12 Wine, Beere, 



and Ale,"^ may well be a recollection of the second form of our dia- 

 logue. An earlier and closer approach to the material and form of 

 our debate is to be found in the antimasque of the Masque of Flowers,"''' 

 performed at Gray's Inn, 1613-14. Here the liquors are represented 

 by Silenus, who enters accompanied by a wine cooper, a vintner's 

 boy, and a brewer; whUe the cause of tobacco is championed by 

 Kawasha and his attendants — a skipper, a fencer, a pedler, and a 

 barber. The two leaders jibe at each other and praise themselves in 

 the usual debate manner. 



Silenus: Kawasha comes in Majestie, 

 Was never such a God as he; 

 He is come from a farre countrey 

 To make our nose a chimney. 



Kawasha: The wine takes' the contrary way, 

 To get into the hood; 

 But good tobacco makes no stay 

 But seizeth where it should. 



As in Wine, Beere, Ale, and Tobacco, the contestants at length con- 

 clude by making peace and joining in a dance. 



A thorough canvass of seventeenth-century tobacco literature 

 might yield other precedents for our debate; but for the direct sug- 

 gestion of the r61e of Tobacco in the second edition of Wine, Beere, 

 and Ale, we need go no further than the edition of 1629, where the 

 qualities of the weed are made the subject of a discussion between 

 Wine and Sugar.^' 



^"Nay, soft by your leaves, 

 Tobacco bereaves 



You both of the garland: forbear it: 

 You are two to one, 

 Yet Tobacco alone 



Is like both to win it and wear it 



. For all their bravado 

 It is Trinidado, 



That both their noses will wipe 

 Of the praises they desire, 

 Unless they conspire 



To sing to the tune of his fife." 



^ Reprinted Nichols, Progresses of James I, II, 740-1 and H. A. Evans, English Masques, pp. 100 £F. 

 ^ See footnote on pp. 25 £f. of text. 



