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verse, in imitation of Lucretius, by Raphael Tho- 
rius, a Dutch (French ?) bard, entitled “ De Pato 
seu Tobaco,” to which a place has been assigned 
in the Muse Anglicane, vol.i. A resumé of this 
poem is given in “ Hore Nicotianz” (vol. v. p. 47. 
&e. of Blackwood’s Magazine), and is there fol- 
lowed by Charles Lamb's “ Farewell to Tobacco.” 
I agree completely with the writer in Blackwood, 
when, quoting from the original of Paul Hentzner’s 
Travels into England (a.p. 1598) the following, 
which I give from the translation in Dodsley’s 
Fugitive Pieces, vol. ii. p. 269., he remarks that,— 
“Tt is amusing enough to observe the pains which our 
German takes to give his own countrymen some faint 
idea of an utensil which is now so familiar to them as the 
tobacco pipe. Speaking of the Bear Garden, Hentzner 
says, ‘ At these spectacles, and every where else, the En- 
glish are constantly smoking tobacco, and in this manner: 
they have pipes on purpose, made of clay, into the fur- 
ther end of which they put the herb, so dry that it may 
be rubbed into powder, and, putting fire to it, they draw 
the smoke into their mouths, which they puff out again 
through their nostrils, like funnels; along with it plenty 
of phlegm and defluxion from the head. In these thea- 
tres, fruits, such as apples, pears, and nuts, according to 
the season, are carried about to be sold, as well as ale and 
wine,” &c. 
Thorius was a noted bon vivant, and once took 
advantage of the learned Peiresc, whose powers as 
a wine-bibber by no means equalled his own, to 
pledge him in an enormous beaker of wine; nor 
would he accept any of Peiresc’s excuses for get- 
ting off. But when the other, having challenged 
Thorius in turn, filled the beaker with water, it 
cost our poet many a qualm to swallow the whole 
of such an unwonted draught. Bayle says, — 
“ Je pense qu’il ne doutoit guere de la maxime, que les 
Buveurs d’eau ne sauroient faire de bon vers. De sa 
vie, peut-étre, il ne se trouva plus embarrassé, que quand 
M. de Peirese l’obligea de boire un Grand Verre d’Eau: 
le Roi Jaques souhaita qu’on lui fit ce conte, qui est fort 
risible.”— Dict. Critiqg., tom. iii. p. 2875. 
See, too, Gassendus, in vit. Peiresk ad ann. 1606. 
Thorius was long a favourite about the court of 
James I., and died in London of the plague in 
1629. 
Nothing, says the writer in Blackwood, can be 
finer than the commencement, in which he in- 
yokes (Pieridum loco) a certain celebrated smok- 
ing knight of Amsterdam, by name Paddeeus, or 
Van Paddy. 
“Tnnocuos calices et amicam Vatibus herbam 
Vimgue datam folio, et leti miracula fumi 
Aggredior. Tu, qui censu decoratus Equestri 
Virtutem titulis, titulos virtutibus ornas, 
eye se et Pheebi nato promittis honorem, 
Tu, Paddze, fave.” 
The poem was translated into English verse by 
Henry Player, who appended the original in 1716, 
dedicating his version to Mrs. Mary Owen, who 
appears to have been a learned lady and a snuff- 
taker, and the latter to Solomon Lowe, her tutor. 
Player transfers the honours of the invocation 
to Sir Samuel Garth and Sir Richard Blackmore: 
“Thou, Garth, whom virtues grace with native worth, 
And honors not inferior to thy birth ; 
In whom united both appear more bright, 
And give a lustre to each other’s light ; 
Befriend a muse, who, destitute of fame, 
Seeks honor and protection from thy name: 
And thou, great Blackmore, favour my design, 
In whom Apollo’s gifts conspicuous join,” &c. 
Vulcanius, Comment. in Aristotel. de Mund., 
p- 259., speaks of Thorius as “ Bellio*, Medicus, 
et Poeta eximius.” 
An earlier translation into English had ap- 
peared, with the following title : 
“ Hymnus Tabaci; a Poem in Honor of Tobacco, Hero- 
ically compos’d by Raphiiel Thorius, made English by 
hes Hausted, Master of Arts, Cambridge. Lond., 1651. 
vo. 
This I have never seen; but Player has brought 
out his author with all the paraphernalia of /esti- 
monia auctorum, lists of his works, of editions of 
this on Tobacco (the editio princeps of which ap- 
pears to have been anterior to 1625), Judicia 
virorum Doctorum, &c. Amongst the latter, Ad- 
dison is adduced, as editor of Muse Anglicane, 
apologising in the preface for the insertion of a 
work by a foreigner : 
“ Quia ab infantulo hic enutritus vixit, scripsitque, et 
cuicunque telluri originem, Anglie certe Poésin debet 
ee eae sin peregrinum cogites, hospitii et amicitiz jure, 
apud Anglos semper sancto, fruatur.” 
In the Tabula Auctorum he calls him M.D. 
Londinens. 
One of the authors cited calls Thorius “ Angliz 
poetarum, Jacobi regis judicio, antesignanus.” 
This was much from the royal author of The 
Counterblast. Bayle (Dict. Critig., ubi supra, 
says, “A fleuri en Angleterre, sous le roy 
Jaques.” Another poem of his, on winter, was 
translated and published under the following 
title: “ Cheimonopegnion, or a Winter Song, by 
Raphael Thorius, newly translated, London, 1651.” 
Allow me to ask a place for the following, and 
I have done: 
Omnibus Peti-fugis. 
“ Morbifug vires plante, miracula stirpis 
Ccelitus ostensx, partes diducit in omnes 
Thorius; et primo fumos orditur ab ovo. 
Vos, quibus ad Pxtum vigilanti stertere naso, 
Fumigerisve placet replere vaporibus auras, 
Ore favete omnes. Ccelo delabitur alto 
Planta beata, udo non aspernanda cerebro: 
Scilicet in mediis habitat vis enthea fumis; 
Et parvo ingentes clauduntur cortice vires. 
Ludicra narrantur; sed et hee quoque seria ducant ; 
Veraque sub ficto latitat sapientia Peto.” 
Ludovic. & Kinschot. 
On referring to A Paper of Tobacco, by Chatto, 
* Query, from the place of his birth? 
He appears to 
have been a Protestant refugee. 
