108 GOOD RECOMMENDATIONS. 
abounds with threats against all who indulge in tobacco. 
The most singular work, how- 
ever, appeared in 1616, bearing 
the following singular title: 
“©The Smoking Age, or the Man 
in the Mist; with the Life and 
Death of Tobacco. Dedicated 
to Captain Whiffe, Captain Pipe, 
and Captain Snuffe.” A frontis- 
” Piece is given representing a 
© tobacconist’s shop with shelves, 
< counters, pipes and tobacco; a 
= carved figure of a negro stands 
' upon the counter, which shows 
how soon such figures were used 
by dealers in pipes and tobacco. 
The title-page contains the following epigram : 
“‘ This some affirme, yet yield I not to that, 
’Twill make a fat man lean, a lean man fat; 
But this I’m sure (howse’ere it be they meane) 
That many whiffes will make a fat man lean.” 
~ The following effusion resembles many of the verses of 
the day on the fruitful subject : 
“‘ Tobacco’s an outlandish weed, 
Doth in the land strange wonders breed, 
It taints the breath, the blood it dries, 
It burns the head, it blinds the eyes; 
It dries the lungs, scourgeth the lights, 
It numbs the soul, it dulls the sprites; 
I brings a man into a maze, 
And makes him sit for other’s gaze; 
It makes a man, it mars a purse, 
A lean one fat, a fat one worse; 
A sound man sick, a sick man sound, 
A bound man loose, a loose man bound; 
A white man black, a black man white, 
A night a day, a day a night; 
The wise a fool, the foolish wise, 
A sober man in drunkard’s guise; 
