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verily tume Bedlame. Yet because phrensie must be 

 purged, and thou (my Wag-halter) hast vertue and 

 operation to love such, becken to the thred-bare con- 

 temned Urchin, give him a pipe on my score, hee'll pay 

 it at the next new play he makes, if the Doore-keepers 

 will bee true to him : and if not, hee'll make thee up 

 some scurvy end of a ballad deserves a pipe of smoak." 

 He concludes by saying : " But now (my Rogue in graine) 

 if thou couldst set up a private Refectorie, for the 

 young effeminate sort (for they would, like Adamants, 

 draw continuall recourse) I would hug thee eternally. 

 Sell me Potato-roots, Eringoes, all Electuaries, Con- 

 fections, Receipts, Conceipts, Deceipts, Pomatum, 

 Cerusse, with a large recitall of thy brave commodities ; 

 and a little smooth-faced Ganymede standing at the 

 doore, who, like another parret or mag-pie, may cry ever 

 in one tune : What doe you lacke ? Pomatum of the 

 best, Cerusse of the finest ? " He also enjoins him to 

 obtain the custom of ladies, so that assignations would 

 appear to have been thus carried on at tobacconists', 

 who combined in some degree the perfumer's trade. 



The plant being shipped to the world " in Charon's 

 vessel/' is very successful in entrapping men. Time is 

 described " with a scythe in his hand, and blubber'd 

 face, standing in the publique street of Troynovant, for 

 there this plant took first planting," uttering his "com- 

 plaint upon tobacco, and the miserie of man's securitie, 

 losing that treasure by Time's expense, which can never 

 be repurchased, or redeemed, but by bitter and inces- 

 sant repentance;" adding, "none to me so profest 



