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and so remained until 1719, when D'Urfey became 

 editor of that collection, and transferred it, with others, 

 to the third. The following is the song printed on the 

 broadsides, and in the Pills: — ■ 



" Tobacco's but an Indian weed, 

 Grows green at morn, cut down at eve, 

 It shows our decay, we are but clay : 



Think of this when you smoke tobacco. 



" The pipe, that is so lily white, 

 Wherein so many take delight, 

 Is broke with a touch — man's life is such : 

 Think of this when you smoke tobacco. 



" The pipe, that is so foul within, 

 Shews how man's soul is stain'd with sin, 

 And then the fire it doth require : 



Think of this when you smoke tobacco. 



" The ashes that are left behind 

 Do serve to put us all in mind 

 That unto dust return we must : 



Think of this when you smoke tobacco. 



" The smoke, that does so high ascend, 



Shews us man's life must have have an end, 

 The vapour's gone — man s life is done : 



Think of this when you smoke tobacco." * 



Bishop Earle in his Micro-cosmography (1628), has 

 this character of a tobacco-seller : " He is the only man 



* After the Pills, it was printed with alterations, and the addition of 

 a very inferior second part, by the Rev. Ralph Erskine, a minister of the 

 Scotch Church, in his Gospel Sonnets. This is the ''Smoking Spiri- 

 tualized," which is still in print among the ballad- vendors of Seven-Dials, 

 and a copy of which is contained in Songs and Ballads of the Peasantry 

 of England, by J. H. Dixon, or the new edition by Robert Bell. 



In the Rev. James Plumptre's Collection of Songs (8vo, 1805), Tobacco 

 is an Indian weed was adapted to a more modern tune by Dr. Hague ; 

 and about 1830, the late Samuel Wesley again re-set the words, to music 

 ef his own composition. — Chappell. 



