98 MODES OF USE. 
Lilly also a little later, in his play of The Woman in the 
Moone (1597(, speaks of it (through one of the characters) as 
being a medicinal herb— 
“¢ Gather me balme and cooling violets 
And of our holy herbe nicotian, 
And bring withall pure honey from the hive 
To heale the wound of my unhappy hand.” 
Barclay, in his tract on “ The Vertues of Tobacco,” recom- 
mends its use as a medicine. The following is one of the 
modes of use: 
“Take of leafe Tobacco as much as, being folded together, 
may make a round ball of such bignesse that it may fill the 
patient’s mouth, and inclyne his face downwards toward the 
ground, keeping the mouth open, not mouthing any whit 
with his tongue, except now and then to waken the medica- 
ment, there shall flow such a flood of water from his brain 
and his stomacke, and from all the parts of his body that it 
shall be a wonder. This must he do fasting in the morning, 
and if it be for preservation, and the body be very eaco- 
chyme, or full of evil humors, he must take it once a week, 
otherwise once a month. He gives the plant the name of 
‘Nepenthes,’ and says of it, that ‘it is worthy of a more 
loftie name.’” He writes the following verse addressed to: 
“Tur Axpusers or Tosacco.” 
** Why do you thus abuse this heavenly plant, 
The hope of health, the fuel of our life ? 
Why do you waste it without fear of want, 
Since fine and true tobacco is not ryfe ? 
Old Enclio won’t foul water for to spair, 
And stop the bellows not to waste the air.” 
He also alludes to the quality of tobacco and says: “The 
finest Tobacco is that which pearceth quickly the odorat with 
a sharp aromaticke smell, and tickleth the tongue with acri- 
monie, not unpleasant to the taste, from whence that which 
draweth most water is most veituous, whether the substance 
of it be chewed in the mouth, or the smoke of it received.” 
He speaks of the countries in which the plant grows, and 
prefers the tobacco grown in the New World as being supe- 
rior to that grown in the Old. In his opinion, “ only that 
