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Present Charge with Bullet 



Give Fire Ram down Powder and Ball 



Recover your Arms Withdraw your Scowrer 



Clean your Pan with your Thumb Shorten it to a Handful 



Handle your Primer Return your Scowrer 



Prime your Pan Poise your Musquet 



Shut your Pan with a full Hand Order your Musquet." 

 Cf. also the "Exercise of the Pikes," ib., p. 4. 



610. I'me sure Tobacco will spoil it. The charge that tobacco weakens the 

 memory is made and answered by Thorius, Hymnus, pp. 30-31. The tobacco 

 drinker never fails to remember in what chest he laid his treasure, says the poet, 

 nor where his mistress has her dwelling. Furthermore, if tobacco did weaken the 

 memory learned men would not be so addicted to its use. 



625. The wisest physicians prescribe my use. The virtues of tobacco as a 

 medicine were zealously advocated by some medical men and as hotly denied 

 by others. An elaborate treatise on the medicinal uses of tobacco was published 

 in 1626 by Johannes Neander of Bremen, entitled Tabacologia, hoc est Tabaci sen 

 NicoHanae Descriptio Medico-Chirurgico-Pharmaceutica, vel ejus Praeparatia et 

 Usus in omnibus ferme Corporis Humani Incommodis." The chief uses of the 

 herb are thus summarized in an epigram prefixed to this work: 



"Ocellis 

 Subvenit, et sanat plagas, et vulnera jungit. 

 Discutit et strumas, cancrum, cancrosaque sanat 

 Ulcera, et ambustis prodest, scabiemque repellit,'' etc. 



The following stanza from Barton Holiday's Marriage of the Arts as acted before 

 King James at Woodstock in 1621, alludes to the most widely credited medicinal 

 virtue of tobacco: 



"Tobacco's a Physician, 

 Good for both sound and sickly; 

 Tis a hot perfume. 

 That expells cold rheume. 

 And makes it flow down quickly." 



(Nichols, Progresses of James I, iii, 714.) 



648. the ladies begin to affect him. Women had long since begun to smoke. 

 Signior Petoune in Sharpham's The Fleire (1615) tells agroup of ladies that the divine 

 herb will beautify their complexions if taken of a morning. Edmund Howe, 

 in his continuation of Stowe's Annals, edition of 1631, p. 1038, remarks that in his 

 day tobacco was "commonly used by most men and by many women." Cf. 

 Dekker, Saiiromastix (1602): " 'Tis at your service gallants, and the tobacco 

 too: 'tis right pudding, I can tell you; a lady or two took a pipe full at my hands, 

 and praised it, fore the heavens." A portrait of 1650 shows a finely dressed lady 

 gracefully smoking a clay pipe. (Fairholt, Tobacco, its History and Associations, 

 p. 69.) 



