter heart-burnings , gripings , and gnawings ; to sodaine , and vnappeaseable inflammations of furie ; to an vtter loathing of their appointed ordinary labours ; to a dog-like appetite after other mens profites ; to an insatiable hunger concerning the speedie supply of their sundrie vnsufferable wants ; to a very bad digestion touching their present oppressions ; to many windie sufflations , and proud puffings vp ; to angrie belchings , to cholericke passions , to an vnnaturall fluxe of the purse , by meanes of too many their immoderate and superfluous dispendings ; to inward heart-gripings ; with sundry such other like fearefull occurrents as do finally disable their persons from the orderly collecting , and proportionable dispersing of publike maintenance to any one of the other estates in that selfe same Politicall body . Yea , and not onely the said stomacke it selfe ( I meane the poore husbandmen , ) but all other estates besides are likewise ( by a common consent as it were ) collaterally subiected to sundry most dangerous distempers : whether we consider the superiour , or any the inferiour parts of that Politicall body . For first , ( concerning the superiour parts ) who may not easily see and perceiue how the head it selfe will forthwith begin to be fearefully tainted with capitall paines about the disordered State ; with want of due rest , by reason of sundry occurring cares ; with idle vertigoes , and many terrible turne-about thoughts ; with sundrie implacable furies , with most secure and fearefull Lethargies , dreames , and drowsie securities ; with crasinesse of memorie concerning their duties to God and man ; yea , and ( which more is ) with such sodaine congealed Catalepsies , violent conuulsions , and spi●ituall benummings , as if all conscionable sense and mouing ( in and about their designed imployments ) were vtterly lost , or quite forgot , at the least . And then next , for the Shoulders and Armes ( the Nobilitie , and Gentrie I meane ) who may not likewise perceiue , how that ( when the poore husband-mans state , which did vsually aford their Politicall maintenance , beginneth to fag ) they do eftsoones begin to fall forthwith into fearefull Apoplexies , I meane , to an vtter decay of all spirituall mouing and sense ; into quaking Palsies and trembling of heart , vpon euery crossing occurrent ; into dangerous Epilepsies , and deadly downefallings to euill ; into violent Conuulsions , with a sodaine shrinking vp of the sinewes of loue ; into fearefull oppressing Ephialteis , and intollerable burdens of sinne , each houre surcharging their sorrowfull soules ; into choking Squinancies , I meane , a mercilesse throatling of all their Inferiours ; into sundrie most deadly Pleurisies , through the abundant spilling of innocent bloud ; into many quarkening Peripneumonies , and suffocating Ptisickes , I meane , into a difficult breathing forth of any gracious decrees concerning the present good of the poore ; yea and ( which more is ) into very many such impostumating Empiemaes , and most fearefull exulcerations of conscience ( with other outragious enormities ) as bring an vtter consumption and waste to the whole Politicall bodie . And as the superiour , so likewise the inferiour members of that selfe same Politicall bodie , feeling once a defect in the stomacke ( I meane in the poore husbandmans state ) they do eftsoones decline to an vnnaturall weakenesse and distemperature of the Liuer and Splene ( I meane , to a fearefull decay of Christian loue , for the timely discharge of any their Christian duties ; to sundrie inflammations , obstructions , coldnesse , and hardnesse of heart against the whole State ; to most filthie deforming Iaundeis , through an vnnaturall dispersing of cholericke pangs , and melancholicke passions ouer all the Politicall bodie ; to many most languishing Cachexies , I meane , to an inordinate consuming and wasting of politicke nutriment , by reason of some euill disposition in their proper estates ; to such dangerous Dropsies , and disordered cariages , as do either procure a dissolute loosenesse throughout their peculiar societies , or an vnnaturall swelling at least , against the peaceable , and prosperous state of the whole Politicall bodie ; to deadly Stranguries , and dangerous difficulties about the timely dispatch of their publike designements ; to deadly benumming Sciaticaes , and griefes in the huckle-bones , so oft as they are to vndergo the obsequious dispatch of their seuerall duties ; yea and ( which more is ) into many preposterous Podagraes , and intollerable paine in their feete and ioynts , so oft especially as they are made to support and beare vp the necessarie burdens belonging to that Politicall body whereof they are made the vnited members . So as your most excellent Highnesse may here againe be pleased to perceiue very plainly , that ( by the onely distempers of the stomacke it selfe in either of both these bodies ) the whole bodies of both are most fearefully brought into such a languishing condition and state , as neither those stomackes themselues , nor the head , nor the shoulders , nor the armes , neither yet the legs , nor the feete are sufficiently able to dispatch their proper designements : by ●eanes whereof , euen those selfe same bodies ( with all their seuerall parts ) must needs remaine in a languishing state . And therefore , as the good estate of the stomacke it selfe must be carefully continued , especially , if we desire to vphold the happie condition of the whole bodie it selfe : so surely I do verily suppose there may no better meanes be deuised about that good estate of the stomacke , then to become very carefull first , for the ordinary supply of whatsoeuer good meanes may be helpefull vnto it : and then next , for the powerfull and speedie suppressing of whatsoeuer occurrent may be hurtfull vnto it in any respect . Now then , these foure succeeding faculties are especially helpefull to the good estate of the stomacke it selfe , if they be rightly had , and ioyntly continued : Namely , Appetite , Retention , Digestion , with an orderly Distribution . For sith it is the proper office of euery particular stomacke , very orderly to concoct the whole sustenance receiued therein , that so , the said sustenance may forthwith become good naturall nutriment for the whole bodie it selfe : who seeth not therefore but that ( in the stomacke ) there must first be procured an able and absolute appetite towards that the former receiued sustenance ? And because it is to very small purpose though the forenamed Appetite be singular good , vnlesse the Retentiue facultie be also euery way fitted for the firme retaining , and orderly holding of whatsoeuer solide sustenance so soundly affected before : who seeth not now , but that secondly a sound Retention must necessarily be wrought in that selfe same stomacke ? And because the Appetite , and Retention both , will very little auaile to the good estate of the stomacke , vnlesse the said stomacke be throughly able withall , most soundly to digest whatsoeuer good sustenance so orderly affected , and so firmely retained before : who seeth not therefore , but that a very strong and absolute Digestion must thirdly be kindled , and firmely continued in that selfe same stomacke ? And because both Appetite , Retention , and Digestion also , are to very small purpose for the good estate of the stomacke , vnlesse the said sustenance so affected , so retained , and so digested , be likewise as proportionably dispersed throughout the whole bodie for naturall nutriment to the seuerall members thereof : therefore , who seeth not fourthly , but that the said stomacke it selfe must be aptly disposed towards the proportionable Distribution of that selfe same concocted nutriment to each seuerall part of the whole body it selfe ? Now then , all those the forenamed faculties so fitly and so proportionably concurring together about the orderly accomplishment of that the receiued nutriment , this stomacke it selfe may not properly be said to feele any want at all , for the timely dispatch of it owne imployments about any his designed functions . These fourefold faculties must ( in like manner ) all ioyntly concurre about the happie and prosperous estate of those our Politicall stomackes : if especially , we would haue them profitably imployed in the orderly collecting , and frugall disposing of publike maintenance , for the conuenient supportation of the whole Politicall body , in all and singular the seuerall parts thereof . And therefore , a principall care concerning the poore husbandmens happie condition , must first be made knowne to the world , by an orderly procuring of good Appetites in euery of them towards their seuerall husbandries : that so , they may chearefully , comfortably , and profitably both affect , and effect the fruitfull managing thereof in euery respect . Whereby it is apparently euident , that those their said Appetites must not be killed by vnreasonable Fines , by excessiue Rents , by ouer heauie Impositions , or any such other importable burdens . And then next , there must likewise be cherished in euery of them , a powerfull Retention , an enabled facultie ( I meane ) to retaine , vphold , and continue their seuerall husbandries , for those the former publike respects . So as therefore , a like prouident care must be further had , that by no meanes they may be discouraged from their said husbandries by any mercilesse , vncharitable , or cut-throate dealings : neither yet compelled ( by any causlesse , and cruell oppressions ) to cassier themselues from their former callings , and so ( in a malcontentednesse ) forthwith to cast their ploughs in the ditch . And then thirdly , they must yet further be furthered this way , by a strong & speedie Digestion , with such warme and cherishing comforts ( I meane ) as may enable them all to the orderly maintaining , the husbandly managing , and the wholsome digesting of those their said husbandries for publike good . And lastly , there must very carefully be wrought in euery of them ( by the ministeriall operation of the word and praier ) a sympathicall disposition , in and about the timely Distribution of that their former collected maintenance , for the publike good of the Prince , the Peares , the Nobles , the Gentrie , the whole Communaltie , and euery particular member of that selfe same Politicall bodie . These things accordingly effected , who seeth not now , but that the naturall and Politicall stomacks both , are sufficiently furnished with whatsoeuer supplies may any way be helpefull to either of them both for publike good ? And not onely things helpefull must so be supplied , but things hurtfull likewise must forthwith be suppressed , for feare of enfeebling or weakening the forenamed faculties . But there may not any thing be possibly found more hurtfull to the happie estate of those the forenamed stomacks , then superfluous excesse , or pining wants . For , as by superfluous excesse , the good ●state of those the said stomacks is fearefully ouerwhelmed and tumbled headlong into most dangerous surfeits and deadly distempers : so surely , by oppressing and pining wants , they are fearefully enfeebled , and finally disabled from the timely performance of their proper designements for publike good . First therefore ( for the timely suppressing of whatsoeuer superfluous excesse annoying the healthfull estate of both these stomacks ) a prouident care must forthwith be had , that not onely all carowsing and quaffing , all gulling and gormandizing , all excessiue and riotous banquetting : but also that all superfluous buildings , all needlesse braueries , all extrauagant sports , and all other profluuious dispendings be heedfully auoyded in euery state , more especially in those the forenamed stomacks themselues . For these onely respects , I haue here euen purposely ( although yet synecdochically ) censured all those the former most foule and shamefull disorders vnder the onely name of Tobacco fumes ; putting downe a part for the whole : and naming that one vice especially , as a most liuely represent of those other the smokelike vanishing vapours ; and as the very principall annoyance to both the stomacks : and so consequently to the flourishing estate of the naturall , and Politicall bodies themselues . And not onely all such superfluous excesse , but ( which more is by much ) all those oppressing and pining wants whatsoeuer , which may ( in any sort ) surprize the good estate of those stomacks , must forthwith be warily suppressed . Namely , the want of competent tillage for corne ; the want of conuenient pasturing for beeues , for oxen , for milch-kine , for sheepe , with such other conuenient meanes to manure , mannage , enable , and strengthen their seuerall tillages and pasture grounds , for such a conuenient increase as may fully suffice from time to time , about the necessarie supportation of their owne , and the publike good . The want ( in like manner ) of politicke , of peaceable , and publike good orders , about the orderly and quiet collecting of such singular blessings as the Lord ( in much mercie ) bestoweth vpon any their ordinarie labours for publike good , must be heedfully respected and timely redressed by publike authoritie . So as your excellent Highnesse may herein againe be pleased to see the great conueniencie of all those good penall statutes ( were they but carefully executed ) which do necessarily concerne the orderly vpholding of husbandrie in it owne proper nature , or do purposely tend to the timely suppressing of whatsoeuer riots , routs , and vnlawfull assemblies that might respectiuely ouerlay the poore husbandmens labours , and peaceable proiects concerning any their peculiar professions for publike good . In consideration whereof , I haue here purposely , and largely laid open the vrgent necessitie for the timely suppressing of that late disordered and vnlawfull attempt of lawlesse persons , in and about the vnorderly and tumultuous disparking of pastures and seuerall grounds , vnder an idle pretence of the necessarie ( though needlesse ) augmentation of tillage : demonstrating most plainly , that their falsely supposed defect of tillage is no such an oppressing want , as doth presently hurt the poore husbandmans happy estate ( all other things else proportionably and euenly respected : ) and that therefore there needed no such disordered and headie attempts , for the timely supply of that their falsly supposed want . Hauing hitherto anatomized the whole purport of this my purposed proiect for publike good , I am now , not vnwilling the same should be soundly peized with those the approued weights of the Sanctuary which will not deceiue . Especially , if our learned Physitions be made the indifferent cyzers and censurers concerning all Physicall questions : as also , if those our experimented Politicians and Politicke States-men may become the prouident weigh-masters of what points soeuer appertaining to matters of policie . More respectiuely ( most dread Soueraigne ) I do here very freely , and submissiuely put ouer the whole to your Maiesties approued consideration and view , as vnto the most competent Iudge of publike regard ; very humbly intreating your excellent Highnesse , that ( from out of your long experimented Physicall skill ) you would first of all be pleased , very soundly to censure that former part of this present Discourse , which more especially concernes those exceeding great hurts that do vnperceiueably surprise the bodies of men , by meanes of their inward taking of Tobacco fumes . And then next ( with no lesse humble submission ) I humbly intreate , that your vnmatchable wisedome for publike good , would likewise be pleased ( from out of your long setled iudgement , and experimented practise about the orderly suppressing of whatsoeuer shamefull disorders adiudged pestiferous to the publike good of our countrey ) to priuiledge with the approued stampe of your authenticall approbation , that other part of this present Discourse , which more respectiuely relateth the purses profluuitie about the superfluous charges of filthie Tobacco fumes , and the pestiferous poysoning of the long setled peace of our publike State : so farre forth especially , as the truth it selfe , and present occasions do instantly craue from time to time . Very submissiuely intreating moreouer , that the whole Treatise it selfe may find at your Maiesties hands , that fauourable entertainment which your gracious wisedome shall thinke good to grace it withall : and thereupon also , may publikely and boldly march vnder the martiall ensigne of your kingly care for publike good , against all the fiery encounters of whatsoeuer fuming Tobacconists . So shall the almightie Iehouah his absolute wisedome be e freely iustified of all her children ; so shall your kingly reputation be iustly eternized among all posterities ; so shall the publike State of our countrey be much more bettered , and more soundly conserued in a solide condition ; so shall the almightie Law-maker be more largely magnified for his manifold mercies bestowed among vs ; so shall the poore husbandmens hearts ( as it were with kingly cordials ) be forthwith reuiued ; so shall our disordered Tobacconists be presently daunted , and for euer hereafter discouraged : yea and so shall my poore selfe be more securely protected from whatsoeuer the fierie f strokes of venimous tongues , to my better emboldning , and further encouragement in such other like future attempts for publike good . And euen so , I most humbly surceasse my purposed suite for the present good of our publike State : beseeching the almightie Iehouah to blesse your excellent Highnesse in bodie and soule , and to enrich you in both with a principall spirit , correspondent to your Princely place ; to the publike good of our countrey , and your owne euerlasting comfort in Iesus Christ. Euen so Lord Iesus , Amen . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Your Maiesties most humble , and most dutifull Subiect , IOHN DEACON . TO THE CHRISTIAN READER , grace in Christ , with an holy discerning spirit . So be it . GEntle Reader , if thou wilt more seriously bend thy best thoughts awhile towards some serious consideration concerning thine accustomed inward taking of filthie Tobacco fumes , it may be thy good hap ( by the merciful goodnesse of our gracious God ) to haue thereby thy fantasticall mind enlightened about a foule foggie error ; thy crazie corps disburdened of many pestiferous humours , and thy prodigall purse more might●ly priuiledged from those sundry proflunious expences , wherewith ( by tampering too boldly with filthie Tobacco fumes , as also , by conuersing too commonly with carousing companions , and other like chargeable courses attending hourely thereon ) the same hath eftsoones bene shrewdly surprised , and ( in a manner ) most clearely euacuated . The true and timely apprehension of these three such precious and present auailes , succeeding these Paganish and heathenish practises , may make thee in time ( by the great goodnesse of God ) to veile thy bonnet for publike good : and herein withall , to become forthwith a Merchant Venturer , by aduenturing boldly vpon the seasonable venting forth of this late inuention , for the publike aduantage of whatsoeuer our trifling Tobacconists ; vnlesse haply , those their vapouring euacuations ( very chymically extracted from the fennish fumes of their filthie Tobacco ) haue now too too fearefully ouerwhelmed their blindfold braines with such foggie forestalling mists , as do dangerously suppresse the senses themselues , and too too sottishly surprise the sway of sound reason . Although notwithstanding , I am in no doubt at all , but that thou thine owne selfe ( hauing once in an approued experience , very sensibly apprehended the exceeding great efficacy of this present Discourse for publike good ) wilt forthwith hold for an infallible Axiome , that a A publike good , the more common it is , the better it is . And thereupon , as my selfe haue eftsoones bene moued by others , and now resolued in my selfe , to communicate these my priuate thoughts to each particular person for publike good : so thou thine owne selfe , and all the rest of that reasonable sort ( participating all ioyntly together with the publike profite thereof , ) will all ioyntly together extoll the infallible wisdome of that onely approued Physition for bodie and soule , who hath euery way made vs so sufficiently and so Christianly wise concerning the vndoubted safetie of body and soule : and therewithall , will ioyntly and heartily pray for the healthfull preseruation of such , and so many as seeke ( by any their sacred skils ) to cause euery of vs so foundly to conceiue ( though somewhat too late ) the vnsoundnesse of al those the vnsound and sottish conceipts which haue hitherto haled men headlong an end , to the vntimely taking of filthie Tobacco fumes . If thy mind be still in a mammering doubt ▪ whether the venimous condition of these poysonsome fumes be so pestiferous as this present Discourse doth seeme to purport , then turne thy present thoughts ( I pray thee ) towards the vntimely deaths of sundry such excellent personages as ( tampering too much therewith ) haue ( euen now of late ) not onely bene sodainly surprised by an vnnaturall death , but ( which more is ) their dead bodies being opened , had all their entrails as blacke as a coale , and the very fat in their bodies resembling ( in all outward appearance ) the perfect colour of rustie , or reesed bacon : whose names notwithstanding , I do here purposely conceale , for the very reuerence it selfe which I formerly bare to their persons and places . If notwithstanding all this , thou wilt not ( as yet ) bee brought vnto a present dislike of those the said fumes themselues , then turne thy serious and timely considerations to those fearefull effects , which ( not long since ) afforded their vntimely and terrible attendance towards those our disordered and turbulent Tobacconists of former times . Who ( for very loue of their Tobacco trafficke , and other disordered courses ) neither spared their persons , nor purses , but wilfully spoyled and consumed them both : to the manifest wronging of many other besides , the publike contempt of good positiues lawes , the wilfull breach of his Maiesties peace , the rebellious resisting of his martiall power , with the fearefull spilling of their owne , and other mens bloud . Let no partiall affections ( good Christian Reader ) so far forth miscarrie , nor so violently inueagle thine vnsetled and wauering mind , as that thou shouldest once dare to applaud the disordered courses , and intemperate actions of any such barbarous Cannibals as do causelesly conspire , and preposterously pretend to bring in a confused paritie throughout the whole State. With very base and most beastly degenerate minds are those monstrous Minotaures bewitched , no doubt , who may ( by no meanes ) be brought to endure , or to broke the renowmed estates of the Nobilitie , or Gentrie in any their countrey coasts : neither yet to like long of any his Maiesties fauourites , whom the Almightie himselfe ( for the raritie of sundrie their singular vertues ) aduanceth to a timely honour . Howbeit , very true is the saying it selfe , and the truth thereof made too too apparent in such disordered persons : namely , that b Dishonestie it selfe is a thing euen vtterly destitute of all sense and reason . Well ( whatsoeuer may be the successe with some others ) I doubt not at all , but that these my poore labours for publike good , will ( from henceforth ) make me as deepely interessed in some other mens labours of like interchangeable trafficke : more especially , of those well minded persons who now begin to perceiue what present profite may eftsoones arise from this my lately erected new Mart for publike good . On the other side , if any idle , or odly conceited companions ( at the vnexpected pitching vp of these my approued boothstakes for publike good ) do ouer pecuishly fall into sustian fumes , because these their filthie Tobacco fumes are thus sodainly enforced to render a most filthie redolent smell in the very nostrils of such & so many as are but competently furnished with a sound and setled iudgment : yet vndoubtedly , the integritie and vprightnesse of mine honest plaine heart herein , will be sufficiently able ( I hope ) to mannage most stoutly mine authenticall intent for publike good , against all the fierie thunder-cracks of those our fuming Tobacconists , whose trifling courses do nothing else but breede the publike bane of our peace and prosperitie . And howsoeuer some malcontented Tobacconists , ( of a very malicious spite ) may couertly endeauour to kindle their fierie tongues ( as it were with c Iuniper coales ) against either my person , or published Treatise , I doubt not yet , but as the integritie of mine honest intent for publike good , may sufficiently shelter my person for dealing herein : so am I strongly perswaded , that , that selfe same publike authoritie which so frankly affordeth free passage ( with priuiledge ) to this my published Discourse for like publike good , at the very first sparkling forth of those our Tobacconists fire-flashes ( how fierce , and how flaming soeuer ) will be authentically able , either to cause their turbulent rage to recoyle forthwith vpon their owne pates ; or to besmeare their persons at least , with that odde satyricall Adage which termeth those our testie Tobacconists d Thericleiou philos , that is in English , A fantasticall fauourite and follower of cup-companions . Howsoeuer , the better sort ( I am sure ) will readily entertaine my good meaning herein , with that honest affection and Christian mind which is euermore accustomed to construe such a subiect as this , in the best and honestest sense : and therefore ( leauing the successe whatsoeuer to the orderly disposing of the onely wise God ) I will now shew thee forthwith my whole purpose and order herein . First , I haue propounded ( as thou seest ) the whole in Dialogue manner , for the plainer demonstration of the matter it selfe , making Capnistus , and Hydrophorus the onely speakers therein . The first ( that is Capnistus , signifying a fierie perfumed fellow ) resembleth our smokie and fumish Tobacconists : the other ( Hydrophorus I meane , betokening a water-bearer ) correspondently represents all such sound hearted subiects as are very well able ( by the sway of sound reason , as it were with cold water ) to quench the intemperate fierie flames of all our fuming Tobacconists . Hauing thus acquainted thee with my whole purpose and order herein , let vs now forthwith proceede to the orderly prosecution thereof . Beseeching the almightie Iehouah to bestow that blessing vpon it , which may tend to the euerlasting glory of his most glorious name ; the good of our Church and the common wealth ; and our owne eternall comforts in Iesus Christ : So be it , euen so , Amen . Dignitatis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deus . Thine in the Lord , and the Lord his vnworthiest on earth , IOHN DEACON . A Ware-lash for wood-braines . THe sluggish sort , who snorting sleepe , and liue like lazie louts , False frauds will frame to mate each man ; yet firke them with their flouts . The Serpent slie , the subtile Snake , will fawne vpon each Feare ; And coldly crewle till they be crept into the bosome deare , Of them that pitie their complaints , and waylings well do way : But ( if in breast they once be borne ) to sting they neuer stay . The Caterpillers carping crew , with these I may bring in ; Who liue o' th labours of good men : yet passe they not one pin , What cold , what irkesome wearie nights , what tedious tasks , what toyle ; Nor yet , how many meatlesse meales men haue , nor what turmoile . Yet , Deacon deare ( not dreading darts of furious franticke fooles ) Hath wouen a web , and wrought a worke most meete for stately Schooles . He feares no force of Vipers b●oode , nor Caterpillers crew ; But frankly of his owne accord puts it to publike view . In it he toucheth no mans state , of high or low degree : Surmounting sinnes he would suppresse , as soothly men may see . Each vice put downe in open Booke , I might in order name , Had not the Author to our hands , so soundly shew'd the same . And sith the man gapes not for gaine , nor praise from men pretends : Afford him thanks for his great paine , and so you make amends . This guerdon iust if you grudge at , I should accompt you wurse Then Iudas he , ( that treacherous wretch ) who bare about the purse . But , hope I haue , you will accept thereof by due desart , And it applaud : and so ( deare frends ) adieu with all my heart . Laudum suarum praeco insufficiens , S. T. Què sara , sara . To the beneuolent and honestly affected Reader . IF handi-crafts-men haue great praise for working well , ( With toyling trade ) the trifling wares which they for money sell : Then why should Deacon doubt to purchase praise of men , To whom he frankly giues the gift of this his learned pen ? If he his busied brow hath beat for our auaile , And for our profit taken paines : why should his guerdon faile ? No greedie golden fee , no gem , no Iewel braue ; But of the Reader , good report this Writer longs to haue . No man of meanest wit , no beast of slender braine : Who thinkes that such a worke as this , was penn'd with little paine . The worke it selfe portends what toyle he vndertooke , Or er'e his curious file could frame this passing pleasant Booke . If pleasure thou possesse , or profit thereby take : He hath the depth of his desire , who penn'd it for thy sake . But , though thou feele some want of that thou wish at furst : Reade once againe with good aduice , before thou iudge the wurst . Lay loue and hate aside , affection put to flight : So shalt thou iudge as Iustice wils , so shall thy doome be right . Remember , Midas eares were framed like an Asse : Because he said that Pan in skill , Apollo farre did passe . So , if thou shalt preferre some trifle more then truth , Thou shalt deserue ( as Midas did ) the Asses eares with ruth . For , learned is the man that did this Treatise frame : And , learned is the wight , to whom he dedicates the same . And , learned is the worke , and honest eke the fact : And honest men will honestly allow each honest act . But , those that needes will storme , and wot not well wherefore , Must needs haue part of that reward which Midas reap't before . Which , if thou wilt auoid ( as I would wish to shun ) Do deeme with good aduised drift , this deede by Deacon done . So , I that made this verse , will thinke no worse of thee , Then Deacons worke doth well deserue , accompted of to be . But , if thou barke at Moone ( like Bandog void of feares ) All men may deeme thee for an Asse , by those thine Asse like eares . Virescit vulnere virtus . Thine , to pleasure , and to profit thee , B. G. THE FVME OF TOBACCO TAKEN INWARD , IS VERY PERNICIOVS VNTO THE BODY . Capnistus , the Speakers . Hydrophorus , the Speakers . Capnistus . WHat Hydrophorus , mine ancient Antagonist ? adieu : farewell for a season . Come , haste my mates : away . Haue ouer , haue ouer . Hydrophorus . Cauallero Capnistus , what haste I pray thee ? Whither away man , that thou callest so earnestly for the Marriners to haue thee ouer ? Capn. What haste ( quoth you ) Sir ? Who euer expected such a friuolous demand from so famous a Doctor ? Hast thou vtterly forgotten the ordinarie prouerbe , which telleth vs plainly , that Time and Tide attends vpon no mans becke ? And I haue vndertaken a dangerous aduenture towards the vttermost parts of West India with spéed : from whence also I intend to trafficke Tobacco into this our English Iland . Hydr. A dangerous , sayest thou ? yea rather , a most desperate aduenture . Especially , when the voyage must be vndergone by a stripling so tender of yeares : and for a trafficke moreouer , so vntoothsome in taste . Capn. I am sir ( I assure you ) of a contrary opinion . For ( my selfe being now in my most flourishing age ) you should déeme me so much more able to beare , and abide by the bickering , how bitter soeuer . And as for Tobacco ( how vntoothsome soeuer it séemeth in taste ) being found most wholesome by plaine experience , & a trafficke moreouer in so great regard with one and other , I do not presently perceiue what one commoditie may be shipped from thence , more fit for publicke good , nor any way more méete for my priuate auailes . But , adieu for the present . Come , haue ouer , haue ouer . Hydr. What man ? pause ( I pray thee ) a little . For as soft fire maketh sweete mault : so , the hastie man ( we see ) doth seldome want woe . And ( without question ) thine vnexperienced age , as also this thy preposterous purpose concerning that thine intended trafficke , they do both of thē , argue more haste then heed ; more will then wit ; more hurt then health ; more poyson then profit ; and ( which more is ) a great deale more woe then welfare : if the same be not heedfully foreseene , and timely preuented . Capn. Why so , I beséech you , Sir ? Hydr. Dost thou aske me , why so ? Come hither I pray thee , sit close by my sides for a while : and I will tell thee why so . Capn. Content . But , of all loues , then be as briefe as you may : for feare of foreslowing my purposed voyage . Go to now , tell me what one reason you haue , to be hardly conceited , concerning either my tender young yeares , or the long tried trafficke of this my intended aduenture ? Hydr. With very good will. And this so much the rather , for that the consideration of both ioyntly together , do euen forcibly carrie my thoughts to that selfesame amazednesse , which formerly affected Iulius Caesar that mightie Monarch and Conquerour of the whole world , concerning the tried effects of that fearefull conflict which he eftsoones had with the Almains and Sweuians in Germanie , the Swissers and Tournayans in France . Capn. What strange amazednesse might that be , I beséech you ? Hydr. Certainely , euen such , and so exceedingly strange , as did ( for the present ) most fearefully daunt the very vigour and force of his vitall spirits . For , finding in that sort of people ( aboue other nations ) a wonderfull couragious mind , with exceeding great strength of body to beare out the hottest brunt of the battaile ; and hauing also at length obtained of them a very laborious and tedious victorie , with exceeding much toyle , and very great bloudshed : by the often consideration thereof , he was sundrie times drawne into this deepe and serious cogitation : Namely , how it might possibly come to passe , that he should so experiment in euery of them , such a rare and couragious spirit , and so resolute a will , with sufficient strength accordingly , to vndergo any imminent danger ; whereas , in others he found nothing at all but an effeminate life , with a mind of curiositie , in withdrawing themselues from all dangerous and deadly occurrents . Capn. And what ? was he caried so farre into this endlesse labyrinth , as he wotted not well which way to winde himselfe out , but with leading himselfe backward by the onely conduct of a labyrinthian clew ? Hydr. Nothing lesse . For ( hauing searched all the corners of his diuine wit , to find forth some reason in nature concerning this matter ) at length ( with exceeding great iudgement , and singular wisedome ) he espied two speciall causes hereof ; Namely , their abstinence from wine : and , their want of trafficke with other nations . Capn. What benefits could come vnto them by either of both these courses ? Hydr. Surely , exceeding great benefits . For , by the first ( namely , by their abstinence from wine ) they reaped this certaine commoditie ; I meane , they continued the state of their bodily humours in a sound and setled temperature : and , by the other ( that is , by their vtter want of vsuall trafficke with other nations ) they kept entire their ancient customes and manners , and held them continually absolute , and vncorrupted with the venimous vices of forreine countries . As also ( by the ordinary meanes of both ) they receiued this singular benefite , that they preserued from time to time , the vigour , as well of their minds as their bodies , substantially sound and liuely , and euery way pregnant and readie , both for peace , and for warres . Capn. How hath this odde cogitation of his distracted your mind ? Hydr. In very deed , exceedingly much . For , hauing eftsoones somwhat seriously pondered this his approued iudgment , and comparing it euen now , with the present occasions of this our licencious age , as also , with their childish & fond resolution concerning such forreine aduentures : I do find too too many important and weightie causes , very earnestly perswading me to be iumpe of Iulius Caesars opinion concerning such a purposed proiect . Capn. And why so ? Hydr. Dost thou aske me why so ? Do but euenly compare the one age with the other , and thou shalt plainly perceiue the reasons thy selfe . For , what made them ( in those dayes ) such able men of their bodies and minds , and so apt for euery difficult enterprise , but euen that their ordinarie abstinence from wine and strong drinkes ? And what causeth vs now to become such cauallering Carpet Knights , such fantasticall effeminate fellowes , and so vtterly vnfit for martiall affaires , but our continuall carousing of cup after cup ; our insatiable tippling vp of Tobacco fumes , and our contagious conuersing with the vicious customes of forreine countries ? Capn. I can ( as yet ) conceiue no one inconuenience from either of both . Hydr. Let vs then consider them seuerally : for , so shall wee the sooner perceiue the pernicious occurrents proceeding from either . Obserue therefore I pray thee , what monstrous diseases are daily bred in mens bodies , as also , how many and diuerse corruptions are couched close in their minds , by reason of an immoderate swilling vp of wine , of ale , and of beere . For , from whence proceedeth superfluous moistures ouerspreading each solide part of the body ? From whence cometh Catarres , Coughs , Rheumes , distillations of the braine , Comaes , Apoplexies , Palsies , Dropsies , Peripneumonies , Impostumations of the Lungs , Lethargies , Ephialties , Tremblings , Cataracts , Ophthalmies , Crudities , Iliaca passions , Cachexies , Surfets , vnnaturall Vomitings , Ioynt sicknesses , Goutes , and sundry such other ; besides the manifold corruptions of the mind it selfe : from whence ( I say ) do all and euery of these take primarie being , but from an immoderate quassing ? Would to God , this preposterous age of ours did not so pregnantly purport and witnesse the same , without any my record herein . Capn. Indéede I must fréely acknowledge , that such sundrie and strange diseases are growne too too rife and ripe in this our decrepite age , and those also very fearefully affecting both yong and old : but do all those diseases you speake of , directly procéede from an immoderate gulling in of hote wines , and other strong drinkes ? Hydr. Vndoubtedly , they do take their primarie sprout from those pernicious fountaines , either immediatly , or , by a mutuall consent in their sundrie and diuerse gradations at least : as thou thine owne selfe ( by some sober conference with graue and skilfull Physitions ) maist more sensibly and more soundly be made to perceiue . Capn. Well Sir , I vnderstand ( by the purport of your spéech ) what fearefull inconueniences may successiuely follow vpon such an immoderate swilling : and therefore I do herein accord with your selfe and Iulius Caesar , that , a moderate abstinence from wine and other strong drinks , is a singular good meanes to support the sound estate of mens naturall humours , and ( thereby ) the better to enable their bodies and mindes for euery notable exploite . Howbeit , I cannot ( as yet ) conceiue , how this our entercourse of trafficke with forreiners should any way preiudice the persons of men ; or procure annoyance to the publicke good of our English Iland . And therefore , tell me without farther delay , whether you do absolutely deny vs all trafficke with strangers ? Hydr. Nothing lesse . For , so should I be sure , not onely to crosse the singular good purpose of God , in the mutuall conseruation of people and nations dispersed abroad : but also , euen vtterly ouerthrow an excellent good course for the orderly increase of mutuall concord betwixt kingdome and kingdome , while the pining wants of the one , are plentifully supplied by the others abundance . Concerning therefore the timely entercourse of trafficke with strangers , though I hold the same simply lawfull , nor flatly to be forbidden by any ; if especially , a prouident care and a due regard be first had of the traueller his age and yeares , as also , of the religious and honest estate of those countries themselues , whereunto the trauellers bend their purposed designements for such traffice intended : Although yet , notwithstanding ( I know not well how ) this I am certainely sure of , that , whilest such an inconsiderate recourse to and fro from sundrie nations and kingdomes farre remote , lyeth carelesly open for whosoeuer will first giue the onset vpon it , wee leaue our ancient simplicitie eftsoones in a forreine ayre : and ( in stead thereof ) do too greedily sucke vp from forreiners , not their vertues , but vices , and monstrous corruptions , as well in religion and manners , as also , in framing the whole course of our life ( both for apparell , diet , and all other things ) euery way correspondent and currant to such a contagious , and most pernitious president . Capni . By your leaue Sir a little , before you procéed in your spéech . Hydr. With all my heart : propound what you please . Capn. This then is the summe of my purpose . Séeing the holy Scriptures do teach vs directly , that g it is the law in our members which leadeth vs captiues to sinne , and that h euery man is inticed and drawne vnto euill by his owne concupiscence : how dare you ascribe the corruptions either of our mindes or bodies , concerning religion and manners , vnto any our entercourse of traffike with forreine nations ? Hydr. Very true as thou sayest . It is the law of our members which leadeth vs captiues to sinne ; and that euery man is inticed and drawne vnto euil by his proper concupiscence . But yet , marke thus much withall , that the Scripture doth not there make the mindes of men meere agents , but patients rather in the perpetrating of any vngodly actions ; because , those their minds , are said to be enticed and led , which necessarily importeth thus much at the least : Namely , ( sith those their minds are said to be inticed , and led ) necessarily there must ( in euery such sinfull action ) be some other primarie agent ( besides their said mindes themselues ) which so inticeth , and leadeth men captiues : as also , a conuenient meanes with some proportionall obiect , whereby they may so be inticed and led vnto euil . Now then ( to speake properly and pertinently ) the diuell himselfe is that primarie agent : who , by sundrie externall occurrents ( as it were by most apt and conuenient meanes thereunto ) doth accidentally intangle mens minds : that so ( their said minds being formerly captiuated by their proper concupiscence ) he might the more easily intice , and leade them captiues to all manner of euill . For so Iames speaks plainly in the forenamed Scripture , thus : Let no man say ( when he is tempted ) I am tempted of God , for God tempteth no man : but euery man is tempted , when he is drawne away by his proper concupiscence . Where y e Apostle ( yousee ) speaketh purposely of three concurring together in euery temptation . Namely , the primary tempter , I meane y e diuel ; the party tempted , that is , mans mind ; & the outward obiect , as ● conuenient meanes whereby the temptation it selfe is throughly effected : namely y t in-bred concupiscence which couertly lurketh in euery mans nature , as it were a quicke sparke vnder ashes . Which said cōcupiscence ( hauing apt matter outwardly offered vnto it ) will quickly be kindled , especially , if y e diuel with his bellowes but blow vp the same . A most liuely representation presentation here of we may haue in the first fall of mankind● wherein i the diuell himselfe was the primarie tempter , k our Grandmother Eue she was the partie tempted ; and her l inherent concupiscence , the very meanes whereby the temptation it selfe was effected . Which her concupiscence ( howsoeuer the same was m absolutely vpright and sound before , ) yet then ( hauing a proportionall obiect outwardly and conueniently applied vnto it , ( the n apple I meane which was good for meate , and pleasant in sight ) her said concupiscence ( being eftsoones blowne vp o by the bewitching bellowes of Satans inticing blast ) was quickly inflamed and kindled in euill . And therefore ( the premisses rightly respected ) I both dare , and may as boldly asscribe the pollutions of our minds and bodies ( concerning religion and manners ) to such carelesse entercourse of trafficking with the corruptions and customes of forreine countries ; as I formerly auouched the immoderate swilling in of hote wines , with other strong drinks , to be the very procuring cause of many pernicious diseases in the bodies of men . Capn. Which waies Sir , I beséech you ? Hydr. Dost thou aske me which waies , or by what means such carelesse entercourse of trafficke with forreine nations , might be any occasion of polluting both bodie and minde ? If I should likewise demand of thee now , which way , or by what meanes the wise King Salomon became such a wicked idolater : wouldest thou not tell me straight way , that it vndoubtedly came so to passe , by his conuersing and wedding with wicked idolatrous nations ? Capn. That would I presently do , and you may not denie it your selfe : because the word of our God p auoucheth so much . Hydr. And doth not the same word of God tell thee in like sort , that q all such as handle pitch shall be defiled with pitch ? And therefore the good people of God are precisely charged r to go out forthwith from Babylons beastly societie , for feare of partaking with Babylons beastly sinnes . If good mens timely departure from Babylons beastly societie , be deemed a very good meanes to deliuer their bodies and soules from Babylons beastly sinnes : who seeth not then , but that their vntimely and carelesse conuersing with Babylons societie , must needs be some vrgent occasion of a contagious communicating with Babylons beastly cor●uptions ? Yea and this so much the rather , by how much the feeble nature of sinfull man , is more wilfully prone to perpetrate whatsoeuer noysome pollutions , then warily prest to participate with holy and wholsome preseruations . Capn. Illustrate this one point ( I beséech you ) with some apparent and plaine demonstrations of truth . Hydr. With all my heart . But first , let me here aske thee , whether thou thy selfe dost not very plainly perceiue ( in thy proper experience ) too too many of our English mens minds most fearefully estranged from the Apostolike primitiue sinceritie : and their bodies withall , very monstrously transformed from their former ancient simplicity ? Capn. Yes vndoubtedly . I haue eftsoones experimented the truth hereof , in a daily , and due obseruation of their present estates : and withall , I haue wondred greatly thereat , considering the sincere and plentifull preaching of the gracious Gospell among vs. Hydr. No maruell hereof at all . For howsoeuer the sacred word of our God hath a glorious passage among vs , that it might be s A sauour of life vnto life in such as beleeue , or a sauour of death vnto death in so many as perish , and is also t in either of both a sweete sauour to God : yet surely ( such is the waywardnesse of mens wicked nature ) we commonly do take a much more delight in an apish inuention of mens wicked actions u then in an holy meditation of wholsome admonitions . And therefore , like as lewd words x are a most mischieuous meanes to corrupt good manners : so likewise , licentious manners , they are very contagious occasions to y contaminate the minds of men with all manner of outragious maladies . Whereupon the Apostle precisely commands men z to abstaine from all appearance of euill . Capn. All this I fréely confesse : but what inferre you hereof ? Hydr. This I inferre : namely , the very maine reason it selfe , confuting that their former most friuolous wondering at the contagious corruption of mens minds and bodies : especially in this age of ours , wherein the glorious Gospel is so sincerely and so freely preached among vs. For ( pretermitting herein the vnsearchable purpose of God , who vseth eftsoones to punish one sinne with another ) what other more pregnant reason may be rendred for this , then our carelesse entercourse of trafficking with the contagious corruptions , and customes of forreine nations ? And ( to explane my speech in more particular manner ) from whence cometh it now to passe , that so many of our English-mens minds are thus terriblie Turkished with Mahometan trumperies ; thus rufully Romanized with superstitious relickes ; thus treacherously Italianized with sundry antichristian toyes ; thus spitefully Spanished with superfluous pride ; thus fearefully Frenchized with filthy prostitutions ; thus fantastically Flanderized with flaring net-works to catch English fooles ; thus huffingly Hollandized with ruffian-like loome-workes , and other like Ladified fooleries ; thus greedily Germandized with a most gluttenous manner of gormandizing ; thus desperately Danished with a swine-like swilling and quaffing ; thus sculkingly Scotized with Machiauillian proiects ; thus inconstantly Englished with euery new fantasticall foolerie ; thus industriously Indianized with the intoxicating filthie fumes of Tobacco , and what not besides ? From whence ( I pray thee ) do all these , and sundry such other prodigious pollutions of mind and bodie proceede , but from an inconsiderate conuersing with the contagious corruptions , and customes of those the forenamed countries ? According to the Italian prouerbe which pourtrayeth forth an English-man , thus : Englese Italienato , e v● diabolo i●carnato : An English man Italienate , is a very diuell incarnate . Capn. And doth their onely conuersing with those the forenamed forreine countries , procure such filthie pollutions of bodie and mind ? Hydr. It is not simply their conuersing with any those forreine countries themselues : but their communicating rather with the in-bred corruptions , and contagious customes of those seuerall countries , tha● poysoneth both , with such filthy pollutions . Capn. You conclude then , that our countrie men may safely conuerse with those countries themselues , all the while they be carefully circumspect of their owne proper cariage , and resolutely purposed not to participate ( in any respect ) with the contagious corruptions of those selfesame countries . Hydr. Very true . But how difficult a matter it is for mans nature ( so vniuersally polluted ) to escape the pollutions themselues , each one may perceiue in his proper experience , and find it most apparently demonstrated by this ordinarie experiment : Namely , let a sweete christall streame but haue it accustomed course through the midst of a foule filthie channell , and then tell me how long that streame it selfe will soundly retaine his inherent sweetnesse or clearenesse . Now then , mans corrupted nature ( being neither inherently sweet , nor essentially cleare in it selfe ) if it be carelesly permitted ( hand ouer head ) to haue an ordinarie entercourse of trafficking with corrupt and contagious countries , as it were in a foule filthie channell , the very mind it selfe will be as vnable to withstand the pernicious customes of those contagious countries , as the very bodie of man ( accustomably conuersing in pestilentiall places ) is vnfit to resist the pestilentiall infections of those selfesame places . For a further proofe of this point , let other Christian policie ; or the King his prerogatiue royall ; or the force of feare and bloudie massacres , but once proclaime a finall restraint , or perpetually forestall the accustomed course and recourse for trafficke to any the forenamed Babels of beastly confusions , and thou shalt plainely perceiue by the very sequele therof , how farre forth the contagion it selfe hath hitherto possessed those passengers minds . For the Merchants of the earth ( making erst their ordinary trafficke , in the bowels and bellie of those beastly Babels ) will eftsoones beginne very greeuously to bemoane themselues , by reason of such a finall restraint from those their beloued Babels of beastly confusions ; because no man may now a buy of their wares any more : Their glittring wares ( I meane ) of gold , of siluer , of precious stones , and pearles : their wares of fine linnen , of purple , of silke , of scarlet , and all manner of Thyne wood ; their wares of all vessels of yuorie , and of all vessels of precious wood ; their wares of brasse , of yron , and of marble ; their wares of cinamon of odours , of oyntments , of frankensence , of wine , of oyle , of fine floure , and of wheate ; their wares of beasts , of sheepe , of horses , of chariots , of seruants ▪ of the very soules of men : yea and of the apples ( I meane , the filthie Tobacco fumes ) which their very soules and minds so earnestly affected , and lusted after . All these are departed from them ; and all other things else which were fat and excellent are quite departed from them , so as they can find them no more . The Merchants of these ( I say ) which were made ( by such trafficke ) exceedingly rich , will stand afarre off and crie : Alas , alas , that great Babel of beastly confusions , which was formerly apparelled in fine linnen and purple , and scarlet ; and gilded with great and glorious riches ; as of gold , of precious stones ▪ and of pearles ; is now come to a wofull and sodaine desolation . And euerie ship-maister , and all the people that occupie ships , and shipmen , and whosoeuer do vsually trauaile vpon the Seas , shall stand afar off & crie out , saying : What Citie was euer like to this our beloued great Babel for trafficke ? Yea , they will euen cast dust on their heads , and with weeping and wayling will crie out and say : Alas ▪ alas for this our beloued Babel , wherein were made rich all such as had ships on the Sea , by meanes of her costly trafficke : for ( by that former finall restraint ) shee is now in one houre , made vtterly desolate . Now then , all these ( with sundrie such other their horrible out-cries , arising vpon that former finall restraint for trafficking any further with forreine countries ) do very plainly purport to the world , that both bodies and minds haue heretofore bene filthily polluted with the contagious corruptions and customes of those forreine countries . Capn. They pretend ( I confesse ) very probable presumptions . But what ? is there none other remedie else for the timely redresse of this mischiefe , but the onely perpetuall , and finall restraint of trafficking with them any further ? Hydr. God forbid the case should consist of such a desperate condition . Capn. What then ( as you your selfe conceiue of the matter ) may be the safest course to be taken herein ? Hydr. Attend with patience , and I will tell thee my proper thoughts . Capn. I do Sir : and therefore , I pray you procéede . Hydr. This then it is . When I had somewhat more seriously bethought me hereof ( though somewhat too late ) and with great griefe of heart obserued these matters , as well concerning our Church , as Commonwealth , euen thereupon I met with ( as I verily imagined ) a very fit meanes for the timely forestalling of all those the forenamed mischiefes : the which also I will here propound to the serious consideration of thy selfe , and all other besides . Not because I do once imagine , that either thou or they may possibly be ignorant of it , being a point so frequent and popular in publike policy : but rather , that you all may ioyntly record , and mutually recognize with me that selfesame thing which cannot possibly become vnpleasant to any ; being ( in very truth ) approued of all , and vniuersally conuenient for the good estate of our Church and Countrey . Capn. Declare the same then , without any further delay . Hydr. I will. Aristotle that diuine Philosopher , a man in all his inuentions very excellent , especially , in framing a Commonweale , most admirable : he deemeth young men vtterly vnmeete to bee ouertimely instructed ( much lesse imployed ) in matters of ciuill policie . And moreouer , for so much as ( by reason of their tender yeares ) the humours of yong men are too too turbulent and headie , and their affections ouer easily caried away , he alloweth them no conuersa●ion at all with seruants , much les●e with strangers , of whom ( for the slendernesse of their present iudgements ) they might rather learne that which may fearefully corrupt both nature and manners , then what would any way better their minds in either of both . Capn. To what purpose propound you this opinion of Aristotle ? Hydr. To a very good purpose . For by this one precept of his , we may clearely collect , what course ( in this case ) is most conuenient to be taken with Youths , more especially with such as are Students , as also with so many besides , as ( by reason of their worthes ) should seriously giue ouer themselues to the studie of learning for publicke good . Capn. What course , I beséech you ? Hydr. Euen this which here followeth now : Namely , that no forreine recourse be permitted to any ( especially the younger sort ) before they be fully come to their ripe , and well stayed yeares . Capn. And why so , I pray you ? Hydr. Because then ( their humours being formerly setled ) the stayednesse of those their said humours will cause the perturbations of the mind to be calmed : so as ( from the orderly asswaging of both ) there must necessarily proceed a maturitie , and ripenesse in iudgement . Because then they can more easily discerne what is sound in opinion , as also what is honest and meete in manners : being then also the better enabled ( with a more constant resolution ) to pursue , and to follow especially that which is good . Capn. If this caution were carefully obserued in the ordinarie education of Youths , what publicke commoditie would follow thereof ? Hydr. Very admirable and sundry commodities would grow from the same . For by this meanes , it would vndoubtedly come to passe , that neither our Church would be dilacerated and disquieted with so many hereticall opinions ; our Weale publicke deformed with so great and grieuous corruptions , nor the profession of Physicke so amazed ( as eftsoones it is ) at the often beholding of such hideous monsters ( to vse Auerroes his words ) in many diseases . Capn. What Sir ? will you now play the Puritane , in presuming thus proudly to propound new platformes concerning Ecclesiasticall and Ciuill policie ? Hydr. That was and is the furthest end of my thought . For seeing as well heresies in Religion , as corruptions in manners are authentically referred to the seueral Magistrates of Church and Commonweale , by them to be plucked vp by the rootes ; and seeing moreouer ( so much as lieth in them ) they haue hitherto very well and warily weeded them out in either of both : it neuer was , nor is now my meaning so polypragmatically to thrust forth my sickle into those their sincerely designed haruests , nor to entermeddle at all with any their lawfully propounded proiects . Onely ( as a well-willer to either of both ) I do here purpose ( for the present ) to put downe and declare what dangerous discommodities in Physicke , as also , what pernicious occurrents to our physicall methods of curing diseases , are too too perniciously brought home and procured from forreine trauell : while we haue ouercarelesly entertained a strange kind of curing , together with many strange and vncooth medicines neuer heard of before ; yea and those not so sorcible to helpe the diseased , as to infeeble and throw downe the sound constitutions : and which also we do vse so greedily ( I will not say want only ) quite contrary to our countries climate , the naturall constitution of our country bodies , the ineuitable rules of all physicall reason , and the long approued custome of all our wise Ancestors . Capn. Pretermitting ( for the present ) your physicall methods for curing , our naturall constitutions , our Countries climate , your physicall rules , as also our Ancestors long approued customes , as matters beyond mine element : do tell mee ( I pray you ) what one kinde of hurtfull trafficke you are able to name , that is so carelesly transported from forreine countries ? Hydr. What one , sayest thou ? Alas man , what sundry sorts of poysonsome drugs could I not soundly challenge that way , if time would permit , and such an vnwonted challenge might possibly preuaile against the setled conceipts of headstrong people ? Howbeit , among many things , which ( without either profite , or due regard ) are needlesly ( yet daily ) brought home by certaine vicious and wilde dispositions from the farthest India , surely nothing ( in my conceipt ) could be deuised more apt , and more fit to ouerthrow quite the solide strength of our bodies , nor more prompt and more readie to obscure and to darken the faculties of our minds , then this filthie fume of Tobacco , whereof I purpose here chiefly to spe●ke . In drinking also whereof , too too many do leade a smokie life , breathing nought foorth but smoking fumes : vntill ( by vntimely deaths ) they do fearefully forestall the timely establishment of an honourable and ancient age . Capn. b This then ( I perceiue ) is the onely faire Helena for whose swéete sake now , a most bloudy bickering must be bladed betwéene vs. But yet heare good Sir , I beséech you . This vnderhand particularizing of mens proper persons , as also , this so couert a singling forth of one particular commoditie from all the rest , they are plaine demonstrations , that your preposterous splene doth more dispitefully swell against my tender young yeares and purposed trafficke , then desirously séeke to asswage any soundly supposed corruptions from forreine countries . Hydr. And why so , I pray thee Capnistus ? Capn. First , because you so boldly auouch some such vainly imagined venime , to be ouercarelesly conuayed from out of the farthest India into this our English Iland , by vicious and wilde dispositions . Secondly ( for that among those your manifold supposed corruptions ) you touch onely Tobacco by name , as that onely Troian horse-bellie from whence all forreine filthinesse ( as your selfe very soundly surmize ) doth too too infectiously ouerflow this Iland of ours . Hydr. I may safely sweare for hauing a thought or purpose , either to point at any mans person , or once to pursue his particular trafficke : but onely to insist vpon matters for publicke good . Howbeit , seeing this thy particular application , enforceth here some further explication , I will therefore deliuer my mind in plainer termes touching either of both . For the first , who knoweth not of old , that this thy intended Tobacco , was primarily posted ouer from West India to England , by a vicious , a vaine , and a wilde disposition ? that I say no more . And who seeth not likewise , that the same now ( for the most part ) is very vainly entertained in England , by as vicious , as vaine , and wilder dispositions , if wilder may be ? For tell me ( I pray thee ) what more vicious disposition then that , which so excessiuely taketh Tobacco , of very purpose to inflame his excessiue and vicious affections ? Or what more vaine disposition then that , which so insatiably swalloweth the filthie fume of Tobacco , as an ordinarie shooing-horne , to pull on more insatiably , an aboundance of wine , and strong drinke ? Briefly what more vicious , more vaine , or more wilde dispositions may possibly be then those our carousing companions , who so viciously , so vainely , and so wildly do vse the inward taking of filthie Tobacco fumes , as an intoxicating poyson to make themselues , and other their swaggering associates most dangerously wilde and mad with the venimous and deadly contagion thereof ? Lo ( Capnistus ) these onely considerations ( not thy particular person ) did make me so peremptorily to terme those our carelesse Tobacco triflers , with that proportionable title of vicious , vaine , and wild dispositions . So as none but such as cannot distinguish betweene the men and the matter it selfe , may iustly be offended therewith . Neither did I precisely or purposely ayme at any one particular trafficke , appertayning more properly vnto thine owne selfe : but ( intending onely to propound and declare what dangerous discommodities in physicke are forcibly offred to our orderly method of Curing , through an vnorderly transporting of sundry pernicious drugs into this poore Iland of ours from forreine countries ) I made ( for further proofe of this point ) a speciall choyce to intreate of Tobacco alone in stead of the rest : of very purpose to bridle our vnbridled and bewitched Tobacconists from tampring any further therewith . Whose wilfull errours and vicious customes , though ( as I could heartily wish ) I cannot throughly reclaime and correct ; yet giue me leaue ( at this present I pray thee ) to lay them wide open to the view of the world : that so our Tobacconists themselues may perceiue ( if the blind obscuritie of their braines , procured from their filthie Tobacco fume will giue them leaue ) how perniciously they dispose of their owne proper health , while they so insatiably sucke in ( by the conduite of their tippling Tobacco pipe ) a venimous matter enemie to mans nature , and so inconsiderately entertaine that filthie noysome fume into the treasurie of their temporall life . Capn. If you intend to maintaine this idle talke , for an absolute truth : you may be sure to haue moe fists then your owne about your pate . Hydr. Yea Capnistus , I do looke for many gaine sayers herein , and some peraduenture of the learneder sort . Howbeit , I leaue all men that way to their owne proper iudgement , all the while they worke no preiudice to this my opinion ; and so long as mine owne selfe may with the same good leaue dissent from them , by the which leaue they hold and maintaine a contrarie conceipt from me , I will not say from the truth it selfe . Capn. But Sir , howsoeuer you séeme to pretend many plausible pretences in open spéech , men may yet suspect that you harbour some other shrewd purpose in your secret heart . Hydr. Men ( if they please ) may imagine many curious castles beyond the Moone , without either matter or forme at all . Howbeit I protest , not to speake purposely to the preiudice of any mans person : but let euery man enioy his proper opinion for me . Neither yet is this my speech herein vndertaken for the priuate respect of painefull Physitions ; ( which wicked imagination , some Christopher of all conceipts may peraduenture very viciously vent foorth against my good meaning : ) but rather that I might more freely , and more ingeniously expresse my whole mind in this matter , and shew thee more plainly how I am perswaded in conscience concerning the same . Capn. Well then , this your pretended purpose being soundly performed , I doubt not but each man may reape a singular profite thereby . Hydr. It were ( in very deede ) to be wished so : although yet I can hardly be perswaded it will be so . For Plato ( in his booke c intituled Gorgias ) doth say there are two holes in mens minds , by meanes whereof they cannot soundly containe the knowledge of good things ; to wit , forgetfulnesse , and misbeleefe . Capn. How do those two holes hinder their apprehension of good things ? Hydr. After a very pestiferous manner ; if thou obserue it well . For by the first ( I meane by forgetfulnesse ) the noble vertue experience ( locked vp long since in our memorie ) is eftsoones lost : and by the other ( namely by misbeleefe ) that stedfast perswasion whereby we should firmely resolue our selues vpon the authenticall authority and faith of our teachers , is confusedly scattered . Both of these hurtfull holes , I would haue surely shut vp in thy selfe , and so many besides as desire to reape any benefite by this my present discourse . Capn. Let other men deale as they list ; I ( for mine owne part ) will carefully sée them most soundly shut vp in my selfe : and therefore procéede and spare not to speake what you please , concerning the smoke of Tobacco . Hydr. With very good will : wherein also I purpose to propound , and prosecute this following order . First ( being now to speake generally of the nature of smoke ) I will briefly and plainly shew thee what smoke is : and how the same is distinguished from vapour and exhalation . Secondly , how many kinds of smoke there are : and from what kinde of matter each one is drawne . And lastly , I will shew thee what inconuenience and hurt the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , doth dangerously effect in the bodies of men . Hydr. A most excellent order , no doubt : procéede therefore ( I beséech you ) first , in shewing me generally what smoke is . Hydr. Content . Wherein , marke this well , that almost all kinds of combustible matter , do send foorth either smoke , vapour , or exhalation extracted from thence by the heate of the fire . The which three kinds of matters are also distinguished one from another , in respect either of their efficient ; or of their matter ; or of their effect at least . For the better vnderstanding whereof , I thinke it best ( in this place ) to define them all seuerally , appointing to euery of them his owne particular limits and bounds . Capn. Go to then , without any further delay . Hydr. Aristotle ( in the booke of his Meteors ) doth d distinguish them all in this sort . First , he defineth smoke to be the generall and common extraction of drinesse and moistures together , being wrought by the heate of a more vehement fier : which notwithstanding , doth neither moisten , nor bedeaw , but rather infecteth with a blacke colour such things as are smoked . In which definition , smoke ( thou maist see ) respecting the matter thereof , is said to be a common extraction of drought and of moisture together . In respect of the efficient , it is said to be drawne out by a more vehement fire . And in regard of the effect , it is said to be died with a blacke colour , but yet not to moisten it at all . Capn. Sir , by that which is hitherto spoken , I do plainly perceiue what smoke is ; but how distinguish you the same from vapour and exhalation ? Hydr. Euen by those three former respects ; namely , by the efficient , the matter , and the effect : as the comparison of smoake it selfe with those other two , will make more manifest . Capn. Why , what thing is vapour I pray you ? Hydr. Aristotle ( in his e forenamed booke ) defineth vapour to be a separation extracted ( by a vehement heate ) from water , and turned into aire and spirit : which can make moist , but giue no colour at all . Capn. And what is exhalation ? Hydr. The said Aristotle defineth exhalation or breath , to be a separation of moisture alone , wrought by a small heate , which ( in continuance of time ) doth draw it forth : and which also is turned into aire , and not into a spirit ; neither yet doth it giue any colour or moisture . Capn. Hauing succinctly shewed me what smoke , vapour , and exhalation is : now tell me ( I pray you ) wherein they accord , and how they do differ . Hydr. I will. First therefore , smoke and vapour they ioyntly accord ( thou maist see ) in their proper efficient cause , for both of them are wrought by a vehement heate , whereas exhalation is effected by a very small heate . Againe ( in respect of their matter ) smoke doth differ from vapour , and exhalation both : for so much as smoke is the extraction of moisture and drought together , whereas vapour and exhalation they are onely but the extraction of moisture . Againe ( in regard of the effect ) smoke altogether varieth from vapour , because smoke is neither resolued into aire , not yet into spirit , neither doth it moisten at all ; both which are effected by vapour . Againe , smoke and exhalation ( in their effect ) do partly differ ; for that smoke coloureth , which the other doth not : and partly they accord in this , that neither of them both doth moisten . Againe , vapour ( concerning the effect ) seemeth both to differ from exhalation , and to accord with the same . For , in that vapour turneth vnto a spirit , and moisteneth also , therein it differeth : but whereas it is sometimes turned to aire , therein it accordeth with exhalation . By all the premisses then thou maist plainly perceiue wherein smoke accordeth with vapour and exhalation : and wherein also it differeth from either of both . Capn. Very true as you say , if men may confidently credite Philosophie . Hydr. Why not credite the same ? Especially , it being so consideratly determined by that prince of Philosophers , who both had a principall illumination this way from the heauenly Philosopher himselfe ; and withall , the ioynt approbation of all succeeding Philosophers : as may very plainly appeare by the approued consonancie which this his opinion h●ldeth with the originall words put downe in the sacred Scripture . Capn. Shew me succinctly this your supposed consonancie . Hydr. With very good will. f First therefore ( concerning the first word , viz. smoke ) the Hebrewes they vse the word gnaschan , arising from the radicall verbe gnaschan : which signifieth to fume , to vapour , or send forth smoke . The Grecians , they haue the word capnos , that is , a fume , a vapour , or smoke . The Latines haue famus , which we commonly call smoke : that is to say , a blacke vapour extracted from fire , taking it owne name from a fornace colour , and besmearing whatsoeuer it fumeth vpon . And as this is the very true Etymon of the word smoke it selfe , so surely the sacred Scriptures , they do accordingly obserue the same . As for example : When the Lord had assured Abraham of the Amorites countrey in the fourth generation following : the holy Ghost there affirmeth , that , when the Sunne went downe there was a fearefull darkenesse . g For ( saith the Hebrew ) vehine thannur gnaschan ; the Septuagint saith , clibanos capnizomenos ; the Latine saith , & ecce fumantem furnum : that is ( saith the English ) and , behold a smoking fornace . This place ( thou maist see ) is directly plaine for our matter propounded . Againe , when the Lord in mount Sinai , gaue the Law to his people , it is there said , that mount Sinai was all on a smoke , because the Lord came downe vpon it in fire . And ( saith the Hebrew ) Vaiagnal gneschano ; saith the Septuagint , Hosei capnos caminou : saith the Latine , & ascendebat fumus eius ; that is ( saith our English ) and lo , the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a fierie fornace . In this place likewise thou seest an approued consonancie concerning this point in question . In like manner , when Ioshuah had set the Citie of Hai on fire , It is said , that the men of Hai looked backe and saw it : i Hebrew , Vehine gnalah gnaschan ; y e Septuagint , et heoroun tòn capnón ; the Latine hath , & ascenderet fumus ciuitatis : that is ( saith our English ) and lo , the smoke of the Citie ascended vp vnto heauen . In all these , and k sundrie such other places besides , the holy Ghost ( thou maist see ) doth not onely obserue the very Etymon of the word ( smoke ) but ( which more is ) he accordeth clearely with that which Aristotle hath set downe before concerning the very true nature of smoke : namely , that it is an extraction of drinesse and moistnesse together from some fierie combustible matter , through the heate of a vehement fire ; that it is of a darke or sootie aspect ; and that it besmeareth with a blacke or duskish colour , whatsoeuer is fumed therewith . Hereunto also accordeth the ioynt approbation of all the succeeding Philosophers , holding smoke to be hot and drie ▪ and answerable in all things to that which was formerly spoken concerning the same . For ( saith l Ouid. ) — Calidóque inuoluitur vndique fumo . Also Virgil saith thus , m Mistóque vndantem puluere fumum . In like manner saith Cicero thus , n Paulisper stetimus in illo ganearum tuarum nidore , atque fumo : and so all the rest . Seeing therefore we haue thus , not only the ioynt approbation and mutuall consent of all succeeding Philosophers ; but ( which more is ) the authenticall consonancie of sacred Scriptures concurring fully with that which Aristotle putteth downe in his Meteors , concerning the efficient , the matter , and the effect of smoke : Let this fully suffice for thy full satisfaction that way . Capn. It giueth me ( Sir , I assure you ) sufficient content , and therefore procéede now to the word vapour , I pray you . Hydr. With very good will. And therefore , herein obserue ( in like manner ) that ( for that which we call vapour ) the Hebrewes they haue o edh , that is , a vapour or very thinne fume . It hath a maru●llous affinitie with another word called udh : that is , a fire-brand , an adustion , or burning , a peece of wood made blacke by adustion . The Grecians they haue p atmòs , that is , a vapour or aire . The Latines they haue vapour : that is to say in our English tongue , a waterie or earthy humour , extenuated or thinned : the breath or vapour of the seas , or the earth . Or , It is a very thinne humour ascending vp by adustion , and resolued into a waterie cloud , being ( by nature ) moist and cold . According to that in Genesis saying , p Hebr. veidh ; Septuagint ; pêgê , Lat. vapour : that is in English , And a vapour ascended vp from the earth , and watered all the earth . Againe , it is said in Iob , q that when God restraineth the drops of water , the raine poureth downe . Hebr. leidho , Graec. eis nepheleen , Lat. ad vaporem : that is in English , by the vapour thereof . In these two places , the holy Ghost ( thou seest ) doth not onely obserue the very true Etymon of the word vapour it selfe , but doth likewise very fitly accord to that definition thereof which was formerly put downe by Aristotle ; namely , that vapour is a separation extracted ( by a vehement heate ) from water , and so turned into aire or spirit ; which also can moisten , but giue no colour at all , being ( by nature ) cold and moist . Neither is the said vapour r any inflammable impression as exhalation is : because ( being but a moist and waterie meteor ) it cannot possibly be set on fire , nor caried beyond the middle region of the aire : although notwithstanding ( being so eleuated ) it may be thickened and made constringent . And hereunto also , we haue the ioynt approbation of all the succeeding Philosophers . For saith Ouid , s Vapor humidus omnes , — Res creat , & discors concordi● foetibus apta est . Howbeit this word , vapour , is sometime put downe for heate , as witnesseth Columella saying , t Minusque vaporis aestate per angustum os penetret . And so likewise saith Virgil , u Lentusque carinas — est vapor , & toto descendit co●pore pestis . And so likewise the rest of that sort . Seeing therefore we haue thus , not onely the ioynt approbation of all succeeding Philosophers , but ( which more is by much ) the authenticall consent of the sacred Scriptures , euen mutually concurring with that which Aristotle himselfe hath formerly put downe concerning the word , vapour , let this therefore ( for the present ) suffice for that point . Capn. It fully sufficeth , and therefore procéed now ( in like manner ) to the word exhalation I pray you . Hydr. With all my heart . Wherein obserue ( as before ) that ( for that which we call exhalation ) the Hebrewes they haue the x word mappach , that is , a sufflation , an aire , or a breath . It comes of the radicall verbe , naphach , which properly signifieth to blow , to breathe , to send forth an aire from out of the mouth . It hath a maruellous affinitie also with poach , that is , to breathe againe , to breathe forth : and is properly spoken of the aire of the day . The Grecians , they call it y apophora , that is , an exhalation , or an expiration . The Latines they haue exhalatio , that is , a breathing , or drawing forth of breath . By all which it is apparently euident , that exhalation is a certaine thinne terrestriall spirit , which ( by reason of a vehement heate ) is exhaled , and drawne from out of the earth , and caried about in the aire ; being ( by nature ) hot and drie : and therefore very apt to be kindled or set on fire ; a thing quite contrarie to vapour , as I told thee euen now . Whereunto accordeth that in Iob , who saith , that the hope of the wicked shall faile , their refuge shall perish : and their hope is z mappach naphesh . Graec. a apóleia , Latine , exhalatio , vel expiratio animae , that is , as the exhalation , or the expiration of life : I meane , a very vaine hope , or an exceeding sorrow of mind . Thus then thou maist here plainly perceiue the currant consent of sacred Scriptures concerning the Etymon also of this word exhalation . Neither is there wanting herein the ioynt approbation of all the succeeding Philosophers : according to that which Plinie speakes of it thus , b Certior multò nebulosa exhalatio est . Againe Cicero accordeth thereunto c saying thus . Quod & humidum , & caliginosum est , propter exhalationes terrae . And so likewise the rest . Seeing therefore we haue herein , not onely the authenticall consent of all succeeding Philosophers , but likewise the full approbation of sacred Scriptures concerning the true Etymon , the nature , the efficient , the matter , as also the seueral effects of these three different words , I meane , of smoke , of vapour , and of exhalation : thou maist now more apparently perceiue then euer before , wherein smoke accordeth with vapour and exhalation , and wherein also it differeth from either of both . Capn. Very true as you say , but I pray you procéed . Hydr. These things then being thus briefly determined , and set downe ( as thou seest ) by their seuerall names and differences : let vs here now put vapour and exhalation apart for the present , as nothing appertaining to our purpose intended ; and consider ( in like sort ) of the seuerall kinds of smoke ; that ( by the meanes thereof ) we may haue a readie accesse to the rest . Capn. Why Sir , how many kinds of smoke are there ? Hydr. Aristotle ( in that d his forenamed booke and Chapter ) deuideth smoke into three seuerall kinds : and distinguisheth them moreouer , in an especiall respect of those seuerall matters from whence they are drawne . Namely , into fume , fulîgo , and Nidor . Capn. What saith he first of fume ? Hydr. He defineth fume , to be a terrestriall exhalation extenuated ; e which the Hebrewes call nasi , the Grecians atmós : that is , a vapour or fume of the earth . The Frenchmen they call it vapeur , exhalation , & fumée montant de la terre en haut : that is , a vapour , exhalation , or fume arising from some terrestriall or earthie substance . More especially ( saith Aristotle ) from some wooddie matter : whereunto also he referreth bones , haires , hearbes , and such like . All which said seuerall matters , notwithstanding they haue no one name common to euerie of them , yet are they ioyntly ranked in one and the selfesame kind , as witnesseth Empedocles , saying thus . f Of same kind are both leaues , and haires , and pens of fethered Fowle ; with scales of fishes , wherewith their strong bodies are couered . Capn. Empedocles ( by your patience Sir ) he had not chiefly a respect vnto any their supposed resemblance in matter , but vnto that rather which consisteth in the finall cause of those the forenamed seuerall things . Namely , that looke what end & vse there is of haires in creatures liuing vpon the drie land : the selfesame vse there is also of leaues in plants , of feathers in fowles , and of scales in fishes ; because vnto euery of the forenamed creatures hath nature allotted those selfesame supplies , for their timely preseruation and proper defence . Hydr. Very true as thou sayest . And yet ( notwithstanding all this ) it is not to be doubted but that Empedocles withall , doth euen secretly seeme ( as it were ) to point also at the earthie constitution of euery of these : which their said constitution is an effectuall and a speciall furtherer of such conseruation . Capn. Well Sir , procéed to the other kinds of smoke , I beséech you . Hydr. The second kind of smoke he calleth fulîgo , that is , a vapouring earthie fume extracted by heate : and making blacke the very beames of mens houses . Whereupon Quintilian ( describing a Student rethorically ) doth tell vs directly , that g vnto such a one , fuligo lucubrationum bibenda est , the very smoke of the candle or lampe must be sucked vp : meaning thereby , that a good Student must abide by his booke , and spend light after light for the timely attainment of learning . In like manner , Aulus Gellius ( alluding directly to the besmearing nature of fuligo ) very liuely setteth forth ( by the same ) the deceiptfull speeches of a subtile man , saying thus , h Verborum , & argutiarum fuliginem ob oculos audientium facit : that is , He casteth a mist of words before the eies of his hearers . And as the witnesse of these men is a pregnant proofe for this point ; so surely , the Hebrewes they haue a word very consonant thereunto . For that which we name fuligo , they call i kitor . The Septuagint they terme it athrachia ; the Latines , fuligo : that is , a vapouring fume , or subfumigation extracted from Frankinsence , Mirrhe , Aloes , or some such other aromaticall spices , or hearbes , being cast in the fire , as k may plainly appeare by sundry places of Scripture . Wherein thou maist plainly perceiue , that Aristotle ( in his former booke ) doth fully accord with the infallible truth of God , by telling vs confidently , that fuligo is some such vapouring exhalation as proceedeth from matter of fatty substance , especially from Frankinsence , Pitch , and such other like subiects that are of a more fattie and pitchie nature . Capn. And what is the third kind of smoke ? Hydr. The third kind of smoake ( named Nidor ) is that which the Hebrewes call riach , id est , odoratus est , olfecit ; the Grecians call it osmein ; the Latines odor , as appeareth euidently by m sundrie places of Scripture put downe in the margent . All which do plainly approue vnto vs , that Nidor is the fume or sauour of any thing burned or broyled : according to the French-mens opinion , who call it n L'odeur & flair de quelque chose qui est au feu , ou bruslé . The Italian he tearmes it o odor di cosa arostica . The Germans they name it , p ein geschmunerezeren . Againe , ein gescmack eines gebratnem oder geroesteren dings . And the Spaniard intitles it , q odor suave del maniar . Whereunto also accordeth Virgil , saying , r Illi ingens barba reluxit , Nidorémque arbusta dedit . Properly it signifieth some smell of oylie-meates either boyled or broyled : according to that of Martiall , saying , s Pasceris , & nigrae solo nidore culinae . By the premisses then it is very apparent , that Aristotle he was not deceiued at all , in defining Nidor to be such a vapouring fume as is vsually sent forth from some vnctuous and oylie matter . Capn. But Sir , you séeme herein ( by your leaue ) to confound fuligo and nidor , and so to make of them both but one kind of smoke : For , what difference ( I pray you ) betwéene a fattie and an oylie matter ? Hydr. How a fattie and oylie matter do differ one from another , the said Aristotle ( in the former place ) very plainly declareth , t affirming fatte to be more drie , and oyle more moist . Yea , and Galen in his booke u of Simples , as also Aristotle in the forenamed Treatise , do ioyntly affirme the fattie fume called fuligo , to be more drie then that oylie exhalation which is commonly called nidor : for that it consisteth of an earthie substance , and retaineth withall some strength or force of the fier . Capn. Well then , let it be so as you say : but what do you obserue from this your thréefold difference of smoke it selfe ? Hydr. Surely a very fit introduction to this our intended businesse . For , seeing fume is drawne ( by the operation of heate ) from those selfesame materiall substances , which ( being by nature more earthie ) will not , nor cannot be made to melt , but by reason of their drinesse ( which is the nature of flame in an only losse of their coldnesse ) are turned estsoones into fire : and seeing flame it selfe is nothing else but aire , or smoke set on fire and kindled , it must necessarily follow ( thou seest ) that therefore , fume , it hath a farre greater force to heate and drie , then either fuligo , or nidor hath . Capn. The consequence I fréely acknowledge , but what inferre you hereof ? Hydr. A very pregnant gradation to this our purposed discourse concerning the fierie pernicious fume of filthie Tobacco . For these things being thus orderly set downe and determined , according to the vndoubted truth of that naturall Philosophie which holdeth so apt a consonancie with the sacred Scriptures themselues , how can it possibly seeme strange to any man liuing , that I should thus confidently affirme the fume of Tobacco ( inwardly taken ) to be very pernicious to the bodies of men ? For , seeing all kind of smoke doth not onely drie vp the humors of the body , and inflame the inward parts , but also doth scorch and burne them vp , yea and consume those radicall humours which should vphold and nourish the spirits , and euen feedeth ( as it were ) vpon the heate both naturall , and externall , or accidentall : how should not the smoke of Tobacco ( being a more forcible fume then many of the rest ) be much more able to drie vp the humours , to inflame the intrals , to scorch and consume the radicall humors , and so vtterly to extinguish the naturall heate it selfe ? whereupon must necessarily ensue , not onely a most fearefull extraction of that the said naturall heate , but also of those the vitall spirits wherein are contained the vigor and power of the whole life it selfe . Capn. I perceiue no such necessary consequent ( Sir ) as your selfe would here séeme to conclude from the fume of Tobacco . Besides that , howsoeuersome nimble and exquisite wits ( by such a voluntarie discourse as this of yours is ) are sufficiently able to set a Vermilion die vpon whatsoeuer subiect or matter they please : yet ( being at any time drawne to a more deliberate and succinct dispute ) then a man may easily espie the manifold imperfections which couertly lurke in their extrauagant and rouing collations . And therefore procéede now more syllogistically ( I beséech you ) in the orderly prosecution of this your intended discourse , without any such soaring aloft in the aire . Hydr. With very good will. And therefore ( to shut vp this my wide open hand a firme closed fist , and to reduce my succeeding discourse into the ordinarie limites of an artificiall argument ) I may thus propound my first reason fyllogistically : which also ( being absolutely grounded vpon the premisses , as vpon a firme foundation and infallible ground ) may ( by no cunning opposition or craf●ie engine ) be possibly ouerthrowne . Capn. Go to then , propound it ( I pray you ) whatsoeuer it be . Hydr. Attend then vnto it , for this it is . That which consumeth the naturall heate , is very pernicious to the bodies of men . But the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , consumeth the naturall heate . Therefore the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , is very pernicious to the bodies of men . Capn. Your maior proposition séemeth something obscure in my apprehension : and therefore , shew me more plainly , how that which consumeth the naturall heate , is very pernicious to the bodies of men . Hydr. That may easily be proued by this following argument . That which causeth putrifaction and corruption both , is very pernicious vnto the bodie . But that which consumeth the naturall heate , causeth putrifaction and corruption both . Therefore that which consumeth the naturall heate , is very pernicious vnto the bodie . Capn. This argument ( I must néeds confesse ) is very probable , but what authoritie haue you ( besides your selfe ) for further confirmation thereof ? Hydr. Why man , both Propositions ( as thou heardest euen now ) are firmly protected by the authoritie of Aristotle , in that x the forenamed booke and chapter . Where he auoucheth confidently , that all kind of smoke doth drie vp the humours , inflame the intrals ; burne , scorch and consume those radicall humours which are the vpholders and nourishers of the vitall parts ; and extinguisheth their heate , both naturall , and externall , or accidentall : and therefore pernicious vnto the bodie . Capn. But how are you able to maintaine the Minor or second Proposition of your former Argument : namely , that the smoke of Tobacco consumeth the naturall heate ? Hydr. If any make question thereof , the same may thus be performed . That which extinguisheth the naturall and radicall moisture , consumeth the naturall heate . But the smoke of Tobacco extinguisheth the naturall and radicall moisture , and that in a very short time . Therefore , the smoke of Tobacco consumeth the naturall heate . Capn. How proue you the Proposition first : namely , that that which extinguisheth the naturall , and radicall moisture , consumeth the naturall heate ? Hydr. I proue it very substantially and soundly , thus . That which consumeth the subiect , fountaine , and maintainer of the naturall heate , the same doth extinguish the naturall heate . But that which feedeth vpon the naturall and radicall moisture , consumeth the subiect , fountaine , and maintainer of the naturall heate . Therefore , that which feedeth vpon the naturall and radicall moisture , extinguisheth the naturall heate . Capn. Sir , I cannot contradict you in this : the proofe thereof is so pregnant . Notwithstanding , I do flatly deny the Assumption put downe in your former argument : namely , that the smoke of Tobacco extinguisheth the naturall and radicall moisture , and that also in a very short time . Hydr. I confirme it more fully , by this syllogisme or reason succeeding . That which scorcheth and burneth the naturall or radicall moisture , that extinguisheth the naturall or radicall moisture . But all kind of smoake drawne immediatly from a matter hot and drie , scorcheth and burneth the naturall or radicall moisture . Therefore , all such kind of smoke ( and so consequently the smoke of Tobacco drawne inwardly ) extinguisheth the naturall , and radicall moisture . Capn. I cannot as yet conceiue the soundnesse of this your syllogisme . Hydr. Why man , the soundnesse of both propositions is apparently euident by that which was spoken before from Aristotle . Namely , ●hat y all kind of smoke doth drie vp the humours , inflame the intrals , burne vp , scorch and consume the naturall and radicall humours ; feedeth vpon those the said humours which are the vpholders , maintainers , and nourishers of the vitall parts ; yea and extinguisheth their hea●e both naturall , and accidentall . If all kind of smoke ( drawne inwardly from a matter hote and drie doth worke such fearefull effects : then surely , the smoke of Tobacco ( it being drawne inwardly from a matter more hote and d●ie then many of the rest ) doth much more effectually , and more speedily procure such fearefull effects . And so consequently , the fume of Tobacco taken inward , is very pernicious to the bodies of men : according to the ineuitable force of this our first artificiall argument . Capn. Stay Sir I beséech you : insult not so brauely before the finall successe . For as one Swallow makes not a sommer : so surely , this your first conflict against the fume of Tobacco , it concludes no absolute conquest ouer Tobacco . And howsoeuer this your primarie assault may haply be thought very fierce and forcible , yet full féeble is the refuge of that resistance , which ( for one onely receiued wound ) forsaketh the field . Hydr. Why man , one onely receiued wound ( being both mortall and deadly ) is no lesse dangerous to the life it selfe , then tenne hundred concurring together . Howbeit , because the conquest it selfe will be so much more glorious , by how much the aduerse part is made to appeare more ignominious : it shall not be greatly amisse to vndertake ef●soones , some deadly encounter herein . To the end therefore , that this smokie contagious fume ( receiuing the deadly wound afresh ) may concludently , and clearely be chased from out of our coasts , I will now muster forth some fresh supply from those other our sound harted arguments , which ( for mannaging the fore-front of this our set battel ) do here so frankly offer their seruice in the open field . Capn. Discharge your vttermost force against the fume of Tobacco , and spare not . Hydr. Take this then that followeth , for a second murdering Canon . Whatsoeuer dissolueth the naturall proportion of the Elements in bodies compounded and mixt , that same is very pernicious vnto the bodie . But the smoke of Tobacco dissolueth the naturall proportion of the Elements in bodies compounded and mixt . Therefore , the smoke of Tobacco , is very pernicious vnto the bodie . Capn. Sir , I am something suspicious of the first proposition : namely , that that which dissolueth the naturall proportion of the Elements in bodies compounded and mixt , is very pernicious vnto the body . Hydr. The same may be made more apparently manifest , by this following proofe . Whatsoeuer doth corrupt things naturally compounded , and so bring them to destruction , that same is very pernicious vnto the body . But that which vndoeth the naturall proportion of the Elements in bodies mixt , doth corrupt and destroy things naturally compounded . Therefore , that which vndoeth the naturall proportion of the Elements in bodies mixt , is very pernicious vnto the bodie . Capn. Explane your proposition , I pray you . Hydr. Why man ? the proposition needeth no explanation at all , it is of it selfe so apparently manifest . For z is not the essentiall being of a man , a bodie naturally compounded ? And is not corruption , the mutation , and amission either of the substantiall forme , the quantitie , or qualitie of such a compounded bodie ? That thing then ( whatsoeuer it bee ) which so corrupteth and destroyeth the substance , forme , quantitie , or qualitie of any compounded body , must needs be very pernicious to that selfesame body . Capn. What meane you ( Sir ) by a bodie compounded ? Hydr. That selfesame substance whatsoeuer , which ( being primarily connected , or knit together of it owne proper beginning , Elements , substantiall , and integrall parts , causes , and qualities ) is essentially combined in it owne proper nature and substance , For a composition is nothing else but the connexion of formes in a naturall bodie : by which connexion , that selfesame naturall body doth essentially cohere and consist in the proper proportion of parts and accidents . Now then , that thing which corrupteth and destroyeth the proportionable connexion of such a compounded body , must needs become very pernicious vnto the body . Capn. I begin now to perceiue the pregnancie of your last proposition . Howbeit , I do flatly denie your Assumption : namely , that that which vndoeth the naturall proportion of the Elements in bodies mixt , doth vndoubtedly corrupt and destroy things naturally compounded . Hydr. The same is approued by the ioynt authorities b of Hippocrates and Galene ; as also by c Aristotle himselfe , in that the forenamed Treatise . Wherein the excellent Philosopher ( defining procreation to be properly effected by the due proportion of Elements ) doth manifestly notifie vnto vs : that death and destruction is nothing else but the dissolution of that selfesame proportion , or ( at the least ) that this dissolution is the very cause or way to such destruction . Capn. Well , be it so . But proue the Assumption put downe in your former propounded argument : namely , that the smoke of Tobacco dissolueth the naturall proportion of Elements , in bodies compounded and mixt . Hydr. The same is apparently euident by this following argument . Whatsoeuer augmenteth the iust proportion and measure of heate and drinesse limited by nature , that dissolueth the naturall proportion of the Elements in bodies compounded and mixt . But the fume of Tobacco taken inward , augmenteth the iust proportion and measure of heate and drinesse limited by nature . Therefore the fume of Tobacco taken inward dissolueth the proportion of the Elements in bodies compounded or mixt . Capn. Proue your Proposition , I pray you Sir. Hydr. Why man , the proposition is manifest enough of it selfe : so as all men ( but naturall sots ) may sensibly conceiue the same . For as well augmentation as diminution vndoeth the due measure of heate and drinesse limited by nature her selfe : and so consequently , dissolueth the proportion of the Elements in bodies compounded and mixt . Capn. Go to then , make good your Assumption : namely , that the fume of Tobacco taken inward , augmenteth the proportion and measure of heate and drinesse limited by nature . Hydr. I will conuince the same to be true , by this subsequent syllogisme . A more vehement heate and drought added to a lesse , augmenteth the proportion and measure of the lesse . But the smoke of Tobacco is more vehemently hot and dry , then the naturall heate and drought of mans body . Therefore the smoke of Tobacco augmenteth the heate and drinesse of mans body aboue the naturall proportion thereof . Capn. Make plaine your Proposition I pray you . Hydr. The same is plaine enough of it owne proper nature : being moreouer confirmed by the ioynt authorities of Hippocrates , Galene , and Aristotle , as also by common sense . For who can denie that a greater quantity added to a lesse , increaseth the iust proportion of the lesse ? Capn. You say very true . But yet for all that , I suspect the soundnesse of your Assumption : namely , that the smoke of Tobacco is more vehemently hot and drie then the naturall heate and drought of mans bodie . Hydr. Some man ( peraduenture ) will not beleeue that to be true : but ( being more fully confirmed by this following argument ) the truth thereof will appeare vnto any how vnlearned soeuer . That which the Physitions ( in respect of mans temperature ) do call hot and drie in the second degree , that ( I meane ) which exceedeth the due temperature of mans body by two degrees , and which ( by adustion and b●rning ) obtaineth a more vehement force from both ▪ that same is more vehemently hot and drie then the naturall proportion of mans bodie by much . But the smoke of Tobacco exceedeth in heate and drinesse the due temperature of mans body by two degrees , and ( by adustion and burning ) obtaineth a more vehement force from both . Therefore the smoke of Tobacco is more vehemently hot and drie , then the naturall proportion of mans body by much . Capn. I denie your argument . Hydr. Why man ? the proposition thereof very reason it selfe doth ratifie ; and all sorts of learned Physitions do ioyntly subscribe to the same . Capn. Go to then , make your Assumption : namely , that the smoke of Tobacco exceedeth in heate and ●rinesse , the due temperature of mans bodie , by two degrées . Hydr. That is sufficiently mainta●ned and vpholden by the authenticall authoritie of Theuittus a French Monke ; of Monardus a Spaniard ; of Gesne●us a Germane ; of Wicke●●s ; Clusius ; and other new writers ; who do all ioyntly affirme Tobacco to be hot and drie in the second degree . Capn. Be it supposed , that those men do hit on the sooth , by telling vs ioyntly that Tobacco is hot and drie in the second degree . What then ? doth it necessarily follow thereof , that therefore , the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , exceedeth the due temperature of heate and drought in our bodies by two degrees at least ? Hydr. Yea , that ( be thou sure ) must necessarily follow . For sith heate and drinesse c be primarie sensible qualities , and that all primarie sensible qualities are the primary vertues of Elements concurring ioyntly together in the due composition of bodies naturally compounded ; it cannot possibly be , but as that which diminisheth the due proportion of heate and drought in bodies compounded , is colder by two degrees at the least , then if the naturall heate & drought of such compounded bodies : so surely , that which augmenteth the due proportion of naturall heate and drought in such compounded bodies , it must needs be hotter and drier then the naturall heate and drought of those selfesame bodies , by two degrees at the least . But now , that the heate and drought of this thy Tobacco smoke surmounteth the due temperature of heate and drought in the bodies of men , let our tipling Tobacconists tell thee the truth hereof in their proper experience ; who ( by reason of the excessiue scorching and burning flames of their inward taken Tobacco fumes ) are enforced eftsoones to asswage the vehemencie and outrage of that excessiue heate , by an excessiue swilling in of wines , of ale , or of beere at the least . Seeing then this inward taking of Tobacco smoke dissolueth the due proportion of Elements in a body compounded or mixt ; seeing it corrupteth things naturally mixt in such a compounded bodie ; seeing it augmenteth that due proportion of heate and drought which nature her selfe hath iustly limited to such a compounded bodie : it is more then apparently manifest , that the same surmounteth the naturall heate and drought of our bodies , by two degrees at the least . And therefore , who seeth not now by this our second assault , but that the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , is very pernicious vnto the body ? Capn. Good Sir ; how confidently soeuer you séeme to conclude your selfe : that ( be you well assured ) which you haue hitherto said will be deemed as good as nothing , among those our gallant Tobacconists who make the very smoke of Tobacco their smoking glory . Hydr. It may be true as thou sayest ; especially among such as do make d their glorie their shame , minding nothing at all but earthly things . Neither do I much maruell at this their bewitched blindnesse . For how is it possible that they whom this smokie fume hath made so fantasticall ( I will not say so senslesse in iudgement ) should euer be able to determine substantially concerning this matter ? And therefore , sith this their seducing Tobacco smoke is such an intoxicating Circes , a monster of so many heads , and hath taken withall so deepe roote in those our besotted Tobacconists minds , as it will be found but an Herculean labour to eradicate and roote out the same from a soile so suting vnto it : I hold it euery way a very good course , yet still to bend moe engines about it , and euen to pull vp ( if possibly it may be ) all the farre spread sprouts and riotous springs thereof . Capn. Undertake what exploit you please to supplant the same : for neither they , nor I do craue any fauour herein . Hydr. Go to then , let this which followeth now , and which also ( in such gallant brauerie against those gallant Tobacconists here marcheth on gallantly towards the very forefront of the battell it selfe , be entertained afresh for a third encounter against the inward taking of Tobacco fumes . That which maketh the cleare , sweete , and holsome spirits to become obscure , stinking , and vnholsome , is very pernicious vnto the body . But the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , maketh the cleare , sweete , and holsome spirits to become obscure , stinking , and vnholsome . Therefore , the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , is very pernicious vnto the body . Capn. Pardon me Sir , though I do absolutely deny this Argument . Hydr. Oh nay Capnistus , beware of such an absurd and senslesse deniall . For as the Argument it selfe is absolutely sound in moode and figure , so surely , either of both propositions may thus be easily proued . Whatsoeuer infecteth the instruments of both bodie and mind , that same doth most perniciously procure the destruction of the bodie . But that which maketh the cleare , sweete and holsome spirits to become obscure , stinking , and vnholsome , infecteth the instruments of both bodie and mind . Therefore , that which maketh the cleare , sweete , and holsome spirits , to become obscure , stinking , and vnholsome , that same doth most perniciously procure the destruction of the body . Capn. I do not as yet conceiue the soundnesse of your first proposition : namely , that that which infecteth the instruments of both bodie and mind , doth most perniciously procure the destruction of the body . Hydr. The soundnesse thereof is hereby apparent : namely ; for that no one action of life can be exercised without the mind and body . But neither body nor mind may possibly performe their dutie that way without their proper instruments . Howbeit , the instruments of both , they are the spirits : the clearenesse , sweetnesse , and holsomnesie of which said spirits being made obscure , stinking , and vnwholsome : how should either bodie or minde be able to exercise any one action of life in good order ? Capn. Uery true as you say . But how are you able to proue your second Proposition : namely , that the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , doth so infect , and corrupt the spirits ? Hydr. The same may very plainly be proued by this following argument . Whatsoeuer infecteth and defileth the whole bodie with a blacke , filthie , and smokie colour , that same doth make the cleare , sweete , and wholsome spirits to become obscure , stinking and vnwholsome . But the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , infecteth , and defileth the whole bodie with a blacke , filthie , and smokie colour . Therefore the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , doth make the cleare , sweete , and wholsome spirits to become obscure , stinking and vnholsome . Capn. Howsoeuer amazed herein , at all aduentures I denie your argument . Hydr. Thine amazednesse ( it seemes ) hath made thee at all aduentures to bewray thy palpable ignorance in denying the argument . For the first Proposition thereof is such , and so sound , as no man of sound iudgement will once dare to denie : it being ( euen in common sense ) no lesse apparently euident then the Sun-shine at mid-day . For must not that which infecteth and defileth the whole body with a blacke , filthie , and smokie colour , euen necessarily make the cleare , sweet , and wholsome spirits to become obscure , stinking , and vnwholsome ? What one man ( being well in his wits may not plainly perceiue the apparent necessitie and truth of such a consequent ? Capn. But how proue you the second Proposition : namely , that the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , infecteth and defileth the whole body with a blacke , filthie , and smokie colour ? Hydr. That is fully ratified by the authoritie of Aristotle in his former Treatise ; where ( as I haue eftsoones told thee before ) he affirmeth e all sorts of smoke ( and therefore the smoke of Tobacco ) to infect with a blacke colour : the same also auoucheth Galene in sundry places . And ( besides their two approued testimonies ) that which I haue heard eftsoones very credibly reported by many ; as also , that whereof my selfe was once an eye-witnesse , namely , an approued experience in the opening of sundry mens bodies , which ( being fearefully strangled vp with this poysonsome smoke ) very sodainly died ) doth apparently prooue the truth of this proposition : for so much as those dead bodies ( being so cut vp ) were euery of them found strangely infected with a certa●ne blacke and smokie colour . Seeing therefore the inward taking of Tobacco smoke doth make the cleare , sweete and holsome spirits obscure , stink●ng and vnholsome ; sith it infecteth all the instruments of the bodie and mind ; briefly ▪ seeing it corrupteth and defileth the whole body with a blacke , filthie , and smokie colour : who can ( without blushing ) denie , but that the taking of Tobacco inwardly , is very pernicious vnto the bodie ? Capn. Howsoeuer my selfe be vnable with sway of argument to denie the same : yet be you well assured of this , that you shall find ten thousand Tobacconists flat opposite to you . Hydr. That may very well be , For so one onely Michaiah f did find foure hundred opposite to that which he spake from the mouth of the Lord : and yet , their exceeding great multitude was no manner of preiudice to the truth which he taught . Howbeit , that I may here ( as much as possiblie lieth in my power ) take away whatsoeuer occasion of either gainsaying or doubting , and that the truth of this matter might be made to appeare as manifest as the Sunne in his strength : I haue euen purposely placed this following argument in the rereward of the battell , as an armour of proofe , to giue a fresh encounter against Tobacco fumes . Capn. Discharge your vttermost force , and spare not . Hydr. Well then , stand strongly vpon thy guard : for this it is . Whatsoeuer spreadeth and disperseth throughout the whole bodie a most venimous matter , and a mortall enemie to the nature of man , that same doth bring destruction vnto the bodie . But the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , spreadeth and disperseth throughout the whole body a most venimous matter , and a mortall enemie to the nature of man. Therefore , the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , doth bring destruction vnto the body . Capn. I perceiue not the truth of your first Proposition . Hydr. How true that is , we may plainly perceiue by the pestilence , and sundrie such other infectious diseases . All which ( by the dispersing and spreading of a venimous matter , and a mortall enemie to mans nature throughout the whole body ) do procure the present destruction of men by many great multitudes , as daily experience approueth . Capn. Well , be it so as you say : but how appeareth the truth of your second Proposition ? Namely , that the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , doth spread and disperse throughout the whole body , a venimous matter , and a mortall enemie to the nature of man ? Hydr. The truth thereof doth sound forth it selfe throughout euerie coast , by the sodaine and lamentable end of many Tobacconists ; more especially , by a pitifull experience in Parson Digbie at Peterborough of late : who ( hauing excessiuely taken Tobacco in a tippling house ) did instantly fall downe starke dead in the open streets . All which examples ( being no lesse true then wofull ) as they may serue for a terrour to all : so especially , these our insatiable suckers in of Tobacco smoke , should conscionably apply to themselues , and be warned thereby . Notwithstanding , this fantasticall course ( I know not how ) is now growne into such a foole-hardie custome among vs , as other mens harmes cannot make vs beware : neither yet are bare examples of sufficient force to suppresse and abolish this idle opinion from out of our idle braines . Capn. What Sir , would you haue men so precizely , so certainely , and so confidently conclude conceipts from euery vncertaine and sodaine occurrent ? So should we be sure , eftsoones to conclude many strange , extrauagant , and vncertaine conclusions . Men must liue ( you know ) by infallible rules : not by fantasticall , and fickle examples . Neither haue you your selfe any one authenticall rule , to conclude so certainely , from such an vncertaine example as you vrged euen now . For what kind of sequele call you this ? Namely , such a man died instantly after his insatiable taking of Tobacco fumes : therefore , his insatiable taking of Tobacco fumes was the vndoubted cause of that his so sodaine a death . Hydr. It followeth as fitly as this : Such a man died instantly vpon his carelesse entertaining of one dangerously sicke of the pestilentiall infection● therefore , his carelesse entertaining of one so dangerously sicke of the pestilentiall infection , was the vndoubted cause of that his so sodaine a death . Capn. Nay Sir , the pestilence , and Tobacco , as they are not of one and the selfe same mortall condition : so they worke not one and the selfe same mortall infection . For the pestilence , and sundry such other infectious diseases , they containe in them essentially some contagious and venimous matter , which ( dispersing it selfe presently throughout all the parts of the body ) will vndoubtedly procure the present destruction of that selfe same bodie : whereas you haue not hitherto proued , that there is in Tobacco it selfe any such infectious or venimous matter . Hydr. Well then , thus much thou doest grant by the way : that the perill by conuersing with pestilentiall persons , must necessarily arise from some infectious or venimous matter proceeding from those pestilentiall diseases , and dispersing it selfe presently throughout the whole bodie . Capn. Sir , if I should denie that to be true , experience it selfe would proue me a foole . Hydr. And doest thou fondly imagine , that experience will proue thee a wise-man , if thou deniest the truth of the other ? For tell me ( I pray thee ) must not the present destruction of so many Tobacconists , euen as necessarily also arise of some infectious or venimous matter proceeding from such inward taking of Tobacco fumes , and presently dispersing it selfe throughout the whole bodie ? Capn. Good Sir , this sequele is yet in dispute : and you take it as granted . Hydr. I scorne such a grant at any mans hand : especially in this so euident , and so cleare a cause . And therefore , I will here vndertake afresh to conuince ( if possibly I may ) by sound and substantiall reasons , that which I cannot perswade by sundry examples , how lamentable and pregnant soeuer . Thou hauing therfore so freely granted , that the thing which thus sodainly surpriseth the life of mens bodies , must necessarily haue in it some infectious or venimous matter , dispersing it selfe presently throughout the whole bodie : why should not the Assumption it selfe ( established especially vpon so certaine a ground ) be able to stand inuincibly against whatsoeuer assaults of fantasticall and idle companions ? Capn. Well , go to then , proue your Assumption : namely , that this insatiable swallowing vp of Tobacco smoke doth spread and disperse throughout the whole bodie a venimous matter , and a mortall enemie to the nature of man. Hydr. That may soundly be proued by this subsequent syllogisme . Whatsoeuer sodainly ouerthroweth both the faculties of mind , and strength of bodie , that doth vndoubtedly spread and disperse throughout the whole bodie , a venimous matter repugnant to nature . But the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , sodainly ouerthoweth both the faculties of mind , and strength of bodie . Therefore , the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , doth vndoubtedly spread and disperse throughout the whole bodie , a venimous matter repugnant to nature . Capn. Sir , I do absolutely denie your Argument . Hydr. In so doing ( Capnistus ) thou declarest the selfe an absolute Asse . For this know thou assuredly , that a common axiome among Physitions conuinceth the Proposition to be certainly true : namely , that nothing can sodainly confound and ouerthrow both faculties of mind , and strength of bodie , & so either leaue none at all , or a depraued motion in both , but the same hath some infectious & venimous quality wherewith it possesseth the bodie . And thereupon it is , that all Physitions ( with one consent ) do ioyntly affirme that the falling sickenesse ariseth of a venimous aire possessing the braine . Capn. But how holds your Assumption currant and good : namely , that the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , doth sodainly ouerthrow both faculties of mind , & strength of bodie ? Hydr. Surely Capnistus , the daily experience of such as vsually drinke that selfe same smoke , doth easily confirme the truth of this matter . For what one is he among our tippling Tobacconists , that doth not ( alas ) euen presently perceiue a certaine whirling about of the braine , and find himselfe very fearfully possessed with a certaine kind of giddinesse immediatly after the taking thereof ? Or ( if not so ) that suffreth not at the least , a maruellous perturbation , and a dangerous disturbance of nature ? Notwithstanding ( besides this their proper experience ) I will yet further maintaine , and defend this point , by the approued authoritie and fortresse of sundry late writers ( as it were with a wall , or rampire ) against the violent assaults of all sorts of gaine-sayers how gallant soeuer . Capn. Go to then , muster forth now your surest men for the field : and make them march forewards in battle-aray . Hydr. Content . Amongst whom I will make Dodonaeus and Metellus the first in that ranke : who do recken Tobacco among the sundry sorts of Henbane . Capn. What inferre you hereof ? Hydr. The firme , and infallible proofe of that which I affirmed before : namely , that there is in the fume of Tobacco inwardly taken , some venimous matter , which so dainly ouerthroweth the faculties of mind , and strength of body . For whereas Dodonaeus and Metellus do so skilfully sort Tobacco among the sundrie kinds of Henbane , it is apparently manifest ( from out of Dioscorides his approued iudgement ) that all kind of Henbane is venimous , as an enemie disturbing nature , disordering reason , assailing the braine , which is the Metropolitane ouer the whole body , & the very tower of the heart ; yea and procuring a certaine madnesse withall for the present . Capn. Dodonaeus , Metellus , and Dioscorides they onely say so : as for the truth of their spéech , that we must take at their hands vpon trust : for they onely say so , but shew no one reason at all . Howbeit Sir , our Tobacconists ( be you sure ) they hold not those men of Pythagoras authoritie : neither will they be brought to conclude on this sort ; Dodonaeus , Metellus , and Dioscorides do ioyntly auouch , that all kind of Henbane is of a poysonsome and venimous nature , and therefore it is certainly so indéed . Hydr. Why Capnistus , hast thou not a more reuerend regard of that the accustomed and ancient axiome , which telleth plainly , That euery g expert and skilfull Artist must be beleeued in his proper profession ? Notwithstanding ( because thou makest no more accompt of those their authenticall iudgements ) thou shalt heare further , what Gesnerus h auoucheth from his proper experience : who ( hauing experimented the true operation of Tobacco in his owne proper bodie ) giueth a iudicious censure concerning the nature thereof , in an Epistle to Iohn Functius , that renowned , and learned Physition . Capn. What is his censure thereof ( Sir ) I pray you ? Hydr. I will put downe the same in his owne proper words : without either adding , or taking therefrom . The leafe ( saith he ) which was sent out of France to Augusta , seemed most strange vnto me , and a very plaine noueltie . Wherefore , I was very desirous to taste therof : but presently I perceiued a maruellous sharpnesse therein , and it did most strangely affect me . So as , me thought verily I was starke drunke ; and ( as it were ) sayling downe a Riuer in some staggering ship : yea and trying the same againe and againe some three or foure times , I eftsoones found the selfesame effect . Wherefore , washing my mouth , and drinking vp a spoonefull of vineger : I forthwith put away the giddinesse of my head . Moreouer , I gaue a peece of the leafe ( bruised and wrapped in flesh ) vnto a dog : which ( presently after some few houres ) did cause him to vomit abundantly . Verily ( whatsoeuer it is ) I suppose , it cannot possibly be without some secret venime . Thus much Gesnerus concerning the vertue and force of Tobacco in his proper experience . Capn. This ( I confesse ) is something to our present purpose in hand : but Sir , one Swallow ( you know ) maketh no sommer . Hydr. Well then , let vs adde to Gesnerus experience , that which Theuittus in his description of West India ; as also that which Monardus , Clusius , and Weckerus do ioyntly remember thereof . Namely , that the Priests and other the common people of the Indians do vse to sucke vp the fume of Tobacco through a pipe or conduite , either when ( as being asked ) they giue answers concerning the successe of businesse , or when they are desirous to see visions ; and ( as it were ) to be rapt from themselues in a trance : or being to enter into the dangers of battell . Which said disturbance of mind and soule , by no meanes can be so sodainly wrought in mans body ; without the force and efficacie of some venimous quality concurring therewith . Capn. Not so Sir , for then should the force thereof be generally perceiued in all men alike . Howbeit , this swimming of the head is not generally in all : and in them whom it so strangely possesseth , the same may séeme rather to procéede of a certaine thinne humour sodainly turned into wind , and of a whirling about of that aire so sodainly changed , then of any other supposed quality in the smoke it selfe , as being venimous , and a mortall enemie to the nature of man. Hydr. This peraduenture ( in a simple swimming , and such as is eftsoones felt at some other time else ) might seeme to carrie some shew of truth : but in this sodaine darknesse and falling into trances vpon the onely taking of Tobacco , and at none other time else ; and wherein all the senses , and the whole braine is so sodainly ouerwhelmed with an obscure and cloudie smoke , it cannot possibly haue any place at all , but by the operation of some venimous matter concurring therewith . For such a swimming ( for the most part ) is the vndoubted forerunner of the falling euill : and impresseth such a sensible weaknesse in the braine , as may not possibly be cured , nor ordinarily helped by any medicine at all . Capn. Why Sir , not all that drinke of this smoke do feéele such a smming ? Hydr. That is nothing at all to the purpose . For the pestilence and such other infectious venimes they do not forthwith destroy all whom they possesse , nor infect euery one indifferently : which notwithstanding , haue in them naturally a power of killing and slaying . And therefore , whereas all men are not equally affected with y e selfesame swimming , that ought rather to be attributed to the benefit of nature , and sound constitution of the braine , then vnto any defectiue poysonsome qualitie in the smoke it selfe , which is euermore venimous , and a mortall enemie to the nature of man. Capn. But Sir , the vse of Tobacco is very profitable for such as are affected with shortnesse of breath , and with stopping of the lungs by reason of grosse humours ouergrowing the same . Hydr. What vse of Tobacco is profitable for those diseases ? The scorching smoke thereof drawne or sucked into the body by a Tobacco pipe ? Nothing lesse , be thou sure . For so the lungs themselues being made hard and stiffe ( as in old age it commonly cometh to passe ) by reason of the extreme force of the fume in drying , so as they cannot be fanned , nor lifted vp any longer , the naturall heate is choaked vp quite for want of breathing . And there is much difference betwixt the smoke of the earthie and stinking fume of a burnt hearbe , and the airie iuyce of the said hearbe drawne forth by infusion , by steeping , by boyling , or seething . Indeed , the broath of Tobacco , or a sirupe made of the infusion thereof , doth somewhat helpe the stopping of the lungs , but not the smoke . Capn. And yet for all this , the smoke of Tobacco disburdeneth the braine from this sinke of humours : and purgeth the bloud from filthie and vnwholsome matter . Hydr. Yea marrie Sir , a very trimme purgation ( no doubt ) that draweth so forth from the bodie and braine such a thinne , subtile and waterish matter , as ( it may be ) nature her selfe had proportionably appointed to both for the better and more easie conueyance of the bloud it selfe throughout the whole bodie : and ( in stead thereof ) placeth grosse humours in the braine and all the rest of the members ; and whereby a certaine curdled matter is increased , and this same smokie stinking fume setled in the roome thereof . Capn. But Sir , the fume of Tobacco fréeth the spirits from those burdensome humours , as it were from fetters : and so maketh them more prompt and nimble by much . Hydr. And doth it so indeed ? When rather the spirits ( whom nature hath ordained to be cleare and bright , both for the discoursing of reason , as also for the ministerie of the senses themselues ) by this filthie fume-drinking are made obscure and darke , and the braine , and whole bodie infected with a smokie blacke colour ? yea , and when in stead of that same drie clearenesse & light which Heraclitus , and ( with him ) all , both Philosophers and Physitions of any sound iudgement do accompt the principall and purest soule , those fume-drinkers do substitute and thrust in their appointed place , most palpably obscured and darkened spirits ? In which their so preposterous a purging of the braine it selfe , they do both confound the orderly works of nature , and euen quite ouerthrow the infallible precepts and rules prescribed by Physitions : who are the appointed ministers of nature her selfe for the orderly preseruation of the body in health . Who all ioyntly with one vniforme assent do affirme ; that a cloudy and obscure aire , or such as proceedeth from hollow and fennie places , is very vnwholsome for the bodies of men . Which their canonicall iudgment those our fume-deuourers do neuer obserue , vntill ( with an extreme hazard of life ) they do find ( by their miserable and wofull experience ) how pernicious a thing it is . Neither , without an exceeding great cause were chimnies ( by our Ancestors formerly inuented , that thereby , the smoke ( drawne by a vehement heate of the fire from matter apt to burning ) might be dispersed abroad in the aire , for feare of hurting the bodies of men . Capn. Why Sir ? there are many sorts of fumes inuented and taught by the Physitions themselues , as well for the strengthning of diuerse parts , as also for the curing of hard diseases . Hydr. There are so ( I confesse , ) but what dost thou conclude from the same ? That therefore the smoke of Tobacco sucked vp by a pipe or conduite , is exceeding wholsome for the bodies of men ? Alas sillie soules , who may not plainly perceiue a flat fallacion in this their consequence ? For almost all sorts of fumes are vsed by expert Physitions , to recreate and comfort the spirits by their odoriferous smels , rather then to draw any thing out of the bodie by such scorching fumes as do heate and drie . Yea and that sweete kind of refreshing the spirits was instituted first by nature her selfe , who telleth vs directly and truly that i sweete oyntments and perfumes reioyce the heart . And as this was dame natures owne institution , so was the primarie practise thereof set first afloate by learned Hippocrates , the prime interpreter of natures purpose therein . Whereas these filthie scorching Tobacco smokes , do nothing else but daunt and drie vp the spirits : a thing flat opposite to natures institution , and the witles inuention of vicious and wild dispositions . Capn. Not so Sir , for some stinking fumes are also applied by Physitions themselues in the suffocation of the matrixe , or rising of the mother : and this also with laudable and happie successe . Hydr. Very true as thou sayest . Howbeit , those stinking fumes they are not so applied by expert Physitions with any purpose or mind to cure the disease , but for this end rather : Namely , that nature her selfe , and the naturall heate so sodainly surprised by reason of those stinking fumes which they naturally abhorre , might be the sooner prouoked to gather their naturall strength and vigour afresh , and thereby disperse and expell that venimous aire wherewith the matrixe it selfe being stuffed , did so dainly arise and ascend vpward . Capn. But ouer and besides the suffocation of the matrixe ( namely , in the consumption of the lungs , as also in y e French pore ) certaine fumes of Cynoper , red Arsnicke , quick-siluer , Orpiment , and other venimous things are admitted and vsed of sundrie late writers in Physicke , as Fallopius and others . Hydr. They are so I confesse . Howbeit , warily , sparingly , and in very small quantitie : yea and this also not without a considerate , and proportionable mixture of some other things else to correct and alay the force of their venimous qualities . And that moreouer the operation thereof in drying onely ( which agreeth with nature ) might be communicated to the bodie it selfe : and yet ( notwithstanding all this ) the learned ( for their parts ) haue euermore had a very vehement suspition of this kind of curing . And ( in the consumption of the lungs especially ) I see that Galene mislikes those fumes : and approueth rather of a sweete bath , or hot-house . And certainly , Fallopius himselfe doth not altogether approue of those fumes . And for learned Fernellius , he vtterly misliketh of them : in so much as ( in the cure of the French-poxe ) he will not admit any ointment compounded of quick-siluer . And verily , if Galene durst not so much as taste of the herbe Lycoporsium , because onely it but smelt somewhat strong : shall those our smoke-deuourers thus dare , not onely to taste , but also to entertaine into the secret and most inward parts of their bodies , yea euen into the very treasury of nature it selfe , such an infectious , venimous , and most deadly consuming poyson ? Capn. But be it Sir , there were ( as you say ) in this Tobacco smoke some certaine contagious venime : our artificiall Tobacconists they can very skilfully correct , and allay that selfesame venimous qualitie with the powder of a Nutmeg , and two or thrée drops of the Chymicall oyle of Anise , compounded and blended with the pouder of Tobacco it selfe , or euer the same be inwardly taken . Hydr. Our artificiall Tobacconists sayest thou ? Nay rather , our Seraphicall smokie Asies . Who ( by this their skilfull vnskilfull mingle-mangle ) do shew themselues such soddenheadded sots as blend Sugar-candie with rats-bane . Of very purpose forsooth , that ( howsoeuer the rats-bane it selfe be mortally dangerous ) it might by the sweet taste , be made to passe more pleasantly downe , and thereby also more vnperceiueably conuey the venimous poyson it selfe into the inward parts , and so more powerfully surprise the vitall spirits . And ( yet for all this ) these fantasticall fellowes , they must ( by thy calculation ) be accompted forsooth our artificiall Tobacconists . Well then , be it so for this once ; and now do tell me withall , whether thou thy selfe by the very purport of thine owne proper speech , doest not couertly confesse the inward taking of Tobacco smoke to be very pernicious vnto the body , except the same be consideratly and skilfully corrected before . But what a strange and monstrous kind of correction is this that thou speakest of ? What man ? When the very smoke of Tobacco it selfe is a mortall enemie to the natu●e of the bodie , may the grosse muddie smoke of those oylie matters commixed with that former poysonsome fume , be possibly made either good or wholsome ? What is this else , but to adde fire vnto fire ? and ( in stead of suppressing ) to set that scorching flame yet further afloate ? That so ( with an ouer hastie and vntimely death ) they may the more speedily consume and scorch vp their vitall spirits and radicall humours . Capn. Well Sir. And yet for all that , if this smoke of Tobacco were taken but once in a wéeke , peraduenture it might do much good in resoluing the excremental humours onely ; as also in expelling them out of the bodie , and yet not consume the naturall moisture thereof . Hydr. Doest thou place the preseruation of mens health vpō blind peraduentures ? Surely , a wise man should be without all peraduenture , before he aduenture to take any thing inwardly into his body : or else he may peraduenture but play the part of a foole . And yet this I confesse withall , y t the taking of Tobacco but once in a weeke would do y e lesse hurt , though it would ( notwithstanding ) do very much hurt , by working such an imbecillitie and weakenesse in the braine it selfe , as would make it much more apt to entertaine sundry other excrementall humours afresh : and by procuring the said braine withall ( by reason of the excessiue heate and drines thereof ) to draw and sucke vp from the lower parts , some such excrementall humours as were not to be expelled that way . And verily , if our common prouerbe be true in any one thing , it is infallible , and most certaine in this so seldome a sucking vp of Tobacco smoke : namely , That a little can do no harme at all , if the same be not taken . Capn. But Sir ? what spéedier course may possibly be inuented for purging those excrementall humours out of the bodie , then by drinking this smoke ? Hydr. What Capnistus ? And must we ( in very deede ) be inforced to borrow from the furthermost parts of India this stinking , infectious and venimous smoke , to expell that masse or sinke of humours from out of the body : when we haue here at home that selfesame method of curing ( whether by pilles , by medicines to be chewed in the mouth , or put into the nose , or by sweating ) which was formerly deriued from the ancient , & most famous Physical fountaines of the world ? Or ( if that do not like thee so well ) thou maist then ( by the meere benefit of nature it selfe ) very easily dispatch thy selfe from all such corruptions , if thou diligently and religiously obserue that golden meane which Hippocrates perswades , and prescribes in thy labour , thy meate , thy drinke , thy sleepe , and thy lust . For as in domesticall and household affaires , parsimonie or sparing is worth a great stipend : so surely , from the very manner of thy conuersation and cariage , thou mayest receiue a very rich benefite , as well for retaining thy strength , as for preseruing thy health . And herein I will giue to thy selfe , and all our Tobacconists this onely precept : which if thou and they do conscionably and carefully obserue as you ought , you may easily and a long time preserue your bodilie healths healths in good estate . The precept for that purpose is this : Do not lift vp your hands so oft to your mouths : for , an insatiable swilling downe of wine , ale , and beere , as also this inordinate sucking vp of filthie Tobacco smoke , do euen band and bend themselues ioyntly together , to breede , hatch , and nourish this filthie foule channell or sinke of corruptions . Saint Bernard is reported to haue sharply accused himselfe , for that ( whiles he went about with ouermuch abstinence ) to keepe his bodie vnder , by corrupting the vigour and temperature of that his said bodie , he did ( after a sort ) defraud the functions of his mind , of their appointed organe or instrument . For vnderstanding at length , that he ought not to liue priuately to himselfe alone , but also to the publicke benefite of others , by instructing , exhorting , and comforting them : and perceiuing withall that those publicke duties of pietie required the ministery of the bodie it selfe , he found by experience at length , that a man ought so far foorth to make much of his bodie , or otherwise to keepe the same vnder : as ( in the meane time ) the powers and operations of the mind be neither choked with pleasures , nor dulled by too much austeritie . Now then , if so grieuous a pricke of conscience did euen sting that holy man Bernard , because he but made his bodie too too leane and withered with godly exercises , what punishment ( thinkest thou ) are those men to expect and looke hourely for from the hands of our God , who ( by vnseasonable swilling and riotous fumes ) do most prodigally consume and so riotously weaken and waste the very treasurie of nature it selfe ? I for my owne part will put downe no censure vpon them : but ( with all my heart ) I will beseech the Almightie to giue them farre better minds . Lo , this is the very worst I wish vnto them , and this is the best I can do for them . Capn. As your prayer is most charitable : euen so are your earnest perswasions with me so auaileable , as I am vtterly vnable any further to gainesay your spéeches herein . Hydr. k Great is the truth I perceiue , and will euer preuaile . Well then , seeing therefore the smoke of Tobacco consumeth the naturall heate ; sith it drieth vp that radicall moisture which is the very fountaine of that selfesame heate ; sith by corrupting the due proportion of the Elements , it dissolueth the primarie composition of the whole bodie it selfe ; sith by the sharpenesse thereof ( which partly it hath by nature , & partly doth draw from the burning ) it euen gnaweth and fretteth the members of the bodie ; seeing it causeth the cleare , sweete and wholsome spirits of the bodie to become obscure , stinking , and vnwholsome ; seeing it disperseth throughout the whole bodie a venimous aire , and repugnant to nature , assayling the head , heart , and life ; finally , for so much as it bringeth all these incommodities to mans naturall life , without any one hope of profite at all to the same : let nature her selfe , and the iudgement of sound reason both say and affirme for me , that the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , is very pernicious vnto the bodie . Capn. Alas poore Tobacco , my pretie Tobacco ; thou that hast bene hitherto accompted the Ale-knights armes , the Béere brewers badge , the Carousers crest , the Drunkards darling , the Draffe-sackes delight , the Easterlings ensigne , the Fantasticals foretresse , the Gormandizers glorie , the hungry Hostesses alepole , the Mad-braines merriment , the New-fangles noueltie , the Poope noddies paramour , the Ruffians reflection , the Swil bols swine-troffe , the Linkers trull , the Tospots protection , the Vintners vintage , and the vnthrifts pasport : thou must now ( I feare me ) bee enforced forthwith to take thy farewell towards the vttermost parts of India , from whence thou wert first transported to England by vicious and wild dispositions , and there must make thy finall abode : hauing now ( I plainly perceiue ) the very head of man , the braines , the radicall humours , the vitall spirits , the wit , the memorie , the senses , all the naturall faculties , the whole body and soule , yea nature her selfe , and the sway of sound reason so strongly combined in one , to proue thy inward taken smoke , a very pernicious matter for the bodies of men . Hydr. It is euen certainly so as thou sayest . And therefore I pray thee perswade her Capnistus , with all her fierie fumes , and fumish fauourets , to be forthwith packing together apace , for feare of losing their tide : and so to be left in the lurch . Capn. I will ( from henceforth ) be readie to do mine vttermost endeuour therein . Howbeit good Sir , you do confidently auouch euen in the very forefront of your Tractate it selfe , that the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , is not onely very pernicious to the bodies of men , but too too proflu●ious for many Tobacconists purses ; and most pestiferous likewise to the publike state . Hydr. I did so confesse : and what thereof ? Capn. I desire in like manner to heare those points confirmed at large . Hydr. With all my heart , if thy leisure will giue thee leaue to attend thereupon : In the meane time , let vs walke forth a while to take the fresh aire , and then returne againe to our purpose intended . Capn. With all my heart . The end of the first part . Nulla valet tantum virtus patientia quantum . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . THE FVME OF TOBACCO TAKEN INWARD , IS too too profluuious for many of our Tobacconists purses , and most pernicious to the publike State. Capnistus . SIR , hauing hitherto proued the smoke of Tobacco taken inward , to be very pernicious vnto the bodie : you remember ( I am sure ) that you also affirmed the same too too profluuious for many of our Tobacconists purses , as also most pestiferous to the publike State. Hydrophorus . I did so indeed : and what then ? Capn. Do you aske me , what then ? why Sir , this is the reason of this my demand . Hauing hitherto sufficiently shewed the pernicious effects of Tobacco fumes , respecting especially the bodies of men : I pray you , proue now ( in like manner ) the profluuitie thereo● concerning their purses , and our publike State. For so shall you be sure to let all our Tobacconists bloud euen in the basilica veine it selfe : and to draw forth presently the very feces or dregs of any their preposterous affections towards those infectious filthie fumes . Hydr. In very deede , it is true as thou sayest . The purse-plague is much more respected now , with some sorts of people , then is either the plague of body or soule : they are so desperatly drenched in their dangerous delights . And therefore ( to effect this our pretended purpose the better ) we will herein obserue this following order . There shall first be propounded the purses profluuitie it selfe : and then secondly , there shall be resounded the consequent effects succeeding the same . Capn. A most excellent order , procéede ( Sir ) vnto it with spéede , I beséech you . Hydr. With very good will. Wherein first shall be shewed what this the purses profluuitie is : and then next , how such an insatiable sucking in of filthie Tobacco fumes , becommeth too too profluuious for the purse it selfe , and our present State. Capn. What meane you first , by the purses profluuity ? Hydr. By the purses profluuitie , I do not meane any frugall or commodious disbursing , but a prodigall or profluuious dispending of those worldly prefermen●s and blessings which the Lord God ( in his abundant mercies ) bestoweth on men for their necessary vses , not needlesse abuses : to the preposterous impouerishing of them and theirs , the dangerous infecting of others about them , and the pestiferous vndermining of the publike State. Capn. Sir , I do now vnderstand to the full , what you simply meane here , by the purses profluuity : and therefore , shew me next ( I beséech you ) how this our insatiable swilling in of filthie Tobacco fumes , becometh too too profluuious for our Tobacconists purses , and most pestiferous to the publike State. Hydr. Content . Wherein thou hast first to obserue , that Tobacco it selfe hath bene euermore held at an exceeding high price ; that those our tippling Tobacconists cannot ordinarily compasse the same without an excessiue reckoning ; that such an excessiue reckoning cannot possibly be performed without very chargeable cost ; that such chargeable cost cannot be freed from superfluous and riotous wasting ; that such superfluous wasting procureth a prodigall dispending of mens patrimonies with other worldly preferments ; that such a prodigal dispending of patrimonies with other worldly preferments , is ouer profluuious for our Tobacconists purses : and that this their purses profluuitie is most pestiferous to the publike State. Capn. This gradation ( I must néeds confesse ) doth giue to the Eagle-eied , and sharped-sighted sort , some glimmering shew concerning your purpose propounded : howbeit , that l the day-dawne and the day starre thereof may more clearely breake forth to the simplest mans view , I pray you discourse of these more at large . Hydr. I am not vnwilling therewith . First therefore for the exceeding high rate that this Tobacco hath euer bene at since the very first arriuall thereof into England , thou thy selfe , and all our Tobacconists , are able to say this of your owne proper knowledge : namely , that the same hath vsually bene sold by the pound , for twentie nobles , fiue , foure , or three pounds : yea and when it came to the lowest price , it could not bee had vnder foure markes or fortie shillings , which amounteth to three shillings foure pence an ounce at the least . Is not this ( thinkest thou ) an exceeding high rate for filthie Tobacco ? And is not twenty nobles , fiue , foure , or three pounds , yea fortie shillings , an excessiue great price for a pernicious poysonsome smoke ? And may such an excessiue great price be performed without a chargeable cost ? And c●n such chargeable cost be possibly freed from a superfluous or riotous waste ? And will not such a riotous waste procure ( in the end ) a prodigall dispending of patrimonies with other like worldly preferments ? And will not such prodigall dispending of patrimonies , become too too profluuious for our Tobacconists purses ? And will not such a profluuitie of purses , in the end proue very pestiferous to the publike State ? Speake man and spare not , what sayest thou to this demonstration ? Do not euery of these ( like the inseparable lincks of a deadly deuouring chaine ) very dangerously draw a publike calamitie vpon our countrey and kingdome ? Capn. Indéed Sir , I cannot but acknowledge the excéeding rate , the excessiue reckoning , as also the chargeable cost bestowed vpon Tobacco it selfe : but I sée not as yet , how th●se our professed Tobacconists will accompt that thing a superfluous or riotous cost , which ( as they verily suppose themselues ) doth worke their so excéeding much good . Hydr. It hath bene apparently proued , and thy selfe hath freely confessed in our former discourse , that the smoke of Tobacco is very pernicious vnto the bodie : and which way then doth it worke them so exceeding much good ? I am certaine it worketh a wonderfull strange consumption in euery of their purses at least . If therfore some odly conceited companion ( whose braines are filthily besotted with filthie Tobacco fumes ) should ouer idlely imagine , that that thing which vnnecessarily costeth both liuing and life , were no superfluous or riotous waste : must that his idle supposall be forthwith priuiledged for a currant conceipt among such as are soundly wise ? God forbid that any such peeuish perswasion should euer possesse the prudenter sort . For so should we m Set seruants on horseb●cke , and make Princes to plod by their sides as Pages : yea so s●ould the crew of some idlely conceited companions , bec●me the canonized counsellers to those that haue farre finer wits then themselues . Concerning therefore that former superfluous and riotous waste , which those Tobacconists do so wilfully make about their beastly Tobacco fumes , do tell me in good sadnesse , whether it be not a superfluous waste , for any man of great place , to paddle forth y●arely one hundred pounds at the least , for an hundred gallons of filthy fumes ? for a Gentleman of meaner condition , to be at fortie pound annuall expences , about bare fortie pottels of stinking flames ? for a Yeoman , an Husbandman , an Artificer , a Trades-man , a Tinker , a Shoomaker , or a Cobbler , to bestow weekely some three shillings fourepence at the least , for but one onely ounce of fantasticall fooleries ? What sayest thou Capnistus ? Is not this a very superfluous and riotous waste ? Do answer directly , either yea or no to the same . Capn. In very déed Sir , I must néeds acknowledge it a superfluous and riotous waste : yea and no better in effect then the fantasticall purchasing of vanitie it selfe . Hydr. Go to then . Can such a superfluous and riotous waste be possibly performed without a prodigall dispending of those our Tobacconists their patrimonies and worldly preferments ? or without a friuolous pursing vp of their annuall reuenewes and rents n in a bottomlesse bag ? Who seeth not then , but that their filthie Tobacco fumes ( being ordinarily at such an exceeding high rate , at such an excessiue reckoning , at such a chargeable cost , at such a superfluous-waste , and at such a prodigall dispending of patrimonies , with other like worldly preferments ) must needs become too too profluuious for any our Tobacconists purses , and very pestiferous to the publike State ? Capn. It is euen certainly so . And therefore Sir , ( hauing hitherto succinctly shewed the vndoubted profluuitie of the purse it selfe ) I pray you now likewise procéed to the orderly setting downe of those fearefull effects which successiuely follow thereof . Hydr. With a very good will. Wherein we haue to obserue , that those selfe same effects , they are such as more especially concerne the Tobacconists themselues : or some other besides . Capn. Very well . But what are those effects first which more properly concerne themselues . Hydr. They are all those accidentall occurrents which ( proceeding collaterally from those their Tobacco fumes ) do more especially respect the parties themselues , without any proper relation , or peculiar reference to any other man else besides themselues : being such withall as more especially concerne either their owne person , or their proper estate . Capn. What are those effects first , which more especially concerne their owne person ? Hydr. They are those dangerous diseases , and those desperate deaths , which ( by reason of such an insatiable sucking in of filthie Tobacco fumes ) do euen ordinarily attend ( like pursuiuants ) vpon their very bodies and soules . Namely , a fearefull consuming of the naturall heate ; an vnquenchable scorching and drying vp of the radicall moisture ; an vtter exhausting and sucking out of the corporall humours ; a most poysonsome corrupting of the due proportion of Elements appointed by nature ; a continuall f●etting and gnawing of all the bodily members ; a pernicious dissoluing of the primarie composition of the whole bodie it selfe ; a preposterous procuring of the cleare , sweete , and wholsome spirits , to become obscure , stinking and vnwholsome ; a most dangerous dispersing of a venimous ayre through out all parts of the bodie ; a violent assailing of the head , the braine , the heart , the whole body and life it selfe ; yea and eftsoones a most so daine and desperate death , as we haue more la●gely declared before . Lo Capnistus , euen these , and sundry such other occurrents , they are those proper effects which do vndoubtedly attend vpon the poore Tobacconists body , and as ordinarily follow his insatiable swilling in of filthie Tobacco fumes , as the shadow followes the bodie . And as his said bodie is therewith very dangerously infected , so surely that his honest reputation ( which should be vnto him o as a precious oyntment ) is thereby most shamefully blemished . Being pointed at by all sorts of people when he walketh abroad in the open streets , and too too reprochfully termed a tippling Tobacconist , a swaggering swil smoke , a sodden headed Asse , a fantasticall foole , a proper tale stripling to play at Poope-noddie , a man of a wonderfull wit ( forsooth ) cōcerning those our newly deuised chymicall extractions : being sufficiently able ( in very short time ) to turne a shilling to nine-pence , one that hath a meruellous dexteritie in augmenting his patrimonie by a plaine retrogradation , beginning directly where his ancestors ended , and neuer giuing ouer before he come where they first began : to knit vp all in a word , he is ( say they ) Thericleíouphil●s : p that is ( in plaine English ) a friend and follower of cup companions . What one ingenious nature may possibly but heare these disdainefull reproches , and his very eares not burne on his head ? Or who is the wight which ( being thus odiously branded in euery place ) would not grow grosly ashamed of that shamefull condition which thus makes him the shame of the world ? Surely , the timely consideration of these fearefull effects concerning especially their owne proper persons , would euen presently take vp our Tobacconists minds with farre better imployments : were they not too too beastly bewitched with those venimous vapours which flow from their filthie fumes . For lo , these are the faire fragrant flowers of their chargeable flames , the vndoubted successe of those their sottish attempts , and the flourishing fruites of those their fantasticall fooleries . The very feeling of these and such other most fearefull effects should cause them continually to crie out and say thus , q Oh how pestiferous is that transitorie pleasure which we haue dearely purchased with such perpetuall paine & shame ? For lo now we do find and feele ( in our proper experience ) that these our filthie Tobacco fumes , are not onely pernicious vnto our bodies , but too too profluuious also for our purses , in procuring such fearefull effects to our owne proper persons . Capn. They should so , I confesse . And I doubt not but ( by that time they haue bene better schooled a while with the mistris of fooles ) they will learne that lesson by roate . But what are those other effects ( I beséech you ) which do likewise concerne their proper estates ? Hydr. They are those accidentall occurrents which do ordinarily attend vpon such chargeable cost , such superfluous waste , such a prodigall and profluuious dispending of ancient patrimonies with other like worldly preferments . For what other things else may possibly follow thereof ( besides a pernicious hurt to the body , and vntimely vndermining of mens honest reputations ) but an vnrecouerable subuersion of that their ancient estate which they formerly receiued from their forefathers frugalitie ? a perpetuall supplanting of that their primarie approued condition ? and a monstrous metamorphosing of their former well managed Mannors , with other their domesticall maintenance ? So as ( by these meanes ) they make great noble Persons , but single-soaled Gentelmen ; well bred Gentelmen , but bare thredded Yeomen ; bountifull Yeomen , but beggerly Husbandmen ; hospitious Husbandmen , but shifting Trades-men , artificious Trades-men ; but conicatching companions ; conicatching companions , but vagabond rogues . Thus thou mayest plainly perceiue how these their intoxicating Tobacco fumes are able ( in an vnperceiueable and Circean manner ) to transforme nobilitie into gentrie , gentrie into yeomanrie , yeomanrie into husbandry , husbandrie into maunuarie , manuarie into manubiarie , manubiarie into a vagrant and retchlesse roguerie , and what not besides ? Capn. Do you then determine , that these their Tobacco fumes are the vnchangeable cause of such a changed condition ? Hydr. I do not make those their said fumes the efficient cause , although yet an vnchangeable occasion of such a change . For seeing r the spirit which dwelleth in them , doth lust after euill continually : who seeth not then , but that this filthie Tobacco fume ( so forcibly bewitching their braines ) is the vndoubted occasion of inflaming their said luft to such a profluuious waste for the timely purchase of that which makes them eftsoones to s waxe wanton with the good blessings of God ? And euen as Israel t affected flesh for their lust : so these our fantasticall spirits ( requiring Tobacco fumes for their filthie desire ) do most prodigally dispend their patrimonies about the vntimely procuring of those vanishing flames which they so wastfully u consume vpon their inordinate lusts . Howbeit , this one thing withall I pray thee obscrue : namely , that as the Lord God indirectly x giues them this way their hearts desire : so surely while the Tobacco fume is yet in their mouthes , y his ineuitable wrath falles fearefully vpon them . For not onely he deli●ers them vp ( in iustice ) z to their owne hearts lust : but leaues them withall so sottish in iudgment , as themselues know not which way to mannage their present possessions ; making thē insatiably mad in dispending their patrimonies about such smokie delights , and in wasting their worldly preferments vpon those their preposterous lusts . And thus at length they begin to perceiue in their proper experience , that as the water which driues the mill , decaies the mill : so surely with whatsoeuer vaine man a insatiably sinneth , with the same eftsoones he is foundly punished . Capn. Why Sir ? may not wise men maintaine their Tobacco fumes , as well as their meate , drinke , & cloathing , without either offending God , or the pitifull subuersion of their present estates ? Hydr. Dost thou accomt those for wise men , which so wantonly and foolishly waste their worldly maintenance vpon those their forenamed fooleries ? But that thou may be able to vnderstand these matters the better : thou must learne here to distinguish betweene the necessary , and the needlesse supplies of nature . For all those things which do necessarily tend to an orderly preseruation of natures well being , according to the prouident purpose of God himselfe , namely , meate , drinke , and clothing : they may , and they must bee maintained by a moderate and frugall expence , correspondent to each man his present abilitie . Yea and all the necessarie expences bestowed that way , they do vndoubtedly receiue such a blessed increase from the goodnesse of God , as a man shall be sure , therein b to eate the labour of his owne proper hands , and it shall go well with him euery kind of way . Howbeit , all those things whatsoeuer which are but needlesse supplies to natures well being , not onely needlesse ( I say ) but noysome withall ( such as are our immoderate gormandizings , our superfluous quaffing vp of wine and strong drinkes , our insatiable sucking in of filthy Tobacco fumes , with sundry such other fantasticall fooleries ) as they are not the ordinarie appointed labours of those mens hands which c walke vprightly in the waies of the Lord , so hath the Lord himselfe not onely alotted no one blessing vnto them , but rather imposed a d fearefull curse of penurie vpon them . For as it is the e blessing of the Almightie that maketh men rich , so surely all those senslesse fooles which so insatiably deuoure their owne proper substance , they shall be enforced eftsoones f to vomite it vp againe , for the Lord God will draw it out of their bellies , be they neuer so great , or so mightie . Yea and not onely the great ones shall be sure to feele this fearefull effect concerning their owne present estates , but euen the g labouring men likewise that are so resolutely giuen to these their drunken delights , they shall neuer be rich : and all they that make not much of a little , by little and little shall soone come to nothing ; so vncertaine are the estates ( be thou sure ) of all those our insatiable suckers vp of filthie Tobacco fumes . Capn. But why should the expences bestowed vpon meate , drinke and clothing receiue such a blessing from God , and the excessiue cost layed forth for filthie Tobacco fumes , vndergo so fearefull a curse ? Hydr. The reason is this . Meate , drinke , and clothing , they are necessarie supplies for natures well being , and the ordinarie props appointed of God for the timely support , and needfull preseruation of this present life : so as a moderate expence bestowed that way , it is the Almightie his mercifull designement to such as h vprightly walke in his waies . Whereas that superfluous waste which these men do riotously lauish forth vpon their filthie Tobacco fumes , it is not the approued ordinarie way which the Almighty appointeth for mans preseruation , but rather such an inordinate desire of mans lusting heart as procureth his present destruction . To the one sort therefore the Lord hath promised a i blessing vpon their basket and store : and telleth them withall , that they shall vndoubtedly k eate the labour of their owne proper hands , which do so industriously and so painefully walke in his waies . To the other , he not onely denounceth a curse vpon l their fields their basket , their store , the fruite of their land , the increase of their kine , and the flockes of their sheepe , but also vpon their reuenewes and rents how exceeding soeuer ; telling them withall , that they do but euen m purse vp the same in a bottomlesse bag . So as the very curse of the Lord ( thou seest ) is in n the house of the wicked : but he blesseth the habitation of the righteous . I will make thee perceiue my purpose herein , by some plaine demonstration : and ( for better performance hereof ) let vs put this downe here for the present proportion . Be it supposed that some great man receiued yearely but fiue hundred pounds annuall rents to defray his domesticall charges withall ; which said fiue hundred pounds ( being handsomly husbanded , and frugally employed ) would accomplish that worke in a very commendable and competent manner : but being any way superfluously or wastefully spent vpon excesse of apparell , meates , drinkes , and other such riotous courses , would come very short in the reckoning . Suppose now withall , that this man forsooth ( to fulfill the inordinate lust of his owne licentious heart ) would yearely dispend one hundred pound at the least , vpon the vanishing flames of filthie Tobacco fumes , not abating at all his said excesse in apparell , in meates , and in drinkes : doth it not necessarily follow , that either this mans fiue hundred pounds rent must otherwaies receiue some extraordinarie supply for the continuall support of such a superfluous waste , or that else his present estate ( in continuance of time ) will be tumbled vpside downe ? What sayest thou Capnistus ? do answer directly either yea , or no. Capn. The one , or the other ( I fréely confesse ) must necessarily follow thereof : namely , either some present supplie , or a present supplanting of that mans present estate at the least . Hydr. Thou iudgest aright . But tell me now where must such a present supply be had ? There is no hope to obtaine the same from the blessing of God , because such a riotous course is directly opposite to his holy appointed ordinance : but rather the contrarie . For as those men do prodigally euen blow away their wealth about filthie superfluous fumes , so surely the Almightie himselfe ( euen in his fuming vengeance ) doth proportionably blow forth a fearefull curse vpon all their labours : willing them to o consider their owne waies in theit hearts , and telling them withall that p although they sow much they shall bring little home , and though they do eate , they shall not be satisfied : and although they do drinke , they shall not be filled ; ●hough they cloath themselues , they shall not be chearished ; yea although they addle much wages , or receiue large reuenewes , yet shall they but purse vp the same in a bottomlesse bag : because I haue blowne vpon it , saith the Lord God. Yea , the iust reuenger of such fantasticall courses , will appoint q the Palmer worme to spoile the rest of their store ; and that which is left by the Palmer worme , shall the Grashopper eate , and the residue of the Grashopper shall the Canker-worme eate ; and the remainder of the Canker-worme , shall the Caterpiller consume and deuoure . By all which thou mayest very plainly perceiue , that rather a final consumption , then any formall supply , it is to be fearefully expected from the hands of the Lord. Capn. Very true it is . And therefore , I sée now they must either surceasse from that their former superfluous waste : or vse some other deuice of their owne , to supplie their wants . Hydr. Thou sayest very well . But what one deuice of their owne will be able to counteruaile the determined vengeance of God against those their superfluous vanities ? No no , it is vtterly in vaine for those vaine-headded men , whose r breath is in their nostrils , to encounter herein with that s God of vengeance whom they haue t moued with iealousie , and prouoked to anger by those their superfluous vanities : and who moreouer ( besides that ineuitable curse vpon their worldly preferments ) will yet further smite their owne persons with such u amazednesse , such blindnesse , and astonishment of mind , as they shall be quite destitute euen of naturall discretion and iudgement which way to mannage well their proper estates : but shall ignorantly x grope about the same at middle-time of the day , as blind men grope in the darknesse , and shall not be able to prosper in any their waies . And from hence ( I assure you ) it is that thou beholdest hourely among them , such sodaine alienating of ancient inheritances ; such a beastly bangling out of their birthrights ; such carelesse curtolling of ancient entailes ; such iniurious transporting of former titles ; such an horrible chopping and changing of long continued Lordships ; such a monstrous metamorphosing of their ancestours Mannors ; such a gracelesse acknowledging of fines and recoueries , and such a preposterous posting ouer of patrimonies with other like worldly preferments . And howsoeuer these our Ammorites sinnes y are not as yet mounted vp to their excessiue height , but that the men themselues do still continue a time in some part of their ancient possessions : yet be thou assured of this , that ( so soone as the iust measure of those their monstrous enormities are heaped vp once to the full ) then euen those their reserued possessions will likewise vomit them forth ; so as open bils of sale shall be set ouer their doores , to purport to all passengers the sale of such houses . Yea and this also , to the great admiration of those our Diogenists , who will be readie to put downe this their cynicall censure vpon it , and say , z Oh house , house ; I thought thou wouldest surfet so long vpon those thy Tobacco fumes , that at the length thou wouldest spew thy maister quite out adoores . For now we do plainly perceiue , that the Lord a hath not left in thee , one man of thine owne bloud , to make water against the wall . Lo , here the fearefull effects concerning these our fume-suckers present estate in the world . Capn. Very fearefull effects I assure you . But Sir , hauing succinctly shewed me those horrible effects which more especially concerne the Tobacconists themselues , in an onely respect either of their person , or their proper conditions : now shew me in like manner ( I pray you ) those other effects which more respectiuely concerne some others besides themselues . Hydr. With very good will. Wherein also thou hast to confider , that those selfe same effects they are of two sorts : Namely , such as more properly concerne their owne wiues and children : or such else , as do more generally concerne some others besides . Capn. What are those effects first , which more properly concerne their owne wiues and children ? Hydr. They are all those accidentall occurrents which do very fearefully affect their sorowfull hearts . Namely , the riotous dispending of that their allotted maintenance ; the alienating of their designed inheritance , and their vtter impouerishing without all hope of redemption . From the wofull consideration of which occurrents , they are seuerally enforced to put vp their pitifull complaints for the ease of their endlesse griefes . Capn. What complaints ( I pray you ) are those ? Hydr. Surely , euen such as are able to batter our Tobacconists hearts in an hundred peeces , were they not an hundred times harder then the Adamant stone . For imagine thou beheldest here such a fume-suckers wife most fearefully fuming forth very fountaines of bloud , howling for anguish of heart , weeping , wailing , and wringing her hands together , with grisly lookes , with wide staring eies , with minde amazed , with thoughts perplexed , with body shiuering and quaking in euery ioynt : wouldest thou not wonder greatly at this her so sodaine a change ? I am sure thou couldest not but wonder much . But suppose withall thou shouldest presently heare the thundring eccho of her horrible outcries ring in the clouds , while she pitifully pleades with her husband thus : Oh husband , my husband , mine onely husband ! Consider I beseech thee , thy deare , thy louing , and thy kind-hearted wife . Am not ( I alas ) thine onely wife ; thy best beloued wife ; yea and b the onely wife of thy youth ? Out , out ( alas ) why art thou then so carelesse of this my present estate ? Why dost thou so vainely preferre a vanishing filthie fume before my permanent vertues ; before my amourous imbracings ; yea before my firme setled faith & constant loue ? Alas ( my sweet husband ) haue I not bin the Almightie his sanctified meanes to c build thee vp with an d holy , a blessed , and a sanctified seede ? Haue not I here brought forth e an armie of children vnto thee ? Haue I not enabled thee ( husband ) to f speake with thy stoutest enemies in the open gates ? yea haue I not made thee ( alas ) an happie man , by g filling thy quiuer full of faire , of faithfull , and gracious young impes ? What might any one woman in the vniuersall world haue done more for thee ( my deare husband ) then thy deare wife hath done ? Oh , out ( alas ) why art thou then become now so graceles a father towards this thine owne of-spring ; and so grieuous an husband to me their poore mother , in preferring a fantasticall smoke before these so substantiall blessings ? Oh husband , husband , oh hard hearted husband ! nay rather , a h bloudie husband thou art vnto me . For that thou ( neglecting i thy proper calling & care concerning an husband ) hast causelesly brought k abundance of cares vpon me thy sillie poore carefull wife : A care how to liue my selfe , a care how to vphold our present estate , a care for these my poore comfortlesse brats , a care for their present prouision and foode ; hil-backe , and fil-bellie is now mine hourely care , yea and a care for some corner ( God knowes ) wherein we may hide our beggerly heads . For thou ( alas husband ) hauing hitherto vainely wasted their proper reuenewes vpon a vanishing filthie fume , I my poore selfe must be faine ( now ) to forgo my Feoffement also , I must ( perforce ) be enforced to yeeld to the present sale thereof , to acknowledge before some Iudge my vnwilling willing consent thereunto , full sore ( God he knowes ) against my owne will. Howbeit , necessitie ( they say ) hath no law : I must now do it ( alas ) or let thee lie fast by the heeles . I must do it ( God wot , ) otherwise my poore selfe and my sorowful children must starue in the open streets . Tell me Capnistus , if thou shouldest but heare a poore sorrowfull wife thus pitifully complaine vpon her pitilesse fume-sucking husband , wouldest thou not forthwith imagine that her poore fainting heart had too effectually felt the fearefull effects of that his former fantasticall fooleries ? Capn. Yes in very déede would I Sir , and ( I suppose ) not without a very vrgent occasion : but what are the poore childrens complaints , I pray you ? Hydr. They are those sighing sobs , and those sorowfull outcries which euen present necessitie , and the fearefull foresights of their future wants doth hourely vrge them vnto . For the better explanation wherof , imagine thou shouldest here likewise behold before thy face , a yong tender brat , or little pretie nest-cukkle ( beginning to bite in the lip , to whimper a little ) and then ( creeping pretily betweete the degenerate father his legs ) should cry out and say thus vnto him in the name of all the rest of his brethren and sisters : Dad , hearke Dad in thine eare . Am not I thy best boy , am I not , Dad ? And doest thou not loue me thy best boy , Dad ? Harke Dad , thou wert wont ( whē thou wentst to the Faires ) to buy thy best boy , fine knacks , fine boxes , fine rattles , a fine feather , a fine gilden dagger , and a fine golden hobbie-horse : wert thou not , Dad ? And wilt thou now let me thy white-headed boy runne barefoote and barelegged without hose and shooes ? Why harke Dad , hath the fire of Tobacco filched thy purse ? Hath filthie Tobacco flames enforced all thy golden angels to creepe couertly out of thy coffers into thy profluuious pouch , and from thence to flie forth all about ? Tell me good Dad , hath the poysonsome stinke of those filthie Tobacco fumes made me thy owne pretie boy , my brethren and sisters to stinke now so horribly in thy vnnatural nostrils , as thou art vtterly vnable ( how willing soeuer ) to buy my brother Humfrey an hat , or little Francke a fustian coate , or my sister Kate a new coife , or poore prettie Tib a tawdrie lace , or yet me thy best boy a new nothing to hang on my sleeue ? I pray thee hearke Dad , and I 'le tel thee a thing in thine eare . My brother Robin he wrings his hands thus , and cries mainly out : because thou art now no more able to maintaine him any longer to schoole , and yet he hath halfe learned his Puerilis ( he saith ) without booke . And my sister Meg , she sits mourning in corners , because ( being now ripe and readie for mariage ) thou art not able to prefer her that way , with one groates-worth of goods , she being otherwaies capable enough of many good mariages . And Dad , little Kit , he cries out for a prenticeship , but cannot preuaile therein , for want of preferment . Yea and mine eldest brother Will , he goeth wailing vp and downe : because his birth-right ( he saith ) is bangled out about nothing . Dad , hearke in thine eare ; Will , he prates many bugs-words to my brothers and sisters behind thy backe . He maruels ( he saith ) how thou canst for very shame go daily ( as thou doest ) to heare Sermons , and profite no more by preaching . Nay , hearke Dad , he telleth them that Saint Paul saith plainly , l thou hast denied the faith ; art become an apostate , and worse them an infidel : because thou shewest thy selfe so carelesse in prouiding for vs , & the folke of thy familie . Yea and that the Lord God proceedeth iustly in iudgement against thee , by causing thy fantasticall sucking in of filthie Tobacco flames , to feede thee as fat as a foole . For lo ( saith he ) our Father long since did lie m in his bed , deuising that monstrous flame : neuer regarding at all , how the Lord ( in the meane time ) was n deuising a plague against him and his familie , from which neither he himselfe , nor we his forlorned of-spring , shall euer be able to plucke out our neckes . And therefore ( with very great griefe and anguish of heart ) we may now take vp this reproachfull parable against him ▪ yea we may now lament with a dolefull lamentation , and say one to another . Alas , we be o euen vtterly wasted ? Behold here , how the righteous Iudge ( for our fathers fantasticall fooleries ) hath iustly dispersed the long setled portions of vs his poore of-spring for euer . For lo , our owne father himselfe ( being fearefully giuen ouer to the insatiable lust of his owne licencious heart ) hath now made such an absolute sale of his lands , and so beastly bangled out our birth-rights in so many odde parcels , as there is vtterly no hope at all of any redemption ; nor possibilitie that any one of our fathers poore of spring shall euer be able to cast forth a coard by lot , in any our alienated inheritances . In so much as wise men ( wondring greatly thereat ) may say one to another : Behold , we p haue seene the foolish man substantially rooted , and surely setled : but lo , now the Lord curseth his habitation , and telleth him , his children shall be destitute , and farre from succour : yea that they shall be destroyed in the gate , and none shall deliuer them . The hungrie shall eate vp this foolish mans haruest ; yea they shall euen take it away as it were from among the thornes ; and the thirstie shall drinke vp his substance . Neither may our said father impute the blame hereof to the barrennesse of the soile , but to the badnesse rather of his owne proper husbandry , and to the preposterous waste of his profluuious purse . For q miserie cometh not forth of the dust , neither doth pouertie spring out of the earth . Lo Dad , my brothers and sisters they prate thus in corners behind thy backe , so they do : and I said I would tell thee thereof , so I would ; and wilt thou not whip them soundly for it ? How sayest thou Capnistus ? if thou shouldest but heare some poore distressed mother and her pitifull brats thus greeuously crie and complaine , wouldest thou not forthwith conclude that their poore hearts had formerly felt the forenamed effects of such a fantasticall sucking in of filthie Tobacco fumes ? Capn. Yes that would I , no doubt : and not without very great cause . But good Sir , forbeare ( I beséech you ) all such your further patheticall Prosopopoeias . For my very heart it bléedes in my body , to thinke that any poore harmelesse infants should thus be enforced to pull a publike reproch vpon their owne fathers , for those their fantasticall and palpable fooleries . Hydr. I am very well willing ( vpon this thine intreatie ) to surceasse forthwith from those their supposed most pitifull plaints ; not taking any pleasure at all in such prosecutions , but desiring thereby to make those their vnchristian courses become odious , euen in the eares of all sorts of people . And surely , had those our blindfolded sots but one dram of Gods grace , or one drop of good nature remaining within them , they would eftsoones imagine such patheticall Prosopopoeias in their owne sinfull soules . Howbeit , this is certainly a vengeance decreed with God , that as r the prosperitie of those our foolish Tobacconists is their proper destruction , so surely the Almightie ( in that selfe same decreed vengeance ) will euen constraine them perforce to s eate vp the whole crop of their owne foolish waies , and to be filled with the fruites of their former deuices . Yea he will enforce their t appointed pouertie to come speedily vpon them as one that passeth apace by the way : and make their allotted beggerie very fiercely to assault them , like a strong armed man. Capn. Well Sir , let this fully suffice for those fearefull effects which more respectiuely concerne their wiues and ●hildren : an● now lay open those other effects ( I pray you ) which more generally concerne some other besides . Hydr. With a very good will. Wherein thou hast here to obserue , that those selfe same effects , they are either such as more especially concerne the poore Tenants themselues : or such else as more generally appertaine to the publike State. Capn. What are those effects first , which more especially concerne the poore Tenants themselues ? Hydr. They are all those importable burdens which their intoxicated Land-lords do most grieuously impose vpon the poore mens backs , for the bloudie supplie of their beastly wants . For , these our insatiable suckers of smoke , feeling once ( in a miserable experience ) that their fiue hundred-pounds yearely reuenewes will not render an allowance to that their prodigall dispending of one hundred pounds yearely at least vpon those their filthie Tobacco fumes , without a finall confusion of their forefathers patrimonie ; and perceiuing moreouer , that no one supply of those their superfluous wants may possibly bee expected from any the good blessings of God , but the cursed supplanting rather of their present possessions , they begin eftsoones to cast about with themselues , which way they may assuredly support their fantasticall fooleries , without the finall subuersion of their proper estates . And this imagination of theirs , no sooner possesseth their swimming heads , but the diuell himselfe doth forthwith suggest as pleasing a supply to their swilling hearts ; perswading them seriously ( through the diuellish deuice of Christian Craft , that Machiuilian monster which hourely attends on their persons , and vndertakes withall to mannage their domesticall affaires ) that they may very well raise yearely some two hundred pounds more at the least from among their poore Tenants , towards the timely defraying of those their superfluous and idle expences , without any present oppressing of those peasant-like fatbackes at all . Capn. Oh monstrous imagination of theirs ! All the diuels in hell could neuer haue found forth a more mischieuous deuice for the pitifull spoyling of those their poore Tenants . Hydr. Very true as thou sayest . For this diuellish deuice is no sooner set on foote by those monstrous Minotaures , but the same is as diuellishly entertained of our Tyger-like Tobacconists , and as perniciously put in present practise by them , and their bloudie Bailifs together . So as , from this sandie foundation doth forthwith arise the monstrous improuing of Lordships , the mercilesse inclosing of seuerall grounds , the insatiable inhaunsing of incomes and fines , the excessiue racking and raising of rents , the beggerly borowing of some three yeares pay before hand at the least ; the rufull riding and running ; the chargeable carting and carying , so vncharitably exacted vpon the poore Tenants ; their bondslaue-like boonings at euery becke ; their extraordinarie rent-corne , rent-coales , rent-capons , and I wot not what ; together with the vnseasonable haling home of their hungry Land-lord his haruest , notwithstanding the exceeding great losse of their owne , lying all abroad in great danger of waste . Yea from hence also ariseth the taking of so many new leases , in a needles reuersion ; the vnhonest drowning vp of some nine or ten yeares in the old lease at least ; the finding forth of some certaine odde quirkes in either of both ; and the vnequall making of forfeitures in either of both , so oft as poore Tenants refuse to crouch downe like old beaten hounds at their maisters becke , or to supply the insatiable want of the Land-lords insatiable lusts whensoeuer they call . By all which thou maist plainly perceiue , that these our insatiable suckers of smoke , do nothing else in effect , but euen u batter their poore Tenants to pouder , x grinde the poore mens faces away , y swallow vp the hungrie soules , z buy the needie for shooes , a oppresse the iust in the gate , b make the needie of the land to faile , yea and c insatiably deuoure the innocent bloud , to vphold their insatiable filthie fooleries . So as , the d whole land must tremble for this : and euery man mourne that dwelleth therein . Capn. And very well worthie they are . But Sir , Do you absolutely ascribe these fearefull effects , to our insatiable taking of Tobacco fumes alone ? Hydr. Not so . For howsoeuer it be a most fearefull sinne before the Maiestie of the immortall God , for any man thus vainely to waste his wealth : yet surely this our superfluous sucking in of filthie Tobacco fumes goeth neuer alone by it selfe , but hath ( like an amourous Ladie ) her lasciuious hangbies attending hourely vpon her traine , to aggrauate her needlesse excesse the more in the presence of God. For this burning and scorching flame being once inwardly taken into the bowels ; there must necessarily follow , an insatiable quaffing vp of wine , ale , or beere at the least , to allay and quench the excessiue heate of the stomacke . And by the insatiable quaffing in of these strong drinks , Dame Venus her selfe beginneth eftsoones so fiercely to be enflamed and set on fire , as nothing in the world but some one of her Damosels , or Draf-sackes at least , must forthwith be fetcht , to calme the new kindled coales of their lusting hearts . And those amourous Damosels so seruiceably attending their becke , & so wantonly seruing their turnes that way , they must not only be most gallantly adorned with whatsoeuer ornaments of brauery themselues , but be courted eftsoones ( by those their prodigall paramours ) in sundry changeable & chargeable sutes . And this brauery of apparel , it must be proportionably graced with proud & sumptuous buildings : and those sumptuous buildings , they speedily procure a prodigall dispending of patrimonies with other like worldly preferments . And this prodigall dispending of patrimonies , it cannot but impaire our fume-suckers ancient estates . And this needlesse impairing of ancient estates , it must haue forsooth some present supply from a pitifull oppressing of the poore Tenants themselues . So as , albeit these sundry most wastefull disorders do all ioyntly concurre in the speedie subuersion of our fume-suckers ancient estates , and therefore we do synecdochically put downe but a part for the whole ; yet the filthie Tobacco fume ( thou maist plainly perceiue ) is now adaies become the Troian horse-bellie of those other hidden mischiefes , and the onely Metropolitane of all those monstrous misorders . By the misguidance whereof , our insatiable fume-suckers ( thou seest ) they do nothing in effect : but euen e hatch the Cockatrice egges , and weaue the poysonsome spiders web , f conceiuing mischiefe , and bringing iniquity forth : thus g drawing wickednesse to themselues with the cords of vanitie , and sinne , as t● were with cart-ropes . Capn. Let this suffice for those fearefull effects which more especially concerne the poore Tenants themselues : and now shew me ( I pray you ) those other effects which more generally appertaine to the publike State. Hydr. With very good will. And those effects also are such as do primarily proceed from the mightier sort of our filthy fume-suckers : or from the more abiect crew of those our tippling Tobacconists . Capn. Very well . But what ( first ) are those fearefull effects , which do primarily procéed from the mightier sort of our fume-suckers ? Hydr. They are such monstrous attempts and outragious enormities , as honest minded persons should euen tremble to tell ; as men of common humanitie should abhorre to heare ; and as holy religious wights should loath in their hearts . For when those our insatiable suckers of filthie fumes are vtterly sunke ; when their ancient estates ( I meane ) haue suffred such an vnrecouerable ship-wracke , as they know not which way to winde themselues forth from the sands of sorrow , and shelfs of shame , then they forthwith resolue vpon desperate courses for the daily supply of their present wants . For then ( forsooth ) they will either become magnificent statesmen in Stand-gate hole ; or too too humbled suters at Shooters-hil ; or huffing hunts-men on new Market-plaine ; or brauing Bow-bearers at Black-moore heath ; or hucking Habberdashers on Hog-magog hils ; or the Kings cauallering coyne-takers at Crabtree corner ; yea or the most fliggering Faulkeners at Flittesse hedge , to let flie at each passengers purse at the least . For as these fellowes can neither h dig , nor delue : so are they most egregiously ashamed to beg their reliefe at honest mens houses . Capn. These Sir ( I confesse ) they are most horrible effects . Hydr. They are so indeed . And yet ( if no helpe might be found for the same ) I could euen heartily wish that these were the worst . Because then it were more safe to suffer some small inconuenience , then desperately admit of an horrible mischiefe . Yea and of two dangerous occurents , rather to tollerate the least of the twaine , then fearefully vndergo the hazard of all . Capn. What might be your meaning herein Sir , I beséech you ? Hydr. My meaning herein is this . Namely , if there could none other helpe at all be had , then were it much better to beare a time with such desperate aduentures as tend to the onely hurt of some priuate persons , then ouer carelesly to neglect the vnnaturall nourse-mother of some such dangerous attempts as directly do aime at the publike good of the State. I will demonstrate this matter by an apparent example thus . Those our late traiterous Recusants , they were all ( for the most part ) but beggerly Bankrupts , and men of very base condition , as Authoritie it selfe ( by due inquisition , and prouident enquirie ) found plainly forth , and their owne fauourites themselues very freely confesse . Now those men ( for the most part ) they were formerly held for professed Tobacconists : namely , for disordered and riotous persons . Who falling first from Tobacco to tippling ; from tippling to whoring ; from whoring , to a Court-like brauing ; from a Court-like brauing , to superfluous building ; from a superfluous building , to a prodigall dispending of their ancient patrimonies , & other their alloted preferments ; from a prodigall dispending , to an excessiue want ; from an excessiue want , to a wofull malcontented condition ; and from their malcontended condition , to the proud pioners most bloudie profession in that the vndermining practise of theirs : wherein they purposely put downe their pestiferous proiects and plots for their present reliefe . For howsoeuer they made Religion it selfe vnseemely couerture to those their traiterous attempts , because among them , i In the name of God , all mischiefe begins : yet ( without doubt ) the preposterous supply for those their profluuious purses , was the principall propounded period to those their pestilent purposes , and the fully determined shot-anker of that their subsequent shame . The sequele it selfe doth sound forth at large the truth of the premisses now , how intricate soeuer before . For their intollerable wants became so heauie a burden vnto their vnbended backes , as ( before they would too long vndergo the huge weight thereof ) they rather most damnably resolued among themselues to massacre our most Christian King , our gracious Queene ; our peerlesse young Prince , the whole royall of-spring , the honorable Councell ; the Nobles , the Gentrie , the Cleargie , the Communaltie , and the happie estate of this our whole countrey : like a most viperous brood , deuouring the very belly it selfe wherein they were borne and bred . Capn. Oh horrible attempt ! What stéelie heart would not tremble and quake at the very hearing thereof ? But go to Sir , make haste I beséech you , to the timely vnfolding of those other effects which more respectiuely procéed from the baser sort of those our tippling Tobacconists . Hydr. Content . Wherein also I would haue thee consider afresh , that albeit this sort of tippling Tobacconists bee accompted for men very abiect and base , in comparison of those loftie fume-suckers we spake of before , yet proue they too too pestiferous also to the publ●ke State ; and their pretended proiects and plots are much more pernicious that way , then may well be perceiued at first . And howsoeuer these , and the other may seeme somewhat to differ in their seuerall circumferences , they do both of them ioyntly fall iumpe and pat vpon one and the selfesame period of publike disorder . For ( concerning any their practicall designements ) they mutually march forwards in one and the selfe same circular motion , I meane , in the pestiferous disturbing and preposterous supplanting of our publike State. Capn. Good Sir , I cannot as yet conceiue your purpose herein . Hydr. I will thus more expresly demonstrate the same . Be it here supposed that this baser sort of tippling Tobacconists ( whether Husbandmen ▪ Artificers , Trades-men , Sadlers , Shoo-makers , Taylers , Tinkers , or any other else of the vulgar condition ) hauing in all ▪ but twentie nobles , twentie markes , twentie or fortie pounds maintenance to defray all manner of domesticall charges withall ) should weekely dispend some three shillings fourepence vpon filthie Tobacco fumes : who seeth not plainly , but that either their said maintenance must forthwith bee mannaged by some other bad meanes , or this their ancient estate in very short time be shrewdly surprized , and ( in a manner ) quite subuerted ? Capn. There is no necessarie consequent in either of both . For behold Sir , they may forthwith surceasse from such a superfluous waste , and eftsoones betake themselues to a much more frugall course . Hydr. Surceasse from their former superfluous waste ( saist thou ) and fall to frugalitie ? When the skie falleth so downe to the ground , wee may haply gather great store of Larks . No , no , it s more possible for a man to take an Hare with a tabret and whistle , then turne those bewitched Tobacconists frō that tippling course wherein they were more accustomably bred and brought vp . For howsoeuer they be k wise enough to do wickedly : yet ( without question ) to do well , they haue no knowledge at all . Do thou but take an exact suruey of any their disordered courses , or desperate attempts in all their assemblies , and at euery time and tide : and then tell me withall , what any one hope may bee had after such a Moone-shine in the water ? And whether worse Canker-wormes can be found in a Christian Common-wealth , then those our l Egyptian Caterpillers . Capn. Helpe me good Sir ( I beséech you ) in such a suruey . Hydr. With all my heart . And ( for the more orderly effecting of this our intent ) it shall be by a liuely resemblance of them , and their ordinary practises . Let vs therefore accordingly imagine , that Prince Arthur our Aleman , Babble-much the Barber , Barthelet the Butcher , Cocke-on hoope the Cobbler , Ding-thrift the Dog-keeper , False-chaps the Fidler , Grout-nolle the Girdeler , Huf-cap the Hunts man , Iustle-king the Ioyner , Lithersbie the Lath-render , Martin the Marriner , Mad-braine the Make-shift , Nichol the Net-mender , Oliuer the Oyster-man , Perkin the Pedler , Partiface the Piper , Proud-mind the Plummer , Runagate the Royster , Simkin the Sithesmith , Small-braines the Shoo-maker , Thin-gut the Thatcher , Talke-apace the Taylour , with Tom-trash the Tinker : imagine here ( I say ) that all and euery of these should mutually assemble themselues at Saint Paltockes Inne , wouldest thou not accompt them m a quaint Crobylian yoke , a congruent cluster ( I meane ) of prettie carowsing companions ? Capn. I might ( at first sight ) so accompt them , I fréely confesse . Howbeit Sir , this your cynicall censure , it will ( I feare me ) be shrewdly distasted of some : because the Trades themselues which you speake of here ( being rightly respected ) are very commendable , yea and sundry men of those selfe same trades , are worthily reputed for honest persons . Hydr. Distasted of some ( sayest thou ? ) A silie poore witlesse some they are ( be thou sure ) who wot not how to distinguish betweene those trades themselues , and the men in those trades . For I do not here censure those good trades themselues , nor the honest men whatsoeuer , imployed in any of those commendable trades : onely I taxe the scum and of-scouring of honest men , and the palpable abusers of those the good trades whatsoeuer . And therefore ( to proceede directly in that our former suruey , ) let vs imagine that either all , or some certaine of these should purposely assemble themselues at Arthur ale-mans house about eight or nine of the clocke in the morning , with a ioynt and full resolution there to hold out side till eleuen or twelue in the night : what kind of coile ( thinkest thou ) would those our quaint companions keepe there for all the day long ? Capn. When the good ale were once got in the head , and wit gone out , I feare me Sir , they would kéepe a very bad coile . Hydr. Thou mayest be assured of that , if thou but obserue their ordinarie courses . For ( hauing ioyntly determined vpon the match making ) to make then their sweete liquor of life the appointed period to all those their pot-like proceedings , they suppose it not greatly amisse , to begin the match first , by drinking in measure next their hearts ; that is , each man ( for his share ) must carouse a whole quart at a clap , for curing his eie-sight . After all this , they mispend some quarter of an houre in questioning about the maner of their Hostesses brewing , and in commending most highly that last brewed liquor of life . But now ( forsooth ) perceiuing some sodaine cold qualme ouerwhelming their queasie stomackes by reason that their lately receuied liquor lieth cold in the same , they do call forthwith for one ounce of Tobacco , for a Tobacco pipe , and a greasie candle to kindle the same : sucking in ( by course ) that filthie Tobacco fume , as eagerly ( I assure thee ) as the hungrie horse-leach sucketh vp the putrified bloud from a sore bruised leg . This is no sooner done , but they begin eftsoones to feele the fierie scorching flame of that filthie Tobacco fume , to fret and burne in their bellies : and thereupon , they do presently call for a whole yard of ale , that is , for so many fresh cups of that their beloued liquor , as may stand one by one within a yard compasse euery way . With these they resolue to allay , and to quench the outragious heate in their belching breasts : wherein also they do make exceeding much haste , for feare of fiering their rubie vermilion noses . This purpose performed , they perceiue their former fierie stomackes so sodainly cooled , and do then feele withall , such a chilling cold dispersing it selfe throughout all the parts of their bodie , as they feare to be forthwith surprised with a cold deadly palsie , or to fall eftsoones into some new feauer-lurden at least : and thereupon they take Tobacco afresh : and withall ( for preuenting the worst ) they do call forth a whole Iurie of fresh cups , to conclude and determine the good estate of their bodies . The first quart cup of those twelue ( being called Tom Troth ) they do make the foreman of the Iurie : swearing him forthwith , to giue vp a very true verdict concerning this present point , and to kisse the booke , that is , to cleaue close to their pale coloured lips till all the liquor be out . After him , Brafield-font he is next called , and so all the rest of their Iurie in order : telling them one by one , that the same oath which their fore-man had taken , must euery one of them also ( for their parts ) take and fulfill , so helpe t●em Belzebub , in the name of bleare-eied Bacchus their ale-mighty soule-slayer , & to kiffe the said booke as before . The Iurie now hauing thus deuoutly taken their oathes , and very deepely considered their late-giuen charge to the bottome , Breede-bate y e Bailieffe he cries , A verdict , a verdict . Whereupon Prince Arthur the ale-man ( being then made the deputed Rhadamanthus ouer those his tippling Tobacconists ) he readily receiueth the verdict , as followeth : Namely , that ( howsoeuer all the rest of their damned crew , are in prettie good case ) Cocke-on hoope the Cobler is fallen into very great danger , hauing too too beastly surfeited in his swine-like bodie , and being soule-sicke to death : so as there is none other way with him for the present , but forthwith to dispose of his last Will and Testament , and so to betake himselfe ( hand ouer head ) into the hands of Pluto his magnificent Lord and maister . Capn. A very sharpe verdict . But Sir , what was the successe thereof ? Hydr. Vpon the hearing of this late-giuen verdict , the whole company aduise Cocke-on hoope to deuise of a Will : who willingly consented thereunto . And thereupon Rince-pot the Register , he is sent for in haste , to write & record the same . Rince-pot ( hauing formally put downe the stile of the Testament ) doth aske him withall , what he would haue him write . Cocke-on-hoope willeth him to write word for word from his mouth , as he vtters them forth : which ( immediatly after the ordinarie stile ) was thus in effect : namely , Drinke , then more drinke , then a little more drinke , then yet more drinke , then a little modicum of Bakers bread , then drinke againe , then more drinke , then a little more drinke , then yet more drinke , and so forth . Item , I appoint Arthur Ale-man mine onely Executor , making Huf-cap the Hunts-man , and Small-braines the Soomaker , the ioynt Superuisers of this my last Testament : allowing them all three , a full pipe of Tobacco , for their paines that way . Witnesse hereunto , the whole raskallike-rabblement of this our damned crew . Go to now ( saith Cocke-on hoope ) let me heare my last Testament . Content ( quoth Rince-pot ) and thereupon ( crying Silence my maisters ) he read the same forth in this following order : In the name of Belzebub , amen . I Cocke-on hoope Cobler , being now most shrewdly surfeited in my beastly bodie by reason of the good ale suddes , and damnablie soule-sicke in these my damned delights , but yet of a reeling and rotten remembrance , blessed be Bacchus therefore , do ordaine this my last Will and Testament , in manner and forme following . First , I bequeath my beastly body to Bacchus mine onely ale-mightie protector , and the same to be buried directly vnder our gallowes , at the East townes end : surrendring withall my swine-like soule into Belzebubs hands , to be shrined vp for euer in the neathermost Stygian gulph . Then next , I bequeath to the whole societie of these my carousing companions , as followeth : Namely , drinke , more drinke , a little more drinke , yet more drinke , then a little modicum of Bakers bread : then drinke againe , then more drinke , then yet a little more drinke , and so forth . Item , I appoint Arthur ale-man , the sole and onely Executor of this my last Testament , making Huf-cap the Hunts-man , and Small-braines the Shoomaker , my ioynt superuisers ; allowing to euery of them , a full pipe of Tobacco for his paines taken that way . Witnesse hereunto , the whole Rascabilian rabblement of this our damnable Crew . Lo this ( quoth Rince-pot ) is here set downe as your last Will and Testament : How like you thereof ? I do like it ( saith Cocke-on hoope ) exceeding well , sauing in one onely point , namely , that little modicum of Bakers bread marreth all : if that were some way amended , I do ●ot doubt to recouer forthwith . Can you not put out the modicum of Bakers bread clean , and put downe a good pipe of Tobacco in the place thereof ? That may be done with a trice ( quoth Rince-pot ) and so accordingly recordeth the same . Cocke-on hoope , at the hearing thereof ( being somthing recouered of his surfeiting sicknesse ) he biddeth Groutnolle the Girdler to reach maister Rince-pot the bottome of the pot for his paines : and withall prayeth False-chaps the Fiddler , & Partie-face the Piper to play him his resurrexit à mortuis . At which his idle conceite , the whole company they fell forthwith into an exceeding loud laughter : and thereupon ( calling eftsoones for faire Allicocke their Hostesse , as also for her fine minion , mistresse Winefride the wring-spigot ) they held it an ancient kind of carousing curtesie ( in a merrie memento ) to kisse both of them round for feare of some ranckling . Capn. But , how did Arthur her Husband like of that matter ? Hydr. Exceedingly well : and no maruell at all . For it is the manner of such cup-shotten companions , to accompt those wiues the best wiues ( what baddes-bies soeuer ) which with one after-noones sport , are able to make their pottage-pot play the better for a whole weeke together . Howbeit , here began the new broyle . Breede-hate , he breweth a maruellous brawle about his ordinary Fee for summoning the Grand-Iurie before ; and Runagate the Royster , he lendeth him a sound cuffe on the eare for the same . Whereupon the whole crew of companions fell a scuffling together , neither once knowing , nor yet caring whom they do strike , so they may soundly light pat on any mans pate . In this their drunken fought fray , there was giuen many a broken head , besides sundry drie blowes about their shoulders . At length they friendly parted themselues : and thereupon Arthur ( to saue his recognizance ) conueyes them one from another into seuerall corners , there to sleepe out the good-ale suddes . After all this ( hauing somewhat recouered their senses ) they call forthwith for a reckoning : which came iust to twentie shillings ten pence for ale , and seuen shillings sixe for Tobacco and candle . Such as had present money payed their shares : and such as had none , either layed downe their pawnes , or else ranne on the score till a further reckoning . And then ( calling for a fresh paire of cardes , and their reckoning cups ) they thought good to conclude their sport , with a game or too at Poope-noddie . Capn. At Poope noddie Sir ? What game ( I beséech you ) is that ? Hydr. What Capnistus ? art thou a professed Tobacconist : and knowest not Poope-noddie ? I had thought the very hearing of these former disorders , would haue made thee acquainted therewith . Well then , I will shew thee the whole sport , according to the credible information of such as learned the same themselues in a sound and setled experience . Marke it well man ; for this ( I assure thee ) it is : Namely , all the kine out of the stall ; all the sheepe out of the fold ; all the corne out of the barne ; all the coine out of the coffer ; all the webs out of the wardrobe ; all the pennies out of the purse ; all the drinke out of the pot ; all the wit out of the head ; all the shame out of the face ; all honestie out of the heart ; bodie it selfe vnderneath the boord ; and soule and all to the diuell . Lo here the sway of Poope-noddie : and this for a short suruey concerning any their disordered courses . Capn. Disordered courses indéed . But yet Sir , these courses ( how disordered soeuer ) they hurt onely themselues : neither do I perceiue as yet , how the same should be greatly pernicious to the good of our publike State. Hydr. Surely , Capnistus , thou art ouer shallow of conceit to deale in deeper matters of policie , if thou perceiuest not this . For ( besides the great hurt which those our Tobacconists do causelesly procure to their owne proper persons and states ) is it not exceedingly hurtfull to the publik good of our countrey , that any such able persons should be so carelesly permitted to cassier their publike callings ; to leade an idle and loytring life ; to lose their precious times ; to abandon their ancient trades ; to neglect their charges ; to consume their patrimonies ; to lauish forth their worldly preferments ; to waste their whole wealth ; & so to procure such needlesse pouerty vpon themselues and all theirs , as they must be enforced perforce , either to beg their bread , or to be maintained vpon publike charge at the least : to the vntimely imbeazilling of their present prouision , and the preposterous vndermining of publike good ? Tell me ( I pray thee ) whether these their disordered courses do not collaterally and consequently become very pestiferous to our publike State ? Besides that , these disordered persons , they are egregiously scandalous to sundry such others of like disposition , in giuing them all a very pernicious president to such profluuious expences as they are naturally prone vnto , by procuring them to the like disordered practises ; by causing them very carelesly to foreslip their present auailes ; to lose their precious times ; to neglect their commendable callings ; to cast off all Christian care concerning themselues , their wiues , their children , and all the folke of their familie ; yea and euen prodigally to dispend , and wastefully to consume their worldly wealths vpon vanishing and vaine delights . Are not these squandring courses of theirs become very pestiferous presidents , and most pernicious practises ( thinkest thou ) to the vndoubted preiudice of our publike State ? For how should publike States be prouidently supported , and safely preserued in their publike good : without the honest cares , the carefull endeuours , and industrious labours of men in their sundry professions and callings ? And who shall attend vpon such industrious , laborious , and painefull endeuours , if all sorts of trades-men should confusedly become such carousing companions ? And why should Cocke-on hoope the Cobler , or Ding-thrift the Dog-keeper , or False-chaps the Fidler , or Lithersbie the Lath-render , or Partiface the Piper , or Small-braines the Shoo-maker ; or Spend-all the Spurrier , or any other else of that retchlesse rascabilian route , be more priuiledged to plod forth their precious times in any such pestiferous practises , then either Bonny-boy the Barber ; or Doubti-man the Draper ; or Honest-heart the Hatter ; or Lustie-lad the Labourer ; or Trusty-man the Mason ; or True-pennie the Taylour ; or Labour-hard the Lock-smith , or any other man else that make conscience of their calling , that do n eate the bread of carefulnesse , that ( as the beloued of God ) do repose their whole rest in his gracious and most mercifull prouidence ? Capn. It is certainly euen so as you say . Hydr. Very well . And will not then ( thinkest thou ) these the disordered courses of those our carousing companions become very pernicious occasions of breeding and procuring a maruellous discontentednesse in the mindes of these other industrious persons , all the while they perceiue them thus wastefully to liue of the spoile ? The pretie Pismires prouiding o their meate in sommer , and gathering their winter foode in the haruest before , they can ( by no meanes ) abide and sloathfull Ants in their companie . The painefull Bees they cannot possibly endure that any idle Drones in the hiue , should p sucke vp the sweete of their diligent labours . And how ( thinkest thou ) may these our honest minded labouring men ( at any hand ) be made to mannage the ruinated estates of any such monstrous Minotaures as seeke nothing else ( in effect ) but euen vtterly to massacre and spoile their owne , and other mens publike preferments ? No , no , they will rather run desperately vpon them at once , like q fierce Assyrian Bees ; or cruelly r cluster about them as an angry swarme ; or s chase them away from their hiue at the least , like Amorite waspes ; and so send them t to beg their bread in desolate places . Capn. And very well worthie they are . Hydr. But yet this would I haue thee obserue herewithall : namely , that y e honester minded sort , grow maruellously miscontented with those their monstrous misorders . For , out vpon those gracelesse Ding-thrifts say they : what an excessiue spoile do they make of all the good blessings of God ? Wee must be carking and caring , while they sit carousing and carding ; we must be labouring , while they lie loytring ; we must be toyling at home , while they are tippling and trifling abroade ; we must be warily working in haruest , while they are wantonly wasting at ale-houses ; yea we ( alas ) must bee spending our spirits at plough , while they lie spoyling our purses at play . What reason haue we to become bondslaues for bellie-gods ; poore Saint Christophers , for proud carousers , diligent drudgs , for such desperate drunkards ; yea and most prouident sparers , for such prodigall spenders ? Is it not strange that authoritie should so curbingly bridle vs in , and so carelesly cast the raines in their neckes to all licentious courses ? That they should so greeuously u bind burdens vpon vs while our backes are readie to burst ; and so egregiously to winke at their carousing of cup after cup , while their bellies are readie to breake ? That they should so chargeably exact payment after payment vpon euery of vs for the necessarie support of publike affaires ▪ and so vncharitably grant payment to any of them for the pernicious supply of those their prodigall dispendings ? Or that a weekely contribution towards the poore , should be imposed vpon euery of vs : and a weekely distribution thereof be so pestiferously allowed to euery of them , to the irreligious robbing of poore men indeed and the profluuious dispending of our proper wealths ? Much better were we to forsake our painefull professions , and to follow eftsoones their prodigall practises , with an hourely expectation of like publike reliefe , then ( in this sort ) to toile and turmoile our selues about a pestiferous supportation of any their retchlesse reliefe . Lo here ( Capnistus ) how these honest poore men grow malcontented against those monstrous Minotaures ? how they begin to distaste authoritie for their pestiferous permission ? yea and how bitterly they murmure at those superfluous impositions which they are enforced eftsoones to vndergo about the vnnecessarie releeuing of these our riotous rungates ? May not these beginnings of mischiefe become very pestiferous in the end ( thinkest thou ) to our publike State ? Capn. Yes verily may they : and it were very conuenient they should be circumspectly preuented in time . Hydr. Very true as thou sayest . Howbeit ( in the meane time ) these our tippling Tobacconists they run headlong an end vpon sundrie other disordered courses , no lesse pernicious to our publike State then those other before . For when their patrimonies are all dispended ; when their worldly wealth is vtterly wasted ; yea when those their profluuious purses haue thus prodigally poured forth the best bloud in their bellies , then they bring their hungrie Hostesse some pretie pawne or pledge for their beloued liquor . Then their houshold trash must trudge forth ; then their whole webs of cloth must walke ; then their bras pots , their bras-pans , their platters and the rest , must be purloyned away for the vnnecessarie purchase of the blacke stone pot , and their pretie Tobacco pipe : yea then the very couerlet and sheetes from their bed must be carelesly chaffered forth for their filthie Tobacco fumes , and causlesse carousing cups . And now ( hauing their faces frecked ouer with a crimson colour , and their wits well whitled with the good-ale suds , and perceiuing withall , the pulse-veine of those their profluuious purses to beate very weake for want of further supply ) they begin forthwith to cast about for their neighbours chickins , to houer vp and downe for their hens ; yea and eftsoones to prey vpon their yong sucking pigs , for their owne and their hungrie Hostesses tooth , and what not besides ? Tell me ( I pray thee Capnistus ) are not these their disordered courses become very pestiferous practises to our publike State ? Capn. They are so , I must néeds confesse . Hydr. Well then , let vs here forbeare to speake further of their disordered courses ; and now turne our talke towards some of their l●te most dangerous attempts against the good of our State : to see whether these our tippling Tobacconists be not that waies also become most pernicious and pestilent companions towards y e wished welfare of our publike State. For when they haue played the Poope-noddies too long in dispending their worldly preferments after such a riotous sort , and are also enforced to feele the present want of their filthie fume , and to perceiue some lacke of that their beloued liquor , not knowing which waies in the world to supply their said wants : then they begin eftsoones to pray for the pestilence , to wish for wars , to hope for a change , to broach many dangerous babbles about some sodaine inuasion ; to mutter forth certaine mutinous murmurings concerning some ciuill dissensions among men of State ; yea and to wish the whole land on an vproare at least : that so they might come to make present spoile of Haukin-holdfast his house , or to preie vpon Godfrey-gather-goods purse . Tell me now Capnistus , are not these their desperate attempts most dangerously pestiferous to the present good of our publike State ? Capn. I dare not denie them to be certainly so . Hydr. And yet these ( alas ) they are but the beginnings of mischiefe , in comparison of those their subsequent most desperate attempts . For ( feeling once a greater increase of their present wants , and perceiuing all further supply therein to decrease more and more ) they do then forthwith become professed malcontents against the well setled peace of our publike State : wishing and praying eftsoones for their long expected Iubilee : and hoping earnestly after a presposterous deliuerance from all dutifull subiection towards their holie Superiors : telling their carousing companions , that it will neuer be merrie with boon-companions in England , before the inhabitants of England bee vp together by the eares among themselues . For then ( say they ) would forthwith begin the sport : then should we come to Catch that catch may ; yea then should we compell our countrey cormorants themselues , to catch at a broun-bread crust : whereas those mercilesse peasants do now leade the whole world in a string , and deale with good fellowes as it pleaseth themselues . Then would wee soone make their full barnes to supply the long lacke of this our beloued liquor , then would we constraine their rustie red ruddockes to run at our becke , and to attend vpon the pleasure of vs , and the rest of our carousing companions : yea then would we cause their inclosures to cracke . How sayeth thou Capnistus to these their desperate attempts , are they not ( thinkest thou ) most dangerously pestiferous to the present peace of our publike State ? Capn. Surely Sir , their desperate prate it selfe is very pernicious : for it puts disordered persons in present mind of some such desperate practises , as cannot but greatly preiudice the long and well setled peace of this our publike State. Hydr. Thou speakest the truth . And therefore , their very prate it selfe would forthwith be sharply suppressed , for feare of some subsequent mischiefe . Howbeit , these our tippling Tobacconists ( those riotous companions I meane ) they feare not to surpasse the pestilent bounds of that their pestiferous prate , by putting in present practise all those pernicious proiects and plots which their pestilent tongues had so audaciously , and so vndutifully prated of , long before . For Mad-braine the Make-shift , Proud-mind the Plummer , Small-braines the Shoomaker , and Iustle king the Ioyner , they do no sooner heare speech of causing Inclosures to crack , but forthwith they care not a point to cracke their desperate conscience on peeces , in an vndutifull vndertaking to set such a perillous practise on foote : arming themselues , and animating their desperate associates to the ioynt and speedier performance ( forsooth ) of such a preposterous enterprise . Pretending withall ( to such as demand a reason of those their desperate aduentures ) that one Maister Neede did this way set them on worke ; that they were resolued to deale no further therin , but according to Maister Mend-all his only direction , and with the authenticall warrant besides of an old penall Statute against such hurtfull Inclosures : yea and that also ( for their protection and pay ) they marched vnder the approued conduct of Captaine Pouch . This exploit was no sooner bruited abroad , but the very garbage of gracelesse subiection ; they off-scouring of honestie ; the scumme of humanitie ; yea the whole rif-raffe of vicious persons came flocking thicke and threefold from euery coast vnto their accursed company : reporting abroad , they had twelue pence aday for their paines , with wine , ale , and beere so much as their bellies would hold . These flying reports drew multitudes vnto them from euery place , and procured them many moe fauourets wheresoeuer they came : who would not sticke on their ale-bench to say , God speed the plough , though yet they durst not afford them their presence . How sayest thou Capnistus , are not these the odde youths of our countrey ? Are not these our old suresbies to serue at a pinch , and to helpe our State at any dead lift ? What saist thou mā , to these desperate practises ? Capn. I should accompt them desperate practices indéed , had they not had the Kings broade-seale for their warrant : which was commonly reported they had . Hydr. The Kings broade-seale for their warrant ? Fie , fie for shame man , that any such the incredible reports of idle-brain'd fellowes , should once make thee imagine we had but a foole to our King. Capn. God forbid that such a grosse and vndutifull imagination should euer be found in any true hearted subiect . For all the whole world doth vniuersally both know , and acknowledge his Highnesse to haue a most admirable , superexcellent , and sanctified wisedome . Hydr. They do so I confesse , and this also not without a iustly deserued cause , I assure thee : beseeching the Almightie Iehouah that x onely wise God , euen ten y times yet more to double his spirit of wisedome vpon him . And yet without doubt , his Highnesse should herein haue shewed a very slender vse of his said excellent wisdome ; if ( as that rebellious rout made publike report ) he should ( by his Prerogatiue royall ) first priuiledge them to dispark and disclose all such Inclosures : & then should forth with authentically arme a subordinate power to suppresse their person with z the sharpe sword of vengeance , if none other peaceable meanes might make them desist from those their desperate attempts . For how long ( thinkest thou ) could his Highnesse securely continue a supereminent King ouer England , if he should so improuidently haue set all his subiects in England together by the eares ? Capn. Not halfe so long ( I feare me ) as a my heartie desire is he may by many hundred yeares : if it were so the good pleasure of God. And surely , the whole world may now plainly perceiue by the sequele it selfe , that those foolish reports were purposely prolated abroad , to make the foolish people applaud their irregular procéedings . But yet Sir , it was commonly said , that the yong Prince himselfe ( by the peremptorie command of his mercifull mother ) was priuately conuersant with thē , to protect their procéedings this way : and moreouer , that the good King of Denmarke himselfe was personally , and newly entred England with fortie thousand strong to mannage their matter in hand . Hydr. Oh heauens ! Oh hell ! Oh horrible hideous helhounds ! Was it likely ( thinkest thou ) that the enterprise it selfe should euer attaine to an happy end , which was formerly begun , and forthwith continued with such horrible and such monstrous lies ? Although yet this their diuellish dissembling doth palpably discouer their diuellish dissent to all the world , and that their impudent lying , most apparently vnfolds their impudent b lying father the diuell . For is it possible ( thinkest thou ) that such a pearelesse Prince should proudly attempt , or such a gracious Queene , should preposterously command any one proiect or plot , so authentically , and so peremptorily countermanded by his most excellent Highnesse before ? Or is it credible in nature , that a naturall King , yea a King of such a sanctified nature withall , should so vnnaturally permit his owne naturall Prince ( being the c primarie of-spring of his fatherly strength ) the secondarie supply of his princely succession , and the happy eternitie also of Englands princely hope on earth : is it credible ( I say ) that such a prudent fatherly King should so improuidently permit his owne naturall sonne ( in such dangerous manner ) to sort himselfe among such degenerate and desperate monsters , as neither regarded God nor the diuell in those their desperate and dangerous attempts ? And now next ( concerning the good King of Denmarke himselfe ) may it in any humane reason ( thinkest thou ) bee possibly brought within the compasse of paganish humanity , that an humane King ( being withall so good and so Christian a King , a King ouer a nation so humane and Christian , an humane kingly brother to so humane and Christian a King ) should so inhumanely , and so vnchristianly inuade so humane and Christian a kingdome ; either to mannage so inhumane , and so vnchristian an enterprise , or once to vndertake so inhumane , and so vnchristian an exploite ? God forbid that any humane , or Christian-minded man should once dare ( so inhumanely and so vnchristianly to dreame of any such palpable fooleries : or that any sound-hearted subiects should seeke to shelter such desperate attempts , vnder any such plausible pretences . Capn. I wish so much with all my heart . Neither did I euer admit such an idle imagination to enter my head : howsoeuer ( by obiecting the same to your selfe ) I déemed it very conuenient that those their palpable fooleries , and treacherous pretences should thus be desplayed to all y ● world . But yet Sir , many men ( notwithstanding ) do confidently affirme that they had the warrant of an old statute law , against such a lawlesse inclosing or arrable grounds conuerted to pasture . Hydr. I do not denie , but that ( for the necessarie vpholding of husbandrie , as also against the apparent decaying of tillage ) there haue bene sundrie good penall statutes prouided from time to time . First in the d reigne of Henrie the seauent ▪ y e same also being further fortified by sundry other like godly statutes , in the reigne of Henrie the eight ; with a fresh corroboration also therof , at sundry other Parlaments since , in the flourishing reign of our late soueraigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth : yea and those also more fully confirmed since by the Kings most excellent Highnesse , at his very first entrance into this his kingdome . So as wise men may iustly wonder that any one of those our e gripers and grinders of poore mens faces , should not be grosly ashamed to shew their shamelesse faces , in but once daring either to vphold their old , or to aduenture so boldly vpon any other new inclosing of tillage , contrary to those the former most forcible statues , considering especially the greeuous penalties imposed vpon euery such wilfull transgression . But what ? doth it follow thereof ( thinkest thou ) that ( because for the needful vpholding of tillage there are prouided many good statutes , ) therefore these disordered persons ( for the better preseruation of tillage ) might ( at their priuate pleasures ) very boldly pull downe whatsoeuer Inclosures against those the said statutes ? Nothing lesse . And therefore , it was to no purpose at all for those persons to pretend so presumptuously the supposed timely supportation of those their disordered attempts from any those penall statutes , vnlesse they could shew in some one of those statutes , an apparent Prouiso at least ; that one maister Neede , maister Mend-all , maister Proud-mind the Plummer , maister Small-braines the Shoo-maker , maister lustle-king the Ioyner , with the residue of that rafcabilian rebellious rout ( so riotously marching vnder the conduct of Captaine Pouch ) had speciall priuiledge to disparke and disclose such lawlesse Inclosures euen in an open despite of the owners themselues , as also , in a rebellious contempt of our gracious Soueraigne . Capn. Sir , I am certainly assured there is no such Prouiso at all , in any one of those the forenamed statutes . Hydr. Then am I also as certainly assured , that they did more then they might do by much . And so ( for that their lawlesse vsurpation of the Princes sword contrary to Christ his commandement , who chargeth all priuate persons to put vp the sword into his owne place : because , whosoeuer in such sort vsurpeth f the sword , shall be sure to perish with the sword ) they were therefore most iustly suppressed by that the Prince his authenticall sword , who g beares not the same for nought , but is the subordinate minister of that immortall Prince who hath power to take an ineuitable vengeance on such as do euill . Capn. But Sir , séeing those kinde of Inclosures , are so directly opposite to the good lawes of our land , as I perceiue by the former statutes they are : it séemeth strange to those disordered persons themselues , as also to their fauourites of euery sort , that such an hard hand should be caried against them , for but pulling downe that which is so directly opposite to the law it selfe . Hydr. Howsoeuer all those kinds of Inclosures which directly do tend to the hinderance of husbandrie , and decay of tillage be vndoubtedly opposite to those the established lawes of our land , as I she wed thee before : yet had those disordered persons no one law of the land ( in such riotous and rebellious sort ) to pull downe Inclosures ; but rather y e sharpe lawes of our land against euery such disordered and vnlawfull attempt : as is apparently euident in h sundry good penall statutes prouided against riots , routes , and vnlawfull assemblies . And therefore , no hard , but an heedfull hand for publike good , was so carried against them . Capn. I must néeds acknowledge so much as you say , if ( indéed ) there be any such sharpe lawes prouided against those disordered actions : and therefore I beséech you set downe some summarie abridgement of those selfe same lawes , as well for my further satisfaction herein , as also for a necessarie caueat or watchword to all others hereafter , to beware how they deale afresh in any such disordered actions . Hydr. With all my heart ; and therefore , giue eare to the words of those statutes as followeth thus : If i any persons to the number of twelue or aboue , shall intend , go about , practise , or put in vre with force of armes vnlawfully , and of their owne authoritie , to ouerthrow , cut , breake , cast downe , or dig vp the pales , hedges , ditches , or other the Inclosure of any parke , or other ground inclosed ; or the bankes of a fish-pond , or poole ; or any Conduicts for water , Conduict-heads , or Conduict-pipes hauing course of water ; to the intent that any of the same from thenceforth should remaine open , not inclosed , or void ; or vnlawfully to haue common , or way in the said Parke , or other ground inclosed , or in any of them ; or to destroy the Deere in any Parke ; or any warren of Conies , or any Doue houses ; or any Fish in any Fish-pond or Poole ; or to pull , or cut downe any houses , barnes , mils , or baies , or to burne any stacks of corne ; or to abate , or diminish the rents , or yearely value of any lands , or tenements , or the price of any victuall , corne or graine , or any other things vsuall for the sustenance of men ; and being required or commanded by any Iustice of Peace , or by the Sheriffe of the Countie , or by the Maior , Bailieffe or Bailieffes , or other head-officers of any Citie , or towne-corporate where such assemblies shall be had , by Proclamation to be made in the Kings name , to returne in peaceable manner to their places and houses from whence they came : and they or any of them ( notwithstanding such Proclamation ) shall remaine and make their continuance together , by the space of one whole houre after such commandement or request made by Proclamation ; or after that , shall ( in forcible manner ) do , or put in vre any of the things before mentioned : then as well euery such continuing together , as euery such Act , that ( after such commandement , or request by Proclamation made ) shall be done , practised , or put in vre by any persons being aboue the number of t●elue , shall be adiudged felonie ; and the offenders therein , shall be adiudged felons , and shall suffer onely the execution of death , as in cases of felonie . Lo here Capnistus , whether there be not a plaine sta●ute directly against such disordered and vnlawfull attempts : what sayest thou vnto it ? Capn. In déede Sir , I do now perceiue that the case is very cleare against all such riots , routs , and vnlawfull assemblies for any the forenamed intents , by what persons soeuer attempted : and therefore , I dare not ( in any sort ) approue of the late vnlawfull enterprise of those disordered persons . And yet ( had not some bad practices by sundry of lewd disposition ) incensed and raised vp the people of euery Towne thereabouts , for very shame to yéeld their present assistance to that vnlawfull enterprice ; neither had the assemblie it selfe bene so mightie as it was , by many hundred folds ; nor the primarie attempters thereof ( being but few in number before ) neuer would , nor could haue continued the disorder so long as they did : and therefore , thē selues & their fauourites thinke there should haue bin had a more respectiue pitie vpon the first actors thereof . Hydr. Nay , not one whit . For as it was their owne disorder first , which subiected their persons to such a sharpe and bitter suppression : so surely , all those the incensers and raysers of others whosoeuer they be , they are ( by the iust sentence of law ) made liable likewise to the selfe same punishment , as appeareth in those the forenamed statutes , telling them thus . If k any person or persons vnlawfully and without authoritie , by ringing of any bels , sounding of any trumpet , drumme , horne , or other instrument , or by fiering of any Beacon , or by malicious speaking , or vttering of any words , or making any outcry , or by setting vp , or casting of any bill or writing abrode , or by any other act , shall raise , or cause to be raised , or assembled , any persons to the number of twelue or aboue ; to the intent that they should do or put in vre any of the things aboue mentioned ; and that the persons ( to the number of twelue , or aboue ) so raised and assembled after request , or commandement had , or giuen in forme aforesaid , shall continue together as is aforesaid , or vnlawfully , and in forcible manner shall commit , or put in vre any of the things aforesaid : then all and singular persons , by whose speaking , act , or any other meanes aboue specified , any persons to the number of twelue or aboue , shall be raised or assembled fo● the doing , or putting in vre any thing , or things aboue mentioned , sh●ll be adiudged for his so speaking or doing , a felon , and shall suffer execution of death , as in case of felonie . What sayest thou Capnistus , to these raisers of vnlawfull assemblies ? doth such action of theirs either helpe themselues , or any way quallifie the disordered enterprise of those other disordered persons ? Capn. Neither of both , if I my selfe vnderstand the matter aright . But Sir , howsoeuer the concourse of people ( in those their vnlawfull assemblies ) was growne to a wonderful greatnesse : yet surely , had they not bene excéedingly animated , encouraged , and hardned forwards in those their disordered enterprises by such as assisted them with meate , drinke , monie , and other like néedful supplies , they neither would , nor could possibly haue held out so long as they did : and therefore , so much the more to be pitied , as them selues and sundry others suppose . Hydr. Not fo . And surely , euen this which they say here , doth rather aggrauate , then extenuate the act . For it plainly purporteth to all the world , that neither their loue to God and the King ; nor the conscionable obedience to his Maiesties lawes , neither yet the terrour of threatned death , but the onely exceeding great want of some needfull supply for the present , could possibly suppresse the outrage of those their vnruly attempts . And as for those their inconsiderate and rash releeuers , it had bene much better for euery of them , to haue left such vnlawfull assemblies succourlesse at sixe and seauen , without yeelding them succour at all , then ( by the preposterous supply of those their preposterous wants ) to procure their owne present woes , in making them selues guiltie likewise of those their iustly deserued punishments : as by the former statutes is very apparent , telling them thus : If l any wife , or seruant of any of the same persons assembled , or any other person else whatsoeuer , shall willingly , and without compulsion bring , send , deliuer , or conuey any monie , harnesse , artillery , weapon , meate , bread , drinke , or other victuall , to any person or persons so assembled as is aforesaid , during such time as her or they shall so bee together : then euery wife , seruant , or other person so bringing , sending , deliuering , or conueying any of the foresaid things to the same persons so assembled , or to any of them , and not departing to their dwelling places vpon request or commandement made vnto them as is aforesaid , shall be adiudged a Fellon , and shall suffer onely the execution of death as in cases of fellonie . These things exactly considered , what thinkest thou now of that former hard hand , so vniustly surmized , against them selues , their abettors , procurers , and counsellers ; as also , their assistants , aiders , and comforters : were they not very well worthie of whatsoeuer hard measure befell them ? Capn. I must néeds acknowledge the same from my heart . Although yet , they them selues , and their fantasticall fauourites so couertly séeme to impose some imputation of blame vpon those his Maiesties Iustices who were next to the places where they so assembled them selues : because they no sooner suppressed the outrage , or euer it came to such a strong head ; as also , for that they then caried so hard an hand in suppressing the same as they did . Hydr. Oh horrible ingratitude of base minded monsters ! that would so outragiously procure their owne hurt , and then thus vnhonestly go about to impose the blame thereof vpon those his Maiesties Iustices , whom rather they ought to reuerence and loue all the daies of their life , in an onely regard of that their exceeding great lenitie , and Christian care to restraine their said excessiue outrage , with none or as little spilling of bloud as possibly might be . For , did not those his Maiesties Iustices from time to time ( by all gentle and louing allurements ) very earnestly labour their peaceable and quiet departures in euery place ? Did they not rather aduenture the hazard of m an hundred pounds apeece in regard of their kind and godly forbearance a while , then that they would set too fiercely vpon them at first ? And ( hauing solemnely published his Maiesties late Proclamation in euery open market ) did they not euen then also intimate eftsoones his Maiesties further pleasure concerning their speedie suppressing by force and armes , if none other meanes else would serue the turne ? Yea and ( which more is by much ) did they not ( with often intreaties , againe and againe ) perswade them to a peaceable departure , or euer they published the appointed Proclamation against their outragious disorders , or did once endeuour to put the seueritie of his Maiesties power in practise vpon them ? Capn. What Proclamation I pray you was that ? Hydr. The same which is authentically put downe among those forenamed statutes in this following order : First his Maiesties Iustices caused to be openly made an Oyes : & then afterwards was deliberately pronounced these following words , or the like in effect : n The King our soueraigne Lord chargeth and commandeth all persons assembled , immediatly to disperse them selues , and peaceably to depart to their habitations , or to their lawfull businesse , vpon the paine contained in the Act lately made against vnlawfull and riotous assemblies . And God saue the King. Capn. And was this Proclamation then published accordingly ? Hydr. That was it , I assure thee , and a full respite giuen them withall , for their peaceable departures , with like vehement perswasions thereunto as before . And ( which more is ) did not his Maiesties said Iustices , vpon the very day of the skirmish it selfe ( for the former part of the day ) both traine and march their souldiers very neare the place of that their vnlawfull assemblie , of very purpose , to strike an impression of feare in their hearts , to further their present departures ? Did they not moreouer send sundry messengers of purpose vnto them to perswade that matter by all possible meanes ? Did not some of his Maiesties Iustices solicite them sundrie times on their knees with teares ? Yea did not the right worshipfull Sir Anthony Mild-may ( with hat in hand ) very earnestly intreate the same , or that ( at the least ) they would desist from their purpose for fiue , or sixe daies , till they might know his Maiesties further pleasure ? yea and ( which is most to be wondred at ) did not the said Iustices before the skirmish began ( in an exceeding great care of sparing their bloud ) giue secret direction to the whole companie of shot , for discharging the first volley of shot but idlely vpon them , in hope that the sodaine feare of the said shot , would make them the sooner depart the field ? Capn. But Sir , what effect did all this take among them , I pray you ? Hydr. All the premises were so farre off from working their timely departure , as they were rather more desperately imboldned in that their rebellious attempt . For not onely they cast vp their caps with a wonderfull shoute , crying , Againe , againe , come better , come better : but they endeuoured also with stones , and other bad meanes , to driue the said Iustices , with his Maiesties power from out of the fields . Which their said in satiable outrage did then enforce a sharper fresh charge and onset vpon them ; whereof ( I suppose ) they were very well worthie . Tell me now Capnistus : was this an hard hand against them , or no ? Capn. Surely Sir , if all this be certainly true , I must néeds confesse they were very well worthy of whatsoeuer hard measure befell them either then , or at any time since , Although yet their fauourites , and such as applaud the enterprise , they say their intent was onely for publike good : yea and they worke also it selfe ( namely , the casting downe of such vnlawfull Inclosure ) was simply and in it owne nature , a very good worke . Hydr. First , for the truth of the matter , let those parties themselues vndertake to contradict the same in any one point , if they possibly can . Next , for thei● good intent : who can certainly say what good intent they had in them selues , saue onely that God who is o card●ognostes , the searcher ( I meane ) of the heart and the reines ? But be it , their intention therein was fully so good as themselues and their senslesse fauourites do seeme to surmise : can the goodnesse of any mans intention , make good an vnlawfull action ? I suppose no : because it is not enough for a man to do what which in it selfe is simplie good and iust , vnlesse the same also be iustly effected . And whereas they accompt such casting downe of Inclosures a very good worke , they do therein declare them selues , either such as cannot p euenly discerne betweene the right hand and the left , and therefore vtterly vnable to distinguish soundly betweene good and euill : or such impudent wretches at least , as are not ashamed of sinne , nor yet care for honestie in any respect . But ( being growne to a desperate impietie ) do q speake good of euill , and euill of good ; putting darkenesse for light , and light for darknesse , holding bitter for sweete , and sweete for bitter : and therefore a fearefull woe with a vengeance , is denounced against them . For may that be a good worke ( thinkest thou ) which was so wilfully wrought with the r wronging of others ; with open contempt of publike authoritie , & with an obstinate rebellion against God , and his Maiesties highnesse ? Capn. Sir , those men ( commending the goodnesse of that worke ) do meane ( as I verily imagine ) the onely matter it selfe , that is , the onely disparking of such lawles Inclosures : and not any such a disordered manner of casting Inclosures downe . Hydr. Then surely , howsoeuer the matter ( the disparking of Inclosures I meane ) be simply good in it selfe , their manner of casting Inclosures downe ( by their owne confession ) was simply euill ; and so the very worke it selfe , which was thus outragiously , and without authoritie performed by them , deserues not the name of any good worke . But be it here supposed , their action was simply lawfull : and now tell me withall what makes them to thinke that the casting downe of Inclosures should ( in it owne selfe ) be simplie good ? Capn. Because then ( say they ) such conuerting of pasture to arrable ground , must necessarily tend to the mightier augmentation of tillage : and so consequently to the publike good of our countrey . Hydr. As though the owners of such pasture grounds were more necessarily constrained to plough vp their said grounds being so disparked , then at any time before when they were hedged in . But suppose those said grounds were all conuerted to tillage ; how are they able to proue , that the augmentation of tillage doth vndoubtedly tend to the publike good of our countrey ? Capn. Because ( say they ) the augmentation of tillage would procure more plentie of corne by much ; the great plentie of corne would presently pull downe the excessiue prices of corne : & the excessiue prices of corne being brought once to a very low rate , then the Artificer , the Tradesman , and poore labouring people might more merrily liue by much . For was it not a merrie world ( say they ) when a man might buy barley and pease for foure pence the bushel , mault for fiue , rie for sixe , and wheate for seauen or eight at the most ? Hydr. In deede , those our beastly bellie-gods who liue onely to eate , but not eate to liue , they reason euen so for all the world , saying thus : Oh sir ! was it not f a merrie world ( I pray you ) when a poore man might buy twentie foure egges for a pennie ? Or as those our tippling Tobacconists do now say one to another : Ah sirrha , how sayest thou ( my heart ) was it not a merrie world ( thinkest thou ) when good fellowes might haue foure gallons of good-ale for an halfe-pennie ? And thus , these our poore mault wormes they measure the publike good of our countrey by their owne proper bellies , and so determine the matter and meanes of maintenance ( thou maist see ) as if the welfare of countries and kingdomes consisted wholly in gormandizing and gulling in of meates and drinkes , and in an onely fragging and pampering of poore mens bellies , though it were with the filching and pining of all other besides them selues . Yea surely , these our tippling Tobacconists they measure the welfare of men in the world , as the common drunkard vseth to size the fatietie of such as sit with him at table , by the onely placing of all y e good-ale pots plumme vnder his owne proper nose , saying thus to the rest : Sirs , set vp your pots hither I pray you , that euery man may the more easily reach them . As though he him selfe were euery man , or as if ( because the said pots be now within the reach of his owne proper nose ) it may be t enough for the rest to see them , or to liue by their onely smell , without any tasting at all . Euen such is our tippling Tobacconists care ( thou maist see ) for publike good . Although yet , I will not denie , but that this which they thus babble abroad , might haue in it some better resemblance of truth , if in ( very deede ) the welfare of kingdomes co●sisted alone in the exceeding great plentie of corne , and in an onely superfluous support of the poorer sort . And therefore ( for a further manifestation of this one matter now in question ) let vs here first consider vpon what kind of people the welfare of countries and kingdomes doth chiefly consist : and then next , whether the low prices of corne would bee the onely best meanes for the better vpholding of that kind of people . Capn. Vpon what kind of people , I pray you , doth the welfare of countries and kingdomes chiefly consist ? Hydr. Vpon that selfesame kind ( I verily suppose ) which best maintaine●h the whole , or greatest multitude of men in the kingdome . For sith the u honour of a King is immoueably setled vpon the multitude of Subiects , and that ( for want of such Subiects ) the Prince himselfe must necessarily come ( in successe of time ) to an ineuitable desolation and spoile : who seeth not now , but that the happie estate of kings , of kingdomes , and countries must consequently arise from that sort especially , whereby the greatest multitude of true hearted Subiects is most surely maintained ? But that sort ( all men know by daily experience ) is the Yeomanrie or Husbandrie of countries and kingdomes : because by it are Kings supported ; by it , are Princes and Nobles sustained ; by it , all artificers , trades-men , and poore labouring people are preserued from famine . For tell me , I pray thee Capnistus , from whom especially do Kings receiue their subsidies , their fifteenes , their taxes , and yearely prouisions for any their domesticall or publike affaires , but principally , or collaterally from poore husbandman ? From whom do the poore , the Nobles , and Gentrie of countries or kingdomes possesse their annuall rents , their ancient reuenewes , their incomes and fines , their boonings and ordinarie carriages , but primarily from out of poore husbandmens purses ? From whose onely endeauours and labours do all Artificers . Trades-men , and poore labouring people enioy their bread-corne , and mault-corne , but onely , and altogether from the poore husbandmans plough ? Capn. That is certainly so : and thereupon they boldly conclude without all contradiction , that the augmentation of tillage would yéeld a further complement to all those the former supplies . Hydr. Very well . Now then we are consequently come to consider more especially of that our second propounded point . Namely ( for that the surest supportation of all estates in a countrey or kingdome doth primarily consist in the ordinarie vpholding of husbandmen ) whether therefore the augmentation of tillage ( all other things continuing still in their ordinarie course ) would become the onely best ordinarie meanes to maintaine that one onely state it selfe in such solid condition , as that thereby also all other estates besides are the more surely supported from time to time ? My meaning is this , whether ( all other things else continuing stil their ordinarie accustomed rate ) the onely augmentation of tillage must be adiudged the best meanes of all to maintaine and vphold the husbandmans happie estate ? Capn. Surely Sir , they do all ioyntly imagine it would be so . Hydr. Their vncertaine imaginations , they are no certaine conclusions . And therefore , do speake directly to the question propounded : by giuing some certaine demonstration of that their vncertaine imagination . Capn. They take in hand to demonstrate the matter thus . By the augmentation of tillage ( say they ) there might be maintained in England , as many moe husbandmen as there are at this present . And so the greater multitude of husbandmen , the greater aboundance of corne ; and the greater aboundance of corne , the better cheape it would be by much . Hydr. They shew themselues to be men of shallow conceipts : because such an augmentation of husbandrie , would directly become an augmentation of beggerie . For if a poore husbandmā may now very hardly vphold his present husbandrie , when corne is presently worth some two shillings sixe-pence at least : how should he be able to vphold the same in any good sort , when the price of corne is but sixe-pence the bushell at most ? Capn. That might be very well done , say they : because for euery bushell he hath at this present , he should then be sure to haue full foure at the least . Hydr. They haue no certaine assurance of such a proportion : because the increase of their labours consisteth not x in any their owne proper planting , but in the onely good blessing of God. But be it supposed , the increase it were ce●tainly such as they say ; and yet euen then also a man may plainly perceiue , that ( according to this their propounded proportion ) the poore husbandmans state should euen now become worse then it was before , by sixepence at least in euery bushell . For if he might vsually sell his one bushell before for two shillings sixe-pence at least , and now ( that corne is so cheape ) can sell those his foure bushels but for bare two shillings at most , is not the poore husband-mans state impouerished , rather then bettered , by this their augmentation of tillage , notwithstanding any the exceeding great plentie of corne ? Now then , if the abundance of corne ( arising from that their former augmentation of tillage ) be brought once to such a low price , as ( albeit the poore husbandman had now foure bushels at least for euery one bushell before : how shall he be able ( in such an impouerished estate ) to discharge his annuall rents , to performe his seruants wages , to prouide plough and plough-geares , cart and cart-geares , at such an excessiue reckoning , to defray his domesticall charges , and vphold his husbandrie also , without the vtter impouerishing of his present estate ? Capn. Very true . But then the rents of Farmes would be brought to some low reckoning they say : and so should the husbandman be somewhat eased thereby . Hydr. How should the rents of Farmes be brought to a lower reckoning , when the greatest number of Farmes are leassed forth for some ten , twentie , yea forty yeares yet to come , with a strict couenant for such an excessiue rent , during the whole remainder of yeares ? Those our husbandmen therefore being thus shrewdly impouerished through the small prices of corne , and no way eased of those their excessiue rents , neither yet any thing bettered by the abundance of corne : who seeth not , but that such an augmentation of tillage , would become the vndoubted diminution of the poore husbandmans estate ? Capn. The Kings Maiestie might be moued ( they hope ) to mitigate those their excessiue rents in such reasonable sort , as the poore husbandman may be able to liue well of his Farme . Hydr. Yea , but sith the leasing forth of lands is allowed by positiue lawes , and for that many of our Noble-mens and Gentlemens lands are already so leased forth : the Kings Maiestie ( gouerning the whole kingdome by those his positiue lawes ) he will not so farre forth intermeddle with those Noble-men , and Gentlemens priuate possessions , vnlesse such an extraordinarie course did necessarily tend to a more publike good , then these our preposterous platformers are yet able to demonstrate vnto him , by any one probable reason . Besides that , as the head must ( by no meanes ) go about to strengthen the legs and the feete , by infeebling the shoulders and armes ; for that would bring hurt to the whole body it selfe : no more may his excellent Highnesse ( for the onely support of inferiour subiects ) so weaken the good estate of his Nobles and Gentlemen , ( who are the very shoulders and armes of his kingdome ) as they shall not bee able to yeeld him their publike assistance in time of need . For must not our Nobles and Gentlemen , of necessitie be maintained by their yearely reuenewes and rents ? But this could not now be possibly done , if those their annuall rents and reuenewes were brought to such an abatement as these our base-minded platformers propound to them selues . And therefore ( all other things else continuing still in such sort as they presently do ) I cannot perceiue ( I assure thee ) how the poore husbandmans state should not rather be hindred , t●●n helped by this their preposterous augmentation of tillage . Capn. But , if husbandmen ( say they ) were wise , vpon the clause of réentrie contained in their lease , they would ( by one vniforme consent ) make presently a forfaiture of all their old leases , for the none-payment of those their excessiue rents : and so suffer their land-lords to réenter vpon their farmes . Hydr. A very proper deuice to impouerish them selues , and to procure a present great hurt to our publike good : because ( by this meanes ) that their supposed great multitude of Farmers should rather be decreased , then any thing increased at all . Moreouer , what would then become of that their augmentation of tillage which they so eagerly pursue , if all Farmers should so foolishly forfait their leases ? But ( to shew them their follie more plaine ) bee it supposed a great number of Farmes were so fallen , and left for a while in the land-lords hands , what issue ( thinkest thou ) might follow thereof for publike good ? Capn. This good ( say they ) would follow thereof : Namely , by that time those insatiable land-lords had held such forfaited Farmes in their owne occupation but seauen yeares together , they would be right glad to let them afresh at a farre easier reckoning . Hydr. As though ( if the Farmer did good on such a Farme , notwithstanding his former excessiue rent ) the land-lord sitting rentfree , and throughly occupying that selfesame Farme , might not do much more good thereof then did the Farmer before him : yea and so perhaps ( beginning a little to feele the sweetnesse of gaine ) will not hereafter lease forth the faid Farme any more , but still hold the same in his owne occupation . How then ? Where are now become the great multitude of Farmers which these our foolish platformers do idlely dreame of by this their augmentation of tillage ? But be it supposed those land-lords so holding those forfaited Farmes in their owne hands for seauen yeares together , would quickly waxe wearie , and so be right glad to lease them afresh at a more reasonable reckoning : how then ? what ( in the meane time ) thinkest thou are husbandmen bettered ? or how is husbandrie it selfe any better held vp by this their idle augmentation of tillage , when ( by reason of the low prices of corne , and such excessiue great rents ) the poore husbandman himselfe is enforced to forsake his Farme for seauen yeares together , in hope of an easier rent : and in all the meane while both he and all his fit pilling of strawes by the fire side ? When in the meane while all tillage decayeth ; the old store of corne is quite consumed ; the Nobles and Gentlemen are mightily impouerished for want of their vsuall rents ; and poore men are famished for lacke of foode ? Is this the publike good we are to expect from that their former augmentation of tillage ? But , be it supposed againe , that the poore husbandmen might now haue those their said Farmes at twenty nobles rent by the yeare , for which they payed yearely some twentie pounds at the least before : would those husbandmens state become any thing better now by this abatement of rent , then it formerly was when they payed twentie pounds yearely at least ? Capn. What one wise man ( say they ) would make any question thereof ? Hydr. That would I mine owne selfe , I assure thee , not without great probabilitie of reason also : and therefore , do heartily desire thine owne selfe , as also those our disordered Tobacconists , that you would herein permit me to y play the foole for a while ; because you your selues are so wonderfull wise in your proper conceipts . And ( for a further demonstration hereof ) let it here be supposed againe , that the poore husbandman ( when he sate vpon twentie pounds rent before ) by his good husbandrie grew yearely some threescore quarters of corne ; and that now ( paying but twentie nobles a yeare ) he doth one yeare with another reape some twelue score quarters of corne at the least ; which ( thou mayest not denie ) were a wonderfull oddes : yet surely ( so long as all other things else do hold their accustomed rate ) thou mayest plainly perceiue ( euen by that selfe same proportion which them selues haue made ) that the poore husbandmans state ( notwithstanding the former abatement of rents , and great abundance of corne ) is farre worse now then it was before when he payed a farre greater rent , and grew not so much corne by foure times double at least . For first , if we rate his threescore quarters of corne but at threescore pounds , after two shillings sixepence the bushel , who seeth not plainly but that ( deducting twentie pounds from the same for his twentie pounds rent ) he hath still remaining fortie pounds to himselfe , for the timely discharge of his other domesticall expences , as also the orderly vpholding of that his said husbandrie ? Perceiuest thou this Capnistus ? Capn. He were worthie to be crowned a coxecombe , that cannot perceiue the same ? Hydr. Go to then , let vs now likewise obserue that their former proportion also in their abundance of corne , and abatement of rents , by rating their tweluescore quarters of corne , at their owne wished price , namely , at fiue pence the bushell , that is , three shillings foure-pence the quarter ; and so , our totall summe for the tweluescore quarters amounts but to fortie pounds . From this now deduct his twenty nobles rent ( which is their desired abatement ) and so hath he left to himselfe but fortie markes at the most , to defray his domesticall charges and vphold his said husbandrie . Is not herein his estate made worse then it was before by twentie markes yearely at least , notwithstanding his former twentie pounds rent , and the small quantitie of corne , in comparison of his tweluescore quarters now ? So then , this his impouerished state being soundly considered , as also , the excessiue charges of all other things being still considered ; how shall this poore husbandman be able ( thinkest thou ) to vphold his said husbandrie , to maintaine his owne house , to pay seruants their wages , to bring vp his children , to performe to the Kings Maiestie his ordinarie subsidies , fifteenes , taxes , prouision , and such other extraordinarie payments , without the vtter subuersion of himselfe , and his happie estate ? Capn. Good Sir , your obseruations herein they are , I assure you , very probable , neither do I perceiue how the poore husbandmans state should possibly ( in such an abatement of the prices of corne ) be bettered one pennie by the augmentation of tillage : vnlesse all other things else that belong to his husbandry , were likewise abated in price . Hydr. Thou conceiuest the matter aright . For whereas in former times ( when corne was sold for fiue pence a bushell ) the poore husbandman payed for a good new cart but one noble at most : now he payeth foure nobles at least for the like . Then he might buy him a plough readie made for fourteene pence ; now it will stand him in fourteene groates at the least . Then he might prouide him his yron-workes for three farthings the pound : now he must pay three pence halfe-penny for euery pound at the least . Then he might haue a whit-leather hide for one shilling at most : now he payeth fiue shillings foure pence at least . Then he might haue had an acre of grasse both mowne and made to his hands for two groates , or ten-pence at most : now he must giue two shillings sixe pence at least , and not haue it so well done by the halfe . Then might he hire a very good man-seruant for twentie groates wages : now can he not haue any so good for twice fortie shillings at least . Then might he purchase a very good yard of full brode-cloath for three shillings foure pence at most : now he must pay some foureteene shillings foure pence at least , for the like , Then he might haue had a good paire of Shooes for sixe pence : now can he not haue the like for two shillings sixe pence at least , and so for the rest . These things therefore being soundly considered , how should the poore husbandmands state be bettered one pinne , by abating the prices of corne through that their preposterous augmentation of tillage , so long as all other things , else do contiue still in that their former excessiue reckoning ? Capn. Sir , I am full of your mind concerning this . But so long as corne say they , is at such an excessiue reckoning , all other things else must néeds be deare ; whereas the small prices of corne will bring all other commodities to their former low rate . Hydr. Alas good Capnistus , it should seeme that these our disordered reformers do either dotingly dreame of some drie haruest after Michelmas moone when corne is cleane gathered into poore husbandmens barnes : or that else their wilde wits do rouingly run a wool-gathering , after the sheepe-maisters flockes are all shorne . For , tell me ( I pray thee ) which waies a Wheele-wright should any way possibly afford an exceeding good cart for twentie groates now , as in former ages , and pay for the very timber thereof some sixteene shillings him selfe ? Or how a Tanner may well forgo a good bend of soaling leather for eightpence now , as in former daies : and pay foure markes a loade for his barke at the least ? or how the Shoo-maker should sell a good paire of shooes for sixe pence now , as in former seasons : and himselfe pay twentie pence full , for the leather thereof at the least ? Or how the Ioyner should yeeld a very good cup-boord for foure shillings now , as in former times : when the very timber thereof doth stand him in twentie shillings at least ? Or how a good man-seruant should be able to serue for twentie groates wages now , as before : and pay ten-groates thereof , for one paire of high-buckled shooes ? and so forth for all the rest . These things therefore being soundly considered , let all those our tippling Tobacconists which so eagerly affect the former low prices of corne , first deuise which waies to reduce the ordinarie trafficke of all other commodities else to their pristinate state : and then vrge ( as they now very idlely do ) the pristinate prices of corne . Or ( if that will be thought a matter impossible ) let them ( at the least ) begin this their preposterous reformation first in them selues : and then see how thicke & thre●fold all other sorts of people will follow their foote-steps . My meaning is this . Let Iustle-king the Ioyner afford so good a cup-boord for foure shillings now , as other men sell for foure nobles before his face ; let Proud-mind the Plummer forgo so good a brewing-lead for foure shillings now , as other men sell for sixteene shillings at least : let Small-braines the Shoo-maker not take aboue sixe pence now for so good a paire of shooes as others do sell for two shillings sixpence : briefly , let Lithersbie the Loyterer not take now aboue ten pence for mowing and making an acre of grasse , howsoeuer all other poore painfull labourers do take two shillings sixe pence for doing the like : and then see how the abatement of rents , and low prices of corne will follow thereof . Capn. What Sir ? they will neuer be brought to such an abatement in any their trades ( they say ) do the Prince what he please . For , ( besides that such a fond course would worke nothing at all towards the publike good ) they should thereby be sure to impouerish themselues . Hydr. And why then should the Prince ( at any their preposterous beck ) be pleased to procure the Peeres of his kingdome , the Nobility , Gentrie , Yeomanrie & poore Husbandmen to bee brought vnto such an excessiue abatement of rents , and prices of corne : sith ( besides that the same would become no furtherance at all towards publike good , all other things else considered ) they should therby but impaire their proper estates ? Thus then , thou maist plainly perceiue by the premisses , what manner of reformation it is , that these our disordered fellowes do z so furiously driue at , as if they were mad ; namely , at the preposterous prancking vp of their priuate estates , without giuing regard to the publike good of our countrie and kingdome : not caring one whit ( so themselues may stretch out their infatiable guts with bread , ale , and beere ) though the whole Peeres of our kingdome , the Nobilitie , the Gentrie , the Yeomanrie , the Husbandrie , yea and ( by consequent ) our good King himselfe , come all to present confusion : such a publike good ( thou seest ) must necessarily insue of this their preposterous augmentation of tillage . Capn. Me thinke Sir , you speake probably herein , and to very great purpose . But yet , those our monstrous malcontents they haue still a mighty imagination among thēselues , that such augmentation of tillage would vndoubtedly tend to a publike good . Hydr. So might it do , I confesse , if the poore husbandmans state were not hindred , but helped also thereby : otherwaies not . But tell me ( I pray thee ) what the abundance of corne would be better for him , all the while such an abatement in the prices of corne did drinke vp his gaine ? As also , which way would the abundance of corne make the Artificers and Trades-men become the wealthier one groate then they were at the first , if corne ( notwithstanding the abundance thereof ) continue still at the accustomed price ? It is not therefore the abundance of corne , but an excessiue abatement in the prices of corne , that these men do make the onely shot-anker of all their hope . And very certaine I am , that ( so themselues might buy bread-corne and mault-corne fox sixe pence a bushell ) they would neuer thus disorderly prate , and practice for the augmentation of tillage : though there were lesse corne in the land then ( God be blessed ) there is , by ten hundred thousand quarters at least . By all this it is apparently euident , that then the augmentation of tillage doth vndoubtedly tend to a publike good , when not onely some one or two sorts of people are thereby helped , and the poore husbandman especially is not therwith hundred at all . Otherwise the partiall supportation of some few alone , with y e fearefull suppression of sundrie besides , were very preposterous . For euen as in our naturall bodies , when the sustenance thereof is soundly concocted , and proportionably dispersed throughout for conuenient nutriment to each seuerall part , then the whole bodie it selfe is vniuersally vpheld and continued in a very good state ; whereas , if that the said nutriment should be wholly exhaust by some three or foure members , with an vtter depriuation of nutriment from the rest of the members besides , then surely , that selfe same body would not onely grow out of order in it selfe , hauing some three or foure members thereof puffed vp vntill they bee ready to burst , and all the rest made as leane as a rake ; but besides , there would follow ( in continuance of time ) a finall confusion of all the whole bodie : So surely , in the body of our Commonwealth , when the whole commodities thereof are aptly imployed , and proportionably disposed for the more conuenient welfare , and publike good to each seuerall member thereof , then the whole bodie of Commonwealth is vniuersally vpheld , & continued in an happie estate . Whereas , if the commodities of our countrie were wholly sucked vp by some three or foure sorts of subjects , to the pitifull impouerishing of all ●he rest : then without question , the whole body of our Common-wealth could not long continue in good estate . Because some would be readie to burst with abundance , while many other besides , do euen woorne away with their wants , to the finall confusion of the whole State it selfe in a very short time , without some timely redresse . And therefore , howsoeuer such abundance of corne , might vndoubtedly become exceeding commodious to some three or foure Monopolian Merchants , who ( by transporting the same ( at such a slender reckoning ) into all forraine parts with an excessiue great gaine , would grow ( in a very short time ) so abundantly rich as if they were readie to burst . Or howsoeuer such an excessiue abatement in the ordinarie prices of corne , might be singular good for Artificers & Trades-men , and poore labouring persons , who ( buying corne now for nothing , and selling their commodities and ordinary labours as excessiuely deare as euer before ) might ( in very short space ) attaine to a wonderfull wealth : yet without doubt , the poore husbandmans state ( by whose onely industrious labours all other estates are hourely vpholden ) it being greatly impouerished by the small prices of corne , and mightly oppressed through the excessiue rating of all other commodities else ; I cannot possibly perceiue how this their augmentation of ●illage should in any sort be helpfull , but euery way hurtfull to him . Capn. Oh yes Sir. For if there were once a farre greater augmentation of tillage obtained , then euery husbandman ( say they ) should hold ( in his proper occupation ) twice so much land as he held before . Hydr. And what then , I pray thee ? Would not the small prices of corne ( in such an hourely excesse of all other things else ) become a very shrewd cooling card to that his great store of tillage , he hauing thereby , as much more toile imposed vpon him , with a farre lesse commoditie then he vsually reaped before ? For tell me , I pray thee , whether it be the great store of tillage , or the well manuring of tillage that breedeth abundance of corne ? Hath not some excellent husband as much corne of one acre , as some haue of two or three ? Be it therefore supposed that a poore husbandman , hauing in his occupation before , but bare fortie acres of arrable land , did yearely grow thereof some fortie quarters of corne at the least : whereas now ( when he hath some fortie acres more annexed to his Farme ) hee hardly groweth fortie quarters of corne at the most . How much ( thinkest thou ) is this poore husbandmans state aduanced by this their augmentation of tillage ? May he not boldly put vp the whole gaine of his getings in his eye , & yet see neuer the worse ? Is he not properly promoted by tillage , being thereby surcharged now with a two fold toile , for a bare single increase of corne ? Is not his great abundance of arrable ground ( through some lacke of good order ) growne now so farre out of order and heart , as it will either yeeld him but little , or no burden at all ? His charge of housekeeping , of houshold seruants , of horses , of carts , of ploughs , with other odde implements , is mightily increased : and the great gaine of those his daily endeauours , and industrious labours , as deepely decreased . How then is this poore husbandmans estate made any thing the better , by that their augmentation of tillage ? Capn. Sir , he must procure him abundance of shéepe ( they say ) to amend his barren land by the often foulding thereof : and withall , he must get him a great companie of beasts to bréede him good store of compose , and thereby better his barren grounds by manuring of the same to the full . Hydr. This , ( indeed ) is something they say . But yet now ( when the small prices of corne haue so mightily impouerished the poore mans purse , as he is hardly able to buy him cloathes to his backe ) where is y e meanes ( thinkest thou ) that should compasse those cattle ? Corne he hath none to sel : and many quarters of graine would not buy him halfe a quarter of a flocke to fould his said barren ground . Or , be it supposed the man had money good store to buy those beasts : where is the most conuenient place for their walke ? or wherewithall shall he pasture those cattell , when all his Inclosures and other laie-grounds are quite conuerted to tillage ? Before this augmentation of tillage , a poore man might very well raise his whole rent from out his Fallow-fields , those fields affording him great store of grasing to pasture his sheepe : but when all his gras-grounds are turned to tillage , that hope of gaine is growne out of vse ; and he may haply reape from his Fallow-fields now , some three or foure loades of thistles to recompence his paines in ploughing the same . For , consider Capnistus and marke it well , are there not ( at this present ) in euery Champion field , some ten , twelue , yea twenty hundred acres of laie-grounds at least , which being ( as it appeareth ) in former times made arrable land , were all of them left laie by poore husbandmen , some two hundred yeares past or more . What was the maine cause ( thinkest thou ) that our fore-fathers ( in former times ) did make such a mighty decay of tillage ? Capn. Surely Sir , either it was so because those poore husbandmen then could make no benefit at all by vpholding of tillage , corne being brought at that time to such a low price , and all other things else at an excessiue reckoning : or for that those husbandmen wanted both grasse and hay for their cattell , and were therefore enforced for very great néed , to conuert their tillage againe into pasturing grounds . Hydr. Thou speakest aright : and therewithall dost fully conclude euen this our disordered persons proper dispute in a circular motion : not vnlike to the circular paces of a maultmil horse . For , marke here I pray thee , the manner of this their preposterous prate . We must haue ( forsooth ) an augmentation of tillage , by conuerting all ancient Inclosures and pasture-grounds into arrable land , for the speedie abating of these excessiue prices of corne : and then ( when corne is once come to so low a reckoning as the poore husbandman is not able to liue of his plough ) we must forthwith turne the greatest part of our tillage againe into pasturing grounds , for the necessary increase of grasse and hay for our cattell . Tell me Capnistus , whether these their changeable courses , be not ( in very deed ) to make and marre , to do and vndo , because the day is our owne till night . Yea tell me , I pray thee : whether this be not a proper roauing dispute of these our round-about Robins , as if they were hunting the wild-goose chase ? A man ( without question ) might quickly purse vp whole poake-fuls of wit , if he would but follow a while all these their extrauagant courses , and wandring vagaries : and ( in the end ) be enforced to bring them backewards againe by the nose , to let them then see ( if they would not be wilfully blind ) that the poore husbandman ( so long as all other things else do still continue their excessiue reckonings ) is rather hindred , then helped by this their augmentation of tillage . Capn. But Sir , do you hold in good earnest , that such an augmentation of tillage would bring some hinderance now to our Common-wealth ? Hydr. Perceiuing not hitherto , any reason at all to the contrarie , I vndoubtedly do , and may very confidently hold this one speciall point : Namely , that such a preposterous augmentation of tillage as these our polypragmat●call spirits do now so fiercely pursue , would rather be hurtfull , then helpefull to the poore husbandmans present estate : so long especially as all other things else do thus continue ( as we see ) at such an excessiue reckoning as I shewed thee , and thou thy selfe hath confessed before . Besides that , these our beastly a bellie-gods who babble so inconsiderately ( I might say so baldly ) about the abundance of corne , without due consideration or further regard of any other as needfull commodities for publike good , they grosly imagine ( as it seemes by their courses ) that each Common-wealth is sufficiently vpheld in an happie estate , all the while they haue plentie of bread and beere . But tell me ( I pray thee Capnistus ) are not good dearies as conuenient euery way for euery house-keeper , as is plentie of corne ? May butter and cheese , may milke and milke-meates by missed wholly in husbandmens houses ? What one familie at all throughout the whole country , may well be maintained without butter and cheese ? What prety young brats may possibly be bred , or brought vp without milke ? What flesh-meates may fitly be rosted ? what light stuffe may soundly b● baked ? what minced meates , what carrots , what parsneps , what other ●ates else may be buttered , where poore house-keepers can haue no butter at all ? Capn. Good Sir , this is euen certainly so as you say . Hydr. Very well . Hereupon then let these our tippling Tobacconists tell thee with the best wits they haue in their head , how those poore house-keepers may possibly compasse such store of milke , butter , & cheese without keeping milch-kine ; how milch-kine may be maintained and kept without conuenient pasturing ; and where such conuenient pasturing may possibly be had , when all Inclosures and pasture grounds are so preposterously conuerted to tillage ? Capn. In déed Sir , as I ( for my owne part ) do hold it impossible for husbandmen to haue good dearies but by kéeping milch-kine : so is it hard for them to kéepe milch-kine at all , where Inclosures and pasture grounds are so preposterously conuerted to tillage . But yet ( say they ) this their augmentation of tillage would bring abundance of corne : and so poore husbandmen ( hauing abundance of corne ) might kéepe ( if néede were ) their milch-kine with corne . Hydr. I told thee euen now ( and thou couldest not deny ) that it is not the abundance of tillage , but the well manuring of tillage which breedeth abundance of corne . But be it here granted , that the abundance of tillage would vndoubtedly bring them abundance of corne ; what then ? How would the excessiue prices of corne be any whit abated thereby , all the while that selfe same abundance is quite consumed with keeping of cattell ? And this their abundance of corne being that way consumed quite , how then shall the Artificers , the Trades-men , and poore labouring peoples estates bee any way bettered at all by such abundance of corne , if corne ( being so consumed ) did still continue their excessiue great prices ? By all which thou mayest plainly perceiue , that euen this their preposterous augmentation of tillage , it would either procure a present diminution of dearies , and so that way become very dangerous to the publike good of our countrey : or ( if such an augmentation should maintaine good dearies by keeping milch-kine with corne ) that then the said Artificers , Trades-men , and poore labouring people their estates could not be bettered at all , by any their supposed abatement of the excessiue prices of corne . Capn. Surely , the one or the other would follow thereof . And therefore Sir , these mens preposterous augmentation of tillage it doth but endanger their owne proper persons , without bettering their owne , or the poore husbandmans state at all . Hydr. Very true . But ( for further demonstration hereof ) be it againe supposed that such an augmentation of tillage would both breed an abundance of corne , and bring downe also the prices of corne ; what then ? When these our insatiable suckers of filthy fume haue euen fragged their bellies with bread and beere to the full , would they then bee content ( thinkest thou ) with their present estates ? It is a common speech ( I confesse ) among those our ordinary Ale-knights , that such nippitatie new liquor wil serue very wel for meate , drinke , and cloath , if it bee soundly taken in a cold frostie morning next a mans heart . But ( howsoeuer their tongues run round when they are met on their ale-bench ) can they and their families liue without flesh-meate , or the offals therof at the least ? Do thou aske them ( I pray thee ) whether there may be an excessiue abatement of beeues and muttons in England without the present impairing of our publike good ? May the ordinary prouision of flesh in any our markets , be much lesse then it is any market day , without wonderfull hurt to the countrey in sundry respects ? Are not beasts hides , sheepe-skins , with such other pelts else ( notwithstanding our daily , & our ordinary slaughter of beeues and muttons ) euen litle enough in euery country ? Doth not the great scarcitie of hides and skins make leather and shooes , with liquor for leather , and tallow for candle , excessiuely deare ? Now then , those our Artificers ' and Trades-men , who keepe such a combersome coyle for corne ( hauing once corne to their owne content ) let them then tell me in sadnesse , whether themselues ▪ and the fulke of their families , are able to liue long without any meate ; to run , or ride without bootes ; to go or walke without shooes , to worke day and night without any candle , or to dispatch ( in any good so●t ) the most of their ordinarie trades without much tallow , and great store of kitchin stuffe compound●d therewith ? But how should they haue flesh-meate to eate , store of leather for bootes and shooes , tallow for candle , or kitchin-stuffe at all for any their needfull affaires , without an exceeding great breede of beefes and muttons ? And how should such an exceeding great breede of beefes and muttons be possibly bred and maintained , without very great store of Inclosures and pasturing grounds ? And where must such store of pasturing grounds be got ( thinkest thou ) if all Inclosures were preposterously turned to tillage ? Capn. The certainty of your spéech is such , as I am not able to contradict . Hydr. Besides all this , when these our disordered persons haue ( by much augmentation of tillage ) euen crammed their bellies with bread and beere till they be readie to burst : must they not likewise haue cloathes for their owne , and their families backes ? But can they possibly make webs of cloath without any wooll ? Or can they haue wooll to web , but by breeding abundance of sheepe ? Or can such abundance of sheepe be bred without many Inclosures , and much pasturing grounds ? But where may many Inclosures , and pasturing grounds be got , when all our Inclosures are preposterously turned to tillage ? Capn. Surely Sir , these your apparent demonstrations of policie they are held in as high admiration with me , as were ( in times past ) the sundry Oracles from Apollo Pythius at Delphos . Howbeit , many others do hold , and my selfe haue heard some Preachers auouch in publike place , that this onely great bréede and pasturing of shéepe , is the most gréeuous bane and spoile of our land . The silie poore shéepe ( say they ) which are ( by nature ) the méekest creatures on earth , are now made the most mercilesse Minotaures in the world : for euery where now they do eate vp whole Townes , and deuoure the Inhabitants young and old . Hydr. I hate from my very heart y e destroying of Townes and depopulation of countries , as a most barbarous crueltie beseeming rather the sauage Cannibals , then any sound hearted Christians . Assuring my selfe withall , that all those our vgly blacke raue●s which seeke to b dwell alone vpon the face of the earth by that their vnspeakeable crueltie , shall one day be sure to feele a woe with a witnesse , and to haue c the law of like repayed double and treble vpon their owne pates . Yea and that they , and all theirs ( without a speedie repentance ) must vndoubtedly receiue their allotted reward d with wicked king Ahab . Although yet I doubt not at all but that those our great breeders of sheepe , which so make the best of their pasturing grounds without e grinding the faces of their silie poore Tenants , they are the blessed instruments of our bountifull God , for publike good . And therefore ( concerning that point which thy selfe hath heard some Preachers auouch in publike place , about the great breeding of sheepe ) howsoeuer I make no doubt but that those selfe same Preachers they deliuered then the priuate opinion and thought of their owne proper hearts : yet when they shall hereafter somewhat more considerately examine the matter it selfe without any such wry-respect , and according to the proportionable bounds of Christian policie for publike good , I make no question at all , but that they themselues will eftsoones affirme , that ( in those their blind baiard-like bold speeches against such necessarie breeding of sheepe ) they were rather misguided with the sway of inordinate affection , than soundly directed with any authenticall rule of setled reason . For , howsoeuer those our great pasture men do gather vp to them selues an exceeding great gaine by the breeding of sheepe , as there is no reason at all , but that they which win it , should weare it : yet surely ( if I conceiue not the matter amisse ) there is no one commoditie throughout the whole land more tending to the publike good of rich and poore , than the great abundance and mightie increase of sheepe , as that which was f the ordinarie practise of all the Patriarkes , and which also receiued from time to time g an extraordinarie approbation from the vnchangeable prouidence of the eternall God. And ( to let passe the much bettering of arrable ground by the foulding of sheepe ) this ( I do verily suppose ) may here be auouched for an infallible truth : that almost the third part of people in this our English Iland , are vpheld & maintained by the breeding of sheepe . Whereupon this consequent doth clearely demonstrate it selfe to all the world , that those men which prate purposely against the great breeding of sheepe , they do either discouer ( at vnawares ) their wayward and enuious hearts against the breeders themselues without any respect of publike good ; or lay open at least , their owne inconsiderate thoughts , and shallow conceipts concerning such matters of publike regard . Capn. The one or the other must necessarily follow thereof . But Sir , if you be able ( indéed ) so demonstrate soundly vnto vs , that almost the third part of people in this our English Iland are vpheld , and maintained by the ordinary bréeding of shéepe , you shall satisfie many concerning this point . Hydr. I doubt not to demonstrate the same to the full . For first , let an exact suruey be had of those our great sheepe-maisters themselues , as also of that their ordinarie retinue which they hourely imploy about the breeding & hearding of sheepe ; then next , of all those our professed clothiers in Wales , in Cornewall , in Deuonshire , in Kent , in Essex , in Suffolke , in Northfolke , in Yorkeshire , Lancashire , Cheshire , Hallifax , Kendall , with other like places where cloath-making is purposely professed and practised together , with all their whole families depending vpon them ; then next , let the selfe same suruey be likewise taken of al the poore labouring people which are this way set hourely on worke by those our cloth-makers , about the seuering , sorting , towsing , carding , spinning , knitting , weauing , fulling , shearing , dressing and dying of wooll and of cloathes ; then next , of all those prouident husbandmen who yearely defray their rents , and apparell themselues by the breeding of sheepe ; and then lastly , of all those Artificers , Trades-men , and poore labouring people which yearely do cloathe themselues , their wiues and families , with those webs of cloath which they vsually make of the gathering loakes that are scattered in pastures and fields by the breeding of sheepe : let ( I say now ) some sound and exact suruey be forthwith taken of all and euery of these , and I doubt not ( when the accompt is cast vp in a totall summe ) but that the whole wil amount to the third part of people in our land at the least . Capn. The third part ( say you Sir ) nay , the better halfe I am sure . Hydr. Go to then , tell me what one reason those Preachers haue to barke so bitterly against y e breeding of sheepe ? or any man else to mislike of that one commoditie whereby the one halfe of our kingdome is so well set on worke , and which tendeth to the publike good of our countrey ? Capn. But Sir , howsoeuer there be great store of cloath-making amongst vs in England , yet cloathes ( they say ) are neuer the cheaper in England : and therefore they sée not how poore men are bettered any thing at all , by the making of cloath . Hydr. Though cloathes ( in very deede ) were neuer the cheaper by the great store of cloath-making among vs in England , which is vtterly vntrue : yet would cloathes become more excessiuely deare among vs in England by much , were it not for the great store of cloath-making throughout the whole land . And therefore howsoeuer these gaine-saying companions , do grosly imagine that the poorer sort of people are nothing bettered by the making of cloath , yet surely if that one trade alone were discontinued among vs but for few yeares together ; not onely the better sort of men they would quickly begin to feele some very shrewd want , but many poore soules besides ( set on worke by that meanes ) should shortly haue hungrie bellies . Yea euen those our Tobacconists themselues would plod vp and downe with thread-bare backes , and tattered tailes . But now tell me Capnistus ( I heartily pray thee ) how any great store of cloathes may possibly be made without abundance of wooll ; which way , men may haue abundance of wooll , without a continuall breeding of sheepe ; how such a continuall breeding of sheepe may well be maintained without abundance of pasture ; and how such abundance of pasture may possibly be had , where all our Inclosures are thus preposterously conuerted to tillage ? Capn. Surely Sir , I wot not which way to supply such a want : and therefore I do fully referre the further answer hereof to those our disordered Tobacconist's who labour so eagerly after such a preposterous augmentation of tillage , without giuing regard at all to sundrie other as néedfull commodities as corne it selfe , for the orderly supportation of euery seuerall estate in the land . Wherein moreouer they declare ( at vnawares ) that as the water which driueth the mill , decayeth the mill : so surely , those their disordered affections which so preposterously enforceth them forwards in such an idle conceite of publike good , would turne ( in very short time ) to the fearefull subuersion of our publike good . Hydr. That is vndoubtedly true , as may bee plainly demonstrated vnto them by a pregnant comparison , put downe by Adrian the fourth , vpon a very like occasion of discontentment . Capn. Declare the comparison I pray you at large . Hydr. With a very good will : this therefore it is . It came to passe on a time ( h saith he ) that all the members of a mans body conspired ioyntly against the poore stomacke , as against him ( forsooth ) who ( by his insatiable rauine ) did continually exhaust and deuoure the ordinarie labours of all the other members besides . For , whereas the eie it selfe was neuer satisfied with seeing , nor the eare with hearing ; whereas the hands were bent each minute of an houre vpon their ordinarie labours , the feete became fearefully sorebated with trotting to and fro ; the tongue was euen worne to the stumpes about the moderating of speech and silence ; yea all the whole members were mutually deuoted towards the publike good of the whole body it selfe : onely ( in this their generall carefulnesse and excessiue toyle ) the stomacke it selfe ( as they falsly surmised ) he liued at ease , and whatsoeuer the rest of the members had carefully prepared before by any their mutuall labours , he alone deuoured vp the same by a prodigall waste . What neede many words ? The rest of the members considering this , they do all ioyntly conclude to desist forthwith from all those their peculiar designements for publike good : and therewithall ( withholding whatsoeuer conuenient sustenance from the said stomacke it selfe ) they fully resolued to torture that their insatiable and slothfull aduersarie with the continuall want of nutriment . Vpon this their ouerhastie and headie resolution , one day was passed quite in a pining penurie . The second day followed more tedious and irkesome than the other before . But the third was so extremely byting and pinching to the stomacke it selfe , and all the said members besides , as they ioyntly began to faint and to fagge . Oppressed thus by vrgent necessitie , the members they assemble themselues afresh , very seriously consulting about their owne , and that their supposed aduersarie his present estate . In which their publike assemblie , the head it hung drooping downe ; the shoulders ( being shrewdly benummed ) they shakingly shrunke together ; the armes became weake ; the hands vnable to hold themselues vp ; the feete were infeebled so sore , as they could not possibly support their appointed burden ; the whole body it consumed away ; yea the tongue which vntill then was pregnant enough to pleade for the publike good of the whole body it selfe , it eftsoones began to faulter , and cleaue so fast to the roofe of the mouth , as it had now no power in it selfe to propound and expound the publike occasion of that their present calamitie . The case standing fearefully thus , the whole members ( by a ioynt consent ) they make their mutuall recourse to their soueraigne Ladie the Heart , for present aduice in this their publike distresse : who ( examining the matter with a more aduised and mature deliberation , ) by the very sway of sound and substantiall reason did make it apparently euident to all the members , that this so exceeding a miserie befell them all , onely because of their former hard measure towards the said stomacke their falsly supposed aduersary . For , by withdrawing a competent sustenance from him ( he being the deputed publike dispenser thereof to the rest of the members , ) they did thereby also depriue thēselues of conuenient naturall nutriment . And ( sith none ought i to go a warfarre at his owne proper cost ) it cannot otherwaies be , but that ( by withholding the publike maintenance from the said stomacke it selfe ) they themselues were proportionably disabled euery of them from the dutifull discharge of their proper designements for publike good . Neither may any blame thereof bee iustly imputed vnto the poore stomacke : because he could not possibly distribute that publike sustenance to the rest of the members , which he receiued not first for himselfe . And therefore ( saith reason ) I conclude it a safer course , and much more consonant to natures sacred direction , that a conuenient nutriment be primarily bestowed on him who must propor●ionably distribute the same vnto others , then ( by thus peeuishly depriuing the said stomacke therof ) to procure an ineuitable penurie vpon it selfe , and all the rest of the members . Hereupon it came forthwith to passe ( by reasons pithie perswasion ) that the said stomacke being presently repleate with corporall sustenance , all the rest of the members ( by her operation ) were proportionably , and mutually refreshed together . Ladie Experience ( the Schoolemistrisse of fooles ) making the rest of the members now to perceiue their former exceeding great follie , the stomacke he was vniuersally freed from all imputation of blame concerning this their needlesse calamitie . Because , howsoeuer he be ( in very deede ) an insatiable deuourer of whatsoeuer their publike labours , yet doth he not so insatiably feede thereupon for himselfe alone , but likewise , for all the rest of the members : and therefore , he being pined with a needlesse penurie , they cannot but be miserably pinched with a biting hunger . Surely Capnistus , if thou examine the matter aright , thou shall find it euen so in the politicke body of euery particular countrey . Wherein , albeit the stomacke ( the poore husbandman I meane ) doth heape vp together exceeding much maintenance : yet doth he not heape vp the same so much for his owne proper vse , as for the publike good of all the particular members in that selfe same politicall body . And therefore so much the more heedfull regard must hourely be had about the orderly supportation of that one estate aboue all the rest : by how much the prosperous , or the pining condition of all other estates doth proportionably depend vpon that one estate aboue all the rest . For be thou throughly assured of this , that there is proportionably euen one and the selfe same office of the stomacke in a naturall bodie , and of the poore husbandmans estate in euery politicall body . Because if the stomacke it selfe be hourely kept in good quarter , all the rest of the members they are mutually refreshed thereby . Whereas , if it be made empty of corporall sustenance , how should it then be able , either properly to support it owne selfe , or collaterally to sustaine the rest of the members ? And euen so , if the poore husbandmans estate be vpheld in an happie condition , the rest of the members throughout the whole politicall body , are substantially and soundly supported from vtter confusion . Whereas , if the poore husbandmans happie estate be fearefully impouerished , how should any estate else in that selfe same politicall body be possibly enriched , or safely preserued ? And therefore let these our disordered Tobacconists take heede in time , lest ( by this their preposterous augmentation of tillage vnder an idle and fained pretence of publike good ) they do not hurt themselues and the rest of the members in this our politicall body , to the vtter subuersion of our publike good . For if corne it selfe ( by this their augmentation of tillage ) should inconsiderately and causelesly be brought to such a small price , as the poore husbandman ( all other things else continuing at an excessiue great reckoning ) be not able to sustaine himselfe and his familie : how should he possibly be able to afford any publike maintenance to all other states else in the politicall body ? Capn. Surely Sir , this comparison doth set forth the matter so plaine , as none now but sencelesse and péeuish idiots may possibly be ignorant thereof . Although yet ( for all this ) there be many rich Parsons and Vicars in sundrie parishes , who likewise do kéepe a combersome coyle about this their preposterous augmentation of tillage , as an vndoubted present good meanes for publike good : commending each enterprice that waies attempted , and wishing an happie successe to the same . Hydr. Why Capnistus ; neuer wonder at this . For so k Demetrius the siluer-smith he kept a combersome coile , concerning the prosperous and happie estate of his siluer-shrines . In so much as he called together the workemen of that selfe same trade , and told them saying : Sirs , you all do very well know , that ( by this our craft ) we haue gotten our goods . Declaring ( by this his pernicious prattle ) that it was neither the loue of Religion , nor the honest care of publike good that set him so greedily a gog in that his tu●bulent course , but the onely inordinate desire of his owne , and of those his copartners priuate respects . If these pratling priests thou speakest of now , were carried with wrie respects , and such other like priuate motions about any their vndutifull managings of these late disordered and diuellish attempts , they may rather more truly be termed the pestilent Parsons of poysonsome parishioners , than the prouident Pastours of a peaceable people ; yea and the Demetrian Vicars of most detestable villanies , rather than the honest deputed Vicegerents of Iesus Christ concerning the Christian subiection of dutifull subiects . Declaring themselues to be such l insatiable dogs as neuer haue enough : and therefore , they do all of them looke to their owne proper waies , euery of them seeke his peculiar aduantage , & after his owne priuate gaine , without giuing a due regard to the publike good . Capn. But Sir , what might it be that makes those our rurall Parsons and Vicars so rustically mad vpon that so mischieuous a matter in hand , if the augmentation of tillage doth tend so little to the publike good ? Hydr. I cannot certainly set downe the reason of that their vnreasonable applaud to such a pestiferous purpose , vnlesse I did certainly know the very thought and intent of their secret hearts . Howbeit , if the secrets of the heart it selfe may shrewdly be gessed vpon , by the m very outgoings they haue to any externall action , then surely this their preposterous approbation of any such a pernicious practise , it could not possibly proceede from any good motion ; the best that may be conceiued thereof is this : namely , that as those kind of persons are commonly n destitute of all vnderstanding , so ( it may be ) they but drousily dreamed that this preposterous augmentation of tillage would vndoubtedly bring forth an augmentation of tithes ; and that such an augmentation of tithes , would more abundantly increase their augmentation of worldly trash . And that therefore ( vpon this their fantasticall fliggring confidence ) when the whole countrey was o full of co●fusion , it may be they thought it not gr●atly amisse , to keep such a combersome consort with that rascabilian rout who so disorderedly made the late vprore , and euen mainely to crie out among them and say , p Oh great is Diana of the Ephesians ; or rather more plainly thus : Great q gaine without doubt , will grow yearely to vs , by this their preposterous augmentation of tillage . Howbeit , if these pedling Parsons and Vicars were but once enforced to find and feele in their proper experience , that such a preposterous augmentation of tillage did afford them no further augmentation of tithes then they reaped before , yea and that those selfesame tithes which thus befall to their portion , are farre worse in quantitie and qualitie both , then were those their former tithes which they possessed before , when there was lesse store of tillage by much ; and ( which more is ) that ( notwithstanding the badnesse thereof ) they are eftsoones enforced to bestow a twofold labour in gathering the same : surely when their proper experience hath made them perceiue the plaine truth of the premisses , they will then crie out to their seruants and say , Sirs , we haue now adaies a very long haruest for a little corne . For fie vpon this preposterous augmentation of tillage : it was neuer well with the Common-wealth , since the same was first so fantastically set on foote . For euery husbandman now hath so much arrable land in his proper possession , and so little manure withall to make it more burthensome , as he loseth one acre while he is sore toyling about another . The land ( for want of good order ) is now so cleane out of order and heart , as it yeeldeth more weeds then corne : yea and the corne which it commonly beareth is so leane and so light , as it affordeth no floure at all . What sayest thou now Capnistus , to these our counrrey Parsons and Vicars cars who so highly applaud these publike disorders ? Capn. Surely Sir , if the sequele should thus fall forth , I might boldly affirme , that the iudgement of God were iustly vpon them . Hydr. Very true as thou sayest . For , as it is a most filthie shame for them , to yeeld their vnderhand approbation towards any such publike disorders : so surely , had they but one dramme of Gods grace in their hearts , one scruple of a subiect like subiection in their heads , yea one iot of an honest humanitie in any of their minds ; they would hold it much more beseeming their persons and places , to teach their parishioners al holy subiection towards their superiours ; to beate downe very bitterly whatsoeuer disorders shall but put out their head against our positiue lawes , and the publike peace of our soueraigne Lord the King ; yea and euen rather to hazard their proper persons and states about the timely suppressing of euery such desperate attempt from priuate persons , than either by deed , by word , or by countenance , to giue any encouragement at all to such a preposterous proiect . Howbeit as r wisedome is euermore iustified of her owne proper children : so surely , there was neuer yet any one faction so filthie in nature , so foule in apprehension , neither yet so furious in practise , but the same had euermore either the primary sproute , the preposterous proceeding , the pernicious progresse , the pestiferous perfection , or the pestilent approbation at least of some of those simple Sir Iohns ; who rather should soundly conuince , then seditiously confirme the same . Howbeit , as euer there hath bene , so still there will be like people , like priest . That so ( the base people practising , and the bad priest approuing such pestilent practise ) they might all ioyntly become liable to one and the selfe same determined iudgement of God against such disordered attempts : according to the testimonie of the Prophet who saith , t The priests they eate vp the sinnes of my people , and lift vp their minds in these their palpable iniquities . Therefore there shall be like people , like priests : for I will visite their waies vpon themselues , & reward their wicked deeds vpon their owne pates . By all the premisses then thou maist plainly perceiue , that ( nothwithstanding whatsoeuer those our disordered Tobacconists pretend , or these our men-pleasing priests do prate ) about their preposterous defence ) the poore husbandman his estate ( so long as all other things else do continue at such an excessiue reckoning ) is rather hindered then helped by this their preposterous augmentation of tillage . Capn. Good Sir , the whole matter it selfe ( in my poore apprehension ) is so apparently euident , as I am able u to say nothing thereunto either good , or euill . Hydr. I hope , by this time thou maist plainly perceiue the falsly supposed goodnesse of that preposterous worke which was so perniciously applauded among the very garbage of humane societies : namely , those the desperate attempts of these our disordered Tobacconists against the long setled peace of this our publike state , in a matter especially of such slender importance and so needlesse moreouer , if all other things else be soundly resolued . Capn. But Sir , do you hold ( in good earnest ) the augmentation of tillage a matter most néedlesse , especially in this our age ? Hydr. I tell thee this in good earnest : it must either be needfull , or needlesse . But howsoeuer the augmentation of tillage may very truly be said to be simply good init selfe , because it was x the primarie ordinance appointed by God for mans preseruatiō & practise : yet do I not hold it so needfully good for y e present , if all sorts of people in our publike state be proportionably respected , according to the seuerall qualities of their persons and places . For how may this their preposterous augmentation of tillage be held now so needfully good , it being euery way so hurtfull as thou heardest euen now , the present condition of our publike state being duly considered ? Then next , a matter but needlesse it may seeme to be for the present : because corne is not now so excessiuely deare , but that each man ( of what sort soeuer ) may as sufficiently be able to maintaine his proper estate , by paying two shillings sixe pence the bushell , as were the people of those former times , when they payd but sixepence the bushell . Capn. I pray you Sir , demonstrate this point more plainly for the better satisfaction of my selfe , and all others besides . Hydr. This thing is so plaine of it selfe , as it needs no plainer demonstration at all , then the former , and now present experience . For who doth not see , but that the whole Peeres of our kingdome , y e Nobles , the Gentrie , & Yeomanrie also , might much better maintaine their estates in former ages with some fiue hundred , three hundred , or one hundred pounds rent at the most , when all other things else appertaining to their houshold prouision , their ordinarie attire , and the moderate pompe of their persons and places did generally run at so low a rate , then they may now ( in this present age ) with a thousand , sixe hundred , or three hundred pounds rent at the least , when all those the former supplies cannot possibly be gotten without an excessiue reckoning ? Capn. I am iust of your mind for that . But Sir , these our great personages ( say they ) do prodigally and wastefully consume so much wealth vpon superfluous buildings , and sumptuous apparell , as they cannot possibly vphold their estates , without an excessiue polling and pilling of all their poore Tenants : and there is the welspring it selfe of all their wants . Hydr. I intend not now to pleade for , much lesse to put downe any patrocinium at all to mens superfluous expences , how many , or how mightie soeuer : hauing so sufficiently censured the same a little before . Although yet ( respecting these great mens persons y and places , the z royalties of Salomons house , the clothing of the Kings daughter a in beaten gold with rayment of needle worke ; the acustomable b wearing of silkes , and soft apparell , in Princes courts ; yea and that c seame-lesse coate of our Sauiour Christ being wrought vpon throughout ) I dare not denie a different dignitie in apparell , in diet , in sumptuousnesse in buildings and euery way else , from the base and vulgar sort ; which made me euen purposely put downe the moderate pompe of their persons and places in my former speech , as a pompe respectiuely permitted vnto them by the Almighty himselfe . Howbeit , Capnistus seeing thou thy selfe art iust of my mind ( as thou saidest euen now ) cōcerning our purpose propounded , I will therefore ( without further delay ) proceed in the rest . Capn. Do so Sir , I pray you : and first , how they husbandmans state is euery way now as good as in former times . Hydr. Why man , who makes any question at all , but that the poore husbandman may as competently , as commēdably , and as contentedly continue the good estate of himselfe , and his husbandrie , now when he sits vpon twentie pounds rent , and growes but threescore quarters of corne at the most , as he might haue done in our forefathers daies , when he payed but twentie nobles rent by the yeare , and reaped tweluescore quarters of corne at the least , all other things else being proportionably and euenly respected according to their different rates and reckonings ? For when as one bushell of barley ( being then sold for fourepence in former times ) was able to buy him but one pound of candle : one bushell of barley now ( being sold for two shillings sixpence ) will purchase this poore husbandman , a pound of candle , a pound of hops , a quarter of lambe , three pennie-worth of bakers bread , & a gallon of good ale at the least ; & so forth proportionably for the rest of any his other needfull affaires . Capn. The case is apparently euident concerning the husbandmans happie estate : but how for the inferiour sorts of subjects ? Hydr. The selfe same proportion ( respecting their seuerall persons and places ) will fitly serue for euery of them . For who seeth not but that the Artificers , Trades men , and poore labouring people ( being painefull in their callings , frugall in their gettings , and prouident in all their dispendings ) may as competently , and as conueniently maintaine themselues , and the folke of their familie now , with bestowing two shillings sixpence vpon euery bushell of corne , as their fore-fathers might haue done in former seasons when they payed but sixpence for euery bushell . For euen as the prices of corne are now increased , so surely the different prices of their seuerall traffickes , their sundrie commodities , and ordinarie labours , they are likewise proportionably augmented and raised accordingly , so as the different times haue brought no disparagement at all to their different states . I will make it more apparently manifest by this demonstration : When a Shoo-maker ( in former seasons ) might readily buy him a bushell of corne for sixpence , in those selfe same times he hardly could sell a good paire of shooes for sixpence . And whereas a Shoo-maker now payeth two shillings sixpence for euery bushell of corne , he may now also sell the like paire of shooes for two shillings sixpence . So as one paire of shooes ( in former times ) would buy but a bushell of corne : and one paire of shooes ( in our present daies ) will likewise procure him a bushell of corne . These things being certainely so , the Shoo-makers state is much better now , then was the Shoo-makers state in former seasons . For , this Shoo-makers hauing once procured him a bushell of corne with one paire of shooes , which also his fore-fathers were forced to giue for a bushell in former ages , he hath fully as many shooes remaining for his further vses , as had his fore-fathers before him , yea and each paire of his will be fully as much worth as fiue paire of the like in his fore-fathers daies . And as in this one , so likewise in all other trades else , according to the selfe-same proportion of persons , of times , of trades , and of trafficke . Capn. It is euen certainly so as you say . And therefore I wonder what should make our Artificers , our Tradesmen , and poore labouring people so malcontent as they are , with their present estates . Hydr. It is not any vnauoydable want ( I assure thee ) but a fantasticall wantonnesse rather , which ( shaping their shooes now a great deale higher in the instep , then did their fore-fathers in former times ) doth make them so malcontended . My meaning is this . Our men ( hauing now more ambitious , more aspiring and haughtier hearts than had their fore-fathers before them ) they cannot d content themselues with meate , drinke , and clothing , with that competencie ( I meane ) wherewith their fore-fathers were fully contented before them : or ( at least ) they will not be pleased before such time as they haue abundance of blessings , to e consume the same vpon their inordinate and licentious affections . For let our Artificers , our Trades-men , and our poore labouring people be as industrious now in their different degrees , as diligent in their seuerall callings , as painfull in their ordinary labours , as prouident in getting , as carefull in keeping , as frugall in disposing , and as heedfull in their domesticall dispendings as were their forefathers before them : and I see not ( as yet ) to the contrary , but that ( the premisses themselues being proportionably and rightly respected ) they might euery way liue in as happie a state as did their fore-fathers before them . But when those men were industrious , and our men are riotous ; when they were diligent , and ours too too lazie ; when they were painfull , and ours ouer playfull ; when they were prouident in gathering , and ours profluuious in scattering ; when they were carefull in keeping , and ours carelesse in sauing ; when they were frugall in disposing , and ours prodigall in bestowing ; when they were heedfull in dispending , and ours altogether heedlesse in dispersing : how should they possibly accord in their proper conditions , when there is so great discord in their diuerse professions ? How should they consent in their equall properties , when they dissent so much in their seuerall practises ? or how should they iump pat in their congruent states , when they so greeuously iarre in their different stirres ? The Trades-men ( in former times ) would not willingly spend so much in seuen yeares together about the necessarie decking vp of themselues , their wiues , and seauen small children , as our Trades-men now do wilfully waste about the needlesse trimming vp of proud Tag-tailes their wiues in lesse then one quarter of a yeare , or two at the most . The ancient Artificers then would not vsually prouide so many delicate dishes for themselues and their families in a whole twelue-moneth together , as our new vpstart Artificers do now commonly procure for each Sundaies dinner at least . Milke , cheese , and butter , was a rich and bountifull banquet with them : Pig , porke , and lambe is nothing with ours , vnlesse also they haue a whole quart of sacke to kindle their queasie stomackes withall . It was very much with poore laboures then , to play one poore halfe-pennie at cards throughout a whole Christmas together to cobble their shooes : it is nothing with our loyterers now , to lauish forth twelue-pence a weeke at one vnthristie , or poope-noddie at least , for whole gallons of ale to comber their cockscombes withall . It was fully sufficient for the common sort then , their wiues & poore children , to be reputed good , honest , plaine countrey people : whereas our vulgar sort are neuer satisfied now , vnlesse themselues be reckoned the odde burgo-masters of euery parish ; vnlesse their proud wiues be gentilized with , May it please your good worship at euery word ; vnlesse my yong princkcockes their sonnes be maistered with long lowsie huge lockes on their head , and a guilt-dagger forsooth , behind at their backes ; yea and vnlesse my prettie pigs-nie their daughters bee ladified with a tucke on their tailes , and a paire of new pumpes on their heeles for hurting their kibes . So as howsoeuer our ancestours liued honestly , & contentedly with their former conditions , it is no maruell at all if these our late vp-startes be monstrously malcontent for their proper estates ; without any one occasion at all from the scarcitie of corne for want of more tillage . Capn. Surely Sir , if you had bene lodged these seauen yeares together in the very closet of our common peoples hearts , you could neuer haue layed forth more soundly , the foolish humours of those their fantasticall heads . Yea and all men may now plainly perceiue , that it is not any want of corne , but the wantonnesse rather of their leud dispositions that makes them discontented with the times , with their states , and with whatsoeuer else is opposite to their humorous affections . Hydr. Very true as thou sayest . For the times themselues are as tollerable now , as euer before ; their ordinarie estates as competent now , as euer before ; the great plentie of corne as exceeding much now as euer before ; yea and the prices also of corne as proportionably conuenient as euer before , if all things else bee rightly respected : onely our mutable minds are now growne quite out of order , and that is the onely maine cause which maketh vs so malcontent in our selues , and so mischieuous also against the publike good of our present state . But be it supposed there were now some present want of corne in our countrey , as these our disordered persons may seeme to suggest , might not this want ( thinkest thou ) be much better supplied , than by these their disordered attempts about the vntimelie disparking of all Inclosures , for that their needlesse augmentation of tillage ? Capn. Good Sir , I sée not ( as yet ) how these our unruly Tobacconists may be brought to conceiue the reason hereof . Hydr. When proud horses ( being handsomly had forth to the christall streames ) may not possibly be made to drinke , canst ●hou conceiue any other reason of this their wilfull refusall , but the onely pride of their stomacks which maketh them so causelesly to distaste the good and wholsome water before them ? Capn. No surely Sir , that is the onely cause , I verily suppose . Hydr. And euen so in like manner , it is the onely height of our proud Tobacconists minds that will neither suffer themselues to see the depth of their desperate follie herein , nor yet let them be handsomly led forth to a better dexteritie , from y e approued iudgement of others . For let the earth but yeeld yearely the like abundance of graine that it now ordinarily groweth from time to time : and I doubt not at all but the prices of corne may still be continued in the selfe same reasonable reckoning which they hold at this present , yea and ( perhaps ) be brought to a lower rate ( as neede shall require ) if the obseruations I could giue them herein , were rightly respected . Capn. Put downe those obseruations , I beséech you Sir. Hydr. Nay , soft here a while . For as I am not ( I assure thee ) a professed Polititian , so dare I by no meanes presume to put downe political orders for the publike State , in a kingdome especially so prudently gouerned . Capn. Let no such néedlesse conceite ( I beséech you ) withhold your Christian care from y e publike good of your countrey . For as it was no presumption in f Naamans little girle to propound , nor any preiudice to the reputation of Naaman to practise her prudent aduice for the timely restauration of his diseased bodie to it pristinate estate : so is it no arrogancie in your owne selfe , nor derogancie at all from the iustly deserued dignity of any our politike statesmen , to referre your good thoughts ( for the publike good of your countrey ) to a publike consideration . And therefore , feare not to put your obseruations vpon termes at y e least , whatsoeuer dislike ensue thereof . Hydr. I do willingly consent to this thy reasonable and honest perswasion . First therefore , if it might but please his excellent Maiestie , to command from time to time , a strict execution of all those penall statutes which were formerly g prouided against the needlesse transportation of corne and victuals into forreine parts , beyond y e ordinary prices of corne put downe in those statutes ; with a seuere exaction of the penalties appointed , at the hands of such husbandmen first , as conuey , or cause to be conueyed their corne to any hauen or port to be so transported ; at the hands also of such insatiable Merchants or others as do so transport our said corne ; and then lastly , at the ship-maisters and marriners hands for so transporting the same : & I doubt not but that there would be plentie enough of corne in our countrey , and the same continued from time to time at a reasonable rate . Againe , if his said Maiestie might eftsoones be pleased to h become very prouident in granting so many needlesse licenses to any of those our monopolian Merchants especially , who do nothing else in effect , but ship ouer our corne , with other the like substantiall commodities of their natiue countrey into all forreine parts , and bring home from thence their trifling toyes ; I meane boxes , hobbie-horses , and rattles for little young babes , loombe-works and laces for young ladified lasses ; proud pomanders , perriwigs , and squirrels tailes for prickmadaintie fooles , with other like trumpry trash : and I doubt not but that there would be plentie enough of corne in our countrey , and the same continued from time to time at a reasonable rate . Againe , if his said excellent Maiestie might likewise be pleased to command from time to time , the like seuere execution of penall lawes , prouided i against all Fore-stallers , Regrators , and Ingrossers of corne and victuals , with a full exaction of the penalties appointed against euery offender therein : and I doubt not but that there would be corne enough in our country , and the prices continued from time to time , at a reasonable rate . Againe , if his said Maiestie might be pleased to giue it in speciall charge , that the Iustices of euery countrey should from time to time k take a diligent suruey and view whether any of our countrey cormorants do accustomably keepe vp in their hands , some two , three , foure , fiue , yea sixe yeares corne together , first for the feeding of rats , mice , weasels , and then ( being good for no purpose else ) to bee tumbled forth by whole quarters at once for hogs and swine ; with a very seuere and sharpe punishment for such as so filthily consume the good blessings of God : & I doubt not , but that there will be plentie enough of corne in our countrey , and the prices continued from time to time , at a reasonable rate . Againe , let his Maiestie be likewise pleased to giue strictly in charge from time to time , that l no roysters , ruffians , riotous persons , nor tippling Tobacconists do continue day by day , and night by night , at tippling Alehouses in a needlesse gormandizing , carousing , quaffing , and swilling in of wine , ale , and beere , as they vsually do ; but m be industriously held and kept to their seuerall callings and labours : and I doubt not but that there will be plentie enough of corne in our countrey , and the prices therof continued from time to time at a reasonable reckoning . Againe , let his excellent Maiestie be likewise pleased to command very strictly n the due execution of lawes from time to time vpon rogues , vagabounds , and sturdie-beggers , who like greedie Caterpillers , deuoure the good blessings of God , and as idle drones , do but sucke vp the sweete of other mens labours ; as also o vpon any their maintainers and releeuers ; together with such and so many as p neglect their timely apprehension : and I doubt not but that there will be corne enough in our countrey , and the prices thereof continued stil at a reasonable rate . Briefly , let his said excellent Maiestie be likewise pleased to command his said Iustices in euery countrey , from time to time q to execute very sharply the breach of his lawes vpon all disordered Alehouses , as also to put presently in practise r the speedie suppressing of superfluous Alehouses to the sixt part at the least in our land : and I doubt not to haue plentie enough of corne in our countrey , and the same at a reasonable rate from time to time . For I make no question at all , but that ten hundred thousand quarters of mault at the least ( besides the abundance of wheate and other the good blessings of God ) are very riotously , wastefully , and needlesly bestowed from yeare to yeare in our land , by reason of such superfluous tippling houses : which said mault , wheate , and the rest of Gods good blessings ( being otherwise most frugally dispended onely for the present necessitie of his Maiesties subiects ) would make more plentie of corne in our land by much , and continue the same from time to time at a reasonable rate , without any such needlesse augmentation of tillage . Capn. Surely Sir , if these things were prouidently obserued , and carefully executed from time to time ( as in equitie they ought ) according to the true intent and meaning of law , we should haue from yeare to yeare such abundance of corne , and at so reasonable a rate withall , as the augmentation of tillage would rather be hurtfull then helpefull to all estates : and therefore that the disordered enterprice of those our tippling Tobacconists ( for any thing I do perceiue ) was idle , and vtterly needlesse . Hydr. Very true as thou sayest , and the needlesnesse also thereof may yet be made more apparent by much , if thou considerest rightly the very true cause it selfe of these our Tobacconists wants . Which their said wants arise not ( I assure ) from any defect of corne in our countrey , or through the excessiue prices of corne for the present , but rather from their owne inordinate riotous , licentious , and loytring carriage . For , what is the cause that all other Artificers , Trades-men and poore labouring people do now ( notwithstanding this falsly supposed want of corne , and the excessiue prices of graine ) so competently and so commendably maintaine their seuerall charges , with monie from time to time in their purse for any their needfull affaires : and these our disordered Tobacconists are each hou●e so oppressed with penurie and want , as they are eftsoones enforced to aduenture vpon such vndurifull and desperate attempts , to preserue them and all theirs from famine and hunger ? Capn. Howsoeuer I my selfe might shrewdly ghesse thereat , yet can I not certainly set downe the certaine reason thereof : and therefore do heartily intreate your assistance therein . Hydr. With very good will. Wherein this also obserue by the way , that if it were the present want of corne , or that the excessiue prices of corne might iustly be adiudged the cause thereof , then all other poore men besides , hauing fat greater charges than they , and ( setting their painefull labours apart ) as little to take to as any of them , should haue as great cause to complaine of their wants as themselues . Neither is it their want of a competent skill , or sufficient strength of bodie to maintaine their labours that constraines them thus to complaine : for therein they farre exceede , and go beyond those other poore men by many degrees . But it is their onely want of grace , their want of a Christian conscience , their want of an honest heart , and the want of a readie will to walke industriously in their seuerall callings , that causeth this stirre . It is their lazie , their loytring and idle life , being hardly brought to labour soundly one day in a weeke . It is their prodigall dispending of whatsoeuer they get , about their filthie Tobacco fumes , and superfluous carousing cups . It is their fine daintie tooth , their excesse in apparell , and their riotous behauiour in euery place . Yea it is their profluuious lashing forth of whatsoeuer they get , at cards , ●ice , and other v●lawfull , nay rather vnthriftie pastimes . A●d now when all is thus spent , yea more than all , and themselues growne impatient in that their penurious estate , then forthwith they make most dangerous outcries about their priuate wants , and most desperately vndertake a causlesse supply thereof , by their disordered disparking of all Inclosures forsooth , vnder a false pretence of the needlesse augmentat●●n of tillage . By all which thou maist plainly perceiue , how pestiferous those their bad practises are to the long setled peace of our Soueraigne Lord the King : and consequently , how pernicious withall to the present good of our publike State. Capn. Sir , the case is apparently euident , like the Sunne in his strength , so as euen all ( but such as are wilfully blind ) may very easily espie the euident truth thereof . Hydr. Very true as thou sayest , And therefore , that these our poor-blind platformers in publike affaires , as also , euery of their polypragmaticall applauders may the more readily be made to recouer a cleare vnderstanding concerning these matters , let vs now next , endeuour to draw those s filthie scales of corruption from out of their eies , by demonstrating yet more plainly to euery of them what further pestiferous perils to the present good of our publike State did still proceede , and poysonsomely breake forth from those their desperate attempts . For here I would haue thee to obserue afresh , that the late disordered enterprise of those our intemperate Tobacconists , it was not onely flat opposite to the well established peace of our soueraigne Lord the King as thou heardest euen now , but very rebellious likewise to his kingly soueraigntie it selfe . Not onely , because they so desperately attempted the wilfull breach of his peace , but for that they so proudly resisted his kingly power , and did thereby most impudently declare themselues very obstinate , and open rebels against his sacred Maiestie . Capn. Oh Sir , I would to God you had bene somwhat more spare in your spéech , and not so satyrically haue termed them Rebels ; for that terme ( I feare me ) will hardly be brooked . Hydr. Howsoeuer thy selfe would haue me be spare , I loue to be plaine in my spe●ch , and to call a spade , a spade , how hardly soeuer digested . And why should they themselues , or any man else ( I pray thee ) dislike of that name which they in the very secret of their hearts so earnestly desired , and ( by their outragious carriage ) so iustly deserued ? That they in their owne hearts desired this name , it is more then apparently euident : because neither peaceable intreatie , nor any plausible meanes might possibly perswade their dutifull departure , nor once make them desist but a while from those their desperate attempts . And that their outragious cariage di● duly deserue such an odious name , they may not denie it themselues : not onely for that they would not ( vpon his Maiesties Proclamation ) depart from the field , but rebelliously persisted and proceeded afresh , in that their vndutifull practise . Howbeit ( to the end thou maist more exactly vnderstand my meaning herein ) it shall not be greatly amisse , to examine first , the ordinarie vse of the word rebellare , according to the iust proprietie of seuerall languages : and then next , to set succinctly downe a true definition of the very matter it selfe , as is properly intended by those the said seuerall languages . Capn. A very excellent order , and therefore I pray you procéede in your purpose . Hydr. With very good will. Wherein , I would haue thee obserue with deliberate consideration , that the Hebrewes they vse t the word maradh , which signifieth to offend by rebelling against , to reuolt or forsake , to fall finally from one , to rebell , to deale perfidiously : as thou maist plainly perceiue by those seuerall Scriptures which are purposely put downe in the margine to make it more manifest . This word maradh , it hath a maruellous affinitie with another word u called marah , that is , to make bitter or sowre ; as also with iaradh , that is , to descend or fall from : because the man that rebelleth , doth seeme ( as it were ) to reuolt or fall from his superiour so , as he doth vtterly vexe and grieue his heart . According to that which Abner vttered to Ioab , in an onely regard of the exceeding great slaughter betweene them , saying thus : x Shall the sword deuoure for euer ? Knowest thou not that it will be bitternesse in the latter end ? The Grecians they vsually haue for this matter , the y word aphistamai , which properly signifieth to resist , to withstand , or to depart from one : because the man that rebelleth doth seeme ( as it were ) to depart , or to withdraw himselfe from that other whom he so vniustly resisteth . The French-men they commonly haue z Rebeller , se reuanger , that is to say , to rebell , or to reuenge himselfe : because the man that so vniustly resisteth his lawfull Superiour , doth seeme to rest ( as it were ) vpon his owne proper reuenge without all authoritie . The Italians they do vsually put downe for this point , the word a rebellare , resorgere , that is , to resist , or rise vp against one : because the partie rebelling doth rebelliously rise vp in armes against his Superiour whom he so proudly resisteth . The Latines they do eftsoones obserue the word b repugnare , that is , to fight purposely against , or to raise vp an opposite warre : because the partie so rebelling , doth vndutifully beare armour against him , whom he so vniustly resisteth . So as all these seuerall languages , they do ( by this word to rebell ) euen purposely speake of all such as abide not very firmely in that loyaltie or faith wherein they are authentically obliged , and dutifully bound to their soueraigne King , and naturall countrey . Or they vnderstand it of such as ( being victoriously subdued before and ( vpon their humble submission receiued to mercie ) do nothwithstanding endeauour eftsoones to stirre vp rebellious strifes against some such as they are orderly subiected vnto , and from whom they formerly receiued much mercie . Now then , as a warrior is properly called of the Hebrewes , c Ish-milehamah , that is to say , a man of warre ; also of the Grecians , d polemisteis , that is , a man at armes , or one rightly enabled for warlike affaires ; also of the French men , Guerroyeur , homme de guerre , that is , a warriour , or a man of warre ; also of the Italians , Combattitore , gueerieur , that is , a combatter , or warriour ; and of the Latines , bellator , that is to say , a warriour , or bearer of armes : So surely a rebell he is vsually called of the Hebrewes , posheang , that is to say , a transgressour , a perfidious , or mischieuous person ; also of the Grecians aphistamenos , that is to say , a reuolter from an open resiter , or a wilfull withstander of publike authoritie ; also of the French-men , Celuy qui rebelle , that is , one that obstinately , or stubbornely rebelleth against his Superiour . Also of the Italians , he is called rubello that is to say , a very pestiferous , or most persidious rebell ; also of the Spaniard he is termed , rebela , that is , one which rebelleth , or taketh vp armour against his Prince : and of the Latines , rebellator , that is to say , a rebeller , an obstinate resister , or a wilfull withstander of the Princes power . By all this then it is very apparent what the word ( rebellare ) doth signifie , according to the naturall proprietie of each seuerall language . Capn. Good Sir , you ●aue sufficiently set forth the sence and meaning of the word rebellare , and therefore , now I pray you procéede to put downe a perfect definition of the matter it selfe , which is purposely intended by the naturall proprietie of those seuerall languages . Hydr. Content . And ( for this respect ) thou hast here to obserue afresh from the premisses , that a rebell is he who ( hauing bene lawfully conquered before , and vpon his humble submission receiued to mercie ) doth estsoones ( notwithstanding ) seditiously raise vp and vnlawfull war against his liege Lord , and lawfull Superior . Or else , a rebell is he , who abideth not firmely in that honest loyaltie and faithfull obedience wherein he is strictly obliged to his authenticall King , and dutifully bound to his naturall countrey : but too too rebelliously reuolteth from both , and resistingly taketh vp armour against his said authenticall Soueraigne and naturall countrey . By this then it is apparently euident , that rebellion is nothing else but a wilfull resisting or rising vp against a lawfull authoritie . And that therefore , if the word bellare be properly and purposely put downe to import and authenticall and lawfull warre , then the word rebellare it doth not improperly , but euen purposely betoken an vnlawfull rebelling , or an vndutifull raising of warre against a lawfull authoritie . As also , if the word bellator , be truly translated an authenticall warriour , then the word rebellator , is not vnaptly termed a treacherous rebellour . I will yet more plainly demonstrate this matter thus . When two fight together in a cause contradictorie , or in a matter of meere repugnancie , that quarrell ( in the one of them ) is vndoubtedly iust : but yet ( in the other ) it is vtterly vniust , so as ( in this case ) the imputation of rebellion it cannot be truly imputed to both . For he that hath the iust quarrell , is properly said bellare , that is , to fight lawfully in the necessary defence of his owne proper right : but he that vpholdeth the vniust quarrell , he is not improperly said rebellare , that is , vnlawfully to rebell or rise vp in an vnnecessary opposition to him that stands in the lawfull defence of his owne proper right . Not the other then , but this man that maketh the vniust opposition , is properly termed the partie rebelling . To apply this to our present purpose . The Kings Maiesties power , and these our disordered persons did skirmish together in a cause contradictorie , or in a matter of meere repugnancie . Because the Kings power it stood for the timely supportation of publike peace , and the necessary defence of his Maiesties positiue lawes against that their vnlawfull assembling together for the lawlesse and needlesse disparking of pastures inclosed : those disordered person so vnlawfully assembled they rose vp in their owne proper persons against that his authenticall power , to mannage the vnlawfulnesse of that their desperate attempt against those his Maiesties lawes . Not both , but the one of these may truly be said to rebell . If they had dared to say then , or at this present do but thinke that his Maiesties power rebelled against them , and not they against his Maiesties power , it were more then high time they were all cut off quite , for so proudly e aduanc●ng the base bramble-bush of Shechem against the tall Cedar of Libanon . For f were not this ( in very deed ) to warre with the gods , I meane , to resist , and rise vp against Nature her selfe ? Because in whomsoeuer there is a maioritie , in them there is placed a commanding authoritie , and in whomsoeuer there is a minoritie , vpon them is imposed an obeying necessitie . And therefore , if his Maiesties power may not iustly be said to rebell in that action , because it authentically stood vp for the onely supportation of publike peace , and the timely defence of his Maiesties positiue lawes : it must then necessarily follow , that they themselues ( so vnlawfully arising against his said Maiesties authenticall power ) did make the rebellion . And euen so , those our disordered persons ( in that their vnlawfull resistance ) they are very aptly and properly called obstinate rebels , how vnsauourie soeuer the word rebell doth seeme to that their vnsauourie taste . And that therefore the one part of them ( for that their vnlawfull rebellion ) were iustly put to the sword , and all the rest of them since , not vniustly deserued the gallowes as Felons , had not his excellent Highnesse ( euen by the meere motion of his Kingly clemencie without any their merit ) then mingled g Mercie with Iustice , according to the approued testimonie of the blessed Apostle , who telleth them thus : h Let euery soule be subiect to the authoritie of the higher powers . For there is no power but of God , the powers that be , are ordained of God : whosoeuer therefore resisteth the power , resisteth the ordinance of God , and they that resist shall receiue to themselues damnation . For Princes are not to be feared for good workes , but for euill . Wilt thou then be without feare of the power ? Do well , so shalt thou be praised for the same , for he is the Minister of God for thy wealth . But if thou do euill , then feare ; for hee beareth not the sword for nought , for he is the Minister of God , to take vengeance on him that doth euill . Wherefore you must be subiect , not because of wrath onely , but also for conscience sake . What sayest thou Capnistus , to the word rebellion , now ? as also to the testimonie of the Apostle concerning the same ? Were they not rebels in that their resistance ? And was not that their rebellion a very pestiferous enterprise against the present good of our publike State ? Capn. The case ( I confesse ) is much more apparently euident , than that any sound hearted subiect may once dare to oppose himselfe to the same . Although notwithstanding , they themselues , and their vnderhand fauourites do séeke to suppresse the imputation of rebellion thus : Indéed ( say they ) if those silie poore soules had taken vp armour against his Maiesties power , they might iustly be called rebels : but ( alas ) they were silie poore snakes , vtterly vnarmed , and therefore no rebels . Hydr. Why man , that their disordered intention ( it being wilfully persisted in , with a resolute mind not to depart from the place ) is by those ( the forenamed statutes ) made a plaine rebellion against his Maiestie , though neither armour nor weapon were vsed at all . Yea and the word which the Apostle puts downe in the forenamed Scripture , importeth so much . For the word there i is antitassómenos , that is , one opposing himselfe vnto ; one that resisteth , or withstandeth the power . Signifying thereby vnto vs , that not to obey , or not to submit to the power , is a plaine resistance , or a standing against the power of God , albeit neither armour nor weapon were vsed at all . Otherwise Saint Steuen could not iustly haue challenged the stifnecked Iewes for k resisters and rebels against the holy Ghost , because ( in that their wilfull resistance ) they vsed no materiall armour at all , but onely l the weapons of vnrighteousnesse to sinne . But tell me Capnistus , do those captious confederates then onely accompt it rebellion when as weapons are vsed with warre against warre ? Or is it onely the bearing of armour against his Maiesties power that maketh the rebell ? How then may themselues be ( that way ) set free from the iust imputation of an obstinate rebellion ? For ( besides that their vndutifull withstanding of his Maiesties Proclamation so authentically made in their owne proper hearing ) had they not armour ? had they not weapons ? Had they not hatchets , axes , mattocks , shouels , spades , forks , staues , bowes and arrowes , bils , partizans , guns , with other like implements ? were these no weapons thinkest thou ? And would they be commanded ( in a peaceable manner ) to deliuer vp these ? Nay did they not with violent force , and to their vitermost power , make a rebellious resistance with euery of these , against his Maiesties power ? Yea and ( which more is by much ) did they not ( like proud railing Shimeis ) very villanously m cast pibbles and stones against our most vertuous Dauid his authenticall power , euen then , when all the men of warre were n on their right hands , and on their left hands , I meane , had enuironed them round about on euery side ? If therefore , it be the onely bearing of armour against his Maiesties power that makes the rebellion , why , yet then surely euen they also themselues ( so vsing these weapons against his Maiesties power ) they are here very clearely concluded for Rebels , and therefore very pestiferous persons against the present good of our publike State. Howbeit ( besides those their former disordered courses , and desperate attempts against good lawes of our land , against his Maiesties peace , as also against his said Maiesties soueraigne power ) their disordered enterprise was yet more hurtfull to the present good of our State , by procuring ●o causelesly their owne , and other mens bloud to be so fearefully spilt about that their rebellious enterprise . The timely consideration whereof , should euen forcibly constraine the principall procurers of such a bloudie massacre to tremble and quake all the daies of their life , for feare , lest that shed bloud ( at one time or other ) be iustly o reuenged with bloud-shed vpon their owne pates . Capn. Oh nay Sir , such a consideration is so farre off from working their feare , as it rather procureth their comfort . For p the liuely image of God being ( by that massacre ) so fearefully defaced in those sillie poore soules whose bloud was so cruelly spilt , they doubt not ( they say ) but that the iust reuenger of bloud ( whose image was so fearefully defaced in euery of them ) will one day require an accompt for their bloud , according to his owne infallible promise , saying thus : q I will surely require your bloud wherein your liues are , at the hands of euery beast will I require the same . At the hand of man , euen at the hand of a mans brother , will I require the life of man. For r whosoeuer sheddeth mans bloud , by man shall his bloud be shed : because s in the image of God hath he made man. Now Sir , ( this being certainely so ) they doubt not ( they say ) but that euen those war-horses , as also the warriours them selues shall one day yéeld an heauie accompt for so cruelly spilling their bloud . Hydr. Why man , thou didst freely confesse but euen now , that their rebellious disorder ( in this their rebellious attempt ) was very well worthy of death . Capn. I did so indéed : and am still of that mind . Hydr. Yea , but tell me this one thing I pray thee . Who is the man that either may , or will dare to execute such a deserued death vpon any one of them all , if ( as themselues do blindly imagine ) their bloud must be required at the hands of such as shall put them to death ? Thou must necessarily acknowledge thus much at the least , that some kind of men ( in such an orderly execution of death vpon malefactors ) are clearely acquited of those malefactors death , and so freed from yeelding an accompt vnto God for their bloud : or else ( if that which these our fantastickes do fondly conclude from the forenamed Scripture be soundly concluded ) that then no malefactors bloud may ( at any hand ) be split , without the dreadfull displeasure of God. Capn. That must néeds be certainly so : and therefore , I pray you explane that portion of Scripture , for the better satisfaction of them , and of me . Hydr. With all my heart . Wherein thou hast here to consider afresh , that ( immediatly after the first creation ) the almightie Iehouah designed to Adam himselfe t the primarie and soueraigne dominion ouer all other his creatures in generall , by u putting them vnder his feete : and then next ( in a more speciall manner ) ouer Euah her selfe , by x subiecting her desire to Adam her husband , appointing him withall , to haue the maiestical● soueraigntie ouer her person . After this , the Lord ratified afresh , that selfesame maiesticall soueraigntie in Caine ; by constituting him y a princely ruler ouer Abel his brother ; by subiecting Abel his ordinarie desires vnto Caine ; and by authorising the said Caine to rule ouer the person of Abel . By this meanes , insinuating to all the succeeding ages , that as he is z the God of order , so would he haue a order obserued among his creatures . And thereupon ( by this his primarie president of such a princely soueraignty in the said person of Caine ) dis plainly demonstrate to all the world throughout their generations from age to age , how he had decreed for euer , that ( in all humane societies to the end of the world ) there should be some to beare rule , and some to obey . Now then , to the end the of-spring succeeding might not too too grosly imagine , that this selfesame princely preheminence of some speciall person ouer the people , after the first age of the world was come to the full period or vttermost date , the Lord therefore immediatly after the floud ( when the b windowes of heauen were closed vp , and the waters quite fled from the vpper face of the earth ) he c powerfully renewed the world afresh , by that selfesame primarie blessing wherwith d the propagation of man was blessed at first : and e reestablished also in man his primarie dominion ouer birds , beasts , and fishes . Yea and euen then also ( recalling eftsoones to remembrance f the bloudie massacres of Nimrod and others , as also intending a maruellous increase of the world afresh , by those eight suruiuers after the floud ) he purposely diuised a very prouident restraint concerning all such outragious murders as might any waies hinder his forenamed purpose for propagation : telling Noah and the rest , that he would vndoubtedly g require the bloud of man , at the hands of euery man outragiously spilling the same . And because there should no scruple of conscience remaine in any those iust reuengers of bloud , the Lord God therefore doth authentically establish afresh , a perpetuall supereminent power ouer man and beast , for the orderly execution of that his vnchangeable ordinance concerning the lawfull reuenge of any such wilfull murthers , telling them thus : h Whosoeuer sheddeth mans bloud , in man , or by man shall his bloud be shed , or let his bloud be shed . Lo this I assure thee , is the true sence and meaning of that portion of Scripture . Capn. Surely Sir , this sen●e which you giue , it seemeth very congruent with the proportion of faith , and scope of the text . Although yet , I haue heard say of some who do verily thinke that i the Lord ( in that text ) hath not exactly and purposely put downe any politique or positiue law concerning the authenticall punishment of outragious murders . Hydr. There are some ( I confesse ) who affirme as thou sayest , and those also of reuerend regard with the Churches of God. But whosoeuer more considerately examineth the apt coherence of this one , with all the precedent verses , he will ( I verily suppose ) be soone of a contrary mind . For sith the Lord God ( by the very tenure of that text ) doth directly determine a timely reuenge of euery such wilfull murders by the subordinate ministerie of some one man or other : what man is he that may vnblameably vndertake the timely execution of that selfe same determined reuenge , but only some such a one as the Lord himselfe hath publikely and powerfully enabled thereunto ? Besides that , if we consider somewhat more strictly , the very maine reason it selfe which the Lord God hath purposely rendered for the vndoubted approbation of such a ministeriall reuenge : we shall find ( in my iudgement ) the matter more euident than that it may probably be impugned of any . For whereas Noah , and his sonnes ( conceiuing some doubt concerning the matter propounded ) might haue made this exception , saying : Lord thou hast told vs euen now , that the outragious spiller of any mans bloud shall vndoubtedly be sure to haue his owne bloud spilt againe by man : but here shew vs ( we pray thee ) what one man in the world may reuengingly shed such a murderers bloud , and not be made guiltie of bloudshed himselfe ? That may the magistrate to ( saith the Lord ) into whose authentical hands alone , I haue ( for such a determined reuenge ) euen purposely put k my reuenging sword . Lo , here is the proper coherence , and the purposed scope of this present text . Capn. Very well . But why may such a man do it more than another , and not be made guiltie of murder himselfe ? Hydr. For answer herein , let me first aske thee this question : namely , Whether thou beleeuest that the Lord God himselfe may take an immediate reuenge of innocent bloud vpon the murdering person ? Capn. That I do verily beléeue ; both because he hath iustly decreed such iust reuenge : and for that also he ( being onely the supereminent God ) may l Do whatsoeuer seemeth good in his owne eies , without the checke or controlement of any . Hydr. Well , and that which he may immediatly so worke by himselfe alone , may he not likewise mediately accomplish the same , by the ordinary meanes of another ? Capn. Yes Sir , he may worke either by himselfe , or by another , what pleaseth himselfe . But sith he hath vnchangeably determined such a reuenge vpon any the causelesse spiller of bloud , how may this his mediate reuenger of bloud performe such an action more then another , and not be guiltie of bloudshed himselfe ? Hydr. Such a man may vnblameably do it ( saith God ) because I my selfe ( for that selfe same purpose ) haue vndoubtedly substituted him thereunto , according to m the very image of that mine owne maiesticall soueraignty . That is , I haue ( in a more especiall manner ) aduanced him to such an excellent seruice , by inuesting his person more properly with a most liuely resemblance of mine owne reuenging power : & by making him especially , the authenticall representation or the expresse image of that mine owne immaculate iustice against malefactors . Thus then , these words of the Lord , namely ( for n in the image of God hath he made man ) they are euen purposely annexed to that the precedent decree of the Lord , as the very maine reason why such a substituted magistrate may powerfully and vnblameably require like of a murderer as a decreed reuenge of the murder committed : namely , because ( for that selfe same businesse ) he is the authenticall image of the Almightie his absolu●e authority . Capn. Surely Sir , those words ( as you say ) they séeme to haue in them a very probable reason of that the presedent decrée concerning the iust reuenger of bloud : and are therefore euen purposely annexed thereto , for a further confirmation thereof . Howbeit , some others ( by your leaue ) they do imagine that these words ( o for in the image of God hath he made man ) they were p not put downe there for any such supposed confirmation of the magistrate his subordinate power , as your selfe do séeme to affirme ; but as an amplification rather , to aggrauate the sinne of such murder committed : telling the murderer thus , that not onely he hath bene most iniurious to the man whom he murdered , but that also the Lord his supereminent Maiestie is mightily wronged thereby , q because his owne image in man ( by such an outragious murder ) is most monstrously mangled , marred , and ( in a manner ) defaced . Hydr. Although this which those men affirme , be ( in it owne selfe ) such a sanctified truth as proportionably consorteth with the analogie of faith : yet is it not truly collected ( I verily thinke ) from that portion of Scripture , if we more strictly consider the same according to the maine purpose of the Almightie himselfe . Because these words ( the image of God ) they haue not any such reference there to the murdered man , but rather to the magistrate himselfe , so seuerely reuenging the murder committed . The Lord very plainly declaring therby , that r not onely a iust reuenge must seuerely be executed vpon the outragious murderers , but that also , the said reuenge must onely be orderly vndertaken by a man authentically endued with the authoritie of God. Yea and this sence of the place may yet more euidently breake forth to euery mans apprehension , if we aduisedly consider , first the seuerall significations of the image of God : and then next , if we examine more strictly the word s gnasa it selfe , put downe in the forenamed text . Capn. Shew me first ( I beséech you ) the seuerall significations of the image of God. Hydr. Touching the seuerall significations of that selfe-same image , so frequent and ordinary in sacred Scriptures , we haue here to obserue , that a man is said to be made according to the image of God , in a threefold respect : namely first , respecting the nature of his soule : the same being a spirituall essence , immortall , eternall , inuisible , and very significantly resembling the immortalitie , eternitie , and inuisibilitie of his Lord and Creatour . And in an especiall regard hereof , each man ( so created ) is fitly called t a liuing soule Secondly , a man is not vnaptly said to be created also according to the image of God , in an onely respect of the essentiall qualities of that his said soule , namely , righteousnesse , and holinesse : because man also was therein accordingly created after u the image of God. And thirdly , a man may very well be said to be created also in the image of God , in a more speciall respect of the holy attributes thereof bestowed vpon him , namely , dominion , dignitie , and glorie : because man also himselfe ( euen by a more speciall dispensation from God ) obtained from God x a most princely soueraigntie ouer all the inferiour creatures , as also more specially y concerning mankind . Capn. This Sir ( I confesse ) is maruellous strange , and more then euer I heard . But what do you inferre from this thréefold signification of the image of God ? Hydr. Euen that which notably tendeth to the timely confirmation of our purpose concerning the true ●ence of this text . For we may not ( in any wise ) vnderstand this portion of Scripture according to that primarie signification of the image of God , namely , according to the spirituall essence , immortalitie , eternitie , and inuisibilitie of mans soule : because therein the soule of man was made immortall ; and the Lord speaketh here precisely of that image of God in man , wherin mans bloud may be spilt , which cannot properly be said concerning mans soule . Neither may we vnderstand this portion of Scripture according to that secondarie signification of the said image of God , namely , according to the essentiall qualities of that selfesame soule , I meane , true righteousnesse , and holinesse : because those the essential qualities appertaining to the soule of man , as they were vtterly lost in our forefather Adam , so surely ( being now eternally restored to a man in Christ ) they are no way subiected to any such outragious spilling of bloud . And therefore we must necessarily vnderstand this making of man in the image of God , according to the third signification of the image of God , namely , according to that z diuine dominion , power , or soueraignetie which ( by y e speciall dispensation of God ) is more especially designed to some such speciall persons as are ( by his absolute authoritie ) to take a iust reuenge vpon all malefactours . Capn. Surely Sir , this thréefold signification of the image of God , doth shew forth the true sence of that text by sundry degrées a like the day-dawne in the morning . But how may this sence be yet further confirmed from a more strict examination of the word gnasa , put downe in that text ? Hydr. Exceedingly wel . Because the word gnasa , ( which is there translated ( made ) it may not properly be referred to that speciall worke of creation wherein Adam b was primarily c or secondarily made according to the said image of God , concerning either the essentiall being , or the essentiall qualities of that his said soule , which are no way subiected to any such outragious spilling of bloud : and therefore it cannot bee rightly referred to either of them . Capn. Oh yes Sir , maruellous fitly , especially if the word gnasa , be vsed indifferently for that thréefold signification of the image of God. Hydr. It were certainly true as thou sayest , if the word gnasa indeede , were vsed indifferently for euery of those seuerall significations of the said image of God. And therefore , we haue here now to consider afresh , that as the holy Ghost hath purposely distinguished those seuerall significations of the image of God the one from the other : so hath he precisely obserued three seuerall words in the originall tongue , to set forth the different degrees of those the said actions of God , according to their different conditions . Capn. What are those thrée seuerall words , I beséech you ? Hydr. The first word is d bara , that is , to create , or to make : and more properly it betokeneth e the bringing out of something , without any matter at all preexisting in nature . And euen so accordingly this word bara , it is vsed sometimes f for creation ; sometimes againe g for procreation ; or the bringing of one thing from out of another , and sometimes also for h recreation , or making againe : because euery of these three seuerall actions there appeareth a wonderfull inherent power in God , who i worketh whatsoeuer pleaseth himselfe in heauen and earth : and k calleth those things which are not , as though they were . Secondly , the Lord sometimes vseth the word l sarath , which properly and naturally signifieth to m burne vp , to boyle , to melt mettall , to trie forth by fire , and so metaphorically , to n trie out the children of men , to search through their hearts and their waies : also sometimes if signifieth to o to forme , or to fashion a thing , and to bring it vnto that exact and absolute condition which p doth proportionably consent with the primarie patterne thereof . And thirdly , the Lord sometime also he vseth the word q gnasa put downe in this portion of Scripture , as also r in sundry other places where occasion requireth . The which word ( in like manner ) is diuersly obserued in the sacred Scriptures , according to the diuerse and sundry occasions offered . For sometimes it signifieth s the timely producing , and the orderly bringing forth of the fruites of the earth according to Natures primary appointment ; sometimes it signifieth t the procuring , the getting , and the gathering , together of things , as men vsually do , when they gather vp goods and treasures ; sometimes it signifieth u to prouide , to prepare , or to make readie a thing , as men commonly do , when they prepare and make readie their meate for the hungrie trauelling persons ; sometimes it signifieth x to do , to make , to fashion , to forme , or to finish a thing , as the Lord did his workes in the first creation ; sometimes it signifieth y to present with sacrifice , or to offer vp sacrifice as men vsually do in the seruice of God ; yea sometimes againe it signifieth z to aduance , to extoll , to grace , or to magnifie , as men commonly do vnto some such speciall persons as they aduance vnto dignitie , and euen so is the word gnasa a vsed in this our present text . Capn. I perceiue the variety of significations concerning those the forenamed thrée words , but what do you obserue from the same ? Hydr. Surely , euen that which sufficiently tendeth to the true opening of this portion of Scripture according to that onely sence which I set downe before . For seeing the holy Ghost hath not here put downe the word bara , which properly betokeneth the creating of something from out of nothing preexisting in nature ; neither yet hath vsed the word tsarath , which properly signifieth to forme or fashion a thing ( as it were ) by melting the same in a mould : therefore , this portion of Scripture ( being not purposely declared by any of those two words ) it cannot properly be vnderstood of that primarie image of God which more particularly respecteth the first creation of man ; and so consequently the speciall reason comprehended therein , it can haue no such peculiar reference to that murdered man in whom the created image of God is so defaced . Moreouer , sith the holy Ghost doth precizely put downe in this portion of Scripture , neither bara , nor tsarath , but the onely word gnasa , which properly betokeneth to aduance , to extoll , or to magnifie with honor , as I told thee before : therefore the text cannot significantly be resolued thus ; For in the primarie image of God , hath the Lord created or formed that murdered man : but rather more proportionably thus ; For in the secondary image of God , hath the Lord aduanced , and magnified that his subordinate reuenger of innocent bloud . And so the maine reason rendred there in that text , it hath ( thou maist see ) a much more peculiar reference to such a reuenger of innocent bloud as is peculiarly authorised thereunto according to that diuine image of soueraignetie , wherein such a reuenger ( by a peculiar dispensation from God ) is authentically aduanced , extolled , and most honorably magnified . Now then , the Almightie Iehouah ( protesting to Noah and the rest , that the b outragious spiller of any mans bloud ▪ should by man haue his owne bloud spilt againe in a iust reuenge ) doth presenly put downe the maine reason , why such a subordinate reuenger of bloud may boldly , and vnblameably accomplish that businesse : namely , because such a man ( such a ministeriall reuenger of bloud I meane ) is authentically formed or made in the image of God ; or ( to speake more significantly and properly according to the originall text ) because such a subordinate reuenger , is authentically aduanced , dignified , extolled , or magnified with the authenticall image , or liuely resemblance c of that the Almightie his maiesticall soueraignetie , wherewith he may boldly and vnblameably execute vengeance vpon all such malefactors as are formerly condemned to death for any their enormious or capitall crimes . Lo Capnistus , this ( I assure thee ) is the very true sence and meaning of that portion of Scripture . Capn. Surely Sir , this sence which you giue ( in my proper conceipt ) it is without all contradiction . More especially , if those the former thrée words be not méere Synonima , words ( I meane ) of one and the selfesame signification , but are vsed rather ( as you say ) for such different termes as are purposely put downe by d the spirit of truth , to distinguish those the forenamed thrée actions of God , according to their different , and diuerse conditions . Hydr. There is ( I assure thee ) no question thereof . Yea and therefore the e onely wise God ( to take quite away all colourable shewes of any such idle conceipt ) hath of very purpose compacted and coupled euen those the former three words ( I meane , bara , tsarath and gnasa ) all ioyntly together in one and the selfe same verse , yea and ( which more is by much ) for those the three former different respects which we precizely spake of before , saying thus : Euery one shall be called by my name , for f berathiu , ietsarethiu , aph-gnasithiu that is , I haue created him , I haue formed him , yea I haue exalted him . We may not therefore too too grosly imagine that these three seuerall words were here put downe by the Prophet , onely for bate Synonima , as words ( I meane ) of one and the same signification ; for so should he haue made but an idle tautologie , that is , but a superfluous and a needlesse repetition of one and the selfe same matter , propounded thus : I haue created him , I haue created him , I haue created him . But those three seuerall words they are vsed there rather g as different termes , or as an elegant gradation , to set forth more succinctly , the excellent and most admirable order of the Lord his exceeding great kindnesse towards the elect . For first of all the Prophet he telleth the people , that ( from the very first houre of their creation ) the Lord h hath ordained them to his owne euerlasting glorie i according to the eternall purpose of his owne will. Then next , that he formeth or fashioneth them afresh , being fearefully fallen from their former integritie : that is , k he calleth , iustifieth and preserueth them to himselfe , by this holy Spirit of regeneration , And lastly , that he aduanceth , extolleth , or magnifieth them with a soueraigne dominion , dignitie and honour l both in this , and the life to come . Capn. The matter ( as you make it ) both seeme verie probable . But yet do tell me ( I pray you ) wherefore you your selfe haue purposely translated the word gnasa put downe in that place ( aduanced or magnified ) rather then ( made or formed that man in the image of God ) as it is vsually turned in many of our Latine and English Bibles ? Hydr. I haue purposely translated the word gnasa so , for three principall reasons . First , because ( among the manifold significations of that word set downe before ) it is no improper , but a most proper signification of the word it selfe . Secondly , for that the very coherence and purpose of that present text doth euen proportionably require that selfe same translation . And thirdly , because ( in sundry other places m of Scripture besides ) the same word gnasa ( vpon the like vrgent occasion , by many most excellent and learned n Linguists ) is ordinarily and vsually translated , to aduance , to extoll , and to magnifie with a soueraigne dignitie , dominion , preheminence , or princely power . As in Deuteronomie thus , Is not the Lord God thy Father , that hath redeemed thee , that hath magnified thee , that hath proportioned thee ? And a little after , thus : He forsooke God that magnified him , and regarded not the strong God of his saluation . Also in Samuel , thus : It is the Lord that magnified Moses and Aaron , and brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt . Also in ▪ Isaiah thus : Euery one shall be called by my name ( saith the Lord ) for I created him , I formed him , I magnified him . And againe in another place thus : I the same , euen I will beare you vntill the hoare haires , I haue magnified you ; I will also beare you , I will carrie you , and I will deliuer you . Where also he vseth the like elegant gradation , ( though in different termes ) to that which he spake of before . Now then , sith such excellent Linguists ( notwithstanding the forenamed opposition in some of our Latine , and English Bibles ) haue thus ( vpon vrgent occasion from those the former propounded o Scriptures ) of very purpose translated the word gnasa ( not made , but magnified rather ) according to the naturall signification thereof : why may not I Capnistus ( vpon a like vrgent occasion from the text it selfe ) translate the word gnasa , put downe p in Genesis ( not made , but magnified man in the image of God ) notwithstanding any thy pretended opposition in the forenamed Bibles ? Capn. Surely Sir , I sée no reason at all why the like lawfull libertie herein , may not ( vpon equall occasion ) be vsed by you , which was formerly vsed of others , yea and so much the rather , by how much the sence which your selfe haue giuen concerning this portion of Scripture , is thereby made so apparently euident to each mans apprehension , as that I ( for mine owne part ) am presently constrained to q crie out and say thus , Oh great is the truth , & must néeds preuaile . Hydr. If any besides they selfe do yet seeme scrupulous concerning this sence of the place , I do here purposely referre him ( for further satisfaction herein ) to that the authenticall interpretation thereof which our Sauiour himselfe , and the holy spirit of God ( vpon iust occasion ) haue authentically put downe : saying thus vnto Peter ( and all other whatsoeuer being onely but persons of priuate regard ) Put vp thy sword into his place , r for all that take the sword , shall perish with the sword , Wherein our Sauiour Christ doth s make no restraint of the Magistrate his lawfull authoritie in the vse of the sword : but only inhibites an ●surped authoritie , or a lawlesse abuse thereof . And therefore , these words in Mathew t hoilabóntes , that is , all that take the sword , would rather be translated ( saith Beza ) thus u omnes vsurpantes , that is , euery one vsurping the sword shall perish with the sword . Yea and so the Hebrew word x nasa ( saith he ) whereunto answereth the Greeke word , tò lambánein , is eftsoones obserued in y the sacred Scriptures . And in very deede , those men , they may iustly be said to take , that is , to vsurpe the sword , to whom the same is not purposely giuen by the Lord himselfe , or who do abuse the said sword beyond the appointed limits and bounds of their proper calling . As did Peter there , and as all others before the law written should vndoubtedly haue done : had not the Almightie law-giuer ( in that z ninth of Genesis ) authentically enabled their persons to take iust reuenge vpon any the outragious spiller of innocent bloud . Thus then I hope the Magistrates authoritie ( concerning such a sanctified vse of the sword ) was sufficiently established among the old Patriarkes , euen by that selfesame legall decree which the Almightie concluded there with Noah , and the rest immediatly after the floud . Wherein also I haue laboured the matter so much the more , by how much I would not willingly ( without very apparent reason ) be said to dissent from so worthie & reuerend a man , concerning the true and naturall sence of that portion of Scripture : as also to let thy selfe and the rest perceiue , that his Maiesties power ( so authentically suppressing those our rebellious Tobacconists ) was no waies made guiltie of shedding their bloud . Capn. The truth thereof is so apparently euident , as ( I thinke ) all men but such as are purposely blind , will fréely acknowledge the same . But yet Sir , they and their vnderhand fauourites do excéedingly wonder , that so many poore soules should be put to the sword , being al English men borne , and bred in our countrey . Hydrophorus . How many ( thinkest thou ) were put to the sword ? Capn. I do not certainely know the number my selfe , but y e report goeth currantly in many mens mouthes , that there were fouretéene score slaine and hurt at the least . Hydr. What maruell is it , though such a false report ran currantly among that disordered companie , sith their words seemed a softer then butter , when ( not withstanding ) there was war in their hearts : & seeing their speech appeared more smooth ●hen oyle , when as yet they imagined nothing but mischiefe , being not vnlike to b a very sharpe razour which cutteth so deceitefully , as hardly a man may perceiue the same . But oh impudent mouthes , which are no whit ashamed ( vnder a falsely pretended couerture of foureteene score persons ) to shilter foureteene score lies and foure at the least : for there were not slaine aboue sixteene persons at most . Notwithstanding , behold here the bad disposition of those our monstrous Minotaures ? For as they had desperately c laid their bloud●e hands before vpon such as were soundly at peace with euery of them , and broken the holy couenant of their dutifull subiection to his Maiesties power : so surely ( to hide the horrour of that their horrible enterprice ) they are not now ashamed to make knowne to the world , that they d do rather loue euill , then that which is good , and do take a far greater delight to broach abroade lies , then to vtter the truth of the matter . Capn. But yet Sir ( notwithstanding all this ) they do boldly affirme , that a most barbarous crueltie was shelved vpon sillie poore women and children ; one woman being sauagely killed with two young babes in her wombe , another runne bloudily through with a speare , the one end thereof sticking fast in the ground , and the other end being pitifully shattered on péeces in her harmelesse sides : also vpon old men , women and children , being but weeding their corne in the fields : and lastly , vpon poore passengers likewise , that did but trauell by the way . Hydr. It seemeth rather ( by the purport of thy speech ) that a most barbarous villanie is vsed against his Maiesties souldiers , by these most barbarous and sauage reports . Howbeit , it now plainly appeares , that these barbarous Cannibals can do nothing else but e vse their bad tongues to deceipt ▪ that they f haue sharpened their said tongues like a serpent ; that g the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lips ; and that they h delight in nothing at all , but to shoote out their arrowes ( I meane ) most bitter and venimous words . For I assure thee this on my credit , that there was killed neither woman nor child ; neither yet any one creature weeding their corne , was so much as once challenged at all . It may be ( I confesse , which yet I beleeue can neuer be proued ) that some one passenger ( carelesly crowding himselfe in the midst of the throng as they fled ) receiued some little hurt at vnawares , but wittingly and willingly not touched at all : and therefore those his Maiesties souldiers are most barbarously belied by these their beastly reports . Howbeit , the best remedie they haue against i those deadly stroakes of the tongue , is ( with good David ) to crie out to the Lord and say , k Deliuer vs oh Lord from the euill men , preserue vs fro ! such pestilent persons , and protect our harmelesse soules from all those lying lips which l imagine but euill things in their rebellious hearts , and stirre vp a deadly strife all the day long ; which do m mischieuously furmize all manner of words that may do hurt , oh false deceitfull tongues . But thou oh Lord wilt n shoote an arrow sodenly at euery of them , yea their deadly stroaks they shal be at once . They shall cause their own tongs to fall pat on their pates , in so much as whosoeuer seeth them shall flee from them , and say thus vnto euery of them : o What good haue those your deceiptfull tongues procured vnto you ? or what do those your venimous mouthes auaile you at all ? Hath not the Almightie Iehouah destroyed you for euer ? hath he not plucked you out from your tabernacles , and made you a present terrour to those that passe by the way : when they daily behold what monuments of mischiefe you are iustly become to all disobedient and rebellious raskals ? Euen so p let all thine enemies perish oh Lord , that shall any waies raise up themselves against thine annointed , but let all those that loue thee and thy sauing health , be euen as the Sunne , when he ariseth in his strength . So be it Lord Iesus . Thus then thou seest now Capnistus , that ( notwithstanding any their barbarous babblings abroad ) his Maiesties power is euery way freed from blame : and those q cursed Cains themselues are euery way guiltie of spilling their owne and their confederates bloud , either then in the skirmish , or at any time since , in the orderly execution of iustice vpon them . Capn. Good Sir , I do not as yet perceiue , how they themselues should be made guiltie of any mans bloud but their owne , vnlesse haply they did most outragiously lay their violent hands vpon any their associates slaine . Hydr. Thay they themselues became guiltie of their owne , and their confed●rates bloud , it is more then apparently euident . Because howsoeuer it be necessary that offences should come , yet r woe be to that man whatsoever , by whom the offence first cometh on foote . Yea and the ciuill law telleth vs confidently , y t s whosoeuer administreth an occasion of hurt , that man is accompted y e doer of the hurt it selfe . Moreouer , if their laying of violent hands vpon any of those their associats ( though otherwise , neuer so worthie of death ) had vndoubtedly made them guiltie of that their bloud : what a dangerous condition then , are those wretches in ( thinkest thou ) before the Maiestie of the immortall God , who so desperately combined themselues in one , and with such bloudie and murdering resolutions made haste to murder his Maiesties authenticall power ? Yea and ( which more is by much ) what a fearefull case are those blind Cannibals in before God in their conscience , who so caus●lesly , so cruelly , so cursedly , and with most rebellious minds to the King his excellent Maiestie , did so villanously execute such a villanous , merciles , and monstrous massacre vpon s that excellent Captaine , who was the deputed conducter of his Maiesties power for the present ? whose experimented valour for seruice of weightie importance , and whose admirable worth for the timely atchieuing of any notable exploit , is famous throughout the whole world ; yea and whose wofull want for future imployments of trust , is ten thousand times more then would be the want of an hundred thousand of such sillie fresh-water souldiers as rebelliously bare armour then against his said Maiesties authenticall power . Well , sith i● is now as it is , let them praise God with all their hearts , for his Maiesties exceeding great clemencie in so pardoning , and sparing their liues for the present ; and let them ( in Gods holy name ) endeauour now to spend the remainder of their wofull daies , in an earnest and heartie desire to be freed forthwith from t that one bloud-guiltinesse aboue all the rest , before the presence of God ; lest good Abel his innocent bloud u do continually crie out for vengeance against them : and themselues ( being iustly cast forth from the face of the earth ) begin with horrour of conscience x to run hither and thither like runagate-vagabonds , being hourely afraid to be cruelly killed of euery one that shall but happen to meete them . Lo Capnistus , this is the worst I wish to them all , and this is the best I can do for them . In the meane time , thou maist now very plainly perceiue by that which is spoken , what a pestilent crew of pernicious persons all those our disordered Tobacconists were ( for the present ) to the publike good of our State ; as also , what further mischiefes might forthwith haue followed vpon those their mischiuous attempts , had not our merciful God ( by the prouident care of those his Maiesties most prudent magistrates ) very mercifully met with the mischiefes in time : Namely , many mutinous broiles among our owne selues ; ciuill dissentions in euery coast , the spending of our selues against our owne selues , much spilling of English bloud , a present spoile of all the good blessings of God , the opening of a fearefull gap to forreine inuasions , most cruell massacres on euery side , with an extreme hazard of King , of Queene , of kingly of-spring , of our happie estate , yea & of this our flourishing kingdome also , without the more mercie of our mercifull God. Capn. It is vndoubtedly true as you say . And therefore the Lord of his infinite mercies forgiue all men their sins in deseruing , and those men their sins in attempting such horrible beginnings of mischiefe . Hydr. The Lord God say amen to the same , for the merits of Iesus Christ. Now then , ( to knit vp the second part of this our present discourse in a summarie speech ) sith those the disordered courses of our gracelesse Tobacconists are euery way so exceedingly hurtfull to their owne proper persons , first by poysoning their bodies and soules , and then next , by procuring a prodigall dispending of their ancient patrimonies and other preserments ; sith they are so vnnaturally iniurious to their owne wiues & children , by causing their needlesse pouertie , and wofull complaints ; sith they are so barbarously cruell towards their poore Tenants , for the chargeable supply of their vnnecessary wants ; sith they are so outragiously resolute vpon the present spoile of other mens substance ; sith they are so fearefully opposite to the well setled peace of our countrey ; sith they are so starely repugnant to the good established lawes of our land ; sith they are so dangerously occurring to the publike peace of our soueraigne Lord the King ; sith they are so proudly rebellious to his Maiesties soueraigne power ; sith they are such ineuitable prouocations to the vntimely spilling of their owne and other mens bloud ; briefly , sith they are the horrible beginnings of many mutinous broiles , of ciuill dissentions , of spending our selues , of spilling much bloud , of spoyling the present good blessings of God , of opening a fearefull gap to forreine inuations , of cruell massacres , of an extreme hazard to our gracious King , our Queene , the royall Progenie , to our happy Estate , and most flourishing kingdome : Let their owne proper bodies , their patrimonies , their wiues , their children , their poore oppressed Tenants , their honest good neighbours , the quiet of our countrey , the lawes of our land , the publike peace of our soueraigne Lord the King , his Maiesties soueraigne power , their owne and other mens blouds , the forreine powers about vs , our King , our Queene , the whole Progenie , our present good , the flourishing state of our kingdome , yea and Capnistus also himselfe , in the name of those our disordered Tobacconists ; let all these ( I say ) both ioyntly , and seuerally conclude with me , and for me , whether those their filthie Tobacco fumes are , not onely pernicious to their owne proper bodies , but ouer profluuious also for those our ●isordered Tobacconists purses , and too too pestiferous to the present good of our publike State. Capn. Surely Sir , I ( for mine owne part ) do not onely conclude it an infallible truth from my very heart roote , but will ( herewithall ) very readily afford you a generall applaud from the rest , and my selfe : praysing the Almightie with heart and mouth , that it was his gracious prouidence to bring me so right in your companie , before that I entred vpon my purposed voyage : protesting withall from an vnfained heart , to haue from henceforth those filthe Tobacco fumes in no lesse detestation then the diuell of hell . Hydr. Not so Capnistus . For howsoeuer I am heartily glad to heare thee brought now into such a deadly deflation with those their former Tobacco fumes , yet let not my present speech , bring any such preiudice to that thy purposed voyage . Thou art a proper young man , of exceeding great hope in our countrey , even now in thy best flourishing state ; and young-men ( thou knowest ) by trauelling forreine countries , may haply attaine to a notable experience ; besides that , this thy purposed adventure , may become very gainful vnto thee . Capn. I am a young man ( Sir ) I confesse ; and therefore do stand in more néed of a sound and setled experience . Howbeit , I have now gathered ( I thanke my good God ) such an experimented and sanctified wisedome from this your present discourse , as doth very plainly demonstrate vnto me , the palpable foolerie of all my former West India voyages . Although this I acknowledge withall , that ( if my purposed iourney had this way bene prosperous ) I could ( by the onely trafficke of Tobacco it selfe ) haue clearely gained thrée hundred pounds by my voyage at least ; so vainly are our vaine English-men affected after a vaine , and vanishing filthie fume . But Sir , ( Gods holy name be blessed ) I begin now to abhorre the gaine that is enterprised with such imminent perils , and accomplished also with such endless paines . For what will it y profit a man to winne the whole world , and lose his owne soule ? And ( Sir ) you told me but euen now , that z Whosoever but administreth an occasion of mischiefe , he is the principall master of that mischiefe himselfe . Hydr. That is certainly so . But God grant Capnistus , that this so forward a protestation proue not a fire-flash , resembling those sodaine flames of thy filthy Tobacco fumes , which ( being sodainly kindled with the flame of a candle ) are as sodainly quenched with good ale fumes . Yea I beseech the Almightie with all my heart , that this thy sodaine illumination proue not ( in the end ) and odde Interiection , I meane , some sodaine passion of a passionate mind prolated vnder an vnperfect voice , and thereupon as sodainly vanish away like a flash or a fume . Capn. Nay Sir , my protestation procéeds from a firme and setled iudgement : and ( that you may the rather credit my spéech ) I will tell you what seale shall be set to the same for a further confirmation thereof . I have ( at this present ) two hundred pounds worth of this beastly Tobacco at home in my house ; all which ( notwithstanding the great value thereof ) shall either presently packe to the fire as a burnt oblation for this my aduised vow , or else be sent swimming downe the Thames at the least , directly towards West India from whence it first came , in an vtter detestation of the most detestable fooleries of those our disordered Tobacconists . Hydr. Not so Capnistus . For howsoever the filthie fume of Tobacco taken inward be most pernicious to the bodies of men , yet may there a very good vse be made of the hearbe it selfe for sundry diseases befalling the bodies of men , as I told thee before . Capn. Good Sir , I am altogether hopelesse for euer beholding any good vse of that which ( being first abusiuely brought to our countrey by bad and wilde dispositions for the onely abuse thereof ) hath euer since bene beastly abused by like dispositions , and never yet conuerted to any good vse at all . And therefore ( for mine owne part ) I will neuer regard whatsoever supposed good vse may hereafter bee made of Tobacco it selfe , all the while I perceiue the present abuse of filthie Tobacco fumes in such earnest request among our disordered Tobacconists : more especially among those our insatiable deuourers of all the good blessings of God ; and therefore I will ( for euer hereafter ) beware of giuing the least occasion to any such fearefull abuse . Hydr. Gods holy name be blessed for these his good beginnings of grace , and the Lord multiplie his sweete mercies vpon thee an hundred fold . But yet thus much I would haue thee remember withall , that as it is the vndoubted true nature of all those to whom the Lord restoreth a the ioy of his sauing health , and more fully establisheth with the spirit of freedome , to shew forth his mercifull waies to the wicked : so is it a speciall dutie imposed vpon euery Christian Conuert ( being soundly conuerted himselfe ) euen then also most seriously to labour b the sound conuersion of all others besides . And therefore ( good Capnistus ) I pray thee heartily , do thou now make knowne thy Christian conuersion , by that thy Christian care in conuerting thy brethren . Shew thy selfe c wise ( for euer hereafter ) in winning of soules : and so shalt thou certainly know , that d he which hath conuerted a sinner from going astray from the waies of the Lord , shall saue a soul from death , and couer a multitude of sinnes . Hydr. Good Sir , my good will that way ( by the grace of God ) shall neuer be wanting when , or wheresoeuer I méete with any of them : how furiously soeuer their filthie Tobacco fumes do make them to fret , to frowne , or to to fume at the same . Hydr. Indeed Capnistus , whensoeuer thou dost soundly vndergo such a Christian course , thou must looke forthwith for the e strokes of the tongue . For thou shalt no sooner begin f to proclaime desolation against those their shameful disorders , but the sweete word of the Lord will be made a reproach to thy person , and thy selfe shall be had in derision for it . Then shalt thou be forced g to heare the raylings of many , and be assaulted with feare on euery side : yea then be thou sure h that euen those thy former familiars will narrowly watch for thy halting , and daily endeauour to execute all their outragious villanies vpon thee . But i be thou nothing dismaid with any their terrours , feare not their fierie threatnings , neither bee thou troubled at all with , the rufull remembrance thereof ; nay rather , be thou euery houre ready k to offer thy backe to those smiters , and thy cheekes to those nippers , and neuer hide thy face from their shame and spitting . But endure thou with meeknesse l the outragious raylings of those raging Rabshakeians , and vndergo with patience , the m causeles curses of any those shamelesse Shimeis , because the Lord himselfe hath bidden them curse : it may be , the Almightie will much more mercifully behold thy affliction , and do thee much good for their cursing that day . Capn. Good Sir , ( being thus resolutely bent as I am n to fight the Lords battailes , neuer make you any doubt ( I beséech you ) but that I haue long since o set downe , & seriously cast with my selfe , whether I be able with bare ten thousand , to méete him y ● cometh against me with twenty thousand , or not . Do as you may be certaine of this , that ( if I had either felt a fainting heart , or found too féeble a force , I would rather p send an Ambassadour , and desire conditions of peace , then desperately aduenture my selfe vpon any so bloudy a bickering . And therefore , I pray you ceasse wéeping q and breaking my heart : because ( by the helpe of my God ) I will rather endure ten thousand tortures and torments , then suffer his glorious name to be so déepely dishonoured by any their disordered dealings , or permit his gracious blessings to be so prodigally and so profluuiously r dispended vpon the inordinate lusts of those our insatiable and lasciuious suckers in of filthie Tobacco fumes , if any my priuate admonitions , or open reproofes may hinder the same . Hydr. If thy resolution be thus , why then , s the will of the Lord be done ; but in any wise obserue ( I pray thee ) a Christian course in those thy rebukes . Capn. My Worshipfull Fathers , and fellowes for forreine aduentures : We that u go downe to the Sea in ships , & occupie our businesse in huge great waters , we haue eftsoones séene the great works of the Lord , and his wonders done in the déepe . How he commandeth the stormie winds to arise , and lifteth vp those the mighty waues of the Sea , which make our tottring ships mount vp to the heauens , and downe againe to the déepe . So as our soules they melt for trouble , to sée our selues tossed to and fro , to stagger like drunken men , and to be hourely brought to our wits end for feare . We remember ( I hope ) that when wee cried heartily out to the Lord in the midst of those our dangerous troubles , he brought vs forth from our present distresse , by turning those great tempests into a quiet calme , and by causing the waues of the Sea to be still . Lo , then began wee to be heartily glad , because wee were safely brought to the hauen where we longed to be . These things ( my deare brethren ) we all know to be true in our owne proper experience . Oh let vs therefore most highly exalt the Lord in the congregation of his people , and praise his great name in the assemblie of the Elders . Let not our goodnesse herein , be x as a morning cloud , or like to the morning deaw that goeth away . Let vs not within a while y forget God our Sauiour : who hath dealt so wonderfully with euery of vs , aboue many the sonnes of mortall men . But let vs eftsoones be perswaded , that those terrible stormes of wind they did onely pronosticate the ineuitable stormes of God his excéeding great anger against our excessiue sins : yea and let vs acknowledge withall , that there can be no greater wickednesse concerning our ordinary callings , then wittingly to trafficke home that from forreine parts , which doth both willingly and wickedly procure a generall wastfull consuming of all the good blessings of God. More especially , whē those selfe same blessings are prodigally dispended vpon that which not onely doth our countrey people no one good at all , but also which hurteth their health , consumeth their wealth , and hazardeth eftsoones their happie estates . Perhaps your good worships do wonder much what this hurtfull trafficke might be ? I will here tell you the same without further delay . It is that our filthie Tobacco fumes which we so dangerously aduenture to get ; which our owne countrie-men so gréedily deuoure , and which hath so egregiously endangered our publike State. I know there is an excéeding great gaine to be gotten thereby : yea I feare me ( alas ) that too too many of our miserable Merchants ( by the very sale thereof ) haue gotten the diuell and all . But accursed be that gaine whatsoeuer z which is so dangerously obtained with the excéeding great griefe , and hazard of body and soule in hell . The pernicious , the profluuious , and pestiferous effects of these our filthie Tobacco fumes , do vniuersally appeare throughout this whole countrey of ours , and a woe bee to them that are found the primary causers thereof . Let not vs ( my worshipfull Fathers , and fellowes in forreine aduentures ) for a priuate gaine to our proper purses , procure the cause of a publike bane to our owne countrey people . Let not our inordinate care of superfluous wines , be made an ordindary b razour to our countrie-mens throates . Let not our preposterous profession , be any occasion at all to our countries perdition . Let vs no longer cozen our poore countrey neighbours , by bringing them home a filthie pestiferous fumes , for their rich and substantiall fruits . Let vs not still shew our selues to be those insatiable hungrie Merchants , who ( hearing once what wonderful gaine may be got from the intoxicated minds of Mooneheaded Minotaures ) do most shamefully c take ouer with them an abundance of gold and siluer , to sell the sonnes of Israel for slaues , d and to make open sale of the soules of men for old shooes : lest the Almightie reuenger of innocent bloud e do breake our whole Nauie in péeces , and disable them finally for all forreine aduentures . Let vs not hereafter any more vndergo such dangerous voyages for vaine and vanishing smoke , but endeuour to trafficke home rather f the cedar trées , and firre trées , the Algummin wood , the gold of Ophir , and precious stones : so shall we be worthely estéemed those honest and frugall aduenturers who séeke rather the publike good of our countrey , then the priuate gaine of our purses . But if ( notwithstanding any thing hitherto said ) we neither care what bad trafficke we buy , nor passe not what excessiue prices our poore countreymen pay for our paysonsome pelse , all the while wee our selues may liue by their losse , then surely we shall most filthily shame our selues , and plucke a iustly deserued reproch vpon our worthie profession . For mine owne part ( my reuerend brethren ) I had rather vndergo ( I assure you ) ten hundred thousand tortures of death , then but once more to vndertake the enriching of mine owne selfe by the sale of that , which not onely doth no manner of good , and which is many waies so pernicious to the bodies of men , so profluuious to poore mens purses , and so pestiferous to the publike good of my natiue countrey . For surely ( knowing so much as now by the swéete mercies of my God I do sincerely know , and féeling what comfort by the worke of his spirit I presently féele ) if I should still continue that my former most couetous , nay rather most cutthroate-like course , all the whole world might iustly conclude , that ( if time would serue to vent them forth by open sale ) I would desperately g aduenture ( with the Babilonish Merchants ) to trafficke also from Rome , euen Agnus Deies , crucifixes , popish pardons , with other like paultrey pelfe , by the fearefull Tale of any poore countrymens soules . Yea and ( which more is by much ) that I would ( with the most vicious Venetian Panders ) very desirously packe ouer whole ships-full of sorrie Venetian Courteghianes , and most shamefully lease them forth in fée-farme for a filthie lucre . Alas ( my deare brethren ) alas , what a proportionable equitie is that ( thinke you ) which chaffereth but chaffe vnto men for their precious wheate ; which giueth them goose-quils for their glittring gold ; and which onely affordeth them a foule thinking fume , for their seuenfold refined siluer ? Is not this to accomplish that ancient hyperbolicall prouerbe , which so accustomably accompleth each vile contemptible trafficke , no better in effect , then h the very shadow of smoke ? that is , but a vanishing shew , without any substance at all . Is not this , to make men beléeue that we prouided them very daintie fine cates , howsoeuer most dearely bought ; when yet ( as is vsually spoken ) we set onely before them , i an holy sacrifice ( forsooth ) without any swéete smoke ? that is , a poore beggerly banquet , without either béefe or browesse at all . Would we our own selues ( my reuerend masters ) be willingly feasted so at other mens tables . Could we ( at any hand ) endure to pay so excessiuely deare for our suppers before hand , and ( when all cometh to all ) be then so conie catchingly fobbed forth with such a vaine shew of fantasticall fooleries : Can we be contented ( I pray you ) that any one liuing person ( vpon any such our former most chargeable payments ) should promise vs the gainefull purchase of golden mountaines , and then ( for our substantiall siluer ) procure onely vnto vs but k the deceiptfull sale of a most filthie vanishing fume ? that is , should make vs many great & glorious promises , which notwithstanding are finally destitute of their wished effects . Might we not ( my worshipfull brethren ) for these our insatiable l and dog-like inordinate desires of gréedie gaine , be iustly termed ( not the worshipfull Merchant venturers ) but rather those worrie-shéep mucke-scrape Vespasian vipers , who ( for filling their extraordinary gaping after gréedie gaine ) do make an ordinarie sale ( being spoken with reuerence ) of their most filthie stinking stale ? Yea and ( which more vile is ) when at any time their godly minded Matrons , or their sanctified sonnes ( with great anguish of heart , and griefe of mind ) do but once séeme to distaste or dislike of such kind of sale , euen then ( most contemptuously ) to proffer the most poysonsome stinke of that stinking gaine to their sanctified noses , bidding them boldly to smell thereof , and then tell him withall , whether that same siluer ( so gathered together ) doth not yéeld as redolent a sauour as any of the swéetest gold couched vp long since intheir Cabbinets made of spruce . By this meanes making good vpon their owne paultrie pates the pestiferous Vespasian prouerbe ; which telleth them plainly , that m the sauour of insatiable gaine ( from what filthie matter soeuer the same ariseth ) doth afford as fragrant a smell to those their insatiable and hunger-sterued nostrils , as any the finest ciuet or muske . Thereby also canonizing that heathenish Poet for a Preacher of truth ; who n telleth them plainly thus : From whence it comes we neuer care : So it may fall vnto our share . Perhaps your good worhips would willingly know the maine reason it selfe , why those filthie mucke merchants should become such hungersterued Heluoes , concerning o the holy hunger of gold , such gréedie gormandizers of filthie gaine , yea and such insatiable Philargyrians , in gathering treasures togither : the reason hereof ( saith Zenodor ) is onely this , namely , because p the néedie beggars satchell can neuer be satisfied . Now then , if we also our selues ( my worshipfull masters ) should ( in these our sea-faring courses ) declare our selues to be such : were we not very well worthie ( euen for this onely respect ) to be no lesse odiously estéemed of , and therein also as deseruedly ( in all points ) to be dealt withall , as was that notable conie chatcher Thurinus , in the daies of Alexander Seuerus ? Who ( being sharpely accused , and presently produced before the said Alexander , for that he ( remaining otherwise in no fauour at all with his Maiestie ) did notwithstanding , continually beare the sillie poore subiects in hand that he was all in all , and in excellent accompt with his Highnesse . By this base and paltrie practise ( vnder an onely pretence of speaking for them to his Maiestie ) he did very péeuishly pilfer much mony from out of the poore mens purses . Howbeit ( so soone as that his said knauerie brake forth to the open view of the world , and the same accordingly made knowne to the King ) he was forthwith adiudged to be surely made fast to a stake , and ( hauing great store of gréene wood then kindled about him ) to be so smothered to death by the violent smoke of that fire : The Executioner also then crying out to the by-standers and saying thus ; He q is worthily adiudged to perish with smoke , who hath so deceiptfully sold forth his smoke vnto others . And herein moreouer that conie catching companion did personally accomplish the old ancient Prouerbe which speaketh thus : r By flying from smoke , I fell forthwith into the flame it selfe . These the precedent matters being now more naturally , and more exactly considered , with their seuerall circumstances concurring also therewith , let vs in Gods name ( my worshipfull fathers and fellowes ) at no time hereafter after giue any further offence this way : but very conscionably and carefully ( from henceforth ) carrie our selues towards all sorts of people , s whether they be Iewes , Gentiles , or the Churches of Christ. Let vs héedfully t abstaine from all appearance of euill . So shall the Lord God u abundantly blesse vs : so shall the Kings Maiestie x most powerfully protect vs ; so shall our deare countriemen y pray heartily for vs ; so shall not the land at any time hereafter z vomit vs forth for filthie Amorites ; yea so shall we be sure to haue a peace in our conscience with God and men . Lo ( Sir ) this I assure you ( if the Lord God say amen to my purpose intended ) shall be the whole and the onely course that I will take with these kind of men . Hydr. Surely Capnistus , I do freely approue of this thy purposed course : yea and I doubt not at all , but that so many of them also as haue but one halfe dramme of Gods holy feare in their secret hearts , as haue but one scruple of true honestie in their open foreheads , yea as haue but one onely graine of common humanitie in their ordinarie courses , will euery of them very conscionably , & most carefully accompt of the same . As for those insatiable companions , of whom thou didst speake euen now , there is no hope at all to preuaile with any of them . For b can the blacke More change his skin ? or is it possible the Leopard should after his spots ? Then also may those men learne to do good , who haue bene accustomed so long to do euill . Otherwise , howsoeuer c they may be wise enough to do euill , yet to do well they haue no wisdome within them at all . But now shew me what course thou wilt take with the rest . Capn. The course I intend to take with them , shall be this . Having first made throughly knowne to euery of thē , this your present discourse , I will then wish them withall , for very shame to remember themselues in time , to giue ouer all those their former carousing courses with spéede ; to forbeare now any longer to make such beastly swine of themselues , by swillings in so superfluously the manifold blessings of God ; to abandon all their former vnnaturall dealings towards their owne wiues & children , towards their true hearted Tenants , towards their honest poore neighbours , and naturall countrie . To take héede moreouer , lest ( in pursuing such a superfluous supply to their insatiable gulling throats ) they do not procure d a cleannesse of teeth throughout the whole kingdome ; lest ( in going about such an vnorderly augmentation of tillage ) they e do not cause the whole earth to deceiue the dressers therof ; lest ( by this their inordinate swallowing downe of their filthy Tobacco fumes ) they do f make their swéetest drinkes to be mingled with Myrrhe , and to haue a most bitter fare-well to all the drinkes thereof ; lest ( by procuring such a néedlesse hauocke of wine , ale , and béere ) they themselues g be constrained to drinke their owne water for monie ; lest ( instead of h the harpe , the violl , the timbrell , the pipe , and the wine at their extraordinarie wanton feasts ) they be driuen i to eate their owne bread with a trembling feare , and to drinke their water with trouble and carefulnesse ; lest ( for their former most filthie abuse of the manifold blessings of God ) the Lord himselfe k do shoote forth the arrowes of famine among them , and breake the staffe of their bread in péeces ; lest ( for this their abundance of victuals now ) they l be compelled to take wheate , barley , beanes , lentils , millet , fitches , with whatsoeuer else they can get in one vessel together , to make them their bread thereof , according to the number of daies wherein they must be faine to sléepe on their sides ; yea and to bake their said bread in the dung of men , to eate it by weight , and to drinke their water by measure . Briefly , lest they be enforced to heare a most horrible crie before , and behinde them , saying thus : m Awake you drunkards , wéepe and houle you quaffers of wine , because of the new wine , for it shall finally be plucked away from your throats . Whereas ( on the other side ) if they once soundly forsake their former most filthie waies , and be heartily conuerted to God , he will then so excéedingly n blesse their basket and store , as they shall not néede thus disorderly to run vpon any such desperate and dangerous attempts for the augmentation of tillage . Because , whensoeuer they do conscionably sow that selfe same portion of tillage which they haue ( at this present ) in their owne proper vse , the Lord God of hoasts will euen then giue such a bountiful blessing vnto it , as they shall be sure o to find in one yeare an hundred fold more by due estimation . For the Lord he will p giue them the early , and the latter raine , and q render them the yeares that the grashopper had eaten before . Yea their r very barnes shall be filled with wheate , and their winepresses abound with wine and with oile . And herein no maruell at all , because the Lord ( in the day of this their holy conuersion ) will heare s yea the Lord God of hosts will heare the heauens ; and the heauens they will heare the earth ; and the earth , it will heare the corne , wine and oile ; and the corne , wine , and oile will heare the people ; and the people shall t sée the vallies stand so thicke with corne , that they shall laugh and sing , and say one to another , Behold how u the earth doth yéeld her increase ; and God , euen our owne God hath giuen vs his blessing . Lo ( Sir ) this is all the whole course I will take with that sort of men . Hydr. This course ( I confesse ) is very conuenient , were they men capable of it . But alas ( Capnistus ) the wisedome of the word is a matter ouer loftie for such fantasticall fooles as do so insatiably affect their owne inordinate lusts : they may ( by no possible meanes ) attaine to the height thereof . Not because the words of wisedome are idlely bestowed among any the sonnes of mortall men , ( for x the feare of the Lord is the very beginning of wisdome ) but for that all such vnregenerate fooles do most disdainfully despite true wisdome it selfe , and all holy instruction . Neither yet hath the authenticall sound of such sacred knowledge bene hitherto held backe from any of them . For behold y Wisdome her selfe hath cried without , she hath vttered her voyce in the open streets , she hath called to them all in the publike assemblies , yea euen in the very preasse of the people themselues , as also in the middest of the Citie hath shee solemnely vttered her words , saying thus : Oh you foolish , how long will you affect your owne foolishnesse , and you scornfull take such pleasure in scorning ? Oh turne you at my correction , for loe , I will now euen powre out my mind vnto you at large , and make you vnderstand my words to the full . What ( I pray thee ) might Wisdome do z more to the sonnes of men , then shee hath hitherto done vnto euery of them ? But what ? behold a how obstinately they do despise all her counsels , and most scornfully set her corrections at nought . Lo then , here is the onely cause of their foolishnesse . Capn. And why should not all these be as capable of heauenly wisedome , as those other we spake of a little afore ? Hydr. Because they will b not obey nor incline their eare vnto wisdome , but run headlong after the counsels and stubburnnesse of their owne wicked hearts , c walking moreouer according to the course of this sinfull world , and after the Prince that ruleth in the aire , that wicked spirit ( I meane ) which euen now worketh effectually in all those children of disobedience : who d hauing their owne cogitations euen vtterly darkened , and being meere strangers from the gracious life of God ( by reason of that in-bred ignorance which is naturally ingraffed in euery of them ) and being become without feeling , haue given themselues ouer to worke all manner of vncleannesse , euen with an insatiable kind of greedinesse . And therefore , as they haue no regard at all e to know God , so surely , the Lord ( iniustice ) deliuers them vp vnto reprobate minds , to do such things as are not conuenient : sending them withall f very strong delusions to make them beleeue all manner of lies , because they received not the truth : that thereupon , they all might iustly be damned which beleeue not the truth , but take an exceeding great pleasure in those their vnrighteous courses . Which their iust recompence also euen then shall iustly fall vpon euery of them . g when the Lord Iesus shall shew himselfe from heauen with his mightie Angels in flaming fire , rendring due vengeance to so many of them as know not God , and which obey not the Gospell : who shall be then punished with euerlasting perdition from the presence of the Lord , and from the glory of his maiesticall power . When notwithstanding he shall be eternally glorified in all his Saints , and be made maruellous in euery of them that beleeue : because our testimonie towards them , was so soundly beleeued in the day of their hoped saluation . Capn. Well Sir , whatsoeuer be the successe , I will earnestly endeauour to speake plainly unto euery of them , and ( it may be ) that many of them will willingly heare me . Hydr. It may be they will not : and more likey it is so , by a thousand fold . Capn. Oh , I beséech you Sir , neuer say so , but hope the best : h for charitie ( you know ) must not be suspitious . Hydr. I know it very well Capnistus , and this I dare tell thee withall , that charitie ( in like manner ) it must not be foolish in grounding so firme a perswasion of hope i vpon so hopelesse a ground as standeth onely on may bees . Hydr. Why Sir , the word was purposely giuen , you know , for k the hoped , and happie conuersion of sinfull soules . Hydr. Very true ( as thou sayest , ) although yet for the onely conuersion of those poore sinfull soules , whose effectuall calling to grace was purposely and eternally l decreed of God , by the ordinarie meanes of that selfe same word . For they being m before all beginnings the elected of God in Iesus Christ , were sure ( in their appointed time ) to haue their effectuall calling to the true knowledge of God , by the powerfull n preaching of his holy Gospell . And therefore , euen as all they which are eternally elected , are sure ( in time ) to be effectually called : so surely all such as haue finally no calling at all , or but onely a temporarie calling to grace , they cannot certainly conclude to themselues , any one certaine or grounded hope of their eternall election in Christ. Seeing therefore the true sauing faith is primarily o begot in the hearts of the heaters by the word of God preached , and must secondarily p grow vp and increase by that selfe same meanes it was first begottē , how is it possible ( thinkest thou ) that those men should euer be effectually called by the ordinarie preaching of Gods holy word q who cannot possibly be brought to the ordinary hearing therof ? sith men must necessarily r giue their willing consent to y e word , before they can be drawne to the obediēce therof . Or when at any time ( for fashions sake ) they come to the ordinarie preaching of that selfe same word , if they then heare it onely s as a minstrels song , with their mouthes make mockes at those preachers which bring it , their prophane hearts still pursuing their former inordinate affections : what other thing else will befall them ( thinkest thou ) but that which the Prophet proclaimeth saying , t Behold you despisers , and wonder , & vanish away , for I worke a worke in your daies , a worke , which you will not beleeue , though a man should declare it vnto you ? Capn. Whether they heare , or not heare , fleare and floute , jeare or jibe , make moes with their mouthes or not , if God giue me power , I will neuer forbeare them . Hydr. Oh say not so Capnistus , for Christ telleth thee u it is not alwaies good to tumble the childrens bread vnto whelpes : forbidding thee moreouer x to cast those thy precious pearles before beastly swine , and to hurle thy holy things vnto filthie dogs ; because the swine they will treade those pearles in the mire , and y the dogs , they will turne againe and teare thee in peeces . And howsoeuer those scorners may shew themselues holy a time , yet be thou assured of this , that the dogs ( first or last ) will z returne to their vomire afresh , and the swine which seemed before to be washed cleane , to their wallowing againe in the mire . And therefore , if ( at any time ) they shew themselues such , or if they will a needs become filthie , let them be filthie still : assuring themselues that all the while they be such they shall neuer haue b entrance through the gates into the celestiall Citie , but be shut out among dogs , enchanters , whoremongers , murderers , idolaters , and such as take a delight in their lying . Although yet I doubt not at all , but that the ordinarie preaching of the glorious Gospell , shall c accomplish that thing whereunto it was purposely sent of God : namely , it shall either be a blessing or a d burden ; a word of e conuersion , or a word of confusion ; a f sauour of life vnto life , or a sauour of death vnto death : yea and in either of both , the same shall be a sweete sauour to God. Capn. Why then ( God willing ) I will not ceasse crying vnto them , that ( whether they heare or not ) they may yet know g there hath bene a Prophet among them . Hydr. Surely Capnistus , as thy resolution herein in exceeding honest , thy purpose godly , and thy intended course correspondent to both : so I doubt not at all but that ( if thy practicall proceeding be sutable in euery respect ) exceeding much good may be wrought by the same . More especially , if thou ( for thine owne part ) doest Christianly consider , that such as are but lately wained from the milke , and newly drawne from the brest , must haue h precept vpon precept , precept vpon precept ; line vnto line , line vnto line ; there a little , and there a little : yea and must also be spoken vnto with a stuttring tongue , and a stammering language . And then next , if they also ( for their parts ) laying apart g all filthinesse , and superfluitie of maliciousnesse , do reuerently , chearefully , and in the spirit of meekenesse receiue the word at thy mouth : acknowledging withall , that those thy h friendly strokes are beneficiall for them , and that thy pretious balmes will not breake their heads . For the timely accomplishment whereof , both thy selfe , and euery of them shall be sure ( from time to time ) to haue the hourely assistance i of my heartiest praiers to almightie God k in the name and mediation of Iesus Christ. In the meane time , the houre appointed for mine ordinarie studies , beginneth now to approch , and very loth I am to let slip the same , vnlesse vpon very important and vrgent occasions . Capn. And in very déed ( Sir ) the time also , and the tide it selfe for my former purposed voyage , doth draw very neare : so as I my selfe ( for the present ) must euen necessarily make hast to the l hauen , either to vnlade , or forthwith to dispose of some other designement concerning that ve●sell of mine , which alreadie is full fraught for some forreine aduenture ; and therefore must euen now craue leaue for my present departure . Hydr. With all my heart : beseeching the eternall God m to giue thee fauour with forreine nations , and to make thy iourney exceeding prosperous to thee . Capn. I n thanke my God in Iesus Christ , for this your godly care for the good so my soule : and I humbly beséech the Father of mercies to assist you from time to time , with his holy Spirit of wisedome , for the publike good of our Church and countrey . And euen so I most heartily take my leaue for the present . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Psal. 119.168 . If in this my present Discourse , I do haply faile of any such delectable speech or eloquence as might giue good contentment to the Ciceronian and delicate eares , I pray you pardon mine imperfections that way . For how should I possibly deliuer any daintie discourse of so noysome , so stinking and so offensiue a Subiect , as is the poysonsome sauour of filthie Tobacco fumes ? In the meane time , season your tastes , I beseech you , with this succeeding Sonet . TOBACCO TORTVRED . WHat doth the foule contagious fume and smoke Of this Tobacco ( filthie stinking weede ) But senses all , and spirits liuely choake , And through y e members strange infection breede ? The moysture naturall it doth consume , Wherein the treasure of the life is laid : Which being lost , and wasted by this fume , Thou then ( of something ) art iust nothing made . Thou then ( of something ) art iust nothing made , Thy wasted body straight is turn'd to dust : And ( dire contagion through thy limmes conuai'd ) Thy life to wracke and ruine , run needs must . If thou desire to know , and cause demand Why such strange monstrous maladies are rife ? The cause is plaine , and reason is at hand ; Men like and loue this smokie kind of life . Men like and loue this smokie kind of life , Whereby doth vanish into aire most thinne , The vigour of the mind , and bodies chiefe Strength ; force and power also of life and limme . This is the wel-spring of diseases all , The tree which direfull death doth yeeld for fruite : Whereby their loathsome limbes do quickly fall , And run to ruine , clad in wofull suite . This is the mortall foe which doth assaile The members vigour , and the bodies power : A Tyrant which most cruelly doth hale The vitall breath ( hearts handmaid ) from her bower . This is a Traitour , and doth treason warke ; Braine cleare and bright , with smokie mists polluting : And with his colour blacke , obscure and darke , Throughout the body euery part imbruing . And ( that it might more easily effect The dire perdition of the heart and head , The body with contagious rotte infect , And through the members deadly poyson spread : ) A Conduite pipe deuised is by Art , Whereby the smokie aire might haue a way . Through the whole body , and through euery part , The dire destroying venime to conuay . And when the direfull venime is conua'id Through all the body , and through euery part , Then fainting life withall , doth quickly fade , Strength quite consum'd , and vigour of the heart . Let him therefore eschue pernicious draught Of filthie , loathsome , vile infectious fume , That doth desire strength fresh , or hath a thought To keepe his bodie sound and limbes in tune . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . If neither m● former Prose may perswade , nor my present méeter make glad your mal-contented minds , I pray you then make your selues some sport about the reading of my subsequent riddle , vntill my next arriuall . Reade me a riddle , What is that , That is Times greatest daunter , cause of idlenesse , Tobacco . That is Old Ale-house haunter , friend to drunkennesse , Tobacco . That is Vile bewitching weede , healths huge consumer , Tobacco . That is Wits most wofull speede , breaths foule perfumer , Tobacco . That is Intrails foule blacknesse , bodies braue dier , Tobacco . That is Dame Natures slacknesse , quenching her fier , Tobacco . That is Wiues , childs dysaster , Tenants contrition , Tobacco . That is Wealths wofull waster , countries perdition , Tobacco . That is Offence to manie , bringing good to none , Tobacco . That is Not lou'd of any , vntill it be gone . Tobacco . Ioca , seriáque . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Certaine faults escaped in the printing , which are to be corrected as followeth . Pag. 11. l. 32. reade either . p. 38. l. 1. reade , make good . p. 55. l. 25. put out one of the words healths . p. 61. l. 4. reade sharpsighted . p. 66. l. 10. reade manuary . p. 74. l. 7. reade lip . p. 87. l. 5. reade , shoomaker . p. 92. lin . 31. reade drudges . p. 116 l. 23. reade respected . p. 137 l. 26. reade Fie , fie p. 149. l. 16. reade I assure thee . p. ●62 l. 25. reade life . p. 184. l. 14. reade shipfuls . p. 186. l. 33. reade maturely . p. 187. l. 36. reade swilling . p. 192. reade and with . Typographi Encomium . Fieldus opus pressit ; mendâ vacat iste Libellus : Non nisi correctas imprimit ille notas . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A19997-e140 a 1 Cor. 14.31 . b Wisd. 11.17 . c Eccles. 3.11 . d In a Treatise of household gouernment couertly conuayed from me , and set ●orth in the name o● R. C. e Math. 11.19 . f Ier. 18.18 . Notes for div A19997-e630 a Bonum quo communius , e● meliu● . b Res. rationis expers est ipsa improbitas . c Psal. 120.4 . d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Notes for div A19997-e1880 g Rom. 7.25 . h Iam. 1.14 . i Gen. 3.1 . Wisd. 1.24 . 2 Cor. 11.3 . k Gen. 3.1 . 1 Tim. 2.14 . l Gen. 3.6 . m Gen. 1.27 . Eph. 4.24 . n Gen. 3.4.5.6 . o Gen. 3.1.4.5 p 1 King. 11.1.2.3 4.5.6.7.8 . q Eccle. 13.1 . r Ier. 51.8.9 . Reue. 14.8.9 . and 18.3.4 . s 2. Cor. 2.16 . t 2. Cor. 2.14.15 . u Esa. 3.16 . x 1. Cor. 15.33 Iere. 44.16.17 . y Psal. 106.34 35. z 1. Thes. 5 22. a Reuel ▪ 18.11.12.13.14.15.16.17.18.19 . b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Haec Hel●na pro qua digladiabantur . vide Iliad . 3. c Plat. in Gorg d Arist. in Meter . lib. 4. ●ap . 1. e Arist. in Meter . lib. 4. cap. 1. f Hebr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , id est , fumanit , infumauit , fumu● emisit . Graec. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . id est , fumus , ex furuo colore sic dictus . g Gene. 15.17 . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Et ecce fumantem furnum . Exod. 19.18 . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Et ascendebat fumus eius . i Iosh. 8.20 . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Et ascenderet fumus ciuitatis . k Psal. 74.1 . and 75.5 . and 104.5 . and 144.5 . l Ouid. Meta. m Virg. Aeneid . 2. n Cic. in Pisonem . o 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cognationem habet cum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . i. aurae , vapor . p Gen. 2.6 . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . p Gen. 2.6 . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . q Iob. 36.27 . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . ad vaporem cius . r Iohan. Velcurio . in Cōment . lib. 3. cap. 5. s Ouid. Metamor lib. 1. t Colum. lib. 5. cap. 10. u Virg. Aeneid . lib. 5. x 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cognationem habet cum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 y 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . z 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . b Plin. lib. 31. cap. 3. c Cicer. 1. Tuscul. d Arist. Mete . lib. 4. cap. 1. e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . f Empedocles . g Quintilian . h Aulus Gellius . i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . fuligo . k Exod. 30.1.39 . Numb . 4.16 . ●sal . 66.15 . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . odor . m Cant. 2.13 . and 4.10 . Ier. 48.11 . n Ga●lica . o Italica . p Germanica . q Hispanica . r Virg. 12. Aeneid . s Mar. lib. 1. t Arist. Mete . lib. 4. cap. 1. u Galen . in libro Simplic . The first argument . x Arìst . Me●● . lib. 4. cap. 1. y Arist. in Meteor . lib. 4. cap. 1. The second argument . z Ioh Velcurio in vniuersam Arist. Physic. lib. 2. cap. 14. a Ioh. Velcurio in vniuersam Arist. Physic. lib. 2. cap. 14. b Hippocra . in libro Aphoris . lib. 5. Aphoris . 62. Galen . in libro detemperam . c Arist. Mete . lib. 4. cap. 1. c Ioh. Velcurio in vniuersam Arist. Physic. Lib. 2. cap. 22. d Phil. 3.19 . The third argument . e Arist Mete . lib. 4. cap. 9. f 1 Kin. 22.23 . ●4 . The fourth argument . g Vnicuique in sua arte perito , credendum est . h Gesnerus , ad Ioh. Functium Epist. vltima . i Pro. 29.9 . k Esdr. 4.41 . A recapitulation of the whole . Notes for div A19997-e17090 l 2 Pet. 1.19 . m Eccles. 107 n Hag. 1.6 . o Pro. 22.1 . Eccles. 7.2 . p 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . q Nocet emp●adolore , voluptas . r Gen. 6.5 . Iam. 4.5 . s Deut. 23.15 . t Psal. 78.18 . and 106.14 . 1 Cor. 10.6 . u Iam. 4.3 . x Psal. 78.29 . y Psal. 78.30 . z Rom. 1.24 . a Wisd. 11. ●3 . b Psal. 128.2 . c Psal. 128.1 . d Mat. 3.9 . e Pro. 10.22 . f Iob. 20.15 . g Ecclus. 19.1 . h Psal. 128.1.2 i Deut. 28.3.4.5 . k Psal. 128.1.2 . l Deut. 28.16.17.18 . Malac. 3.9 . m Pro. 23.21 . Hag. 1.5.6 . n Pro. 3.33 . 1 King 17.14.16 . o Hag. 1.5 . p Deut. 28.38 . Mich. 6.15 . Hag. 1.6.9 . q Ioel. 1.4 . r Iob. 27.3 . Psal. 146.4 . Isa. 2.22 . s Psal. 94.1 . t Deut. 32.21 . u Deut. 28.28 . x Deut. 28.29 . y Gen. 15.16 . z Diogenes . a 1 Sam. 25.22 1 King. 21.21 . The same or the like complaint may also be taken vp against adul●erous husbands . b Mal. 2.14.15 . c Gen. 30.3 . d Mal. 2.15 . e Gen. 30.11 . f Psal. 127.5 . g Psal. 127.5 . h Exod. 4.25 . i 1 Tim. 5.8 . k Luke . 10.41 . l 1 Tim. 5.8 . m Mich. 2.1 . n Mich. 2.4 . o Mich. 2.4.5 . p Iob. 5.3.4.5 . q Iob. 5.6 . r Pro. 1.32 . s Pro. 1.31 . t Pro. 6.11 . u Isay. 3.15 . x Isay. 3.15 . y Am. 8.4 . z Am. 8.4 . a Am. 5.12 . b Am. 8.4 . c Hab. 2.8 . d Am. 8.8 . e Isa. 59.5 . f Isa. 59.4 . g Isa. 5.18 . h Luk. 16 . 13● i In nomine Domini incipit omne malum . k Ierem. 4.22 . l Exod. 10.13.14 . m Crobyll ●ugum . n Psal. 127.2 . o Pro. 6.6.7.8 . and 30.25 . p Iudg. 14.14 . Ecclus. 11.3 . q Isa. 7.18 . r Psal. 118.12 . s Deut. 1.44 . t Psal. 109.10 . u Math. 23.4 . Luke 10.46 . Act. 15.10 . x Rom. 16.27 . y Deut. 34.9 . z Rom. 13.4 . a 1 King. 1.34 , 39. b Ioh. 8.44 . c Gen. 49.3 . d Ann. 4. Henry 7.29 . Ann. 7 Henry 8. i. ann . Dom. 1515. An. 20. Henry 8.22 . An. 27. Henry 8.22 . Ann. 5. Elizabeth , 2. Ann. Dom. 1569. Ann. 27. Elizabeth , 1.10 . Ann. 31 Elizabeth , 5. Ann. Iaco. 1.1 . e Isa. 3.15 . f Math. 26.52 . g Rom. 13.4 . Reuel . 13.10 . h See Pultons Abridgment of penall statutes : against riots , routs , & vnlawfull assemblies . i See the statute , primo Mar. 12. And the statute primo Elizabethae , 17. k See the statute primo Mar. 12. And the statute primo Elizabethae 17. l See the statute , primo Mar. 12. And the statute primo Elizabethae , 17. m See Pulton in the title of Riots &c. sect . 5. n The forme of the Proclamation . See Pulton . o 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Psal. 17.9 . p Ionah . 4.11 . q Pro. 17.15 . and 24.24 . Isa. 5.20.23 . r Wisd. 6.3 . Rom. 13.2.3 . Tit. 3.1 . 2 Pet. 2.13 . f Ier. 44.17 . t Videre licet , gustare non licet . u Pro. 14.28 . x 1 Cor. 3 6.7 . y 2. Cor. 11.19 . z 2 King. 9.20 . a P●il . 9.19 . b Isa. 5.8 . c Isa. 33.1 . Mich. 2.1.2.3.4 . d 1 Kin. 21.21 . e Isa. 3.15 . f Gen. 13.2.5.6 . and 24.35 . and 26.14 . and 29.6 . and 30.31.32 1 Sam. 17.15 . Psal. 78.70.71 . g Gen. 24..35 . Ps. 144 ▪ 13.14 . h Policrat . de nugis Curialium . lib. 6. cap. 24. i 1 Cor. 9.7 . k Act. 19.14.15 . l Isa. 56.10.11 m Math. 15.18.19 . n Isa. 56.11 . o Act. 19 29. p Act. 19.28 . q Gen. 34.13 . r Mat. 11.19 . Hos. 4.9 . t Hos. 4.8.9 . u Gen. 24.50 . x Gen. 3.23 . y Deut. 28.13 . Psal. 45.7 . Ecclus. 38.25 . &c. z Math. 6.29 . a Psal. 45.9.13.14 . b Math. 11.8 . c Ioh. 19.23 . d Phil. 2.11.12 . 1 Tim. 6.8.9 . e Iam. 4.3 . f 2 King. 5.3 . g See Pultons Abridgment in the statute of corne ●●d graine See the statute of 1. & 2. Phil. & Mar. Also the statute of 5. Elizab. 5.27 . h See Pultons Abridgment ibid. 3.4 . Item ibidem , in the title of corne and graine . 3.4 . i See Pulton , in the statute against forestallers , &c. See the statute of 5. Edw. 6.14 . See 5. Eliz. 5. Item : 27. Eliz. 11. k See Pultons Abridgment in the title of Farmers . 2. Item , ibid. in the title of corne , 10. l See the Canons against resorting to Alehouses . m See Pulton in the title of labourers , sect . 2.3.13 . Also in the title of poore people . sect 22. n See Pulton in the title of vagabonds , 1.2 . &c. o Ibedem 11. p Ibidem 10. q See Pulton , in the title , Alehouses . sect . 2. r Ibidem sect . 1. s Act. 9.18 . t The Hebrewes haue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , as in Gen. 14.14 . Ios. 22.16.29 . Ezech. 2.3 . Dan. 9.5 . u Cognationē habet cum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & cum . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 x 2 Sam. 2.26 . y The Grecians haue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 z The French haue rebeller , se reuanger . a The Italians haue rebellare , resorgere . b The Latines haue repugnare . c Hebrew , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Grec . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gal. Guerroyeur , homme de guerre . Ital. Combattitore , guerrieur . Lat. Bellator . d Hebr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Grec . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gal. Caeluy qui rebelle . Ital. Rubello . Hisp. E●que rebela . Lat. Rebellator . Hebr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Grec . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gal. Caeluy qui rebelle . Ital. Rubello . Hisp. E●que rebela . Lat. Rebellator . e Iudg. 9.14.15 . f Cicero . Bellare cum Dij , id est , naturae repugnare ? Nā vbi maioritas , ibi mandan●● authoritas , vbi minoritas , ibi obediendi necessitas . g Psal. 85.10 . h Rom 13.1.2.3.4.5 . i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Rom. 13.2 . k Act. 7.51 . l Rom. 6.13 . m 2 Sam. 15.4.5 . n 2 Sam. 16.6 . o Gen. 4.10 . p Gen. 9.6 . q Gen. 9.5 . r Gen. 9.6 . Matth. 26.52 . Reuel . 13.10 . s Gen. 1.27 . and 9.6 . Eph. 4.24 . t Gen. 1.26.28 u Psal. 8.6.7.8 x Gen. 3.16 . &c. 1.22 . 1 Cor. 14.34 . y Gen. 4.7 . z 1 Cor. 14.33 ▪ a 1 Cor. 14. ●0 . b Gen. 8.2.13 . c Gen. 9.1 . d Gen. 1.28 . e Gen. 9.2 . f Gen. 10.8.9 . g Gen. 9.5 . h Gen. 9.6 . i Ioh. Caluine in Gen. 9.6 . k Rom. 13.4 . l 1 Sam. 3.18 . m Gen. 9.6 . n Gen. 9.6 . o Gen. 9 6. p Iohan. Cal●inus , in Gen. 9.6 . q Gen. 1.26 . r Tremelius in Gen. 9.6 . Petrus Martyrus in Gen. 9.6 . s 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 t Gen. 2.7 . 1 Cor. 15.45 . u Gen. 1.26 . Eph. 4.24 Col. 3.10 . x Gen 1.26 . and 9 2. Psal. 8.5.6.7 . y Gen. 3.16 . and 4.7 . Wisd. 4.7 . and 9 6. 1 Cor. 11.7 . z 1 Cor. 11.7 See Caluin . ●hera . a 2 Pet. 1.19 . b Gen. 2.7 . 1 Cor. 15.45 . c Gen. 1.26 . and 5.1 . Ephes. 4.24 . Col. 3.10 . d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 e Gen. 1.1 . f Gen. 1.1 . and 5.1 . g Gen. 1.11 . and 2.18 . h Psal. 51.12 . i Psal. 135.6 . k Rom. 4.17 . l 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 m Iere. 6.29 . n Psal. 26.2 . and 66.10 . Isa. 48.10 . o Isa. 43.7 . p 1 Cor. 15.22 . q 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r Gen. 4 9. and 5.1 . Isa. 41.4 . s Gen. 1.11 . t Gen. 14.5 . Ezech. 28.4 . u Gen. 18.7 . x Psal. 115.3 . y Exod. 10.25 . Leuit. 16.9 . z Deut. 32.6 . 1 Sam. 12.6 . a Gen. 9.6 . b Gen. 9.5 . c Gen. 9.6 . Rom. 13.4 . d Ioh. 14.16.17 . e Rom 16.27 . f Isa. 43.7 . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 g See Tremelius in Isa 43.7 . h Pro. 16.4 . i Eph. 1.5 . k Rom. 8.30 . l 1 Sam. 12.6 . m Deut. 32.6.15 . 1 Sam. 12.6 . n See R. D. Kimbi , in 1. Sam. 12.6 . See Tremelius in Deut. 32.6.15 . and 1. Sam. 12.6 . Isa. 43.7 . Isa. 46.4 . o Deut. 30.6.15 . 1 Sam. 12.6 . Isa. 43.7 . and 46.4 . p Gen. 9.6 . q Esdr. 4.41 . r Math. 26.51 . Reuel . 13.10 . s See Caluine in Mat. 26.10 . t 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 accipientes . u See Theod. Beza in Mat. 26.52 . x 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . y Exod. 20.7 . Deut. 5.11 . Psal. 50.16 . z Gen. 9.6 . a Psal. 55.21 . b Psal. 52.2 . c Psal. 55.20 . d Psal. 52.3 . e Psal. 140.3 . Rom. 3.13 . f Psal. 140.3 . g Rom. 3.13 . h Psal. 64.3 . i Ier. 18.18 . k Psal. 140.1.2 . l Psal. 120.2 . m Psal. 52.2 . n Psal. 21.12 . o Psal. 120.3 . p Iudg. 5.31 . q Gen. 4.10.11 r Math. 18.7 . s Qui occasionem damni dat : damnum dedisse videtur . s Sir Henrie Fowkes Knight . t Psal. 51.14 . u Gen. 4.14 . Heb. 12.24 . x Gen. 4.14 . Pro. 17.11 . Isa. 19.4 . Ier. 50.41.42 . y Marc. 8.36 . Luke . 9.25 . z Qui occasionem damni dat , damnum dedisse videtur . a Psal. 51.12.13 . b Luc. 22.32 . Ioh. 1.40.41.45 . 1 Tim. 1.15.16 c Pro. 11.30 . d Iam. 5.20 . e Ier. 18.18 . f Ier. 20 8. g Ier. 20.10 . h Psal. 41.9 . Ier. 20.10 . i 1 Pet. 3.14 . k Isa. 50.6 . l 2. King. 18.22 m 2 Sam. 16.11.12 . n 1 Sam. 25.28 . 1 Cor. 10.4 . o Luc. 14.31 . p Luc. 14.32 . q Act. 21.13 . r Iam. 4.3 . s Act. 21.14 . u Psal. 107.23.24.25.26.27.28.29.30.31 . x Hosh. 6.4 . y Psal. 106.21 z Mat. 16.28 . Marc. 8.36 . Luc. 9.25 . a Mat. 18.7 . b Psal. 62.2 . Isa. 7.20 . c 1 Macab . 3.41 . d Amos. 8.6 Reuel . 18.13 . e 1 Kin. 22 49. 2 Chron 20.37 f 2 Chro. 2.8 . and 8.18 . g Reuel . 18.13 . h Sopho●les in Antigone . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fumi vmbra . i Lucianus . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sacrum sine fumo . k Martialis , Vend●e fumos . l Psal. 59.14.15 . Isa. 56.11 . m Vespasianus , Lucribonus est odor ex re qualibet . n Ennius , Vnde habeat curat nemo , sed oportet habere . o Auri sacra fames . p Zenodorus , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Mendicantium sacculi , semper inanes . q Martialis dignus vt fumo pereat , qui fumos vendidit r Lucianus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 F●mum fugiens , in flāmam incidi . s 1 Cor. 10.32 . t 1 Thess. 5 . 2● u Psal. 128.1.2 . &c. x Rom. 13.4 . y 1 Tim. 2.1.2 . z Gen. 15.16 . a Rom. 12 18. Heb. 12.14 . b Ier. 13.23 . c Iere. 4.22 . d Amos. 4.6 . e Isa. 24.5 . f Isa. 24.9 . g Lam. 5.4 . h Isa. 5.12 . i Ezech. 12.18 k Ezech. 5.16 . l Ezech. 4.9.10.11.12 . m Ioel. 1.5 . n Deut. 28 . 5● o Gen. 26.12 . p Ioel. 2.23 . q Ioel. 2.25 . r Ioel. 3.24 . s Hosh. 2.21.22 . t Psal. 65.13 . u Psal. 67.6 . x Pro. 1.7 . y Pro. 1.22.23 . Ier. 7.23 . z Isa. 5.4 . Mich. 6.34 . a Pr● . 1.27 . b Ierem. 7.24 . c Eph. 2.2 . d Eph. 4.18.19 e Rom. 1.28 . f 2 Thess. 2.10.11.12 . g 2 Thess. 1.7.8.9.10 . h 1 Cor. 13.7 . i 1 Cor. 10.12 . k Act. 17.30 . l Rom. 8.29.30 Eph. 1.9.13 . m Eph. 1.4 . 2 Tim. 1.9 . o 1 Pet. 1.20 . p 1 Pet. 2.1.2 . q Psal. 58.45 . r Isa. 1.19 . s Ezech. 33.30 . ●1 . 32 . t Habak . 1.5 . Act. 13.41 . u Mat. 15.26 . x Math. 7.6 . y Ier. 20.7.8 . Math. 7.6 . z Pro. 26.11 . 2 Pet. 2.22 . a Reuel . 22.11 . b Reuel . 22.14.15 . c Isa. 55.10 . d Isa. 13.1 . e Rom. 1.16 . f 2 Cor. 2.15.16 . g Ezech. 2.5 . and 33.33 . h Isa. 28.9.10.11 . g Iam. 1.20.21 h Psal. 141.5 . i Eph. 1.16.17 . k Ioh. 15.7.16 . l Psal. 107.30 . m Est. 2.15 . Iudith . 10.8 . n Rom. 1.8 .