TOBACCO LEAVES 



what Spenser called " divine tobacco." 

 This was followed by a larger and better 

 work, in mock heroic verse, entitled the 

 " Metamorphosis of Tobacco," and dedi- 

 cated to Drayton. Although published 

 anonymously, the authorship is credited 

 to Sir John Beaumont. It has since been 

 reprinted in England, but there are prob- 

 ably no copies of this literary curiosity in 

 America. 



" Looke to It for lie (I'll) Stabbe Ye " 

 is the threatening title of a sixty-four- 

 paged quarto published in London about 

 A. D. 1604, and written by Samuel Row- 

 lands. The merit and tone of the whole 

 may be judged from the following quota- 

 tion : 



" There is a humor us'd of late 



By every rascall swaggering mate 



To give the Stabbe: He stabbe (says he) 



Him that dares take the wall of me. 



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