TOBACCO LEAVES 



" For Jove himself, when Juno, unawares, 

 Finds out his ' little games,' and storms 



and swears, 

 And with his thunderbolts combs out his 



hairs, 



He lights his ' 'Baccy.' 



" So I, ' when lovely woman stoops to 



folly,' 



And jilts me for another am not jolly; 

 But yet, ' a pill to purge my melancholy ' 

 I find in ' 'Baccy.' 



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" And when the tax-collector to my gates 

 Comes, fax for cash, and rate me for my 



rates : 



In short, when any trouble agitates, 

 I smoke Tobacco. 



" Therefore, with that sage seaman I 

 agree, 



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