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destruction, particularly in England : " Thou wilt be 

 the onely enlarger of my kingdom, the enricher of my 

 state, and the stablisher of my state eternally ; " and 

 that all, rich and poor, will reverence him : " Not a 

 complete Gallant that hath not his utensils to conduct 

 thee to his nose," or waterman or tankard carrier that 

 will not accost him joyfully. Then follows "Especiall 

 advertisements given by Pluto to Tobacco," in these 

 words : — 



" The first caution I propound is, that in everie place 

 where thou commest, thou take the best booth in the 

 faire. Plant thyself in the eye of the Citie ; set mee 

 the picture of some sallow-faced Blackamoore, or a 

 Virginia-man, for that will rather draw custome, upon 

 the Frontespice of thy doore : A Zeuxes, or Apelles, 

 would doe well in these cases to enforce passengers by 

 the picture, to draw nere the substance : make a 

 partition in thy shop ; it may bee the hot Venetian 

 comes to bathe with thee, rather than to drink tobacco 

 with thee." He then particularly desires him to court 

 the Scholar, the Lawyer, and the Poet : " The Scholler 

 will bee thine, if thou talke in his element ; sooth him 

 in his arguments, and call him most profound, dogma- 

 ticall, and literate Trismegistus." The Lawyer is to be 

 won by being compared with the Eomans for oratory. 

 " For the Poet, I cannot tell what to say to it, he is so 

 oft out of his wits, as he verily imagines himselfe the 

 Man in the Moone: There's quick-silver in his braine; 

 and if he were not now and then encountered by 

 Sergeants, and kept under locke and key, hee would 



