52 Wine, Beere, 



572. Da puer accensum. The quotation is from Hymniis T abaci by Raphael 

 Thorius, a French physician resident during the first quarter of the seventeenth 

 century in London. The poem was first published at Leyden in 1625, although it 

 had been written as early as 1610. The first London edition was published in 

 1627. The lines are thus Englished in Peter Hausted's translation of 1651 : 



"Fill me a Pipe (boy) of that lusty smoke 

 That I may drink the God into my brain." 



Paetum was one of the common designations of tobacco in the seventeenth cen- 

 tury. It b said to have been the native term. A somewhat similar invocation to 

 Tobacco is to be found in The Metamorphosis oj Tobacco (1602), a piece which 

 bears a considerable resemblance to Thorius's Eymrms. 



The last part of book 11 of the Hymnus is devoted to Tobacco's power of in- 

 spiring eloquence and wit, and may have suggested the lines following the quo- 

 tation in the text, which are repeated here from the tobacco passage in the first 

 edition. But compare a similar passage in Sharpham's The Pleire, (1606), (Ed. 

 Himold Nibbe, 1912), 1. 264: "Sure Ladies I must needes say th' instinct of this 

 herb hath wrought in this Gentiemen such a divine influence of good words, excel- 

 lent discourse, admirable invention, incomparable wit: why I tel yee, when he 

 talkes, wisdom stands a mile off and dares not come neere him, for fear a should 

 shame her: but before he did use this Tobacco, a was arrantst Woodcock that ever 

 I saw." 



591 . A knap-Jack man. A misprint for knap-sack man? 



592. A list of his military postures. A similar parody of the orders of drill is 

 given by Addison, Spectator, 102, where a school in the art of handhng the fan is 

 described. "The Ladies who carry Fans under me are drawn up twice a Day in 

 my great Hall, where they are instructed in the Use of their Arms, and exercised 

 in the following Words of Command, 



Handle your Fans, 

 Unfurl your Fans, 

 Discharge your Fans, 

 Ground your Fans, 

 Recover your Fans, 

 Flutter your Fans." 



In the rest of the essay each of these commands is explained. Cf. Toiler 52 and 

 Spectator 134 and 196. A list of the actual "postiures" in the exercise of the 

 musket is given in Robert Harford's, English Military Discipline, 1680, p. 2 : 



Shoulder your Musquet Blow off your loose Corns 



Lay your right hand on your Musquet Cast about to Charge 



Poise your Musquet Handle your Charger 



Rest your Musquet Open it with your Teeth 



HancUe your Match Charge with Powder 



Guard your Pan Draw forth your Scowrer 



Blow your Match Shorten it to an inch against your right 



Open your Pan Breast 



