92 ; HUMOROUS QUOTATIONS. 
«“< Bobadil. Body o’ me, here’s the remainder of seven 
pound since yesterday was seven-night! °Tis your right 
Trinadado! Did you never take any, Master Stephen? — 
«“<¢ Stephen. No, truly, Sir; but I'll learn to take it since 
ou commend it so. ; 
“¢ Bobadil. Sir, believe me upon my relation,—for what 
I tell you the world shall not reprove. I have been in the 
Indies where this herb grows, where neither myself, nor 
a dozen gentlemen more of my knowledge, have received 
the taste of any other nutriment in the world, for the space 
of one and twenty weeks, but the fume of this simple only. 
Therefore, it cannot be but ’tis most divine. Further, take 
it, in the true kind, so, it makes an antidote, that had you 
taken the most deadly poisonous plant in all Italy, it should 
expel it and clarify you with as much ease as I speak. And 
for your greenwound, your balsamum, and your St. John’s- 
wort, are all mere gulleries and trash to it, especially your 
Trinidado: your Nicotian is good too. I could say what I 
know of it for the expulsion of rheums, raw humours, 
erudities, obstructions, with a thousand of this kind, but I 
rofess myself no quack-salver: only thus much, by Hercules; 
i do hold it, and will affirm it before any prince in Europe, 
to be the most sovereign and precious weed that ever the 
earth tendered to the use of man.’ 
Cob. “* By gad’s me, I mar’! what pleasure or felicity they 
have in taking this roguish tobacco! It’s good for nothing 
but to choke a man and fill him full of smoke and embers. 
Theré were four died out of one house last week with takin 
of it, and two more the bell went for yesternight ; one of 
them, they say, will ne’er ’scape it: he voided a bushel of 
soot yesterday, upward and downward. By the stocks! an’ 
there were no wiser men than I, I'd have it present whipping, 
man or woman that should but deal with a tobacco-pipe ; 
why, it will stifle them all in the end, as many as use it; it’s 
little better than rats-bane or rosaker.’” * 
_ _ From the first announcement that English navigators had 
discovered tobacco in Virginia, until the London and Ply- 
mouth companies sailed for the New World, the deepest 
interest was taken in the voyagers. Drayton, the poet, wrote 
of “The Virginian Voyage,” while Chapman and other 
dramatists wrote plays in which allusions were made to Vir- 
ginia. In the “Mask of Flowers,” performed at White Hall 
* A preparation of arsenic, 
