100 TIRADES AGAINST TOBACCO. 



" Then noblemen's chimneys used to smoke, and not their 

 noses ; Englishmen without were not Blackamoores within, 

 for then Tobacco was an Indian, unpickt and unpiped, now 

 made the common ivy-bush of luxury, the curtaine of dis- 

 honesty, the proclaimer of vanity, the drunken colourer of 

 Drabby solacy." 



In the " Soule's Solace, or Thirty -and-One Spiritual 

 Emblems," by Thomas Jenner, occurs the following verses : 



" The Indian weed, withered quite, 

 Greene at noone, cut down at night, 

 Shows thy decay ; all flesh is hay ; 

 Thus thinke, then drinke Tobacco. 



The Pipe that is so lily-white, 

 Show thee to be a mortal wight, 

 And even such, gone with a touch, 

 Thus thinke, then drinke Tobacco. 



And when the smoake ascends on high, 

 Thinke thou beholdst the vanity 

 Of worldly stuffe, gone with a puffe, 

 Thus thinke, then drinke Tobacco. 



And when the Pipe grows foul within, 

 Thinke on thy soul defiled with sin, 

 And then the fire it doth require; 

 Thus thinke, then drinke Tobacco. 



The ashes that are left behind, 

 May serve to put thee still in mind, 

 That unto dust return thou must ; 

 Thus thinke, then drinke Tobacco." 



Buttes, in a little volume entitled " Dyets Dry Dinner," 

 (1599) says that " Tobacco was translated out of India in the 

 seede or roote ; native or sative in our own fruitfullest soils. 

 It cureth any grief e, dolour, imposture, or obstruction pro- 

 ceeding of colde or winde, especially in the head or breast. 

 The fume taken in a pipe is good against Humes, ache in the 

 head, stomacke, lungs, breast ; also in want of meate, drinke, 

 sleepe, or rest." 



The introduction of tobacco from the colony of Virginia 

 was followed soon after by a reduction of price that led to 

 more frequent use among the poorer classes, such as grooms 



