EPIGRAMS. 193 
“ Tobacco some say, is a potent narcotic, 
That rules half the world in a way quite despotic; 
So to punish him well for his wicked and merry tricks, 
We'll burn him forthwith, as they used to do heretics. 
. Zed. 
Ye 
SMOKER READING EPIGRAMS, 
No use to draw upon a bank if no effects are there, 
But a draw of this Tobacco is quite a safe affair ; 
And a pipe with fragrant weed (such as I hold) neatly stuffed, 
Is just the only thing on earth that ought to be well puffed. 
RS. Y. P. 
Poor woman “pipes her eye,” 
When in affliction’s gripe ; 
But man, far wiser grown, 
Just eyes his pipe. 
In Nubilus. 
Sir Walter Raleigh! name of worth, 
How sweet for thee to know 
King James, who never smoked on earth, 
Is smoking down below. 
Ex Fumo dare Lucem. 
Travelers say Tobacco springs 
From the graves of Indian kings: 
Fill your pipe, then—smoke will be 
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