Ale, and Tobacco 39 



Wine. I see Tobacco is sophisticated. 



Tab. I ought to command you, and it will become your duty to 

 obey me 



Bee. You our soueraigne a meere whiffler. 



Tob. I say agen I am your Prince, bow, and doe homage. 



Al. You haue turnd ouer a new leafe Tobacco. 550 



Wine. You are very high Tobacco, I see ill weedes grow apace. 



Bee. Most high and mighty trinidado. 



Wine. For whose vertue would you be exalted, if it shall please 

 your smoaky excellence? 



Tob. Not yours, — nor yours — nor yours — but altogether, all the 

 vertues which you seuerally glory in, are in me vnited, — ^looke not so 

 coy. Call water to spread your faction, and you are but like the 

 giddy elements changing and borrowing creatures, whilst I Tobacco 

 am acknowledged a Heauenly quintessence, a diuine herbe. 



Bee. Tobacco you are out. 560 



Al. After what rate is this an ounce? 



Wine Let vs beseech your excellence, for lesse title wee must not 

 giue you hauing so much vertue as you pretend, to let vs vnderstand 

 some of your particular graces and qualities. 



Bee. I pray discourse a litle, what's the first? 



Tob. You haue nam'd it tis discourse which you are so 



farre from being able to aduance that you destroy it, in all men when 

 you are most accepted, when my diuine breath mixing with theirs, 

 doth distill eloquence and oracle vpon the tongue, which moueth with 

 such deliberation — words flowing in so sweet distinction, that many 

 eares are chained to the lips of him that speaketh. 571 



Da puer accensum selecto fictile Paeto, 

 vt Phcebum ore bibam. 



Ale. And yet wee are not inchanted with the musick of your pipe 

 to dance after it. My most excellent discourser. 



Bee. And a helpe for the imperfections of nature. For when a 

 man ha's not wit enough to expresse himselfe in words, you being 

 taken, do presently helpe him, — to spit forth gentleman like. 



Al. Indeed the most part of our common complement is but 

 smoke, and now I know how Gentlemen come by it. 580 



Tob. Thus swine do value pearle 



