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GOOD RECOMMENDATIONS. 



abounds with threats against all who indulge in tobacco. 



The most singular work, how- 

 ever, appeared in 1616, bearing 

 the following singular title: 

 " The Smoking Age, or the Man 

 in the Mist ; with the Life and 

 Death of Tobacco. Dedicated 

 to Captain Whiffe, Captain Pipe, 

 and Captain Snuffe." A frontis- 

 piece is given representing a 

 tobacconist's shop with shelves, 

 counters, pipes and tobacco ; a 

 carved figure of a negro stands 

 upon the counter, which shows 

 how soon such figures were used 

 by dealers in pipes and tobacco. 



The title-page contains the following epigram : 



" This some affirme, yet yield I not to that, 

 'Twill make a fat man lean, a lean man fat; 

 But this I'm sure (howse'ere it be they meane) 

 That many whiffes will make a fat man lean." 



The following effusion resembles many of the verses of 

 the day on the fruitful subject : 



" Tobacco's an outlandish weed, 

 Doth in the land strange wonders breed, 

 It taints the breath, the blood it dries, 

 It burns the head, it blinds the eyes ; 

 It dries the lungs, scourget-h the lights, 

 It numbs the soul, it dulls the sprites ; 

 I brings a man into a maze, 

 And makes him sit for other's gaze ; 

 It makes a man, it mars a purse, 

 A lean ane fat, a fat one worse ; 

 A sound man sick, a sick man sound, 

 A bound man loose, a loose man bound; 

 A white man black, a black man white, 

 A night a day, a day a night; 

 The wise a fool, the foolish wise, 

 A sober man in drunkard's guise ; 



