94 TOBACCO IN EUROPE. 



Love's Lady, whom sunne, weather, 



Yea, the least airy touch, 



(Complexion it is such) 

 May taint ; cinge not your feather, 



Tobacco may doe much. 



Shunne smoake, East, West, North, South, 

 Love's Lady, Oldman, Youth. 



This is followed by a poem in seventeen stanzas 

 entitled Chaucer's Incensed Ghost, in which he 

 complains of having his name affixed to a poem in 

 praise of tobacco, deprecates its use, and concludes 

 with : — 



" Yee then, whose measures merit well the name, 

 And litle yee retaine, — Poets I meane, 

 Bedew' d with influence from Hippocrene, 

 As yee professants seeme, so be the same 

 And with your owne pennes eternize your fame ; 



Shun these pipe-pageants ; for there seldome come 



Tobacco -factors to Elysium." 



In a totally different spirit did Sir Robert Aytoun 

 (born 1570, died 1638) write the following sonnet on 

 tobacco : — 



' ' Forsaken of all comforts but these two, 



My faggot and my pipe, I sit to muse 



On all my crosses, and almost excuse 

 The Heavens for dealing with me as they do. 

 When Hope steps in, and with a smiling brow, 



Such cheerful expectations doth infuse 



As makes me think ere long I cannot choose 

 But be some grandee, whatsoe'er I'm now. 



But having spent my pipe, I then perceive 



That hopes and dreams are cousins — both deceive. 

 Then mark I this conclusion in my mind, 



It's all one thing — both tend into one scope — 



To live upon Tobacco and on Hope, 

 The one's but smoke, the other is but wind." 



