2"d S. N" 59., Feb. 14. '57.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



131' 



into the hands of Sir Thomas Cave ; and Chalmers 

 says that Gilchrist possessed his Life of Ferrar, 

 Where are they now, or where are the MSS. used 

 by Peckard himself? J. E. B. Mayoh. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Herberts " Country Parson" — There_ is still 

 another edition of this book, in which the 

 " Prayers before and after Sermon " are omitted, 

 — that published by Longman in 1807. 



CUTHBEET BeDE. 



(^""^ S. i. ii., passim.) 



T have not seen the following passage alluded 

 to in the notices of tobacco. It occurs in a Ser- 

 7/1011 of Bp. Miles Smith, of Gloucester, on Eph. 

 V. 18. : 



" For this cause also j'ou are forbidden to be drunke 

 with Tobacco, which liowsoeuer some dote vpon, and 

 thinkc they cannot take enough of,- as though it were 

 some Panace that was good against all diseases, or some 

 Moly that was good against all Sorcery, yet I believe the 

 Proverb is fulfilled in most Takers, Thesaurus carbones, 

 we looked for treasure and beheld coales. I list not to sift 

 or examine curiously the worth of it, I leaue that to 

 another profession: onely I put you in mind, of a Saying 

 of Saint Augustine in his Confessions, Hoc me docuisli, vt 

 quemadmodam medicamenta, sic alhnenta sumpturum ac- 

 cedam. Sec. — Thou hast taught me (O God) that I should 

 come with such a mind to receiue my meato, as I come 

 to take Pliysicke; whereby he signified that as he tooke 

 no Phj'sicke, but in case of necessit.y, so he did not eatc 

 but when hunger did pricke him. If it be meate, why is 

 it not eaten? If Physicke why is it taken so often? If 

 Physicke be taken so often, then it will not worke like 

 Physicke; as he that vseth strong wine for liis ordinary' 

 drinke, when he would haue his crude meates digested, it 

 Avill not serue the turne, but he must haue some com- 

 pound water to helpe : So were Tobacco as wholesome a 

 weede, or herbe, as it is pretended, yet if it be vsed too 

 commonly, nature will entertaine it as a friend, not as a 

 Physician. Bat my duty is to tender you health of the 

 soule, not of the body. If it doe no hurte to the soule, 

 let it be vsed for me, and let it be vsed as it is vsed by 

 some all the day long. Hoc primus repetas opus, hoc pos- 

 tremus omittas ; but how can it choose but hurt the soule, 

 when it causeth a man to spend so many precious houres 

 in idlenesse, in vnthriftinesse, in sensuality? If we must 

 giue an account for euery idle word, must we not giue an 

 account for euery idle daj', nay moneth, nay j'eere? If 

 for eury idle penny, must we not then for euery idle shil- 

 ling? Naj' I haue heard of diners that haue sold their 

 Patrimony for it. This is not the way to bring men to 

 that state that the Prophet Esay speaketh of. Like buyer, 

 like seller, but this is to cause men to write vnder the 

 signe of them that haue purchased bj' selling Tobacco, as 

 Diogenes did vnder the golden statue tiiat Phryne the 

 strumpet dedicated at Delphi : 'Ef aawrias 'EAA^jvui', that 

 is. This was gotten by the intemperance of the Grecians." 

 — Sermons, sm. fol., printed by Elizabeth Allde for 

 Robert Allot, dwelling at the Blacke Beare in Pauls 

 Churchyard. 1632. 



E. S. Taylor. 



I do not see mentioned by any of your corre- 

 spondents in their notices of po^ms and songs (in 

 praise or dispraise), the subjoined song on to- 

 bacco, contained in the first part o£ Ayres, ^'C, by 

 Tobias Hume, published in 1605 : — 



" Tobacco, Tobacco, 

 Sing sweetly for Tobacco, 

 Tobacco is like Love, 

 love it. 

 For you see I will prove it. 

 Love maketh leane the fatte men's tumor, 



So doth Tobacco ; 

 Love still drives uppe the wanton humor, 



So doth Tobacco. 

 Love makes me sayle fro' shore to shore. 



So doth Tobacco. 

 'Tis fond love often makes men poor, 



So doth Tobacco. 

 Love makes men scorne all Coward fearcs, 



So doth Tobacco ; 

 Love often sets men by the eares, 

 So doth Tobacco ; 

 Tobaccoe, Tobaccoc, 

 Sing sAveetely for Tobaccoe, 

 Tobaccoe is like Love, 

 O love it. 

 For you see I have prowde it." 



J. S. 



Knutsford. 



DrinMng Tobacco (•2"'i S. ii. 471.) — Tutiin 

 itshmek, to " drink " tobacco, is Turkish for to 

 smoke ; in the long Turkish tchibooks it is very- 

 agreeable, and it is the Turkish practice, with 

 good tobacco, to imbibe the smoke into the stomach 

 to a certain extent, but it is impossible to " drink" 

 much of any tobacco smoke, as it must produce 

 suffocation ; as to German or American tobacco, 

 it is next to impossible to inhale into the stomach 

 more than a very small quantity, nor is it the 

 custom in Germany, except amongst silly persons, 

 to attempt such a thing. 



In narghilchs, the smoke, which passes through 

 water, must be literally " drank," and requires all 

 the power of the lungs to draw it into the stomach ; 

 a narghilch cannot be smoked otherwise ; it is, 

 however, so injurious a habit as to kill the indi- 

 vidual who persists in it ; I knew a Turk at 

 Adriano{)le who smoked thirteen narghilchs a da^', 

 beginning before day-light ; but he was dying 

 under it. 



Is it known whence came the exquisite to- 

 baccoes of Turkey and Persia ? Are they of Ame- 

 rican origin ? What are the earliest authors that 

 mention them ? The Chinese and Indians smoke ; 

 did the practice come among the Mahometans 

 from the East or the West ? Was it known in 

 the Lower Empire, from which source the proud 

 Turks did not abhor to imitate in many respects ? 

 " Grsecia capta parum victorem cepit." 



J. D. Gardneb, 



Chatteris. 



