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have been Henry Parker, a Carmelite Friar of 
Doneaster ; his words on the subject are given at 
full, in the Church of our Fathers, t. i. pp. 447, 
448., and in part by Creyrer. Surely the tes- 
timony of an English churchman, on a common 
usage of the English liturgy, is more to be trusted 
than that of a foreigner, who, the probability is, 
never set his foot in this country. On this, as 
well as not a few other liturgical subjects, the 
Compendiouse Treatyse, or Dialoge of Dives and 
Pauper, may be fairly taken as evidence of our 
old English ritualism, and thus affords an answer 
to Ceyrep’s second Query. 
3. “Can we,” asks Ceyrer, “find any allusion 
to it in our numeral lists of albs belonging to 
English churches and cathedrals?” I answer 
yes. In the inventory of St. Paul’s. Cathedral, 
London, this ornament is specified, as well as in 
that of the Royal Chapel, Windsor, but both in 
one and the other in the plural number; and if 
Crrrep will look into the Church of our Fathers, 
t. i. p. 446 , he will find the passages which mention 
them among the Parure as spaule, spatularia, and 
parure humerales. D. Rocr. 
Newick, Uckfield, 
SONG ON TOBACCO: “RAPHAELIS THORII TABA- 
CUM, POEMA,” LIBB. IJ., ETC. 
(24 S. i. 115. 182.) 
“ Disce tubo genitos haurire et reddere fumos.” 
“Non ex fumg Iucem, sed ex luce dare fumum.” 
Hore Nicotiane. 
T am as anxious as your correspondent J. B. to 
obtain a copy of the genuine song. Four stanzas 
have been supplied (p.-182.) by T. Q. C. I for- 
ward, from the columns of The Newcastle Journal, 
what is evidently a modernised and diluted ver- 
sion of it. There are ten stanzas divided into two 
parts, and the editor, who copied from Erskine’s 
Gospel Sonnets, attributes them, as you will see, 
to “Erskine.” At all events the subjoined appears 
to be a mere refacciamento. I had an impression 
that the genuine song should be assigned to Dean 
Aldrich, but it would appear that they belong to 
an earlier period. 
“ Meditations on Smoking. — ERSKINE. 
PART I. 
“The Indian weed, now withered quite, 
Tho’ green at noon, cut down at night, 
Shows thy decay: 
All flesh is hay. 
Thus think, and smoke tobacco. 
“The pipe, so lily-like and weak, 
Does thus thy mortal state bespeak : 
Thou art even such, 
Gone with a touch. 
Thus think, and smoke tobacco, 
* And, when the smoke ascends on high, ; 
Then thou behold’st the vanity 
Of worldly stuff 
Gone with a puff. 
Thus think, and smoke tobacco. 
“And, when the pipe grows foul within, 
Think on thy soul, defil’d with sin: 
For then the fire 
It does require ; 
Thus think, and smoke tobacco: 
“ And seest the ashes cast away, 
Then to thyself thou mayest say, 
That to dust 
Return thou must. 
Thus think, and smoke tobacco, 
PART IL 
“Was this small plant for thee cut down? 
So was the plant of great renown, , 
Which Mercy sends 
For nobler ends. 
Thus think, and smoke tobacco. 
“ Doth juice medicinal proceed 
From such a naughty foreign weed ? 
Then what’s the power 
Of Jesse’s flower ? 
Thus think, and smoke tobacco. 
“ The promise, like the pipe, inlays 
And, by the mouth of faith, conveys 
What virtue flows 
From Sharon’s rose. 
Thus think, and smoke tobacco. 
“Jn vain th’ unlighted pipe you blow. 
Your pains in outward means are so, 
Till heavenly fire 
Your heart inspire. 
Thus think, and smoke tobacco. 
“ The smoke, like burning incense, towers; 
So should a praying heart of yours 
With ardent cries 
Surmount the skies. 
Thus think, and smoke tobacco,” 
TI cannot but think that much of the raciness of 
the genuine song has evaporated here, and there- 
fore beg to add my solicitations to those of J. B. 
for a copy of it, as quoted in Rob Roy. Mean- 
while I would offer, from Zusus Westmonasteri- 
enses (p. 24., edit. 1730), the following; whether 
suggestive of or suggested by the lines in ques- 
tion, I must learn the respective dates ere giving 
an opinion. Dr. Aldrich, Dean of Christ Church, 
Oxford, was a liberal patron of the weed, and, as 
the following declares, had written some verses, 
at all events in a kindred strain : 
“ Aldricius nobis nomen memorabile, Peti 
Omnia qui novit commoda, sic cecinit. 
Petum mane viget, marcescit nocte, caditque: 
Primo mane viget sic homo, nocte cadit. _ 
Ut redit in cineres incensum; mortuus omnis 
Sic redit in cineres, fitque quod ante fuit. 
Quis non é tubulis discat nunc reddere fumos, 
Vivere cum doceant et bené posse mori.” 
To the summary of Nicotian literature, given by 
B. H. C.(p. 182. supra), let me add the Hymnus 
Tabaci, a poem in two books, written in Latin 
