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It doth well purge and make cleane. 

 Then those that doe condemne it, 

 Or such as not commend it, 

 Never were so wise to learne, 

 Good Tobacco to discerne, 



Let them go plucke a crow, 



And not know as I do, 



The sweet of Trinidado. 



Edmund Gardiner, the author of The Triall of 

 Tobacco (1610), complains that, "The patrimony of 

 many noble young gentlemen, have been quite ex- 

 hausted, and have vanished cleane away with this 

 smoky vapour, and hath most shamefully and beastly 

 flyen out at the master's nose ; " and that, " othersome 

 there be that spend whole daies, moneths, times, and 

 yeares (for the most part) in tabacco taking, not sparing 

 to take it even in their bed," a custom now chiefly 

 indulged in by the Germans. " Thus," he continues, 

 " you see that tobacco is a fantasticall attracter, and 

 glutton-feeder of the appetite, rather taken of many 

 for wantonnesse, when they have nothing else to do 

 than of any absolute or necessarie use." 



A most curious account of the increase of the 

 tobacco trade in London, is furnished in the following 

 words by Barnaby Kich, in his Honestie of this Age 

 (1614):— "There is not so base a groome that comes 

 into an ale-house to call for his pott, but he must have 

 his pipe of tobacco ; for it is a commodity that is nowe 

 as vendible in every taverne, wine, and ale-house, as 

 eyther wine, ale, or beare ; and for apothecaries' shops, 

 grocers' shops, chandlers' shops, they are (almost) 

 never without company, that from morning till night 



