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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[294 §, No 13, Mar. 29. °56, 
I find five stanzas of the verses quoted in Rob 
Roy. The reading is different from the above, 
and, judging from the deficiency of a syllable in 
line Ist, I should think not correct. Take one 
stanza : 
“ The Indian weed, withered quite, 
Green at noon, cut down at night, 
Shews thy decay — all flesh is hay: 
Thus think, then drink tobacco.” 
T have no doubt but that drink is the true reading. 
The intoxicating qualities of the weed may have 
led to a confusion of ideas between smoking and 
drinking, on its first introduction, and thus to the 
application of one term to the use of both. 
In a note Mr. Chatto says, — 
“ These verses are printed in a collection of pieces en- 
titled ‘Two Broadsides against Tobacco: the first given 
by King James of famous memory, his Counterblast to 
Tobacco; the second transcribed out of that learned phy- 
sician, Dr. Edward Maynewaringe, his Treatise of the 
Scurvy. To which is added Sundry Cautions, &c.,’ 4to., 
Lond. 1672. The verses here given had undoubtedly 
been printed before, as it is mentioned that they were 
answered by George Wither, and that the burden of his 
reply was, — 
“Thus think, drink zo tobacco.” 
Some correspondent of “N. & Q.” may favour 
us with a copy of these lines of Wither. 
As a further illustration of the precedence 
which our countrymen took of foreigners in their 
propensity for smoking, Mons. Misson, in his W/e- 
moirs of his Travels over England, written in 
1697, notices the very general use of tobacco: 
and—in Devon (the native county of Sir Walter 
Ralegh) and in Cornwall, even among the women ; 
as in the present day the pipe is very extensively 
-tahen by the sex, ata certain age, in Northumber- 
land and on the Scottish border. 
Misson attributes to their much smoking not 
only the thoughtfulness, taciturnity, and melan- 
choly of the English, but also their excellence as 
theologians ; for, he says, — 
“Tobacco not only breeds ptofound theologists, but 
also begets moral philosophers; witness the following 
sonnet to a pipe: 
“¢Doux charme de ma solitiide, | 
Brulante pipe, ardent fourneau! 
Qui purges d’humeur mon cerveat, 
Et mon esprit Winquietude. 
Tabac! dont mon ame est ravie, 
Lorsque je te vois te perdre en l’air, 
Aussi promptement q’un éclair, 
Je vois l’image de ma vié: 
Tu remets dans mon sotyenir, 
Ce qu’un jour je dois devenir, 
N’etant qu’une cendre animée; 
Et tout d’un coup je m’apercoi, 
Que courant apres ta fumée, 
Je passe de méme que toi.’ ” 
Mr. Ozell, who did Misson’s Travels into En- 
a 
glish, has somewhat shorn the sonnet of its just 
proportions, thus : 
“ Sweet-smoking pipe, bright glowing stove, 
Companion still of my retreat, 
Thou dost my gloomy thoughts remove, 
And purge my brain with gentle heat. 
«Tobacco, charmer of my mind, 
When, like the meteor’s transient gleam, 
Thy substance gone to air I find, 
I think, alas ! my life’s the same. 
“What else but lighted dust am I ? 
Thou show’st me what my fate will be; 
And when thy sinking ashes die, 
I learn that I must end like thee.” 
One of the questions discussed at Oxford before 
James I., in 1605, was Utrum frequens suffitus 
Nicotiane exotice sit sanis salutaris? The con- 
ciusion was in the negative; doubtless to the 
king's great delight.— Warton’s Observations on 
Spencer's Faery Queen, vol. ii. 
The Pinch of Snuff has been already mentioned 
in “N.& Q.” (1* S. vii. 268.), as by Benson Earle 
Hill, and the Paper of Tobacco, as by W. A. 
Chatto (ix. 408.). 
Having named Dean Aldrich, I would express 
my wish to have an authentic copy of the song 
(of which I believe he was author), “ Hark, the 
merry Christ Church Bells.” Some of your cor- 
respondents may be good enough to furnish one. 
¥. Ba. ot 
[ We subjoin a copy of the Dean’s song : 
“ Hark! the bonny Christ-church bells, 
One, two, three, four, five, six ; 
They sound so woundy great, 
So wond’rous sweet, 
And they troul so.merrily. 
“ Hark! the first and second bell, 
That ev’ry day, at four and ten, 
Cries come, come, come, come, come to pray’rs, 
And the verger troops before the Dean. 
“Tingle, tingle, ting, goes the small bell at nine, 
To call the beerers home; 
But there’s ne’er* a man will leave his can, 
*Till he hears the mighty Tom.” ¢] 
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE, 
Method of lightening Waxed Paper Negatives that have 
been too much developed. — La Lumiere of the 2nd of Fe- 
bruary contains a letter from M. de la Blancheére on this 
subject. He says: “It has, I think, frequently happened 
to every photographer using waxed paper, that the ne- 
gative has become so much blackened in the gallic acid, 
that the picture is nearly, if not quite, obscured. This 
obscuration resists the action of hyposulphite of soda 
however concentrated ;- and after waxing, a print is ob- 
tained from such a negative, only after long exposure to 
the sun, and cannot be produced in the shade. These 
* Sometimes sung, “ But the de’il a man.” 
+ Great Tom of Oxford, over the Christ Church gate 
way, which tolls every night at nine o’clock: 
