54 Ale, and Tobacco 



657. he had fasted 3 or 4 dayes only with Tobacco. C£. Jonson, Every Man in 

 his Humour, III, ii: "I have been in the Indies (where this herbe grows) where 

 neither myself, nor a dozen gentlemen more (of my knowledge) have received the 

 taste of any other nutriment in the world for the space of one and twenty weeks, 

 but tobacco only." Also Samuel Rowlands, Knave of Clubbs (1611) : 



"Whenas my purse will not afford my stomach flesh or fish, 

 I sup with smoke, and feed as well and fat as one could wish.'' 



And The Metamorphosis of Tobacco (1602) (Reprinted, Collier, Illustrations, p. 39) 



lb., p. 49. 



"All goods, all pleasure it in one doth Unke, 



'Tis phisieke, clothing, music, meate and drinke." 



"Here could I tell you how upon the seas 

 Some men have fasted with it forty dales," etc. 



669. mne doth here enter into league with Tobacco. Wine is compared with 

 tobaccoinBookIIofThorius's/fy>»«!«, pp. 30-31. At the close of the discussion 

 the author says that the two should be inseparable: 



"Sic operas praestant inter se, junctaque multo 

 NobiUbus sapiunt, quam degustata seorsim." 



