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(Which happely* th' Apocalyps foretold) 

 Yet of the two we may (think I) be bolde, 

 In some respects to think the last the worst, 

 However both in their effects accurst." 



In this spirit of piety and intolerance, lie condemns 

 at last, all smokers to Tophet : — 



" For hell hath smoke 

 Impenitent Tobacconists to ehoake, 

 Though never dead ; there shall they have their fill. 

 In heaven is none, but light and glory still." 



In a very different spirit, Dr. William Barclay 

 dedicated his little work, Nepenthes, or the Vertices of 

 Tobacco (published at Edinburgh, 1614), — "to my Lord 

 Bishop of Murray," in these lines : — 



" The statelie, rich, late conquer' d Indian -plaines, 

 Foster a plant, the princess of all plants, 

 Which Portugall, after perill and paines, 



To Europe brought, as it most justly vaunts ; 

 This plant at home the people and priests assure, 



Of bis goodwill, whom they as God adore ; 

 Both here and there it worketh wondrous cure, 

 And hath much heavenlie vertue hid in store. 

 A stranger plant shipwracked on our coast, 



Is come to helpe this colde phlegmatic soyle, 

 Yet cannot live for calumnie and boast, 

 In danger daylie of some greater broyle. 



My Lord, this sacred herbe which never offendit, 

 Is forced to crave your favour to defend it." 



In his treatise the author defends not only the herb, 

 but speaks as rapturously of the land of its growth, 

 " the country which God hath honoured and blessed 

 with this happie and holy herbe." He compares 



* The Author here refers to Revelations, ix. 17. 



