98 TOBACCO IN EUROPE. 



This makes me sing so ho, so ho, boyes, 

 llo boyes sound I loudly, 

 Earth ne'er did breed 

 Such a jovial weed, 

 Whereof to boast so proudly. 



Tobacco is a Lawyer, 



His pipes do love long cases, 

 "When our braines it enters, 

 Our feete do make indentures ; 

 While we seale with stamping paces, 

 This makes me sing, &c. 



Tobacco's a Physician, 



Good both for sound and sickly ; 

 Tis a hot perfume, 

 That expells cold rheume,* 

 And makes it flow downe quickly. 

 This makes me sing, &c. 



Tobacco is a Traveller, 



Come from the Indies hether ; 

 It passed sea and land, 

 Ere it came to my hand, 

 And scaped the wind and weather. 

 This makes me sing, &c. 



* In the MS. Common-place Booh of Thomas Brampton, of Kinton, 

 Suffolk [Gough's Norfolk MS., Bodleian Lib. (No. 46) ], is the following 

 dog-Latin recipe, entitled " Mr. Butlers true medycine for the Rewme" : 



Saccio cum sugarro, 



Nobilis ala cum gingero 



Et nutmeggo et tosta bruno 



Bona phisica curare morbum de rheumo, 



Et ego indico, 

 Melior est quam tobacco. 



Fuller, in his Worthies, styles Dr. Butler the "Esculapius of the age ;" 

 he was born at Ipswich, 1535, and died at Cambridge, 1617. He was 

 especially consulted in the last illness of Prince Henry, son of James I. His 

 curious treatment of a confirmed smoker is given in a note to our next 

 chapter. Sir John Hawkins, in his edition of The Angler, 1784, says, "he 

 invented a medicated drink called Dr. Butler's Ale, which, if not now, 

 was a few years ago sold at certain houses in London, that had his head for 

 a sign." 



