tBAcco.] NATURAL HISTORY. 315 



:ond extenuates, and makes meagre the body extra- 

 iinarily. Of its own nature not sophisticate, it cannot 

 but a sovereign leaf for external maladious ulcers ; and 

 it is for cacochymical bodies, and for the consumption 

 of the lungs, and tisic, if it be mixed with colt's-foot dried. 

 But as it is intoxicated and tainted with bad admixture, I 

 must answer as our learned Paracelsus did, of whom 

 my self did demand, whether a man might take it without 

 impeachment to his health ; who replied, as it is used, it 

 must needs be very pernicious in regard of the immoderate 

 and too ordinary whiff; for it will evacuate the stomach 

 and purge the head for the present of many feculent and 

 noisome humours, but after by his attractive virtue it 

 proveth C^ecias humorum, leaving two ponds of water (as 

 he termed them) behind it, which are converted into choler. 

 one in the ventricle, another in the brain. And seeing 

 every nasty and base Tigellus use the pipe, as infants their 

 red corals, ever in their mouths, and many besides of more 

 note and esteem take it more for wantonness than want, 

 as Gerard speaks, I could wish that our generous spirits 

 could pretermit the too usual, not omit the physical drink- 

 ing of it. Walkington, "Optic Glass of Humours," pp. 105-7. 



[There were different sorts of Tobacco. "Roll Trinidado, 

 leaf and pudding," are mentioned in Dekker's " Gull's Horn- 

 book."] 



THIS is my friend Abel, an honest fellow, 

 He lets me have good Tobacco, and he does not 

 Sophisticate it with sack-lees or oil, 

 Nor washes it in muscadel and grains, 

 Nor buries it in gravel underground 

 Wrapp'd up in greasy leather, or piss'd clouts, 

 But keeps it in fine lily pots, that, opened, 

 Smell like conserve of roses, or French beans. 

 He has his maple block, his silver tongs, 

 Winchester pipes, and fire of juniper. 



Ben Jonson, "The Alchemist," i. 3. 



THREE pence a pipe-fill I will ha' made, of all my whole 

 half pound of Tobacco, and a quarter of a pound of colts- 

 foot, mixed with it too, to eke it out. 



Ibid., "Bartholomew Fair," ii. 2. 



