100 TIRADES AGAINST TOBACCO. 
“Then noblemen’s chimneys used to smoke, and not their 
noses; Englishmen without were not Blackamoores within, 
for then Tobacco was an Indian, unpickt and unpiped,—now 
made the common ivy-bush of luxury, the curtaine of dis- 
honesty, the proclaimer of vanity, the drunken colourer of 
Drabby solacy.” 
In the “Soule’s Solace, or Thirty-and-One Spiritual 
Emblems,” by Thomas Jenner, occurs the following verses: 
‘The Indian weed, withered quite, 
Greene at noone, cut down at night, 
Shows thy decay; all flesh is hay; 
’ ‘Thus thinke, then drinke Tobacco. 
The Pipe that is so lily-white, 
Show thee to-be a mortal wight, 
And even such, gone with a touch, 
Thus thinke, then drinke Tobacco. 
' And when the smoake ascends on high, 
Thinke thou beholdst the vanity 
Of worldly stuffe, gone with a puffe, 
Thus thinke, then drinke Tobacco. 
And when the Pipe grows foul within, 
Thinke on thy soul defiled with sin, 
And then the fire it doth require; 
Thus thinke, then drinke Tobacco. 
The ashes that are left behind, 
May serve to put thee still in mind, 
That unto dust return thou must; 
Thus thinke, then drinke Tobacco.” 
Buttes, in a little volume entitled « Dyets Dry Dinner,” 
(1599) says that “Tobacco was translated out of India in the 
seede or roote; native or sative in our own fruitfullest soils. 
It cureth any griefe, dolour, imposture, or obstruction pro- 
ceeding of colde or winde, especially in the head or breast. 
The fume taken in a pipe is good against Rumes, ache in the 
head, stomacke, lungs, breast ; also in want of meate, drinke, 
sleepe, or rest.” : 
The introduction of tobacco from the colony of Virginia 
was followed soon after by a reduction of price that led to 
more frequent use among the poorer classes, such as grooms 
