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<P>The Touch&s;tone OR, TRIAL OF TOBACCO Whether it be good for all Con&s;titutions. With a Word of Advice again&s;t immoderate Drink|ing and Smoaking. LIKEWISE Examples of &s;ome that have drunk their Lives away, and died &s;uddenly. With King <HI>JAME</HI>'s Opinion of Tobacco, and how it came fir&s;t into <HI>England.</HI> Al&s;o the fir&s;t Original of Coffee. To which is Added Witty Poems about Tobacco and Coffe; &s;omething about Tobacco, written by <HI>George Withers,</HI> the late Famous Poet. The Picture Repre&s;ents the <HI>Tobacchoni&s;ts Armes,</HI> and <HI>Turks</HI> Coffee-Hou&s;e.</P>
<Q><L>COFFEE, a kind of <HI>Turki&s;h Renegade,</HI></L>
<L>Has late a match with <HI>Chri&s;tian water</HI> made;</L>
<L>A Coachman was the fir&s;t (here) <HI>Coffee</HI> made,</L>
<L>And ever &s;ince the re&s;t <HI>drove on</HI> the trade;</L>
<L><HI>Me no good Engala&s;h?</HI> and &s;ure enough,</L>
<L>He plaid the Quack to &s;alve his Stygian &s;tuff;</L>
<L><HI>Ver boon for de &s;tomach, de Cough, de Pti&s;ick,</HI></L>
<L>And I believe him, for it looks like Phy&s;ick</L></Q>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed and are to be Sold by the &s;everal Book&s;ellers. 1676.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>To all</HI> Taverns, Inns, Victualling-Hou&s;es, Ale-hou&s;es, Coffee-hou&s;es, Strong-water-&s;hops, Tobacconi&s;ts-&s;hops, in <HI>England, Scotland</HI> or <HI>Ireland.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentle Readers,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_HEre is pre&s;ented to you a Brief, Learned, and a very &s;ea&s;onable Treati&s;e for the Age we live in: It was many years &s;ince Penned by King <HI>James</HI> of happy and ble&s;&s;ed Memory, Entituled, <HI>A Counter|bla&s;t to Tobacco;</HI> It it here <HI>verbatim,</HI> faith|fully tran&s;cribed out of the large and learned Volume of His other Works in <HI>Folio,</HI> which are rare and &s;carce to be had for money, and of too great a price for the common &s;ort of Tobacco-&s;mokers to purcha&s;e: It is granted, the thing may be good, and Phy&s;ical, and healthful, being moderately and but &s;eldom taken; but for men to take ten or twenty Pipes in a day in all Com|panies, Morning, Noon and Night, before and pre&s;ently after Meals; this is a &s;trange way of taking Phy&s;ick. Now the King under&s;tanding the evil Cu&s;tom of taking To|bacco, or, as we now call it, &s;moking a Pipe, was grown to a great head, he &s;eems to be very much in&s;en&s;ed at it, and di&s;covers how it fir&s;t came into <HI>England,</HI> and its fir&s;t Original; and how that it was u&s;ed much among&s;t the &s;avage <HI>Indians,</HI> to cure <HI>Lewes Venerea,</HI> a Di&s;ea&s;e among them: His Maje&s;ty wi&s;ely fore-&s;eeing the evil con&s;e|quences that would follow, by &s;uch immoderate &s;uck|ing in the foul &s;moke of this <HI>Indian</HI> Weed, and He being the Phy&s;ician of the Body Politick, doth by many &s;trong and excellent Arguments, di&s;&s;wade his Subjects
<PB REF="3">from imitating the practi&s;e of the Heathen <HI>Indians,</HI> in drinking this noxious fume. It was in his Time but a Novelty, and practi&s;ed but a little, except among&s;t the Nobility, Gentry, or great Ones: But now what is more frequently u&s;ed in every Ale-hou&s;e and Coffee-hou&s;e, be|&s;ides great Inns and Taverns in <HI>London,</HI> and all the Three Kingdoms over. Whereas if men were &s;o wi&s;e for their own good, both in Body, Soul, and E&s;tate, as to handle a good Book, either of Divinity, or of Morality, half &s;o often as they do the Pipe of &s;moke, it would be better for them in all re&s;pects, more precious time and money would be &s;aved. I &s;hall detain you no longer from a more learned Epi&s;tle and Treati&s;e of the matter in hand: And as King <HI>Solomon,</HI> who was the wi&s;e&s;t of Kings, &s;aith in his Book of <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;tes, That where the word of a King is, there is power;</HI> &s;o I &s;ay, If what our famous King <HI>James</HI> hath written, be not of Power &s;ufficient to divert all <HI>Eng|li&s;h</HI> men, &amp;c. from this evil and hurtful Cu&s;tom; It is here &s;econded, and backed home, by the words and advice of an able and learned Doctor of Phy&s;ick now living; it being &s;o &s;utable to the purpo&s;e, was thought fit to be added to this <HI>Counterblast.</HI> And that it may not be &s;aid (as the common Proverb is) <HI>To be only one Doctors opini|on,</HI> I have thought fit to add another, Collected out of a Treati&s;e <HI>Of the Bloud,</HI> written by that learned Phy&s;i|cian Dr. <HI>George Thomp&s;on,</HI> who agreeth with the former again&s;t &s;moking <HI>Tobacco,</HI> as dangerous. I apprehend, that what hath been &s;poken again&s;t drinking <HI>Tobacco,</HI> may much more be &s;aid again&s;t immoderate drink|ing of Wine, Ale, Beer, or any &s;trong Liquors, and Di&s;hes of Coffee, &amp;c. Thus hoping thou wilt make a good u&s;e of what is here gathered together, and offered for thy good, I re&s;t.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>A Well-wi&s;her to thy Health,</HI> J. H.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>_AS every humane body (dear Country-men) how whol&s;ome &s;oever, is notwith&s;tanding &s;ubject, or at lea&s;t naturally inclined to &s;ome &s;orts of Di&s;ea&s;es or Infirmities: So is here no <HI>Common-wealth,</HI> or Body-Politick, how well governed or peaceable &s;oever it be, that lacks their own popular Errors, and naturally inclined Corruptions; And therefore it is no wonder, although this our Country and Common-wealth, though peaceable, though wealthy, though long flouri&s;hing in both, be amongst the re&s;t, &s;ubject to their own natural Infirmities. We are of all Nations the people most Loving, and mo&s;t reverently Obedient to our Prince; yet we are (as time hath often born witne&s;s) too ea&s;ie to be &s;educed to make <HI>Rebellion</HI> upon very &s;light grounds. Our fortunate and oft-proved Valour in Wars abroad, our hearty and reverent Obedience to our Princes at home, hath given us a long, and thrice-happy Peace; our Peace hath bred wealth: And Peace and Wealth hath brough forth a general &s;luggi&s;hne&s;s, which makes us wallow in all &s;orts of idle Delights, and &s;oft De|licacies, the fir&s;t &s;eeds of the &s;ubver&s;ion of all great Monarchies. Our Clergy are become negligent and la&s;ie, our Nobility and Gen|try prodigal, and &s;old to their private Delights; Our Lawyers covetous, our common People prodigal and curious; and gene|rally all &s;orts of People more careful for their private ends, then for their Mother the <HI>Common-wealth.</HI></P>
<P>For remedy whereof, It is the <HI>King's</HI> part (as the proper Phy|&s;ician of his Politick Body) to purge it of all tho&s;e Di&s;ea&s;es, by <HI>Medicines</HI> meet for the &s;ame; as by a certain mild, and yet ju&s;t form of Government, to maintain the Publick quietne&s;s, and pre|vent all occa&s;ions of Commotion; by the example of his own Per|&s;on and Court, to make us all a&s;hamed of our &s;luggi&s;h Delicacy, and to &s;tir us up to the practice again of all honest Exerci&s;es, and martial &s;hadows of War; as likewi&s;e by His, and His Courts moderatene&s;s in Apparel, to make us a&s;hamed of our Prodigality:
<PB REF="4">By his quick Admonitions, and careful over-&s;eeing of the Clergy, to waken them up again, to be more diligent in their Offices: By the &s;harp Tryal, and &s;evere Puni&s;hment of the partial, covetous, and bribing Lawyers, to reform their Corruptions: And gene|rally by the example of His own Per&s;on, and by the due executi|on of good Laws, to reform and aboli&s;h piece and piece, the&s;e old and evil-grounded Abu&s;es: For this will not be <HI>Opus unius Diei,</HI> but as every one of the&s;e Di&s;ea&s;es, must from the King receive the one Cure proper for it; &s;o are there &s;ome &s;orts of Abu&s;es in <HI>Common-wealths,</HI> that though they be of &s;o ba&s;e and con|temptible a condition, as they are too low for the Law to look on, and too mean for a King to interpo&s;e his Authority, or bend his Eye upon; yet are they Corruptions, as well as the greatest of them. So is an <HI>Ant</HI> an Animal as well as an <HI>Elephant;</HI> &s;o is a <HI>Wren Avis,</HI> as well as a <HI>Swan;</HI> and &s;o is a &s;mall dint of the Tooth-ach a Di&s;ea&s;e, as well as the fearful Plague is. But for the&s;e ba&s;e &s;orts of Corruption in <HI>Common-wealths;</HI> not only the King, or any inferiour Magi&s;trate, but <HI>Quilibet &ecirc; populo</HI> may &s;erve to be a Phy&s;ician, by di&s;covering and impugning the error, and by per|&s;wading reformation thereof.</P>
<P>And &s;urely in my Opinion, there cannot be a more ba&s;e, and yet hurtful Corruption in a Country, then is the vile u&s;e (or ra|ther abu&s;e) of taking <HI>Tobacco</HI> in this Kingdome, which hath moved me &s;hortly to di&s;cover the abu&s;es in this following little Pamphlet.</P>
<P>If any think it a light Argument, &s;o it is but a Toy that is be|&s;towed upon it. And &s;ince the Subject is but of Smoke, I think the &s;ume of an idle Brain, may &s;erve for a &s;ufficient battery again&s;t &s;o fumous a feblean Enemy. If my grounds be found true, it is all I look for; but if they carry the force of per&s;wa&s;ion with them, it is all I can wi&s;h, and more then I can expect. My only care is, my dear Country-men may rightly conceive even by this &s;malle&s;t trifle, of the &s;incerity of my meaning in greater matters, never to &s;pare any pains, that may tend to the procuring of your Weale and Pro&s;perity.</P>
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<HEAD>A COUNTERBLAST TO TOBACCO.</HEAD>
<P>_THat the manifold abu&s;es of this vile cu&s;tome of Tobacco-taking, may the better be e&s;pi|ed; It is fit, That fir&s;t you enter into Con|&s;ideration both of the fir&s;t Original thereof, and likewi&s;e of the Rea&s;ons of the fir&s;t entry thereof into this Countrey; for certainly as &s;uch Cu&s;toms that have their fir&s;t In&s;titution, either from a godly; nece&s;&s;ary, or honourable ground, and are fir&s;t brought in by the means of &s;ome worthy, vertuous, and great Per&s;onage; are ever, and mo&s;t ju&s;tly holden in great and reverent e&s;timation and account by all wi&s;e, vertuous and temperate Spirits: So &s;hould it by the contrary, ju&s;tly bring a great Di&s;grace into that &s;ort of Cu&s;toms, which having their Original from ba&s;e Corruption and Barbarity, do, in like &s;ort, make their fir&s;t entry into a Country, by an incon&s;iderate and childi&s;h affecta|tion of Novelty, as is the true ca&s;e of the fir&s;t Invention of Tobac|co-taking, and of the fir&s;t entry thereof among&s;t us. For Tobacco being a common Herb, which (though under divers Names) grows
<PB N="2" REF="5">almo&s;t every where, was fir&s;t found out by &s;ome of the Barbarous <HI>Indians</HI> to be a Pre&s;ervative, or Antidote again&s;t the Pox, a filthy Di&s;ea&s;e, whereunto the&s;e Barbarous People are (as all men know) very much &s;ubject, what through the uncleanly and adu&s;t con&s;titu|tion of their Bodies, and what through the intemperate heat of their Climate. So that as from them, was fir&s;t brought into Chri|&s;tendome, that mo&s;t dete&s;table Di&s;ea&s;e: So from the likewi&s;e was brought this u&s;e of Tobacco, as a &s;tinking and un&s;avory Anti|dote, for &s;o corrupted and execrable a Malady; the &s;tinking &s;uffu|migation whereof they yet u&s;e again&s;t that Di&s;ea&s;e, making &s;o one Canker or Vermine to eat out another.</P>
<P>And now, good Country-men, let us (I pray you) con&s;ider what Honour or Policy can move us to imitate the barbarous and bea&s;tly Manners of the wild, godle&s;s and &s;lavi&s;h <HI>Indians,</HI> e&s;pecially in &s;o vile and &s;tinking a Cu&s;tome. Shall we that di&s;dain to imitate the Man|ners of our Neighbour <HI>France,</HI> (having the &s;tile of the great Chri&s;ti|an Kingdome) and that cannot endure the Spirit of the <HI>Spaniards</HI> (their King being now comparable in largene&s;s of Dominions, to the greate&s;t Emperour of <HI>Turky;</HI>) Shall we, I &s;ay, that have been &s;o long civil and wealthy in Peace, famous and invincible in War, fortunate in both; We that have been ever able to Aid any of our Neighbours (but never deafed any of their Ears with any of our Supplications for a&s;&s;i&s;tance;) Shall we, I &s;ay, without blu&s;hing, aba&s;e our &s;elves &s;o far, as to imitate the&s;e bea&s;tly <HI>Indians,</HI> Slaves to the <HI>Spaniards,</HI> Refu&s;e to the World, and as yet Aliens from the holy Covenant of God? Why do we not as well imitate them in walk|ing naked, as they do, in preferring Gla&s;&s;es, Feathers, and &s;uch toys, to Gold and precious Stones, as they do? Yea, why do we not deny God, and adore the Devil, as they do.</P>
<P>Now to the corrupted ba&s;ene&s;s of the fir&s;t u&s;e of this Tobacco, doth very well agree the fooli&s;h and groundle&s;s fir&s;t Entry thereof into this Kingdom: It is not long &s;ince the fir&s;t entry of this abu&s;e among&s;t us here, as this pre&s;ent Age cannot yet very well re|member, both the fir&s;t Author, and the form of the fir&s;t Introducti|on of it again&s;t us. It was neither brought in by King, great Con|queror, nor learned Doctor of Phy&s;ick.</P>
<P>With the Report of a great Di&s;covery for a Conque&s;t, &s;ome two or three Savage men were brought in, together with this Savage Cu&s;tome: But the pity is, the poor, wild, barbarous men died; but that vile barbarous Cu&s;tome is yet alive, yea in fre&s;h vigour, &s;o as
<PB N="3" REF="5">it &s;eems a miracle to me, how a Cu&s;tome &s;pringing from &s;o vile a Ground, and brought in by a Father &s;o generally hated, &s;hould be welcomed upon &s;o &s;lender a warrant: For if they that fir&s;t put it in practice here, had remembred for what re&s;pect it was u&s;ed by them from whence it came; I am &s;ure they would have been loath to have taken &s;o far the Imputation of that Di&s;ea&s;e upon them as they did, by u&s;ing the Cure thereof; for <HI>Sanis non e&s;t opus medice,</HI> and Counter-Poy&s;ons are never u&s;ed, but where Poy&s;on is thought to proceed.</P>
<P>But &s;ince it is true, that divers Cu&s;toms &s;lightly grounded, and with no better warrant entred in a Common-wealth, may yet in the u&s;e of them thereafter, prove both nece&s;&s;ary and profitable; it is therefore next to be examined, if there be not a ful &s;ympathy and true proportion between the ba&s;e ground and fooli&s;h en|try, and the loath&s;ome and hurtful u&s;e of this &s;tinking Anti|dote.</P>
<P>I am now therefore heartily to pray you to con&s;ider, fir&s;t upon what fal&s;e and erroneous grounds you have fir&s;t built the general good liking thereof; and next, what Sins towards God, and fooli&s;h Vanities before the World, you commit in the dete&s;table u&s;e of it.</P>
<P>As for tho&s;e deceitful grounds, that have &s;pecially moved you to take a good and great conceit thereof: I &s;hall content my &s;elf to examine here onely four of the Principals of them, two founded upon the Theorick of a deceivable appearance of Rea&s;on, and two of them upon the mi&s;taken practick of general Experience.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, It is thought by you a &s;ure Aphori&s;me in the Phy&s;ick; That the brains of all men being naturally cold and wet, all dry and hot things &s;hould be good for them, of which nature this &s;tink|ing &s;uffumigation is, and therefore of good u&s;e to them. Of this Argument both the Propo&s;ition and A&s;&s;umption are fal&s;e, and &s;o the Conclu&s;ion cannot but be void of it &s;elf: For as to the Propo|&s;ition, That becau&s;e the Brains are cold and moi&s;t, therefore things that are hot and dry are be&s;t for them; it is an inept Con&s;equence: For man being compounded of the four Complexions (who&s;e Fa|thers are the four Elements) although there be a mixture of them all, in all the parts of his body, yet mu&s;t the divers parts of our Microco&s;me, or little World within our &s;elves, be diver&s;ly more inclined, &s;ome to one, &s;ome to another Complexion, accord|ing to the diver&s;ity of their u&s;es; that of the&s;e Di&s;cords a perfect
<PB N="4" REF="6">Harmony may be made up for the maintenance of the whole Body.</P>
<P>The application then of a thing of a contrary nature to any of the&s;e parts, is to interrupt them of their due function, and by con|&s;equence hurtful to the health of the whole Body; as if a man, be|cau&s;e the Liver is as the fountain of Bloud, and, as it were, an Oven to the Stomach, would therefore apply and wear clo&s;e upon his Liver and Stomach a Cake of Lead, he might within a very &s;hort time (I hope) be &s;u&s;tained very good cheap at an Ordinary, be&s;ides the clearing of his Con&s;cience from that deadly fin of Gluttony: And as if becau&s;e the Heart is full of vital Spirits, and in perpetual motion; a man would therefore lay a heavy pound &s;tone on his Brea&s;t, for &s;taying and holding down that wanton Palpitation; I doubt not but his Brea&s;t would be more brui&s;ed with the weight thereof, then the Heart would be comforted with &s;uch a di&s;agree|able and contrarious Cure. And even &s;o is it with the Brains; for if a man becau&s;e the Brains are cold and humide, would there|fore u&s;e inwardly by &s;mells, or outwardly by application, things of hot and dry quality; all the gain that he could make thereof, would onely be to put him&s;elf in great forwardne&s;s for running mad, by over-watching him&s;elf; the coldne&s;s and moi&s;ture of our Brains being the onely ordinary means that procure our Sleep and Re&s;t. Indeed, I do not deny, that when it falls out that any of the&s;e, or any part of our Body, grows to be di&s;tempered, and to tend to an extremity beyond the compa&s;s of Natures temperate mixture, that in that ca&s;e Cures of contrary qualities to the Intemperate inclina|tion of that part being wi&s;ely prepared, and di&s;creetly mini&s;tred, may be both nece&s;&s;ary and helpful for &s;trengthening and a&s;&s;i&s;ting Nature in the expul&s;ion of her Enemies; for this is the true defini|tion of all profitable Phy&s;ick.</P>
<P>But fir&s;t, The&s;e Cures ought not to be u&s;ed, but where there is need of them; the contrary whereof is daily practiced in this ge|neral u&s;e of Tobacco, by all &s;orts and Complexions of people.</P>
<P>And next, I deny the <HI>minor</HI> of this Argument, as I have already &s;aid, in regard that this Tobacco is not &s;imply of a dry and hot quality, but rather hath a certain venomous faculty joyned with the heat thereof, which makes it have an Antipathy again&s;t Nature, as by the hateful &s;mell thereof doth well appear; for the No&s;e being the proper Organ and Convoy of the &s;ence of &s;melling to the Brains, which are the onely fountain of that &s;ence, doth ever &s;erve
<PB N="5" REF="6">us for an infallible witne&s;s, whether that Odour which we &s;mell be healthful or hurtful to the Brain, (except when it falls out that the &s;ence it &s;elf is corrupted and abu&s;ed, through &s;ome infirmity and di&s;temper in the Brain:) And that the &s;uffumigation thereof can|not have a drying quality, it needs no further probation, then that it is a &s;moke, all &s;moke and vapour being of it &s;elf Humide, as draw|ing near to the nature of the Air, and ea&s;ie to be re&s;olved again into water, whereof there needs no other proof but the meteors, which being bred of nothing el&s;e but of the vapors and exhalations &s;ucked up by the Sun out of the Earth, the Sea and Waters; yet are the &s;ame &s;moky vapors turned and transformed into Rains, Snows, Dews, Hoar-Fro&s;ts, and &s;uch like watry meteors; as by the con|trary, the rainy Clouds are often transformed and evaporated in blu&s;tering Winds.</P>
<P>The &s;econd Argument grounded on a &s;hew of Rea&s;on, is, That this filthy Smoke, as well through the heat and &s;trength thereof, as by a natural force and quality, is able and fit to purge both the Head and Stomach of Rheumes and Di&s;tillations, as experience teacheth by the &s;pitting, and avoiding Flegm, immediately after the taking of it. But the fallacy of this Argument may ea&s;ily appear, by my late proceeding De&s;cription of the meteors; for even as the &s;moky vapours &s;ucked by the Sun, and &s;tayed in the lowe&s;t and cold Region of the Air, are there contracted into Clouds, and turned into Rain, and &s;uch other watry meteors; So this &s;tinking Smoke being &s;ucked up by the No&s;e; and impri&s;oned in the cold and moi&s;t Brains, is by their cold and wet faculty turned and ca&s;t forth again in watry Di&s;tillations, and &s;o are you made free, and purged of nothing, but that wherewith you wilfully burdened your &s;elves; and therefore are you no wi&s;er in taking Tobacco for purging you of Di&s;tillations, then if for preventing the Cholick, you would take all kind of windy Meats and Drinks; and for pre|venting of the Stone, you would take all kind of Meats and Drinks that would breed gravel in the Kidneys; and then when you were forced to avoid much wind out of your Stomach, and much gravel in your Urine, that you &s;hould attribute the thank thereof to &s;uch nouri&s;hments as breed tho&s;e within you, that behoved either to be expelled by the force of Nature, or you to have bur&s;t at the broad &s;ide, as the Proverb is.</P>
<P>As for the other two Rea&s;ons founded upon Experience; The fir&s;t of which is, That the whole people would not have taken &s;o
<PB N="6" REF="7">general a good liking thereof, if they had not by experience found it very &s;overaign and good for them: For an&s;wer thereunto, How ea&s;ily the minds of any people, wherewith God hath repleni&s;hed this World, may be drawn to the fooli&s;h affectation of any Novelty, I leave it to the di&s;creet Judgment of any man that is rea&s;on|able.</P>
<P>Do we not daily &s;ee, that a man can no &s;ooner bring over from beyond the Seas any new form of Apparel, but that he cannot be thought a man of Spirit, that would not pre&s;ently imitate the &s;ame; and &s;o from hand to hand it &s;preads, till it be practi&s;ed by all; not for any commodity that is in it, but only becau&s;e it is come to be the Fa&s;hion; for &s;uch is the force of that natural &s;elf-love in every one of us, and &s;uch is the corruption of envy bred in the Brea&s;t of every one, as we cannot be content, unle&s;s we imitate every thing that our Fellows do, and &s;o prove our &s;elves capable of every thing whereof they are capable, like Apes, counterfeiting the Manners of others to our own de&s;truction. For let one or two of the great|e&s;t Ma&s;ters of Mathematicks in any of the two famous Univer&s;ities, but con&s;tantly affirm any clear day, that they &s;ee &s;ome &s;trange Ap|parition in the Skies; They will, I warrant you, be &s;econded by the greate&s;t part of the Students in that Profe&s;&s;ion; So loath will they be, to be thought inferiour to their Fellows either in depth of Knowledge or &s;harpne&s;s of Sight: and therefore the general good liking, and embracing of this fooli&s;h Cu&s;tome, doth but onely proceed from that affectation of Novelty and popular Error, where|of I have already &s;poken.</P>
<P>And the other Argument drawn from a mi&s;taken experience, is but the more particular probation of this general, becau&s;e it is al|ledge to be found true by proof, That by the taking of Tobacco, divers, and very many, do find them&s;elves cured of divers Di&s;ea&s;es, as on the other part no man ever received harm thereby. In this Argument, there is fir&s;t a great mi&s;taking, and next a mon&s;trous ab|&s;urdity; for is not a very great mi&s;taking, to take <HI>non cau&s;am pro+eau&s;a;</HI> as they &s;ay in the Logicks; becau&s;e peradventure when a &s;ick man hath had his Di&s;ea&s;e at the heighth, he hath at that in&s;tant taken Tabacco, and afterward his Di&s;ea&s;e taking the natural cour&s;e of Declining, and con&s;equently the Patient of recovering his health, O then the Tobacco for&s;ooth was the worker of that Miracle! be|&s;ide that, it is a thing well known to all Phy&s;icians, That the ap|prehen&s;ion and conceit of the Patient hath by wakening and
<PB N="7" REF="7">uniting the vital Spirits, and &s;o &s;trengthening Nature, a great power and vertue to cure divers Di&s;ea&s;es: For an evident Proof of mi&s;ta|king in the like ca&s;e, I pray what fooli&s;h Boy, what &s;illy Wench, what old doting Wife, or ignorant Country Clown, is not Phy&s;i|cian for the Tooth-ach, for the Cholick, and divers &s;uch common Di&s;ea&s;es; yea, will not every man you meet withall teach you a &s;un|dry Cure for the fame, and &s;wear by that mean, either him&s;elf, or &s;ome of his neare&s;t Kind&s;men and Friends was cured; and yet, I hope, no man is &s;o fooli&s;h as to believe them: And all the&s;e toys do onely proceed from the mi&s;taking <HI>non cau&s;am pro cau&s;a,</HI> as I have already &s;aid; and &s;o if a man chance to recover one of any Di&s;ea&s;e after he hath taken Tobacco, that mu&s;t have the thanks of all: But by the contrary, if a man &s;moke him&s;elf to death with it (as many have done) O then &s;ome other Di&s;ea&s;e mu&s;t bear the blame for that fault! So do old Harlots thank their Harlotry for their many years, that Cu&s;tom being healthful (&s;ay they) <HI>ad purgandos renes,</HI> but never have mind how many die of the Pox in the flower of their Youth: And &s;o do old Drunkards think they prolong their days by their Swine-like Diet, but never remember how many die drowned in Drink before they be half old.</P>
<P>And what greater ab&s;urdity can there be then to &s;ay, that one Cure &s;hall &s;erve for divers, nay contrarious &s;orts of Di&s;ea&s;es. It is an undoubted ground among all Phy&s;icians, That there is almo&s;t no &s;ort, either of Nouri&s;hment or Medicine, that hath not &s;ome thing in it di&s;agreeable to &s;ome part of mans body, becau&s;e, as I have already &s;aid, the nature of the temperature of every part is &s;o different from another, that according to the old Proverb, That which is good for the Head is evil for the Neck and the Shoulders: For even as a &s;trong Enemy that invades a Town or Fortre&s;s, al|though in his Siege thereof he do belay and compa&s;s it round about, yet he makes his Breach and Entry at &s;ome one or few &s;pe|cial parts thereof, which he hath tryed and found to be weake&s;t and lea&s;t able to re&s;i&s;t: So &s;ickne&s;s doth make her particular a&s;&s;ault upon &s;uch part or parts of our Body as are weake&s;t and ea&s;ie&s;t to be overcome by that &s;ort of Di&s;ea&s;e which then doth a&s;&s;ail us, al|though all the re&s;t of the Body, by &s;ympathy, feel it &s;elf to be as it were belaid and be&s;ieged by the affliction of that &s;pecial part, the grief and &s;mart thereof being by the &s;ence of feeling di&s;per&s;ed through all the re&s;t of the members; and therefore the skilful Phy&s;ician pre&s;&s;es by &s;uch Cures to purge and &s;trengthen that part
<PB N="8" REF="8">which is afflicted, as are onely fit for that &s;ort of Di&s;ea&s;e, and do be&s;t agree with the nature of that infirm part; which being abu|&s;ed to a Di&s;ea&s;e of another nature, would prove as hurtful to the one, as helpful for the other; yea, not onely will a skilful and wary Phy&s;ician be careful to u&s;e no Cure, but that which is fit for that &s;ort of Di&s;ea&s;e; but he will al&s;o con&s;ider all other circum&s;tances, and make the Remedies &s;utable thereunto, as the temperature of the Clime, where the Patient is, the Con&s;titution of the Planets, the time of the Moon, the &s;ea&s;on of the Year, the Age and Complexi|on of the Patient, the pre&s;ent &s;tate of his Body in &s;trength or weakne&s;s: For one Cure mu&s;t not ever be u&s;ed for the &s;elf &s;ame Di|&s;ea&s;e but according to the varying of any of the afore&s;aid Circum|&s;tances, that &s;ort of Remedy mu&s;t be u&s;ed which is fitte&s;t for the &s;ame: where by the contrary in this ca&s;e, &s;uch is the miraculous Omnipotency of our &s;trong-ta&s;ted Tobacco, as it cures all &s;orts of Di&s;ea&s;es (which never any Drug could do before) in all Per&s;ons, and at all times. It cures all manner of Di&s;tillations, either in Head or Stomach (if you believe their Axioms) although in very deed is do both corrupt the Brain, and, by cau&s;ing over quick dige&s;tion, fill the Stomach full of Crudities. It cures the Gout in the Feet, and (which is miraculous) in that very in&s;tant when the &s;moke thereof, as light, flyes up into the Head, the vertue thereof, as heavy, runs down to the little Toe: It helps all &s;orts of Agues; it makes a man &s;ober, that was Drunk; it refre&s;hes a weary man, and yet makes a man hungry; being taken when they go to Bed, it makes one &s;leep &s;oundly; and yet being taken when a man is &s;leepy and drow&s;ie, it will, as they &s;ay, awaken his Brain, and quicken his Un|der&s;tanding; As for curing of the Pox, it &s;erves for that u&s;e, but among the Pocky <HI>Indian</HI> Slaves. Here in <HI>England</HI> it is refined, and will not deign to cure here any other then cleanly and gentlemanly Di&s;ea&s;es. O omnipotent power of Tobacco! And if it could by the &s;moke thereof cha&s;e out Devils, as he &s;moke of <HI>Tobias Fi&s;h</HI> did (which, I am &s;ure, could &s;mell no &s;tronger) it would &s;erve for a precious Relict, both for the &s;uper&s;titious Prie&s;ts, and the in&s;olent Puritans, to ca&s;t out Devils withall.</P>
<P>Admitting then, and not confe&s;&s;ing, that the u&s;e thereof were healthful for &s;ome &s;orts of Di&s;ea&s;es, &s;hould it be u&s;ed for all Sick|ne&s;&s;es? &s;hould it be u&s;ed by all men? &s;hould it be u&s;ed at all times? yea, &s;hould it be u&s;ed by able, young, &s;trong, healthful men? Medicine hath that vertue, that it never leaves a man in that &s;tate
<PB N="9" REF="8">wherein it finds him; it makes a &s;ick man whole, but a whole man &s;ick: And as Medicine helps Nature, being taken at time of ne|ce&s;&s;ity; &s;o being ever and continually u&s;ed, it doth but weaken, weary, and wear Nature. What &s;peak I of Medicine? Nay, let a man every hour of the day, or as oft as many in this Country u&s;e to take Tobacco; let a man, I &s;ay, but take as oft the be&s;t &s;orts of Nouri&s;hments, in Meat and Drink, that can be devi&s;ed, he &s;hall, with the continual u&s;e thereof, weaken both his Head and his Sto|mach, all his members &s;hall become feeble, his Spirits dull, and in the end, as a drow&s;ie, la&s;ie Belly-god, he &s;hall <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">vani&s;h in a Le|thargy.</P>
<P>And from this weakne&s;s it preceeds, that many in this Kingdom have had &s;uch a continual u&s;e of taking this un&s;avory Smoke, as now they are not able to forbear the &s;ame, no more then an old Drunkard can abide to be long &s;ober, without falling into an incu|rable Weakne&s;s, and evil Con&s;titution; for their continual cu&s;tom hath made to them <HI>habitum, alteram naturam:</HI> So to tho&s;e that, from their Birth, have been continually nouri&s;hed upon Poy&s;on, and things venemous, whole&s;ome Meats are onely poy&s;on|able.</P>
<P>Thus having, as I tru&s;t, &s;ufficiently an&s;wered the mo&s;t principal Arguments that are u&s;ed in defence of this vile cu&s;tome. It re&s;ts onely to inform you, what Sins and Vanities you commit in the filthy abu&s;e thereof: Fir&s;t, Are you not guilty of &s;inful and &s;hameful lu&s;t, (for lu&s;t may be as well in any of the Sences as in feeling) that although you be troubled with no Di&s;ea&s;e, but in perfect health, yet can you neither be merry at an Ordinary, nor la&s;civious in the Stews, if you lack Tobacco to provoke your Apetite to any of tho&s;e &s;orts of Recreation; lu&s;ting after it as the Children of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> did in the Wilderne&s;s after <HI>Quails.</HI> Secondly, It is as you u&s;e, or ra|ther abu&s;e it, a branch of the &s;in of Drunkenne&s;s, which is the root of all Sins; for as the onely delight that Drunkards take in Wine, is in the &s;trength of the ta&s;t, and the force of the &s;ome thereof that mounts up to the Brain; for no Drunkards love any weak or &s;weet Drink; So are not tho&s;e (I mean the &s;trong heat and fume) the only qualities that make Tobacco &s;o delectable to all the Lovers of it? And as no man likes &s;trong heady Drink the fir&s;t day (becau&s;e <HI>nemo repente fit turpi&s;&s;imus</HI>) but by cu&s;tom is piece and piece allured, while, in the end, a Drunkard will have as great a thri&s;t to be drunk, as a &s;ober man to quench his thir&s;t with a
<PB N="10" REF="9">draught, when he hath need of it. So is not this the very ca&s;e of all the great takers of Tobacco, which therefore they them&s;elves do attribute to a bewitching quality in it? Thirdly, Is it not the greate&s;t &s;in of all, that you, the people of all &s;orts of this Kingdom, who are created and ordained by God, to be&s;tow both your Per&s;ons and Goods for the maintainance both of the honour and &s;afety of your King and Common-wealth, &s;hould di&s;able your &s;elves in both? In your Per&s;ons, having by this continual vile Cu&s;tom brought your &s;elves to this &s;hameful imbecillity, that you are not able to ride or walk the Journey of a <HI>Jews</HI> Sabbath, but you mu&s;t have reeky coal brought you from the next poor Hou&s;e to kindle your Tobac|co with; whereas he cannot be thought able for any Service in the Wars, that cannot endure oftentimes the want of Meat, Drink and Sleep, much more then mu&s;t he endure the want of Tobacco: In the times of the many glorious and victorious Battles fought by this Nation, there was no word of Tobacco; but now if it were time of Wars, and that you were to make &s;ome &s;udden <HI>Cavalcado</HI> upon your Enemies; if any of you &s;hould &s;eek lei&s;ure to &s;tay behind his Fellow for taking of Tobacco, for my part, I &s;hould never be &s;orry for any evil chance that might befall him: To take a Cu&s;tome in any thing that cannot be left again, is mo&s;t harmful to the people of any Land. <HI>Mollities</HI> and delicacy were the rack and over|throw, fir&s;t of the <HI>Per&s;ian,</HI> and next of the <HI>Roman</HI> Empire. And this very cu&s;tom of taking Tobacco (whereof our pre&s;ent purpo&s;e is) is even at this day accompted &s;o effeminate among the <HI>Indians</HI> them&s;elves, as in the Market they will offer no price for a Slave to be &s;old, whom they find to be a great Tobacco-taker.</P>
<P>Now how you are by this Cu&s;tome di&s;abed in your Goods, let the Gentry of this Land bear witne&s;s, &s;ome of them be&s;towing three, &s;ome four hundred pounds a year upon this precious Stink, which, I am &s;ure, might be be&s;towed upon many far better U&s;es. I read indeed of a Knavi&s;h Courtier, who for abu&s;ing the favour of the Emperour <HI>Alexander Severus,</HI> his Ma&s;ter, by taking Bribes to inter|cede for &s;undry Per&s;ons in his Ma&s;ters Ear (for whom he never once opened his mouth) was ju&s;tly choked with &s;moke, with this doom, <HI>Fumo pereat quifummum vendidit.</HI> But of &s;o many Smoke-Buyers as are at this pre&s;ent in this Kingdom, I never read nor heard.</P>
<P>And for the Vanities committed in this filthy Cu&s;tome, is it not both great Vanity and Uncleanne&s;s, that at the Table, a place of
<PB N="11" REF="9">Re&s;pect, of Cleanline&s;s, of Mode&s;ty, men &s;hould not be a&s;hamed to &s;it to&s;&s;ing of Tobacco-Pipes, and puffing of the &s;moke of Tobacco one to another, making the filthy &s;moke and &s;tink thereof to ex|hale athwart the Di&s;hes, and infect the Air, when very often men that abhor it are at their Repa&s;t: Surely &s;moke becomes a Kitchin far better then a Dining-Chamber, and yet it makes a Kitchin al&s;o oftentimes in the inward parts of men, &s;oyling and infecting them with an unctious and oylie kind of &s;oot, as hath been found in &s;ome great Tobacco-Takers, that after their Death were opened: And not onely meat-time, but no other time nor action is exempted from the publique u&s;e of this uncivil trick; &s;o as if the Wives of <HI>Diep</HI> li&s;t to conte&s;t with this Nation for good Manners, their wor&s;t Manners would in all rea&s;on be found at lea&s;t not &s;o di&s;hone&s;t (as ours are) in this point, the publick u&s;e whereof at all times, and in all places, hath now &s;o far prevailed, as divers men very &s;ound both in Judgment and Complexion, have been at la&s;t forced to take it al&s;o, without de&s;ire, partly becau&s;e they were a&s;hamed to &s;eem &s;ingular, (like the two Philo&s;ophers that were forced to duck them&s;elves in that Rain-water, and &s;o became Fools as well as the re&s;t of the people) and partly to be as one that was content to eat Garlick (which he did not love) that he might not be troubled with the &s;mell of it in the breath of his Fellows. And is it not a great vanity that a man cannot heartily welcome his Friend now, but &s;traight they mu&s;t be in hand with Tobacco: No, it is become in place of a Cure, a point of good Fellow&s;hip; and he that will refu&s;e to take a Pipe of Tobacco among his Fellows (though by his own election he would rather &s;mell the &s;avor of a &s;ink) is accompted peevi&s;h, and no good company; even as they do with tipling in the cold Ea&s;tern-Countries, yea the Mi&s;tri&s;s cannot in a more mannerly kind entertain her Servant, then by giving him out of her fair hand a pipe of Tobacco; but herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good Gifts, that the &s;weetne&s;s of mans breath being a good gift of God, &s;hould be wilfully corrupted by this &s;tinking &s;moke, wherein I mu&s;t confe&s;s it hath too &s;trong of vertue, and &s;o that which is an Ornament of Nature, and can neither by any artifice be at the fir&s;t acquired, nor once lo&s;t be recovered again, &s;hall be filthily corrupted with an incurable &s;tink, which vile quality is as directly contrary to that wrong Opinion which is holden of the whole&s;omene&s;s thereof, as the venome of putrifacti|on is contrary to the vertue pre&s;ervative.</P>
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<P>Moreover, which is a great iniquity, and again&s;t all humanity, the Husband &s;hall not be a&s;hamed to reduce thereby his delicate, whole&s;ome, and clean-complexion'd Wife to that extremity, that either &s;he mu&s;t al&s;o corrupt her &s;weet Breath therewith, or el&s;e re|&s;olve to live in a perpetual &s;tinking torment.</P>
<P>Have you not rea&s;on then to be a&s;hamed, and to forbear this filthy Novelty, &s;o ba&s;ely grounded, &s;o fooli&s;hly received, and &s;o gro&s;ly mi&s;taken in the right u&s;e thereof: In your abu&s;e thereof &s;inning again&s;t God, harming your &s;elves both in Per&s;ons and Goods, and raking al&s;o thereby the marks and notes of Vanity up|on you; by the Cu&s;tome thereof, making your &s;elves to be wonder|ed at by all forreign civil Nations, and by all Strangers that come among you, to be &s;corned and contempted; a cu&s;tome loath&s;ome to the Eye, hateful to the No&s;e, harmful to the Brain, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the black &s;tinking fume thereof, neare&s;t re|&s;embling the horrible &s;tigian &s;moke of the Pit that is bottom|le&s;s.</P>
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<HEAD>Dr. <HI>Maynwaring's</HI> &s;erious Cautions again&s;t Tobacco, collect|ed out of his Treati&s;e of the <HI>Scurvy, Page 70.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANother grand procuring and promoting cau&s;e of the Scurvy is, Tobacco; not taken notice of by any I meet with in print. And here we may charge much of the frequency, and the unwonted <HI>Phaenomena,</HI> or &s;ymptomatical appearance of this Di&s;ea&s;e, upon the late cu&s;tome of taking Tobacco. Many wonder that the Scurvy &s;hould &s;o much abound now in mo&s;t places, and become &s;o common and obvious now to every Eye, that was &s;o rarely taken notice of in former times, notwith&s;tanding &s;ome of its procuring cau&s;es were very <HI>Antique.</HI> But we need not wonder &s;o much, if we con&s;ider the manner of living in former Ages, compared with our own; new Cu&s;tomes and Diets beget new Di&s;ea&s;es, or modifie the old &s;o, as they &s;eem to be new, in their unwonted manner, or frequency of appearance.</P>
<P>The Scurvy being altered and differenced now from what it was in ancient times; that the <HI>Phaenomena</HI> or &s;ymptomes of the Di&s;ea&s;e
<PB N="13" REF="10">in the Syndrome and Concurrence, is not exact alike with the de&s;cription of the Ancients; which hath cau&s;ed a doubt, and it is held by &s;ome Phy&s;icians, That the Scurvy is a new Di&s;ea&s;e: But it is the old Scurvy dre&s;&s;ed in a new garb, which by new pro|curing cau&s;es, and additional complications, is become more depra|vel, more frequent, and more enlarged: few per&s;ons but harbour this unwelcome Gue&s;t.</P>
<P>As an additional procurer of the Scurvy, Tobacco comes now to be examined, &s;ince who&s;e general u&s;e the Scurvy hath much in|crea&s;ed, and is become the mo&s;t Epidemical. That this Plant is in|jurious and de&s;tructive to Nature, and con&s;equently an introducer of the Scurvy will appear, if we con&s;ider the effects that &s;upervene and follow the taking of it. The Con&s;equents or Effects may be divided into two &s;orts; Fir&s;t, Such as accompany or &s;upervene the fir&s;t u&s;e of it. Secondly, Such as follow the long and con&s;tant u&s;e of it.</P>
<P>Symptoms ari&s;ing upon the fir&s;t and unaccu&s;tomed u&s;e of &s;mok|ing it, are Vomiting, Giddine&s;s, Fainting, Drunkenne&s;s Sleepine&s;s, depravation of the Sences, and &s;uch like as follow upon the taking of &s;ome kind of Poy&s;ons.</P>
<P>Effects upon the accu&s;tomed familiar u&s;e of it, are, Salivation, drawing a Flux of moi&s;ture to the mouth, and drayning the Body; heat, dryne&s;s, la&s;&s;itude and wearine&s;s of the Spirits, a dulne&s;s and indi&s;po&s;ition of mind after; apt to &s;leep, a filthy un&s;avory ta&s;t in the mouth, a check to to the Stomach or Appetite.</P>
<P>The latent and more &s;ecret Effects wrought in the Body by the con&s;tant &s;moking of Tobacco, are; the inducing a Scorbutick di&s;|po&s;ition, and promoting it where it is already radicated. And this is procured the&s;e wayes: Fir&s;t, By depre&s;&s;ing the Spirits, and ali|enating them from their genuine propriety and purity. Secondly, By vitiating the Stomach, and depraving the Palate. Thirdly, By exhau&s;ting the dulcid good juyce of the Body, leaving behind and procuring the remainder more vi&s;cous, acrid and &s;harpe. Fourthly, By prejudicing and weakening the Lungs and vital Parts.</P>
<P>That it hath a property to depre&s;s and clog the Spirits, is appa|rent by its narcotick vertue, cau&s;ing a dulne&s;s, heavine&s;s, la&s;&s;itude, and di&s;po&s;ing to &s;leep after the u&s;e of it. That it alienates the Spi|rits, is concluded from its virulent nature, and di&s;cord with our nature, and that is argued from the &s;ymptoms that attend the fir&s;t u&s;e.</P>
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<P>That it is noxious to the Stomach (the fir&s;t grand Laboratory of the Body) is rational to a&s;&s;ert; For as Tobacco affects the mouth with an ill &s;tinking ta&s;t, &s;o the Stomach al&s;o goes not free, but is tainted with it, which is communicated to the Food received. Now con&s;idering the nature of Tobacco, as it is hot and dry, acrid, &s;alt, biting, Purgative, or rather virulent, altogether medicinal, and not alimental; and this con&s;tantly to impregnate and tincture our nutimental &s;ucce&s;s with the&s;e properties and qualities, we can|not otherwi&s;e expect by length of time and daily u&s;e, but that it will &s;hew its power and vertue to change and alter our Bodies; &s;ince it is not nutritive, but medicinal, e&s;tranged, and at a great di&s;tance from the nature of our Bodies, not fit to nouri&s;h, but to alter and produce &s;ome notable effects.</P>
<P>So great a &s;ympathy there is between the Stomach and Mouth, that the one is not affected, but the other is drawn into con&s;ent; if the Stomach be foul, the Mouth hath an ill reli&s;h; and if the Mouth di&s;ta&s;ts any thing, the Stomach nau&s;eates at it. Now this great Harmony and con&s;ent between the&s;e two, ari&s;eth upon this accompt; the Mouth is appointed by nature the Stomachs ta&s;ter, to judge and di&s;cern what is fit and agreeable for the Stomach to re|ceive; and therefore the &s;ame membrane which inve&s;ts the Mouth, and is the in&s;trument of ta&s;ting, does al&s;o line the Stomach, &s;o that hereby what is plea&s;ant and acceptable in the Mouth, is gratefully received into the Stomach; now by this affinity and &s;ympathy, you may rationally conclude, that vitiating of the ta&s;t by Tobacco and tainting the Mouth with its &s;tinking &s;cent, mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity com|municate the &s;ame to the Stomach, which takes Phy&s;ick every time you take Tobacco, does mix with and infect the chile of the Sto|mach, and is conveyed with it into all parts of the Body; and ha|ving &s;o great a medicinal power, mu&s;t needs alter and change the Body, according to the properties it is endowed with, by the con|&s;tant u&s;e, and daily reception of it.</P>
<P>Now Tobacco being of an accrimonious, hot, dry, &amp;c. nature, does pervert and change the Bal&s;amick juyces of the Body into a more &s;harpe and fiery temper, and alienate them, whereby they are not &s;o amicable and fit for nutrition, as many &s;corbutick Tobacco|ni&s;ts do evidence upon examination, and their con&s;titution changed by the evil u&s;e of this Plant; and it is very rea&s;onable to expect it, and impute &s;uch alterations to the u&s;e thereof, &s;ince they are the proper effects of &s;uch a Cau&s;e; the more remarkable di&s;covery,
<PB N="15" REF="11">and frequency of the Scurvy, may well and ju&s;tly be imputed to Tobacco, &s;ince of latter years that Tobacco hath been in u&s;e, and in tho&s;e Countries where Tobacco is much taken, it doth abound mo&s;t.</P>
<P>Although I di&s;commend the u&s;e of Tobacco by &s;moking it, as an injurious Cu&s;tome, yet I highly applaud it, as very medicinal, be|ing rightly u&s;ed. I remember about fifteen years &s;ince, a Patient of mine in <HI>Derby-&s;hire</HI> fell into a great <HI>Paroxy&s;m</HI> of an <HI>A&s;thma,</HI> al|mo&s;t to &s;uffocation, I exhibited a Do&s;e of the Sirrup of Tobacco, which gave him pre&s;ent help, and within a few hours was relieved, that he could draw his Breath with much ea&s;e and freedome: And about a year after, at <HI>Maxfield</HI> in <HI>Che&s;hire,</HI> I cured a Gentlewoman of an Ulcer in <HI>Ano</HI> of &s;even years &s;tanding, chiefly with the Oint|ment of Tobacco; and although other things were u&s;ed, yet I a&s;cribe mo&s;t of the Cure to that Unguent. And in many other ca&s;es Tobacco is of good u&s;e, which I have experienced; but &s;mok|ing of it I find to be hurtful, if it be cu&s;tomary. I &s;hall not be &s;o &s;trict and &s;evere again&s;t the u&s;e of it, as to forbid all per&s;ons the &s;moking it upon any &s;core whatever; for that which may be u&s;ed at certain times as medicinal, upon ju&s;t occa&s;ions requiring in &s;ome per&s;ons, may prove very bad and pernicious upon the con&s;tant and general u&s;e; and this is the ca&s;e of Tobacco.</P>
<P>Tobacconi&s;ts, whom cu&s;tome hath en&s;nared, and brought them to delight in it, are willing to be per&s;waded and deluded, that it is good and whole&s;ome, at lea&s;t harmle&s;s; the pretences which they urge in defence of it, are &s;uch as the&s;e: Some plead for it, and u&s;e it after Meat, as a help to Dige&s;tion, and therefore take it as a good remedy again&s;t a bad Stomach and weak Dige&s;tion.</P>
<P>To this I an&s;wer, They are much mi&s;taken herein, not di&s;tin|gui&s;hing between dige&s;tion, and precipitation of meat out of the Stomach; dige&s;tion is not performed but in due time, by retexture, alteration, fermentation, and volatization of Meat, and till then, is not fit to pa&s;s out of the Dige&s;tive-Office, which requires &s;ome hours more or le&s;s, according to the nature of the Food received, of facil or difficil dige&s;tion; now that which provokes the Stomach to a di&s;tribution of &s;emi-dige&s;ted Chyle, and unloading it &s;elf be|fore dige&s;tion be fini&s;hed and perfected, offers great injury to the Body; and this is the ca&s;e of Tobacco (by its lavative &s;timulating properties) which error committed in the fir&s;t Dige&s;tive-Office is not corrected, nor the damage recompenced by the accutene&s;s and
<PB N="16" REF="12">&s;trong elaborations of the &s;ub&s;equent dige&s;tions;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Aphori&s;m.</NOTE> and for this rea|&s;on in part, the Scurvy is procured hereby. Some take Tobacco for refre&s;hment after labour, and diverti&s;e|ment of &s;erious thoughts, being tired with bu&s;ine&s;s, &s;tudy and mu|&s;ing. True it is, Tobacco puts a &s;u&s;pen&s;ion upon &s;erious thoughts, and gives a relaxation for a time in &s;ome per&s;ons; others contem|plate, and run over their bu&s;ine&s;s with more delight, by the help and during the taking of a Pipe: But both the&s;e per&s;ons though &s;eemingly delighted and refre&s;hed for a &s;hort time, yet afterwards the Spirits are la&s;&s;ated and tired, and are more flat, dull and &s;omno|lent, when the Pipe is out; this was but a cheat, the Spirits were not truly refre&s;hed, invigorated and reinforced; as Wine does enliven and make brisk the Spirits, by affording and communicating an additional &s;upply; but by the fume of Tobacco the Spirits are a little inebriated and agitated by an other motion then their own, which is a &s;eeming refre&s;hment, and &s;hort, not real, &s;ub&s;tantial and la&s;ting.</P>
<P>Others plead for Tobacco, and take it as a Remedy again&s;t Rheume, becau&s;e a great dryer and exhau&s;ter of &s;uperfluous Moi|&s;ture. To evince the Error of this Opinion, con&s;ider what is the cau&s;e whereby Rheumes and crude moi&s;ture in the Body do abound; and then you will plainly &s;ee, whether &s;moking Tobacco be a pro|per or likely Remedy to prevent or oppo&s;e it. Phlegm and &s;uperflu|ous moi&s;ture does ari&s;e and abound in the Body, from a deficiency and debility of the Dige&s;tions, as al&s;o impediment or impotency of the expul&s;ive faculty, that the remainders after dige&s;tion be not tran&s;mitted by the common ductures. Now this fume of To|bacco gives no Roboration, adds no &s;trength to the dige&s;tive facul|ties, having no &s;ymbolical qualities to comply with, and a&s;&s;i&s;t them, is very plain. Al&s;o that &s;eparation and expul&s;ion of &s;uper|fluous moi&s;ture by this fume, is not promoted and tran&s;mitted through the more commodious ductures and pa&s;&s;ages appointed by nature for emi&s;&s;ion; onely a &s;alivation by the mouth is procured, which brings no advantage, but detriment; for this Flux of moi|&s;ture doth not ari&s;e as critical, from the impul&s;ion of Nature, &s;epa|rating and protruding; but from a promi&s;cuous attraction of fluid moi&s;ture, (by vertue of its acrimonious heat) as well the landable, util &s;uccus, as the degenerated and &s;uperfluous; &s;o that con&s;tant|ly draining the Body of this dulcid &s;ero&s;ity, mu&s;t cau&s;e many in|conveniencies through the want of it, in as much as it is very
<PB N="17" REF="12">&s;erviceable to the Body, in the integrity of its nature, but being alienated, is then reduced or vented by better means, nature concur|ring with the medicine: But admit this did attract only excrementi|tious moi&s;ture (which it does not) yet con&s;idering it Vitiates the Stomach, and Impregnates the Chyle, with its evil properties, 'tis much better to forbear then to u&s;e it; that benefit would not recom|pence this injury. And further, that which is a preventing or curative remedy of &s;uperfluous Moi&s;ture, Rheume, or Phlegma|tique matter, applies <HI>&agrave; Priori</HI> to the Dige&s;tions, the Springs from whence &s;uch Effects do ari&s;e; not <HI>&agrave; Po&s;teriori</HI> to the producted mat|ter, which this fume &s;eems to pump out, but does not &s;top the Leak, is therefore no radical Medicine; and they that &s;moke To|bacco upon this accompt as a great dryer, and exhau&s;ter of &s;uperflu|ous moi&s;ture, are much deceived in the expected benefit; it onely brings a current of moi&s;ture, which ought to be expended other|wi&s;e, but it abates nothing in the Fountain or Springs; rather augments, and makes an overflow, (for the Rea&s;ons afore&s;aid) as Tobacconi&s;ts do evidence by their much &s;pitting.</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="Object."> Some may &s;ay, I never took Tobacco, and yet I have the &s;ymp|tomes of the Scurvy as bad as any that have taken it.</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;w."> This may be &s;o, from other great procuring cau&s;es; and yet Tobacco notwith&s;tanding may be one great procurer in other per|&s;ons. The Scurvy does not require all the procuring cau&s;es to con|cur in its production, but &s;ometimes one, and &s;ometimes another is able to do it; and although you take no Tobacco, yet perhaps your Parents did, or theirs; and it is &s;ufficient to make you fare the wor&s;e; bad cu&s;tomes and abu&s;ive living extends farther then the per&s;on &s;o offending: it is tran&s;mitted to their Off-&s;pring, as in another Work I have noted in the&s;e words.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tutela &s;a|nitatis.</NOTE> But yet the Crime were le&s;s, if onely to them&s;elves the prejudice did extend, but al&s;o to Po&s;terity their Di&s;ea&s;es are propagated; the Children having im|pre&s;&s;ed upon them, and radicated in the principals of their nature, the &s;eminal power and productive vertue of inordinate and intem|perate living of their Genitors and Progenitors, that the Children may bear witne&s;s to the following Age, the vice and folly of their Parents and Predece&s;&s;ors, recorded and characteri&s;ed in them, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Hereby you may under&s;tand, that evil cu&s;tomes (as of &s;moking Tobacco) do not injure onely the per&s;on doing &s;o, but the Gene|ration after them are prejudiced: And, here by the way, we may
<PB N="18" REF="13">take notice of the many Rickity Children in this latter Age, &s;ince the u&s;e of Tobacco, which Di&s;ea&s;e was not known, before the frequent u&s;e of it. Tobacco does enervate and debilitate the fa|culties, that we may rationally expect the Children from this Ge|neration to be Scorbutick, Rickity, and more feeble then for|merly.</P>
<P><HI>Amurath</HI> the Fourth of that Name,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Amurath</NOTE> <HI>Grand Seignior</HI> of the <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> Empire, put forth his Edict againg&s;t the &s;moking of Tobacco, and made it a Capital Crime for any that &s;hould &s;o u&s;e it; the Rea&s;on of this &s;evere Prohibition was, that it did render his People infertile: I &s;hall not urge the inconvenience of. Tobacco &s;o far, but this I may a&s;&s;ext, that it cau&s;eth an infirm Generation, by debilitating the Parents, and rendering them Scorbutick, which Impre&s;&s;ions are carried <HI>in &s;emine</HI> to their Children, and makes a di&s;ea&s;ed I&s;&s;ue. And I ob&s;erved in <HI>Virginia,</HI> being &s;ome time in that Colony, that the Planters who had lived long there, being great Smokers, were of a withered decayed Countenance, and very Scorbutick, being ex|hau&s;ted by this imoderate fume; nor are they long-lived, but do &s;horten their dayes by the intemperate u&s;e of Tobacco and Brandy.</P>
<P>King <HI>James,</HI> that learned Philo&s;ophical Prince of this Nation, wi&s;ely con&s;idering the nature of this Plant, and having a good Stoxa&s;tick Head to fore&s;ee the inconveniencies that would ari&s;e to his People, by the ill cu&s;tome of &s;moking it, he being the great Phy|&s;cian of the Body Politick, does excellently dehort his Subjects (being tender of their future welfare) from this noxious fume,<NOTE PLACE="marg">His Coun|ter bla&s;t to Tobacco.</NOTE> and writes an Invective again&s;t it; who&s;e Oratory and &s;olid Argu|ments were enough to have broken the neck of this Cu&s;tome, had they any regard to his kindne&s;s, or &s;en&s;e of their own good, and of their Po&s;terity.</P>
<P>I might have enlarged my &s;elf upon this Subject, and run over mo&s;t Scorbutick &s;ymptomes, &s;hewing how they are either fir&s;t pro|cured or aggravated by this fume: But from what hath been &s;aid already, it plainly appears, that Tobacco is a great procurer and promoter of the Scurvy, in as much as many Scorbutick &s;ymptomes are the proper effects of &s;moking Tobacco, as la&s;&s;itude, dulne&s;s, &s;omnolency, &s;pitting, ill ta&s;t in the mouth, &amp;c. And although &s;ome few per&s;ons either by the &s;trength of nature, do &s;trongly re&s;i&s;t the bad impre&s;&s;ions it &s;ets upon &s;everal parts of the Body, or by the peculiarity of nature is le&s;s offen&s;ive and hurtful to &s;ome, or brings
<PB N="19" REF="13">&s;ome particular benefit (among&s;t its many ill properties) that makes it &s;eemingly good; yet in&s;en&s;ibly and by time it damageth all; and tho&s;e few good effects in &s;ome few per&s;ons are not of validity to give it a general approbation and u&s;e, and free it from the cen|&s;ure of a great procurer of the Scurvy, but may be ju&s;tly reckoned in that Catalogue.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Pre&s;ervation of <HI>Health</HI> in the choice of <HI>Drinks,</HI> and Regular Drinking.</HEAD>
<P>DRink for <HI>nece&s;&s;ity,</HI> not for bad <HI>fellow&s;hip;</HI> e&s;pecially &s;oon after meat, which hinders the due fermentation of the Stomach, and wa&s;heth down before dige&s;tion be fini&s;hed: but after the fir&s;t concoction, if you have a <HI>hot</HI> Stomach, a <HI>dry</HI> or <HI>co&s;tive</HI> Body, you may drink more freely then others: or if <HI>thir&s;t</HI> importunes you at any time, to &s;atisfie with a moderate draught is better then to for|bear.</P>
<P>Accu&s;tom youth and &s;trong Stomachs to <HI>&s;mall</HI> drink, but <HI>&s;tronger</HI> drink, and <HI>Wine,</HI> to the infirm and aged: it chears the Spirits, quickens the Appetite, and helps Dige&s;tion, <HI>moderately</HI> taken: but being u&s;ed in <HI>exce&s;s,</HI> di&s;turbs the cour&s;e of Nature, and procures many Di&s;ea&s;es: for corpulent gro&s;s and fat Bodies, thin, hungry, ab&s;ter&s;ive penetrating Wines are be&s;t, as <HI>White-Wine, Rheni&s;h,</HI> and &s;uch like.</P>
<P>For lean thin Bodies; black, red and yellow Wines, &s;weet, full bodied and fragrant, are more fit and agreeable; as <HI>Malaga, Mu&s;|cadel, Tent, Alicant</HI> and &s;uch like.</P>
<P>For <HI>Drink,</HI> whether it be whol&s;omer <HI>warmed</HI> than <HI>cold,</HI> is much controverted; &s;ome &s;tifly contending for the <HI>one,</HI> and &s;ome for the <HI>other:</HI> I &s;hall rather chu&s;e the middle way, with limitation and di&s;tinction, then impo&s;e it upon all as a rule to be ob&s;erved under the penalty of forfeiting their health, the ob&s;ervations of the one or the other.</P>
<P>There are three &s;orts of per&s;ons, one cannot drink <HI>cold Beer,</HI> the other cannot drink <HI>warm,</HI> the third, <HI>either:</HI> You that cannot drink cold Beer, to you it is hurtful, cools the Stomach, and checks
<PB N="20" REF="14">it much: therefore keep to <HI>warm drink</HI> as a whol&s;ome cu&s;tome: you that cannot drink warm Beer, that is, find no refre&s;hment, nor thir&s;t &s;atified by it, you may drink it cold, nor is it injurious to you: you that are indifferent and can drink either, drink yours cold, or warmed, as the <HI>company</HI> does, &s;ince your Stomach makes no choice.</P>
<P>That <HI>warm drink</HI> is no bad cu&s;tom, but agreeable to Nature in the generality; Fir&s;t, Becau&s;e it comes the neare&s;t to the natu|ral temper of the Body, and <HI>&s;imilia &s;imilibus con&s;ervantur,</HI> every thing is pre&s;erved by its like, and de&s;troyed by its contrary. Se|condly, Though I do not hold it the principal Agent in dige&s;tion, yet it does excite, is auxiliary, and a nece&s;&s;ary concomitant of a good dige&s;tion, <HI>ut &s;ignum &amp; cau&s;a.</HI> Thirdly, <HI>Omne frigus per &s;e, &amp; proviribus de&s;truit;</HI> Cold in its own nature, and according to the graduation of its power, extingui&s;heth natural heat, and is de&s;tructive; but <HI>per accidens,</HI> and as it is in <HI>gradu remi&s;&s;o,</HI> it may contemperate, allay, and refre&s;h, where heat abounds, and is exalted.</P>
<P>Therefore as there is <HI>variety</HI> of Palates and Stomachs liking and agreeing be&s;t with &s;uch kind of Meats and Drinks, which to others are utterly di&s;gu&s;tful, di&s;agreeing and injurious, though good in them&s;elves: &s;o is it in Drink <HI>warmed</HI> or <HI>cold;</HI> what one finds a benefit in, the other receives a <HI>prejudice;</HI> at lea&s;t does not find that &s;atisfaction and refre&s;hment, under &s;uch a qualification; becau&s;e of the various natures, particular appetitions, and <HI>idio&s;yncratical</HI> pro|perties of &s;everal bodies, one thing will not agree with all: There|fore he that cannot drink <HI>warm,</HI> let him take it <HI>cold,</HI> and it is well to him; but he that drinks it <HI>warm,</HI> does better. And this is to be under&s;tood in Winter, when the extremity of cold hath <HI>congelated</HI> and <HI>fixed</HI> the &s;pirits of the Liquor in a <HI>torpid</HI> inactivity; which by a gentle warmth are <HI>unfettered,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">'Primum crater ad &s;itim per|tinere, &s;e|cundum ad hilarita|tem, terti|um ad vo|luptatem, quartum ad in&s;aniam dixit <HI>Apuleius.</HI></NOTE> <HI>volatile</HI> and <HI>brisk;</HI> whereby the drink is more agreeable and grateful to the Stomachs fermenting heat being &s;o prepared, then to be made &s;o by it.</P>
<P>There are three &s;orts of <HI>Drinkers:</HI> one drinks to &s;atisfie <HI>Nature,</HI> and to &s;upport his <HI>body;</HI> without which he cannot well &s;ub&s;i&s;t, and requires it as rece&s;&s;ary to his Being. Another drinks a <HI>degree</HI> be|yond this man, and takes a larger <HI>do&s;e,</HI> with this intention, to ex|hilarate and chear his <HI>mind,</HI> to bani&s;h <HI>cares</HI> and <HI>trouble,</HI> and help him to <HI>&s;leep</HI> the better; and the&s;e two are lawful Drinkers. A third drinks neither for the good of the <HI>body,</HI> or the mind, but to
<PB N="21" REF="14">&s;tupifie and drown both; by exceeding the former bounds, and running into exce&s;s, fru&s;trating tho&s;e <HI>ends</HI> for which drink was appointed by Nature; converting this <HI>&s;upport</HI> of life and health, making it a <HI>procurer</HI> of &s;ickne&s;s and untimely death.</P>
<P>Many &s;uch there are, who drink not to <HI>&s;atifie</HI> Nature, but force it down many times <HI>contrary</HI> to natural inclination; and when there is a reluctancy again&s;t it: as <HI>Drunkards,</HI> that pour in Liquor, not for love of the <HI>drink,</HI> or that Nature requires it by <HI>thir&s;t,</HI> but onely to maintain the <HI>mad frollick,</HI> and keep the Company from breaking up. Some to excu&s;e this intemperance, hold it as good <HI>Phy&s;ick</HI> to be drunk once a moneth, and plead for that liberty as a whol&s;ome cu&s;tome, and quote the authority of a famous <HI>Phy&s;ician</HI> for it. Whether this Opinion be allowable, and to be admitted in the due <HI>Regiment</HI> for pre&s;ervation of Health, is fit to be exa|mined.</P>
<P>It is a <HI>Canon</HI> e&s;tabli&s;hed upon good rea&s;on;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Omne ni|miun na|turae e&s;t inimicum.</NOTE> <HI>That every thing ex|ceeding its ju&s;t bounds, and golden mediocrity, is hurtful to Nature.</HI> The be&s;t of things are not excepted in this general rule; but are re&s;trained and limited here to a due proportion. The <HI>&s;upports</HI> of life may prove the <HI>procurers</HI> of death, if not qualified and made whol&s;ome by this corrective.</P>
<P><HI>Meat</HI> and <HI>drink</HI> is no longer &s;u&s;tenance, but a load and over|charge, if they exceed the <HI>quantum</HI> due to each particular per&s;on; and then they are not, what they are properly in them&s;elves, and by the appointment of Nature, the <HI>pre&s;ervatives</HI> of life and health; but the <HI>cau&s;es</HI> of &s;ickne&s;s, and con&s;equently of death.</P>
<P><HI>Drink</HI> was not appointed man, to di&s;compo&s;e and di&s;order him in all his faculties, but to <HI>&s;upply, nouri&s;h,</HI> and <HI>&s;trengthen</HI> them. Drink exceeding its mea&s;ure, is no longer a refre&s;hment, to <HI>irri|gate</HI> and water the thir&s;ty body, but makes an inundation to drown and &s;uffocate the <HI>vital powers.</HI> It puts a man out of the &s;tate of health, and repre&s;ents him in &s;uch a degenerate condition both in re&s;pect of <HI>body</HI> and <HI>mind,</HI> that we may look upon the man, as go|ing out of the World, becau&s;e he is already gone out of him&s;elf, and &s;trangely <HI>metamorpho&s;ed</HI> from what he was.</P>
<P>I never knew <HI>&s;ickne&s;s</HI> or a <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e,</HI> to be good preventing Phy&s;ick; and to be drunk, is no other then an un&s;ound &s;tate, and the whole body out of frame by this great change. What difference is there between <HI>&s;ickne&s;s</HI> and <HI>drunkenne&s;s?</HI> Truly I cannot di&s;tingui&s;h them otherwi&s;e then as <HI>genus</HI> and <HI>&s;pecies:</HI> Drunkenne&s;s being a raging
<PB N="22" REF="15">Di&s;ea&s;e, denominated and di&s;tingui&s;hed from other &s;ickne&s;&s;es, by its <HI>procatarctick</HI> or <HI>procuring</HI> cau&s;e, <HI>Drink.</HI></P>
<P>That Drunkenne&s;s is a Di&s;ea&s;e or &s;ickne&s;s, will appear in that it hath all the requi&s;ites to <HI>con&s;titute</HI> a <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e,</HI> and is far di&s;tant from a <HI>&s;tate</HI> of health: for as health is the free and regular di&s;charge of all the <HI>functions</HI> of the body and mind; and &s;ickne&s;s, when the <HI>functions</HI> are not performed, or weakly and depravedly: then <HI>Ebrie|ty</HI> may properly be &s;aid to be a Di&s;ea&s;e or &s;ickne&s;s, becau&s;e it hath the <HI>&s;ymptoms</HI> and <HI>diagno&s;tick</HI> &s;igns, of an <HI>acute</HI> and great Di&s;ea&s;e: for, during the time of <HI>drunkenne&s;s,</HI> and &s;ome time after, few of the faculties perform rightly, but very depravedly and <HI>preternatually:</HI> if we examine the <HI>intellectual faculties,</HI> we &s;hall find the <HI>rea&s;on</HI> gone, the <HI>memory</HI> lo&s;t or much abated, and the <HI>will</HI> &s;trangely per|verted: if we look into the <HI>&s;en&s;itive</HI> faculties, they are di&s;ordered, and their <HI>functions</HI> impedited, or performed very deficiently: the <HI>eyes</HI> do not &s;ee well, nor the <HI>ears</HI> hear well, nor the <HI>palate</HI> reMifh, &amp;c. The <HI>&s;peech</HI> faulters and is imperfect; the <HI>&s;tomach</HI> perhaps vo|mits or nau&s;eates; his <HI>legs</HI> fail: Indeed if we look through the whole man, we &s;hall &s;ee all the faculties depraved, and their functi|ons either not executed, or very di&s;orderly and with much defici|ency.</P>
<P>Now according to the&s;e <HI>&s;ymptoms</HI> in other <HI>&s;ickne&s;&s;es,</HI> we judge a man not likely to live long; and that it is very hard he &s;hould re|cover; the danger is &s;o great from the many threatning <HI>&s;ymptoms</HI> that attend this &s;ickne&s;s, and <HI>progno&s;ticate</HI> a bad event: here is no|thing appears <HI>&s;alutary;</HI> but from head to foot, the Di&s;ea&s;e is preva|lent in every part; which being collated, the <HI>&s;yndrom</HI> is <HI>lethal,</HI> and judgment to be given &s;o.</P>
<P>Surely then Drunkenne&s;s is a very great Di&s;ea&s;e for the time, but becau&s;e it is not u&s;ually <HI>mortal,</HI> nor la&s;ts long; therefore it it &s;light|ed, and look't upon as a trivial matter that will cure it &s;elf. But now the que&s;tion may be asked; Why is not <HI>Drunkenne&s;s</HI> u&s;ually <HI>mortal?</HI> &s;ince the &s;ame &s;igns in other Di&s;ea&s;es are accounted <HI>mortal,</HI> and the event proves if &s;o. To which I an&s;wer; All the hopes we have that a man <HI>drunk</HI> &s;hould live, is; fir&s;t, From common <HI>experi|ence</HI> that it is not deadly: Secondly, From the nature of the <HI>primi|tive</HI> or <HI>procuring</HI> Cau&s;e, &s;trong Drink or Wine; which although it rage, and &s;trangely di&s;compo&s;e the man for a time, yet it la&s;ts not long, nor is <HI>mortal.</HI> The <HI>inebriating</HI> &s;pirits of the liquor, flowing in &s;o fa&s;t, and joyning with the &s;pirits of mans body, make &s;o <HI>high</HI>
<PB N="23" REF="15">a <HI>tide,</HI> that overflows all the banks and bounds of order: For, the &s;pirits of mans body, tho&s;e <HI>agents</HI> in each faculty, act &s;moothly, regularly and con&s;tantly, with a moderate &s;upply; but being over|charged, and forced out of their natural cour&s;e, and exerci&s;e of their duty, by the large addition of <HI>furious &s;pirits;</HI> &s;purs the functi|ons into &s;trange di&s;orders, as if nature were conflicting with death and di&s;&s;olution; but yet it proves not <HI>mortal.</HI></P>
<P>And this, fir&s;t, becau&s;e the&s;e <HI>adventitious &s;pirits</HI> are amicable and friendly to our bodies in their own nature, and therefore not &s;o <HI>deadly injurious,</HI> as that which is not &s;o familiar or noxious.</P>
<P>Secondly, Becau&s;e they are very <HI>volatile, light,</HI> and <HI>active;</HI> Na|ture therefore does much &s;ooner recover her &s;elf, <HI>tran&s;pires</HI> and &s;ends forth the <HI>overplus</HI> received; then if the <HI>morbifick</HI> matter were more ponderous and fixed; the <HI>gravamen</HI> from thence would be much wor&s;e and longer in removing: as an over-charge of <HI>Meat, Bread, Fruit,</HI> or &s;uch like &s;ub&s;tances not &s;pirituous; but dull and heavy <HI>(comparativ&egrave;)</HI> is of more difficult dige&s;tion, and layes a greater and more dangerous load upon the faculties, having not &s;uch <HI>volatile brisk</HI> &s;pirits to a&s;&s;i&s;t Nature, nor of &s;o liquid a fine &s;ub&s;tance, of quicker and ea&s;ier dige&s;tion: So that the <HI>&s;ymptoms</HI> from thence are much more dangerous, then tho&s;e <HI>peracute</HI> di&s;tem|pers ari&s;ing from Liquors. So likewi&s;e tho&s;e bad <HI>&s;ymptoms</HI> in other Di&s;ea&s;es are more to be feared and accounted <HI>mortal</HI> (then the like ari&s;ing from <HI>drunkenne&s;s</HI>) becau&s;e tho&s;e perhaps depend upon <HI>malig|nant cau&s;es;</HI> or &s;uch as by time are <HI>radicated</HI> in the body; or from the defection of &s;ome <HI>principal part:</HI> but the &s;torm and di&s;compo|&s;ure ari&s;ing from <HI>drunkenne&s;s,</HI> as it is &s;uddenly rai&s;ed, &s;o common|ly it &s;oon falls, depending upon <HI>benign cau&s;es,</HI> and a &s;piritucus mat|ter, that layes not &s;o great an oppre&s;&s;ion; but <HI>inebriates</HI> the &s;pirits, that they act very di&s;orderly and unwontedly; or by the <HI>&s;oporife|rous</HI> vertue, <HI>&s;tupefies</HI> them for a time, untill they recover their <HI>agility</HI> again.</P>
<P>But all this while, I do not &s;ee, <HI>that to be drunk once a moneth,</HI> &s;hould prove good Phy&s;ick: all I think that can be &s;aid in this behalf, is; that by overcharging the Stomach, <HI>vomiting is procured;</HI> and &s;o carries off &s;omething that was lodged there, which might breed Di&s;ea&s;es.</P>
<P>This is a <HI>bad excu&s;e</HI> for good Fellows, and a <HI>poor plea</HI> for <HI>drun|kenne&s;s:</HI> for the gaining of one &s;uppo&s;ed benefit (which might be obtained otherwi&s;e) you introduce twenty <HI>inconveniences</HI> by it. I
<PB N="24" REF="16">do not like the preventing of one Di&s;ea&s;e that <HI>may be,</HI> by procuring of one at the <HI>pre&s;ent certainly,</HI> and many hereafter mo&s;t probably: and if the Di&s;ea&s;e feared, or <HI>may be,</HI> could be prevented no other|wi&s;e, but by this <HI>drunken means;</HI> then that might tollerate and al|low it: but there are other wayes better and &s;afer to clean&s;e the body either <HI>upwards</HI> or <HI>downwards,</HI> then by overcharging with &s;trong drink, and making the man to <HI>unman</HI> him&s;elf; the evil con|&s;equents of which are many, the benefit hoped for, but <HI>pretended;</HI> or if any, but very <HI>&s;mall</HI> and <HI>incon&s;iderable.</HI></P>
<P>And although, as I &s;aid before, the <HI>drunken fit</HI> is not <HI>mortal,</HI> and the danger perhaps not great for the pre&s;ent; yet tho&s;e <HI>drunken bouts</HI> being repeated; the <HI>relicts</HI> do accumulate, debilitate Nature, and lay the foundation of many <HI>chronick Di&s;ea&s;es.</HI> Nor can it be expected otherwi&s;e; but you may ju&s;tly conclude from the mani|fe&s;t irregular actions which appear to us <HI>externally,</HI> that the functi|ons within al&s;o, and their motions are &s;trangely di&s;ordered: for, the <HI>outward madne&s;s</HI> and unwonted actions, proceed from the <HI>in|ternal impul&s;es,</HI> and di&s;ordered motions of the faculties: which general di&s;turbance and di&s;compo&s;ure (being frequent) mu&s;t needs <HI>&s;ubvert</HI> the <HI>oeconomy</HI> and government of humance Nature; and con|&s;equently ruine the Fabrick of mans body.</P>
<P>The ill effects, and more eminent products of ebriety, are; fir&s;t, <HI>A changing of the natural tone of the Stomach, and alienating the di|ge&s;tive faculty;</HI> That in&s;tead of a good tran&s;mutation of food, a degenerate Chyle is produced. Common experience tells, that af|ter a <HI>drunken debauch,</HI> the &s;tomach lo&s;eth its appetite, and acutene&s;s of dige&s;tion; as <HI>belching, thir&s;t, di&s;reli&s;h, nau&s;eating,</HI> do certainly te&s;tifie: yet to &s;upport nature, and continue the cu&s;tom of eat|ing, &s;ome-food is received; but we cannot expect from &s;uch a <HI>Stomach</HI> that a <HI>good dige&s;tion</HI> &s;hould follow: and it is &s;ome dayes before the Stomach recover its <HI>eucra&s;y,</HI> and perform its office well: and if the&s;e mi&s;carriages happen but <HI>&s;eldom,</HI> the injury is the le&s;s, and &s;ooner recompenced; but by the <HI>frequent repetition</HI> of the&s;e rui|nous practices, the Stomach is overthrown and alienated from its integrity.</P>
<P>Secondly, <HI>An unwhol&s;ome corpulency and cachectick plenitude of body does follow: or a degenerate macilency, and a decayed con&s;umptive con&s;titution.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>A</HI> Caco|trophy, <HI>or</HI> Atrophy.</NOTE> Great Drinkers that continue it long, few of them e&s;cape, but fall into one of the&s;e <HI>conditions</HI> and <HI>habit</HI> of body: for, if the Stomach di&s;charge not its office aright; the <HI>&s;ub&s;equent
<PB N="25" REF="16">dige&s;tions</HI> will al&s;o be defective. So great a con&s;ent and depen|dance is there upon the <HI>Stomach;</HI> that other parts cannot perform their duty, if this leading <HI>principal Part</HI> be perverted and debauch|ed: nor can it be expected otherwi&s;e; for, from this <HI>Laboratory</HI> and <HI>prime office</HI> of dige&s;tion, all the parts mu&s;t receive their &s;upply; which being not &s;uteable, but depraved, are drawn into <HI>debauchery</HI> al&s;o, and a <HI>degenerate</HI> &s;tate; and the whole Body fed with a vitious <HI>alimentary &s;uccus.</HI></P>
<P>Now that different <HI>products</HI> or <HI>habits</HI> of body &s;hould ari&s;e from the &s;ame kind of debauchery, happens upon this &s;core. As there are different <HI>properties</HI> and <HI>conditions</HI> of bodies;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Quicquid recipitur, recipitur per modum recipientis. <HI>Ax.</HI></NOTE> &s;o the re&s;ult from the &s;ame procuring cau&s;es &s;hall be much different and various: one puffs up, fills, and grows <HI>hydropical;</HI> another pines away, and falls <HI>Con&s;umptive,</HI> from <HI>exce&s;s</HI> in <HI>drinking;</HI> and this proceeds from the different <HI>di&s;po&s;ition</HI> of parts: for, in &s;ome per&s;ons, although the <HI>&s;tomach</HI> be vitiated, yet the &s;trength of the <HI>&s;ub&s;equent dige&s;tions</HI> is &s;o great, from the integrity and vigor of tho&s;e parts de&s;tinated to &s;uch offices; that they act <HI>&s;trenuou&s;ly,</HI> though their <HI>object matter</HI> be tran&s;mitted to them imperfect and degenerate; and therefore do keep the body <HI>plump</HI> and <HI>full,</HI> although the juyces be <HI>foul,</HI> and of a <HI>depraved</HI> nature. Others <HI>&egrave; contra,</HI> who&s;e parts are not &s;o firm and vigorous; that will not act upon any &s;core, but with their <HI>proper object;</HI> does not endeavour a tran&s;mutation of &s;uch <HI>aliene matter,</HI> but receiving it with a <HI>nice reluctance,</HI> tran&s;mits it to be evacuated and &s;ent forth by the next convenient ducture, or emunctory: and from hence the body is fru&s;trated of nutrition, and falls away: So that the pouring in of much liquor (although it be good <HI>in &s;ua na|tura</HI>) does not beget <HI>much aliment,</HI> but wa&s;heth through the body, and is not a&s;&s;imilated.</P>
<P>But here &s;ome may object and think; <HI>That wa&s;hing of the body through with good Liquor, &s;hould clean&s;e the body, and make it fit for nouri&s;hment, and be like good Phy&s;ick for a foul body.</HI> But the effect proves the contrary; and it is but rea&s;on it &s;hould be &s;o: for, &s;up|po&s;e the Liquor (whether Wine, or other) be pure and good; yet when the <HI>&s;pirit</HI> is drawn off from it, the <HI>remainder</HI> is but <HI>dead, flat, thick,</HI> and a <HI>muddy flegm.</HI> As we find in the de&s;tillation of Wine, or other Liquors; &s;o it is in mans body: the <HI>&s;pirit</HI> is drawn off <HI>fir&s;t,</HI> and all the parts of mans body are ready <HI>Receivers,</HI> and do <HI>imbibe</HI> that <HI>limpid congenerous</HI> enlivener, freely and readily: but the <HI>re|mainder,</HI> of greate&s;t proportion; that heavy, dull, <HI>phlegmy part,</HI>
<PB N="26" REF="17">and of a <HI>narcotick quality;</HI> lies long fluctuating upon the dige&s;tions, and pa&s;&s;eth but &s;lowly; turns &s;owr, and vitiates the <HI>Cra&s;es</HI> of the parts: So that this great <HI>inundation,</HI> and &s;uppo&s;ed wa&s;hing of the body, does but drown the Faculties, <HI>&s;tupefie</HI> or <HI>choak</HI> the Spirits, and defile all the Parts; not <HI>purifie</HI> and <HI>clean&s;e.</HI> And although the more <HI>&s;ubtile</HI> and <HI>thinner</HI> portion, pa&s;&s;eth away in &s;ome per&s;ons pretty freely by <HI>&V;rine;</HI> yet the <HI>gro&s;&s;er</HI> and wor&s;e part &s;tayes behind, and clogs in the <HI>percolation.</HI></P>
<P>A third injury, and common, manife&s;t prejudice from intempe|rate drinking, is; <HI>An imbecillity of the Nerves;</HI> which is procured from the di&s;orderly motions of the Animal Spirits; being impul&s;ed and agitated preternaturally by the <HI>inebriating &s;pirits</HI> of &s;trong Li|quors: which <HI>vibration</HI> being frequent, begets a habit, and cau&s;eth a <HI>trepidation</HI> of Members.</P>
<P>Tran&s;cribed <HI>verbatim</HI> out of Doctor <HI>Maynwaring</HI>'s Treati&s;e <HI>Of long Life.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>That it may not be &s;aid to be onely one Doctors Opinion, here is added another Collection again&s;t Tobacco-&s;moking, written by the learned Doctor <HI>George Thomp&s;on,</HI> in his Book <HI>Of Pre&s;ervation of the Bloud.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Bove all, I much condemn the common abu&s;e of Tobacco; out of which, no other &s;ymptomes, than a &s;corbutical Venome is accidentally &s;ucked. Agreeable to which Judgment of mine, is that of the Legitimate Arti&s;t Doctor <HI>Maynwaring,</HI> who marks where Tobacco is much taken, the Scurvy doth mo&s;t abound: I wi&s;h tho&s;e who are too forward to condemn Chymical Preparations, or|dered by true Philo&s;ophers, would reflect upon them&s;elves and others, as yet ignorant of <HI>Pyrotomy,</HI> how that they are too forward in ru&s;hing into this Science; Indirectly making u&s;e of a Retort with a receiver, I mean a Pipe, and the mouth for the reduction of this Plant into Salt and Sulphur, proving not a little injurious to them. If they were con&s;cious how &s;ubtil an enemy it is, how hardly to be dealt withall, in a moderate &s;en&s;e; how in&s;inuating, tempting, deluding; how di&s;agreeing to nature, as is manife&s;t at fir&s;t taking it, pretending an evacuation onely of a &s;uperfluous moi&s;ture, when
<PB N="27" REF="17">it al&s;o generates the &s;ame; how it wrongs the Ventricle; by rea&s;on of a continuity of its membrane, with that of the mouth; how it taints the nutricious Juyce; how it dozes the Brain, impairing its Faculties, e&s;pecially the memory: They would quickly commit this Herb to the hand of tho&s;e that know what belongs to the right management and improvement thereof.</P>
<P>I confe&s;s it hath a Dowry be&s;towed upon it, which may make it very acceptable to all ingenious Arti&s;ts, for inward and outward u&s;es; yet as the matter is handled indi&s;creetly, I know nothing introduced into this Nation hath di&s;covered it &s;elf more apparently hurtful, in aggravating and graduating this &s;corbutical evil among us then Tobacco.</P>
<P>I am not ignorant what &s;ome Object, That there are tho&s;e who taking an extraordinary quantity of Tobacco, have lived a to great age, as Sixty or Seventy Years. 2. That multitudes not taking this fume, are yet notwith&s;tanding over run with the Scurvy. 3. That &s;ome have prote&s;ted, they have received certain benefit by this Plant, when other Remedies pre&s;cribed by able Phy&s;itians have been invalid to relieve them. 4. That there are places where Man, Woman and Child, take in this Smoke, none of the&s;e &s;ad effects appearing.</P>
<P>As to the fir&s;t, I an&s;wer, One Swallow makes no Summer; I reckon this among <HI>raro contingentia:</HI> I have known one very in|temperate in Dier, live to the fore-mentioned age; but doubtle&s;s had he Regulated him&s;elf according to the Rules of Mediocrity, he might have doubled that age. Innate Strength of Body doth carry a man &s;ometimes through that, without any great damage, which de&s;troys another.</P>
<P N="2">2. I do not affirm, that this Vegetable is the &s;ole Co-adjuvant cau&s;e of the Scurvy, it being certain there are many Promoters thereof. Be&s;ides, yet granted that your great Compotators, <HI>Ven|tricolae,</HI> Gormandizers, who have as the <HI>Grecians</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, Lazy panches, little el&s;e to do but to take Tobacco, to pa&s;s away the time; filling Pipe after Pipe, as fa&s;t as po&s;&s;ible they can ex|hau&s;t it, are commonly incident to this feral Malady. Hereupon this very &s;ame &s;pecifick Di&s;ea&s;e may be diffu&s;ed and communicated to others, by expiration or ffluvium, &s;ent out of a Body infected therewith; &s;o that it &s;eems rare to me, that the Wife &s;hould be ex|empted from this <HI>Cacoettick</HI> Sickne&s;s, if the Husband be afflicted therewith; or the Husband be free, if the Wife be vexed: Doubt|le&s;s
<PB N="28" REF="18">&s;ome Peoples Breath doth exceedingly taint the Air, to the great annoyance of others.</P>
<P N="3">3. I condemn not medicinal appropriation and application of this Drug, for I kn&ograve;w it to be of excellent Vertue: There is great difference, <HI>Inter dictum &s;ecundum quid &amp; dictum &s;impliciter,</HI> between the cen&s;ure of any thing as ab&s;olutely evil, and the indirect practi&s;e of it: Moreover, what is one man's Meat, may be anothers Poy&s;on.</P>
<P N="4">4. The generality of &s;moking it in &s;ome places, without tho&s;e ill effects we find, doth not at all fru&s;trate my a&s;&s;ertion: For I have ob&s;erved a more moderate cour&s;e of life in Diet, the goodne&s;s of the Air, with an hereditary Cu&s;tome, hath in great mea&s;ure bal|lanced the nocument or inconveniences, which otherwi&s;e they would have contracted by exce&s;s thereof; neither are the&s;e nume|rous Tobacconi&s;ts acquitted from this evil, as it appears by tho&s;e frequent eruptions in the skin, whereby a greater mi&s;chief is pre|vented within, they being only efflore&s;cences of a &s;corbutical pra|vity.</P>
<P>There are, as I apprehend, two principal Rea&s;ons to be given, why this Weed hath captivated &s;o many Thou&s;ands in &s;uch &s;ort, that they become meer Slaves to it.</P>
<P>One is, the &s;eeming delight it affords in the pre&s;ent taking there|of, inducing a plea&s;ing bewitching melancholy, exceedingly affect|ing their Fancies, &s;o that they could wi&s;h with him in the Poet, <HI>Hic furor, &ocirc; &s;uperi, &s;it mihi perpetuus,</HI> O that I might alwayes thus melancholize; not con&s;idering though the Prologue be chearful, the Epilogue is often &s;ad; though the Spirits are as it were titilla|ted, and charmed into a &s;weet complacency for a &s;hort &s;pace; yet afterward a dulne&s;s, gloomine&s;s, &s;eizes upon them; indeed, how can it be otherwi&s;e, &s;eeing they are but forcibly lulled into this &s;ecure placid Condition, by that which is as far remote from the Vitals, as the Beams of the Sun are from a black Cloud.</P>
<P>I find in this Smoke, a &s;tinking, retunding, conden&s;ing Opiate|like Sulphur, and an acrid Salt, profligating, extimulating, &s;o that by the bridling much of the one, and the exce&s;&s;ive &s;purring of the other; the &s;pirits, like a free metal&s;ome Hor&s;e, are quite tired out at la&s;t: It is impo&s;&s;ible that the frequent in&s;inuations of this &s;ub|til fume, making &s;hew of affinity, but quite of another tribe with the animals, &s;hould not at length (let a body be never &s;o &s;trong, and cu&s;tom how ever prevalent) either pervert or &s;ubvert his well con|&s;tituted frame.</P>
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<P>Another Rea&s;on (ob&s;ervable only by tho&s;e that are true Gno&s;ticks of them&s;elves) why Tobacco is &s;o highly &s;et by, and hath &s;o many Followers; is its meretricious ki&s;&s;es, given to tho&s;e that embrace it: oftentimes &s;ecretly wounding them mortally, yet are they not throughly &s;en&s;ible who gave them the &s;troke. I have taken notice of very temperate Per&s;ons in other things, who, for diver&s;ion, have indulged their genious, <HI>ad Hilaritatem,</HI> continuing for urbanity|&s;ake in Company they liked, longer then ordinary, have &s;o clo&s;ely pur&s;ued this pernicious Art of &s;ucking in the &s;moke of this Herb, that never any Chymi&s;t was more &s;olicitous, in greater ha&s;t to fetch his matters over the Helm by Di&s;tillation: Behold what the event was! the next morning I have heard complaints come from them, that their Brains were &s;omething &s;tupid, dozed, their Stomach nau|&s;eous, being thir&s;ty, al&s;o feaveri&s;h: All this they attribute to their tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing limits of Sobriety in drinking, or to the &s;ophi&s;ticated adulterated Liquors, not finding the lea&s;t fault with the extrava|gant u&s;e of Tobacco, which above all did them the mo&s;t hurt pri|vately: Something I can &s;peak experimentally to this purpo&s;e, for having been wedded to it many years pa&s;t, &s;uppo&s;ing I had got an Antidote again&s;t Hypochondriack melancholy with an Apophleg|mati&s;m, to di&s;charge crude matter; I applauded it in all Company, without advertency at that time, how fal&s;e and treacherous it was, which afterward perceiving, I withdrew my &s;elf from the u&s;e there|of by degrees, at length was altogether divorced from it.</P>
<P><HI>Praevi&s;a &s;picula levius feriunt;</HI> Could we &s;ee the poy&s;oned Ar|rows that are &s;hot from this Plant, que&s;tionle&s;s we would indeavour to avoid them, that they might le&s;s intoxicate us.</P>
<P><HI>Latet anguis in Herba;</HI> We are &s;uddenly &s;urprized by this Serpen|tine Plant, before we are aware; thus that which we take for an Antidote, becomes meer Poy&s;on to us, &s;upplanting and clancularly confounding the <GAP DESC="foreign">, or good government of this Republick, con&s;i&s;ting in the &s;trength and goodne&s;s of a &s;eminal <HI>Archeus,</HI> vigo|rous ferments, the ju&s;t con&s;titution and harmony of every part. Needs mu&s;t then Indige&s;tions, Crudities, Degeneration and Illegi|timation of the nutricious juyce follow, promoting Cau&s;es and products of the great Poy&s;on of the Scurvy.</P>
<P>My advice therefore to any immoderate <GAP DESC="foreign">, a Fume|&s;ucker, is, That he would, as he tenders the Salvation of Body and Soul, wean him&s;elf by degrees from exce&s;s herein; If &s;o, doubtle&s;s he will find if the Scurvy infe&s;t him much, an abatement of the te|dious &s;ymptoms therefore.</P>
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<P>Such as are &s;o accu&s;tomed to Tobacco, that they cannot forbear it, let what can be &s;aid again&s;t it; So that neither the good and &s;olid Per&s;wa&s;ions of a great, wi&s;e, and learned King, nor the whol|&s;ome and rational Arguments of two able and skilful Phy&s;icians, will be of force to prevail with them:</P>
<P>My Advice to &s;uch is, while they take it, To meditate on this Poem following, by which they may be able to make this double &s;piritual u&s;e of it, <HI>Viz.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>I. To &s;ee the Vanity of the World.</ITEM>
<ITEM>II. The Mortality of Mankind.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Which, I think, is the be&s;t u&s;e can be made of it and the Pipe, &amp;c.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>The</HI> Indian <HI>Weed withered quite,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Green at Noon, cut down at Night;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Shews Thy decay, all Fle&s;h is hay:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thus think, then drink</HI> Tobacco.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>The</HI> Pipe <HI>that is &s;o lilly-white,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Shews Thee to be a mortal Wight,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And even &s;uch gone with a touch:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thus think, then drink</HI> Tobacco.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>And when the Smoke a&s;cends on high,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Think thou behold'&s;t the Vanity</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of worldly &s;tuff, gone with a puff:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thus think, then drink</HI> Tobacco.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>And when the</HI> Pipe <HI>grows foul within,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Think on thy Souldefil'd with Sin,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And then the Fire it doth require:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thus think, then drink</HI> Tobacco.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>The A&s;hes that are left behind</HI></L>
<L><HI>May &s;erve to put thee &s;till in mind,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That unto Du&s;t return thou mu&s;t:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thus think, then drink</HI> Tobacco.</L>
</LG></Q>
<P>An&s;wered by <HI>George Withers</HI> thus, <HI>Thus think, drink no</HI> Tobacco.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
</TEXT>
<TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="sermon">
<PB N="31" REF="19">
<HEAD>Woe to Drunkards: A SERMON Preached many Years &s;ince By Mr. <HI>Samuel Ward,</HI> PREACHER OF IPSWICH.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><BIBL><HI>PROV. 23. Ver&s;e 29, 32.</HI></BIBL>
<L>To whom is Woe? to whom is Sorrow? to whom is Strife? &amp;c.</L>
<L>In the end it will bite like a Serpent, and &s;ting like a Cockatrice.</L></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<P><HI>_SEer,</HI> art thou al&s;o blind? <HI>Watchman,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 2.</NOTE> art thou al&s;o drunk, or a&s;leep? Or hath a Spirit of &s;lumber put out thine Eyes? Up to thy Watch-Tower, what de&s;crie&s;t thou? Ah Lord! what end or number is there of the Vanities which mine Eyes are weary of beholding? But what &s;ee&s;t thou? I &s;ee men walking like the tops
<PB N="32" REF="20">of Trees &s;haken with the wind, like Ma&s;ts of Ships reeling on the tempe&s;tuous Seas. Drunkenne&s;s, I mean, that hateful Night|bird; which was wont to wait for the twilight, to &s;eek Nooks and Corners, to avoid the howting and wonderment of Boys and Girls; Now as if it were &s;ome Eaglet to dare the Sun-light, to fly abroad at high Noon in every Street, in open Markets and Fairs, without fear or &s;hame, without controul or puni&s;hment, to the di&s;grace of the Nation, the out-facing of Magi&s;tracy and Mini&s;try, the utter undoing (without timely prevention) of Health and Wealth, Piety and Vertue, Town and Countrey, Church and Common-wealth. And doe&s;t thou like a dumb Dog hold thy peace at the&s;e things, do&s;t thou with <HI>Solomon</HI>'s &s;luggard fold thine hands in thy Bo&s;ome, and give thy &s;elf to ea&s;e and drow&s;me&s;s, while the envious man cau&s;eth the noi&s;ome&s;t and ba&s;eth of weeds to over-run the choi&s;e&s;t <HI>Eden</HI> of God? Up and Ari&s;e, lift up thy Voice, &s;pare not, and cry aloud? What &s;hall I cry? Cry, woe and woe again unto the Crown of pride,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>E&s;ay</HI> 5.11, 22.</NOTE> the Drunkards of <HI>Ephraim.</HI> Take up a parable, and tell them how it &s;tingeth like the <HI>Cockatrice;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>E&s;ay</HI> 28.1.</NOTE> de|clare unto them the deadly poy&s;on of this odious &s;in.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Joel</HI> 1.5.</NOTE> Shew them al&s;o the &s;overagin Antidote and Cure of it,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Hab</HI> 2.</NOTE> in the Cup that was drunk off by him,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>James</HI> 5.</NOTE> that was able to overcome it: Cau&s;e them to be|hold the bra&s;en Serpent, and be healed. And what though &s;ome of the&s;e deaf Adders will not be charmed nor cured, yea though few or none of this &s;wini&s;h herd of habitual Drunkards, accu&s;tomed to wallow in their mire; yea, deeply and irrecoverably plunged by legions of Devils into the dead &s;ea of their filthine&s;s; what if not one of them will be wa&s;hed, and made clean, but turn again to their Vomit, and trample the Pearls of all admonition under feet; yea, turn again, and rend their Reprovers with &s;coffs and &s;corns, making Je&s;ts and Songs on their Alebench: Yet may &s;ome young ones be deterred, and &s;ome Novices reclaimed, &s;ome Parents and Magi&s;trates awakened to prevent and &s;uppre&s;s the &s;preading of this Gangrene: And God have his work in &s;uch as belong to his Grace. And what is impo&s;&s;ible to the work of his Grace?</P>
<P>Go to then now ye Drunkards, li&s;ten not what I, or any ordinary Hedge-Prie&s;t (as you &s;tyle us) but that mo&s;t wi&s;e and experienced Royal Preacher hath to &s;ay unto you. And becau&s;e you are a dull and thick eared Generation, he fir&s;t deals with you by way of que&s;ti|on, a figure of force and impre&s;&s;ion. <HI>To whom is woe? &amp;c.</HI> You u&s;e to &s;ay, Woe be to Hypocrites. It's true, woe be to &s;uch and
<PB N="33" REF="20">all other witting and willing &s;inners;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">. Ba&s;il.</NOTE> but there are no kind-of Of|fenders on whom woe doth &s;o palpably inevitably attend as to you Drunkards. You promi&s;e your &s;elves Mirth, Plea&s;ure, and Jollity in your Cups; but for one drop of your mad mirth, be &s;ure of Gal|lons, and Tuns of Woe, Gall, Wormwood, and bitterne&s;s here and hereafter. Other Sinners &s;hall ta&s;te of the Cup, but you &s;hall drink off the dregs of God's Wrath and Di&s;plea&s;ure. <HI>To whom is Strife:</HI> You talk of good fellow&s;hip and friend&s;hip, but Wine is a rager and tumultuous make-bate, and &s;ets you a quarreling, and medling. When wit's out of the head and &s;trength out of the body, it thru&s;ts even Cowards and Da&s;tards, unfenced and unarmed, into needle&s;s Frayes and Combats. And then to whom are Wounds, broken Heads, blue Eyes, maimed Limbs? You have a drunken by-word, Drunkards take no harm; but how many are the mi&s;haps and un|timely misfortunes that betide &s;uch, which though they feel not in drink, they carry as marks and brands to their Grave. You pretend you drink Healths, and for Health; but to whom are all kind of Di&s;ea&s;es, Infirmities, Deformities, pearled Faces, Pal&s;ies, Dropfies, Head-aches? If not to Drunkards.</P>
<P>Upon the&s;e premi&s;es, he forcibly infers his &s;ober and &s;erious ad|vi&s;e. Look upon the&s;e woful effects and evils of Drunkenne&s;s, and look not upon the Wine; look upon the blue. Wounds, upon the red Eyes it cau&s;eth, and look not on the red colour when it &s;park|leth in the Cup. If there were no wor&s;e then the&s;e, yet would no wi&s;e man be overtaken with Wine: As if he &s;hould &s;ay, What &s;ee you in the Cup or Drink, that countervaileth the&s;e dreggs that lie in the bottom. Behold, this is the Sugar, you are to look for, and the tang it leaves behind. Woe and alas, &s;orrow and &s;trife, &s;hame, poverty and di&s;ea&s;es; the&s;e are enough to make it odious, but that which followeth withall, will make it hideous and fearful. For <HI>Solomon</HI> duely con&s;idering that he &s;peaks to men pa&s;t &s;hame and grace, &s;en&s;ele&s;s of blowes,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> A charito &amp; <HI>tanquam</HI> chena ha&s;h, veche Siphgnoni iaphre&s;h; <HI>novi&s;&s;imo tanquam Serpens mordebis, regulas punget Montinur &amp; Mercerus; tanquam</HI> haemorihois <HI>vel dis&s;as, Tremelius.</HI></NOTE> and therefore much more of rea&s;ons and words, in&s;i&s;teth not upon the&s;e party woes; which they, bewitched and be&s;otted with the love of Wine, will ea&s;ily over-&s;ee and over|leap: but &s;ets before their Eyes the direful end and fruit, the black and poyfonful tail of this &s;in. <HI>In the end it &s;tingeth like the Ser|pent, it biteth like the Cockatrice,</HI> (or <HI>Adder</HI>) faith our new Tran&s;la|tion.</P>
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<P>All Interpreters agree, That he means &s;ome mo&s;t virulent Ser|pent, who&s;e Poy&s;on is pre&s;ent and deadly. All the woes he hath mentioned before, were but as the &s;ting of &s;ome Emmet, Wa&s;pe, or Nettle, in compari&s;on of this Cockatrice which is even unto death; death &s;peedy, death painful, and woful death, and that as naturally and inevitably, as <HI>Opium</HI> procureth &s;leep, as <HI>Hellebore</HI> purgeth, or any Poy&s;on killeth.</P>
<P>Three forked is this &s;ting, and three fold is the death it procureth to all that are &s;trung therewith. The fir&s;t is, the death of Grace; The &s;econd is, of the Body: The third is, of Soul and Body eternal. All &s;in is the poy&s;on wherewithall the old Serpent and red Dragon envenomes the &s;oul of Man, but no &s;in (except it be that which is unto death) &s;o mortal as this, which though not ever unpardonably, yet for the mo&s;t part is al&s;o irrecoverably and inevitably unto death. See&s;t thou one bitten with any other Snake, there is hope and help: as the Father &s;aid of his Son, when he had information of his Gaming, of his Prodigality, yea, of his Whoring: But when he heard that he was poy&s;oned with Drunkenne&s;s, he gave him for dead, his ca&s;e for de&s;perate and forlorn. Age and experience often cures the other; but this encrea&s;eth with years, and parteth not till death. Whoring is a deep Ditch, yet &s;ome few &s;hall a man &s;ee return and lay hold on the wayes of life, one of a thou&s;and, but &s;carce one Drunkard of ten thou&s;and. One <HI>Ambro&s;e</HI> mentions, and one have I known; and but one of all that ever I knew or heard of. Often have I been asked, and often have I enquired, but never could meet with an in&s;tance, &s;ave one or two at the mo&s;t. I &s;peak of Drunkards, not of one drunken; of &s;uch who rarely and ca&s;ual|ly have <HI>Noah</HI>-like been &s;urpri&s;ed, over-taken at unawares: But if once a Cu&s;tome, ever Nece&s;&s;ity. Wine takes away the Heart, and &s;poils the Brain, overthrows the Faculties and Organs of Repen|tance and Re&s;olution. And is it not ju&s;t with God, that he who will put out his natural light, &s;hould have his &s;piritual extingui&s;hed? He that will deprive him&s;elf of Rea&s;on, &s;hould lo&s;e al&s;o the Guide and Pilot of Rea&s;on, God's Spirit and Grace: He that will wit|tingly and willingly make him&s;elf an Habitation of Unclean Spirits, &s;hould not di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;s them at his own plea&s;ure? Mo&s;t aptly there|fore is it tran&s;lated by <HI>Tremelius Hamorrbois,</HI> which <HI>Ge&s;ner</HI> con|founds with the <HI>Dip&s;as,</HI> or thir&s;ty Serpent, who&s;e poy&s;on breedeth &s;uch thir&s;t, drought, and inflamation; like that of Ratsbane, that they never leave drinking, till they bur&s;t and die withall. Would
<PB N="35" REF="21">it not grieve and pitty and Chri&s;tian-&s;oul, to &s;ee a towardly hopeful young man, well natured, well nurtured, &s;tung with this Cocka|trice, bewailing his own ca&s;e, crying out again&s;t the ba&s;ene&s;s of the &s;in, inveighing again&s;t-Company, melting under the per&s;wa&s;i|ons of Friends; yea, prote&s;ting again&s;t all enticements, vow, cove|nant, and &s;eriou&s;ly indent with him&s;elf and his Friends for the re|linqui&s;hing of it: And yet if he meet with a Companion that holds but up his Finger, he follows him as a Fool to the Stocks, and as an Oxe to the Slaughter-hou&s;e, having no Power to with&s;tand the Temptation; but in he goes with him to the Tipling-hou&s;e, not con&s;idering that the Chambers are the Chambers of Death, and the Gue&s;ts, the Gue&s;ts of Death; and there he continues as one be|witched, or conjured in a Spell; out of which he returns not, till he hath emptied his Pur&s;e of Money, his Head of Rea&s;on, and his Heart of all his former &s;eeming Grace. There his Eyes behold the &s;trange Woman, his Heart &s;peaketh perver&s;e things, becoming heartle&s;s, as one (&s;aith <HI>Solomon</HI>) in the heart of the Sea, re&s;olving to continue, and return to his Vomit, what&s;oever it co&s;t him, to make it his daily work. <HI>I was &s;ick, and knew it not: I was &s;truck, and felt it not; when I awake, I will &s;eek it &s;till.</HI> And why indeed (without a Miracle) &s;hould any expect that one &s;tung with this Viper &s;hould &s;hake it off, and ever recover of it again. Yea, &s;o far are they from recovering them&s;elves, that they infect and become contagious and pe&s;tilent to all they come near. The Dragon infu|&s;ing his Venome, and a&s;&s;imulating his El&s;es to him&s;elf in no &s;in &s;o much as in this, that it becomes as good as Meat and Drink to them, to &s;pend their Wit and Money to compa&s;s Ale-hou&s;e after Ale-hou&s;e; yea, Town after Town, to transform others with their Circean-Cups, till they have made them Bruits and Swine, wor&s;e then them&s;elves. The Adulterer and U&s;urer de&s;ire to enjoy their Sin alone; but the chiefe&s;t pa&s;time of a Drunkard is to heat and overcome others with Wine, that he may di&s;cover their nakedne&s;s and glory in their foyl and folly. In a word, exce&s;s of Wine, and the &s;pirit of Grace are oppo&s;ites; the former expels the latter out of the Heart, as &s;moke doth Bees out of the Hive: and makes the man a meer Slave and Prey to Satan and his &s;nares; when, by this Poy&s;on, he hath put out his Eyes, and &s;poyled him of his &s;trength, he u&s;eth him as the <HI>Phili&s;tins</HI> did <HI>Samp&s;on,</HI> leads him in a &s;tring whither he plea&s;eth, like a very drudge, &s;corn, and make-&s;port to him&s;elf and his Imps; makes him grind in the Mill of all kind of
<PB N="36" REF="22">Sins and Vices. And that I take to be the rea&s;on why Drunken|ne&s;s is not &s;pecially prohibited in any one of the Ten Command|ments, becau&s;e it is not the &s;ingle breach of any one, but in effect the violation of all and every one: It is no one &s;in, but all &s;ins, be|cau&s;e it is the In-let and Sluce to all other Sins. The Devil having moi&s;tened, and &s;teeped him in his Liquor; &s;hapes him like &s;oft Clay, into what mould he plea&s;eth: having &s;haken off his Rudder and Pilot, da&s;hes his Soul upon what Rocks, Sands, and Syrts he li&s;teth, and that with as much ea&s;e as a man may pu&s;h down his Body with the lea&s;t thru&s;t of his Hand or Finger. He that in his right wits, and &s;ober mood, &s;eems religious, mode&s;t, cha&s;t, courte|ous, &s;ecret; in his drunken fits, &s;wears, bla&s;phemes, rages, &s;trikes, talks filthily, blabs all &s;ecrets, commits folly, knows no difference of Per&s;ons or Sexes, becomes wholly at Satans command, as a dead Organ, to be enacted at his will and plea&s;ure. Oh that God would be plea&s;ed to open the Eyes of &s;ome Drunkard, to &s;ee what a Dunghill and Carrion his Soul becomes, and how loath&s;ome effects follow upon thy &s;piritual death, and &s;ting of this Cockatrice, which is the Fountain of the other two following, temporal and eternal death!</P>
<P>And well may it be, that &s;ome &s;uch as are altogether fearle&s;s and carele&s;s of the former death, will yet tremble, and be moved with that which I &s;hall in the &s;econd place tell them. Among all other &s;ins that are, none brings forth bodily death &s;o frequently as this, none &s;o ordinarily &s;lays in the act of &s;in as this. And what can be more horrible then to die in the act of a Sin, without the act of Re|pentance? I pronounce no definitive Sentence of Damnation upon any particular &s;o dying, but what door of hope or comfort is left to their Friends behind of their Salvation? The Whore-Ma&s;ter he hopes to have a &s;pace and time to repent in age, though &s;ometimes it plea&s;eth God that death &s;trikes <HI>Cozbi</HI> and <HI>Zimri</HI> napping, as the Devil is &s;aid to &s;lay one of the Popes in the in&s;tant of his Adultery, and carry him quick to Hell. The Swearer and Bla&s;phemer hath commonly &s;pace, though &s;eldom Grace, to repent and amend: and &s;ome rare examples &s;tories afford, of &s;ome taken with Oaths and Bla&s;phemies in their mouths. The Thief and Oppo&s;&s;or may live, and repent, and make re&s;titution, as <HI>Zacheus:</HI> though I have &s;een one &s;lain right-out with the Timber he &s;tole half an hour before; and heard of one that having &s;toln a Sheep, and laying it down upon a &s;tone to re&s;t him, was grin'd and hang'd with the &s;trugling
<PB N="37" REF="22">of it about his Neck. But the&s;e are extraordinary and rare ca&s;es: God &s;ometimes practi&s;ing Mar&s;hal-Law, and doing pre&s;ent execu|tion, left Fools &s;hall &s;ay in their Hearts, There were no God, or Judgment: but conniving and deferring the mo&s;t, that men might expect a Judge coming, and a &s;olemn day of Judgment to come. But this &s;in of Drunkenne&s;s is &s;o odious to him, that he makes it &s;elf Ju&s;tice, Judge and Executioner, &s;laying the ungodly with mi&s;|fortune, bringing them to untimely &s;hameful ends, in bruti&s;h and bea&s;tial manner, often in their own vomit and ordure; &s;ending them &s;otti&s;h, &s;leeping, and &s;en&s;ele&s;s to Hell, not leaving them either time, or rea&s;on, or grace to repent, and cry &s;o much as <HI>Lord have mercy upon us.</HI> Were there (as in &s;ome Cities of <HI>Italy</HI>) an Office kept, or a Record and Regi&s;ter by every Coroner in Shires and Counties, of &s;uch di&s;mal events which God hath avenged this &s;in withall, what a Volume would it have made with|in the&s;e few years in this our Nation? How terrible a Threater of God's Judgments again&s;t Drunkards, &s;uch as might make their Hearts to bleed and relent, if not their Ears to tingle, to hear of a ta&s;te of &s;ome few &s;uch noted and remarkable Examples of God's Ju&s;tice, as have come within the compa&s;s of mine own notice, and certain knowledge; I think I &s;hould offend to conceal them from the World, whom they may happily keep from being the like to others, them&s;elves.</P>
<P>An Ale-wife in <HI>Ke&s;grave,</HI> near to <HI>Ip&s;wich,</HI> who would needs force three Serving-men (that had been drinking in her Hou&s;e, and were taking their leaves) to &s;tay and drink the three Outs fir&s;t, that is, Wit out of the Head, Money out of the Pur&s;e, Ale out of the Pot; as &s;he was coming towards them with the Pot in her hand, was &s;uddenly taken &s;peechle&s;s and &s;ick, her Tongue &s;woln in her mouth, never recovered &s;peech, the third day after died. This Sir <HI>Anthony Felton,</HI> the next Gentleman and Ju&s;tice, with divers others Eve-witne&s;&s;es of her in Sickne&s;s related to me; whereupon I went to the Hou&s;e with two or three Witne&s;&s;es, and inquired the truth of it.</P>
<P>Two Servants of a Brewer in <HI>Ip&s;wich,</HI> drinking for a rumpe of a Turkie, &s;trugling in their drink for it, fell into a &s;cading Caldron backwards: whereof the one died pre&s;ently, the other lingringly and painfully &s;ince my coming to <HI>Ip&s;wich.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Anno</HI> 1619. A Miller in <HI>Brome&s;well,</HI> coming home drunk from <HI>Woodbridge</HI> (as he oft did) would needs go and &s;wim in the Mil|pond:
<PB N="38" REF="23">his Wife and Servants knowing he could not &s;wim, di&s;&s;wa|ded him, once by intreaty got him out of the water, but in he would needs go again, and there was drowned: I was at the hou&s;e to inquire of this, and found it to be true.</P>
<P>In <HI>Barnewell,</HI> near to <HI>Cambridge,</HI> one at the Sign of the <HI>Plough,</HI> a lu&s;ty young man, with two of his Neighbours, and one Woman in their Company, agreed to drink a Barrel of &s;trong Beer; they drank up the Ve&s;&s;el, three of them dyed within twenty four hours, the fourth hardly e&s;caped after great &s;ickne&s;s. This I have under a Ju&s;tice of Peace his Hand near dwelling, be&s;ides the common &s;ame.</P>
<P>A Butcher in <HI>Ha&s;tingfield</HI> hearing the Mini&s;ter inveigh again&s;t Drunkenne&s;s, being at his Cups in the Ale-hou&s;e, fell a je&s;ting and &s;coffing at the Mini&s;ter and his Sermons: And as he was drink|ing, the Drink, or &s;omething in the Cup, quackled him, &s;tuck &s;o in his Throat, that he could get it neither up nor down, but &s;trangled him pre&s;ently.</P>
<P>At <HI>Tillingham</HI> in <HI>Dengy</HI> Hundred in <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> three young men meet|ing to drink <HI>Strong waters,</HI> fell by degrees to half pints: One fell dead in the Room, and the other prevented by Company coming in, e&s;caped not without much &s;ickne&s;s.</P>
<P>At <HI>Bungey</HI> in <HI>Norfolk,</HI> three coming out of an Ale-hou&s;e in a very dark Evening, &s;wore, they thought it was not darker in Hell it &s;elf: One of them fell off the Bridge into the water, and was drowned; the &s;econd fell off his Hor&s;e, the third &s;leeping on the Ground by the Rivers-&s;ide, was frozen to death: This have I of|ten heard, but have no certain ground for the truth of it it.</P>
<P>A Bayliff of <HI>Hadly,</HI> upon the Lords-day, being drunk at <HI>Melford,</HI> would needs get upon his Mare, to ride through the Street, affirm|ing (as the Report goes) That his Mare would carry him to the Devil; His Mare ca&s;ts him off, and broke his Neck in&s;tantly. Re|ported by &s;undry &s;ufficient Witne&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>Company drinking in an Ale-hou&s;e at <HI>Harwith</HI> in the night, over again&s;t one Ma&s;ter <HI>Ru&s;sels,</HI> and by him out of his Window once or twice willed to depart; at length he came down, and took one of them, and made as if he would carry him to Pri&s;on, who drawing his Knife, fled from him, and was three days after taken out of the Sea with the Knife in his hand. Related to me by Ma&s;ter <HI>Ru&s;sel</HI> him&s;elf, Mayor of the Town.</P>
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<P>At <HI>Tenby</HI> in <HI>Pembroke&s;hire,</HI> a Drunkard being exceeding drunk, broke him&s;elf all to pieces off an high and &s;teep Rock, in a mo&s;t fearful manner; and yet the occa&s;ion and circum&s;tances of his fall were &s;o ridiculous, as I think not fit to relate, le&s;t, in &s;o &s;erious a Judgment, I &s;hould move laughter to the Reader.</P>
<P>A Gla&s;ier in <HI>Chancery-Lane</HI> in <HI>London,</HI> noted formerly for Pro|fe&s;&s;ion, fell to a common cour&s;e of drinking, whereof being oft by his Wife and many Chri&s;tian friends admoni&s;hed, yet pre&s;uming much of God's mercy to him&s;elf, continued therein, till, upon a time, having &s;urcharged his Stomach with drink, he fell a vomiting, broke a Vein, lay two days in extreme pain of Body, and di&s;tre&s;s of Mind, till in the end recovering a little comfort, he died: Both the&s;e Examples related to me by a Gentleman of worth upon his own knowledge.</P>
<P>Four &s;undry in&s;tances of Drunkards wallowing and tumbling in their drink, &s;lain by Carts; I forbear to mention, becau&s;e &s;uch ex|amples are &s;o common and ordinary.</P>
<P>A <HI>Yeoman</HI>'s Son in <HI>Northampton&s;hire,</HI> who being drunk at <HI>Welling|borough</HI> on a Market-day, would needs ride his Hor&s;e in a bravery over the plowed-lands, fell from his Hor&s;e, and brake his Neck: Reported to me by a Kin&s;man of his own.</P>
<P>A Knight notoriou&s;ly given to Drunkenne&s;s, carrying &s;ometime Payls of drink into the open Field, to make people drunk withall; being upon a time drinking with Company, a woman comes in, delivering him a Ring with this Po&s;ie, <HI>Drink and die;</HI> &s;aying to him, <HI>This is for you;</HI> which he took and wore, and within a week after came to his end by drinking: Reported by &s;undry, and ju&s;ti|fied by a Mini&s;ter dwelling within a mile of the place.</P>
<P>Two Examples have I known of Children that murthered their own Mothers in drink; and one notorious Drunkard that attemp|ted to kill his Father; of which being hindred, he fired his Barn, and was afterward executed: one of the&s;e formerly in Print.</P>
<P>At a Tavern in <HI>Bread&s;treet</HI> in <HI>London,</HI> certain Gentlemen drinking Healths to their Lords, on whom they had dependance; one de&s;pe|rate Wretch &s;teps to the Tables end, lays hold on a pottle-pot full of Canary-&s;ack, &s;wears a deep Oath; What will none here drink a health to my noble Lord and Ma&s;ter? and &s;o &s;etting the pottle|pot to his mouth, drinks it off to the bottom; was not able to ri&s;e up, or to &s;peak when he had done, but fell into a deep &s;noaring &s;leep, and being removed, laid a&s;ide, and covered by one of the
<PB N="40" REF="24">Servants of the Hou&s;e, attending the time of the drinking, was within the &s;pace of two hours irrecoverably dead: Witne&s;&s;ed at the time of the Printing hereof by the &s;ame Servant that &s;tood by him in the Act, and helpt to remove him.</P>
<P>In <HI>Dengy</HI> Hundred, near <HI>Mauldon,</HI> about the beginning of his Maje&s;ties Reign, there fell out an extraordinary Judgment upon five or &s;ix that plotted a &s;olemn drinking at one of their Hou&s;es, laid in Beer for the once, drunk healths in a &s;trange manner, and died thereof within a few weeks, &s;ome &s;ooner, and &s;ome later: witne&s;&s;ed to me by one that was with one of them on his death|bed, to demand a Debt, and often &s;poken of by Ma&s;ter <HI>Heydon,</HI> late Preacher of <HI>Mauldon,</HI> in the hearing of many: The particular cir|cum&s;tances were exceeding remarkable, but having not &s;ufficient proof for the particulars, I will not report them.</P>
<P>One of <HI>Ayle&s;ham</HI> in <HI>Norfolk,</HI> a notorious Drunkard, drowned in a &s;hallow Brook of water, with his Hor&s;e by him.</P>
<P>While&s;t this was at the Pre&s;&s;e, a man Eighty five years old, or thereabout, in <HI>Suffolk,</HI> overtaken with Wine, (though never in all his life before, as he him&s;elf &s;aid a little before his fall, &s;eeming to bewail his pre&s;ent condition, and others that knew him &s;o &s;ay of him) yet going down a pair of &s;tairs (again&s;t the per&s;wa&s;ion of a woman &s;itting by him in his Chamber) fell, and was &s;o dange|rou&s;ly hurt, as he died &s;oon after, not being able to &s;peak from the time of his fall to his death.</P>
<P>The Names of the Parties thus puni&s;hed, I forbear for the Kin|dreds &s;ake yet living.</P>
<P>If con&s;cionable Mini&s;ters of all places of the Land would give notice of &s;uch Judgments, as come within the compa&s;s of their cer|tain knowledge, it might be a great means to &s;uppre&s;s this Sin, which reigns every where to the &s;candal of our Nation, and high di&s;plea&s;ure of Almighty God.</P>
<P>The&s;e may &s;uffice for a ta&s;t of God's Judgments: Ea&s;ie were it to abound in &s;undry particular Ca&s;ualties, and fearful Examples of this nature. Drunkard, that which hath befaln any one of the&s;e, may befal thee, if thou wilt dally with this <HI>Cockatrice;</HI> what ever leagues thou make&s;t with Death, and di&s;pen&s;ations thou give&s;t thy &s;elf from the like. Some of the&s;e were young, &s;ome were rich, &s;ome thought them&s;elves as wi&s;e thou; none of them ever looked for &s;uch ignominious ends, more then thou, who ever thou art: if thou hate&s;t &s;uch ends, God give thee Grace to decline &s;uch cour&s;es.</P>
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<P>If thou beeft yet in&s;en&s;ate with Wine, void of Wit and Fear, I know not what further to mind thee of, but of that third, and wor&s;t &s;ting of all the re&s;t, which will ever be gnawing, and never dying: which if thou wilt not fear here; &s;ure thou art to feel there, when the Red Dragon hath gotten thee into his Den, and &s;halt fill thy Soul with the gall of Scorpions, where thou &s;halt yell and howl for a drop of water to cool thy Tongue withall, and &s;halt be denied &s;o &s;mall a refre&s;hing, and have no other liquor to allay thy thir&s;t, but that which the lake of Brim&s;tone &s;hall afford thee. And that wor|thily, for that thou woulde&s;t incur the wrath of the Lamb for &s;o ba&s;e and &s;ordid a &s;in as Drunkenne&s;s, of which thou maye&s;t think as venially and &s;lightly as thou wilt.<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 6.10.</NOTE> But <HI>Paul</HI> that knew the dan|ger of it, gives thee fair warning, and bids thee not deceive thy &s;elf, expre&s;ly and by name mentioning it among the mortal &s;ins, excluding from the Kingdom of Heaven.<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 5.14.</NOTE> And the Prophet <HI>E&s;ay</HI> tells thee, That for it <HI>Hell</HI> hath enlarged it &s;elf, opened its mouth wide, and without mea&s;ure; and therefore &s;hall the multitude and their pomp, and the jollye&s;t among them de&s;cend into it. Con&s;i|der this, you that are &s;trong to pour in drink, that love to drink &s;orrow and care away: And be you well a&s;&s;ured, that there you &s;hall drink enough for all, having for every drop of your former Bou&s;ings, Vials, yea, whole Seas of God's Wrath, never to be exhau&s;t.</P>
<P>Now then I appeal from your &s;elves in drink, to your &s;elves in your &s;ober fits. Rea&s;on a little the ca&s;e, and tell me calmly, would you for your own, or any mans plea&s;ure, to gratifie Friend or Com|panion, if you knew there had been a Toad in the wine-pot (as twice I have known happened to the death of Drinkers) or did you think that &s;ome <HI>Cae&s;ar Borgia,</HI> or <HI>Bra&s;utus</HI> had tempered the Cup; or did you &s;ee but a Spider in the Gla&s;s, would you, or dur&s;t you carou&s;e it off? And are you &s;o &s;imple to fear the Poy&s;on that can kill the Body, and not that which killeth the Soul and Body ever; yea, for ever and ever, and if it were po&s;&s;ible for more then for ever, for evermore? Oh thou vain Fellow, what telle&s;t thou me of friend&s;hip, or good fellow&s;hip, wilt thou account him thy Friend, or good Fellow, that draws thee into his company, that he may poy&s;on thee? and never thinks he hath given thee right en|tertainment, or &s;hewed thee kindne&s;s enough, till he hath killed thy Soul with his kindne&s;s, and with Beer made thy Body a Carka&s;s fit for the Biere, a laughing and loathing-&s;tock, not to Boys and
<PB N="42" REF="25">Girls alone, but to Men and Angels. Why rather &s;aye&s;t thou not to &s;uch, What have I to do with you, ye Sons of <HI>Belial,</HI> ye poy&s;on|ful Generation of Vipers, that hunt for the precious life of a man? Oh but there are few good Wits, or great Spirits now a-days, but will Pot it a little for company. What hear I? Oh ba&s;e and low-&s;pirited times, if that were true! If we were faln into &s;uch Lees of Time foretold of by <HI>Seneca,</HI> in which all were &s;o drowned in the dregs of Vices, that it &s;hould be vertue and honour to bear mo&s;t drink. But thanks be to God, who hath re&s;erved many thou&s;ands of men, and without all compari&s;on more witty and valorous then &s;uch Pot-wits, and Spirits of the Buttery, who never bared their knees to drink health, nor ever needed to whet their Wits with Wine; or arm their courage with Pot-harne&s;s. And if it were &s;o, yet if no &s;uch Wits or Spirits &s;hall ever enter into Heaven without Repentance, let my Spirit never come and enter into their Para|di&s;e; ever abhor to partake of their bruiti&s;h plea&s;ures, le&s;t I par|take of their endle&s;s woes. If young <HI>Cyrus</HI> could refu&s;e to drink Wine, and tell <HI>Aftyages,</HI> He thought it to be Poy&s;on; for he &s;aw it metamorpho&s;e men into Bea&s;ts and Carca&s;es: what would he have &s;aid, if he had known that which we may know, that the wine of Drunkards is the wine of <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Gomorrah;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 32.32.</NOTE> their grapes, the grapes of gall; their clu&s;ters, the clu&s;ters of bitterne&s;s, the Juyce of Dragons, and the venome of A&s;ps. In which words, <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> is a full Commentary upon <HI>Solomon,</HI> largely expre&s;&s;ing that he &s;peaks here more briefly, <HI>It &s;tings like the Serpent, and bites like the Cockatrice:</HI> To the which I may not unfitly add that of <HI>Pauls,</HI> and think I ought to write of &s;uch with more pa&s;&s;ion and compa&s;&s;ion, then he did of the Chri&s;tians in his time, which &s;ure were not &s;uch Mon&s;ters as ours in the &s;hapes of Chri&s;tians, <HI>Who&s;e God is their Belly,</HI> (whom they &s;erve with Drink-Offerings) <HI>who&s;e glory is their &s;hame, and who&s;e end is damnation.</HI></P>
<P>What then, take we plea&s;ure in thundering out Hell again&s;t Drunkards? is there nothing but death and damnation to Drun|kards? Nothing el&s;e to them, &s;o continuing, &s;o dying. But what is there no help nor hope, no Amulet, Antidote or Triacle, are there no Presidents found of Recovery? <HI>Ambro&s;e,</HI> I temember, tells of one, that having been a &s;pectacle of Drunkenne&s;s, proved after his Conver&s;ion a pattern of &s;obriety. And I my &s;elf mu&s;t confe&s;s, that one have I known yet living, who having drunk out his bodi|ly Eyes, had his &s;piritual Eyes opened, proved diligent in hearing
<PB N="43" REF="25">and practi&s;ing. Though the Pit be deep, miry and narrow, like that Dungeon into which <HI>Jeremy</HI> was put; yet if it plea&s;e God to let down the cords of his Divine mercy, and cau&s;e the Party to lay hold thereon, it is po&s;&s;ible they may e&s;cape the &s;nares of death. There is even for the mo&s;t debauched Drunkard that ever was, a &s;overaign Medicine, a rich Triacle, of force enough to cure and re|cover his Di&s;ea&s;e, to obtain his Pardon, and to furni&s;h him with &s;trength to overcome this deadly Poy&s;on, fatal to the mo&s;t: And though we may well &s;ay of it, as men out of experience do of Quar|tane Agues, that it is the di&s;grace of all moral Phy&s;ick, of all Re|proofs, Coun&s;els and Admonitions; yet is there a Salve for this Sore; there came one from Heaven that trode the Winepre&s;s of his Fathers fiercene&s;s, drunk of a Cup tempered with the bitterne&s;s of God's Wrath, and the Devils Malice, that he might heal even &s;uch as have drunk deepe&s;t of the &s;weet Cup of Sin. And let all &s;uch know, that in all the former di&s;covery of this Poy&s;on, I have only aimed to cau&s;e them feel their &s;ting, and that they might with ear|ne&s;t Eyes behold the Bra&s;en Serpent, and &s;eriou&s;ly repair to him for Mercy and Grace, who is perfectly able to eject even this kind, which &s;o rarely and hardly is thrown out where once he gets po&s;&s;e&s;&s;i|on. This Seed of the Woman is able to brui&s;e this Serpents head. Oh that they would li&s;ten to the gracious offers of Chri&s;t! if once there be wrought in thy Soul a &s;piritual thir&s;t after mercy, as the thir&s;ty Land hath after rain, a longing appetite after the water that comes out of the Rock, after the Blood that was &s;hed for thee; then let him that is athir&s;t come, let him drink of the water of life with|out any money; of which if thou ha&s;t took but one true and thorow draught, thou wilt never long after thy old puddle waters of Sin any more. Ea&s;ie will it be for thee after thou ha&s;t ta&s;ted of the Bread and Wine in thy Father's Hou&s;e, ever to loath the Husks and Swill thou wert wont to follow after with greedine&s;s. The Lord Chri&s;t will bring thee into his Mothers Hou&s;e, cau&s;e thee to drink of his &s;piced Wine, of the new Wine of the Pomegranate: Yea, he will bring thee into his Cellar, &s;pread his Banner of Love over thee, &s;tay thee with flagons, fill thee with his love, till thou bee&s;t &s;ick and overcome with the &s;weetne&s;s of his Con&s;olations. In other Drink there is exce&s;s, but here can be no danger. The Devil hath his invitation, <HI>Come, let us drink;</HI> and Chri&s;t hath his <HI>inebriamini, Beye filled with the Spirit.</HI> Here is a Fountain &s;et open, and Pro|clamation made. And if it were po&s;&s;ible for the bruiti&s;he&s;t Drunkard
<PB N="44" REF="26">in the World to know who it is that offereth, and what kind of wa|ter he offereth; he would ask, and God would give it frankly with|out money; he &s;hould drink liberally, be &s;atisfied, and out of his Belly &s;hould &s;ally Springs of the water of Life, quenching and ex|tingui&s;hing all his inordinate longings ofter &s;toln water of Sin and Death.</P>
<P>All this while, little hope have I to work upon many Drunkards, e&s;pecially by a Sermon read (of le&s;s life and force in God's Ordi|nance, and in its own nature, then preached,) my fir&s;t drift is, to &s;tir up the Spirits of Parents and Ma&s;ters, who in all Places com|plain of this evil, robbing them of good Servants, and dutiful Children, by all care and indu&s;try to prevent it in their Dome&s;tical Education, by carrying a watchful and re&s;training hand over them. Parents, if you love either Soul or Body, thrift or piety, look to keep them from this Infection. Lay all the bars of your authori|ty, cautions, threats and charges for the avoyding of this epidemi|cal Pe&s;tilence. If any of them be bitten of this Cockatrice, &s;leep not, re&s;t not, till you have cured them of it; if you love their Health, Husbandry, Grace, their pre&s;ent or future lives. Dead are they while they live, if they live in this Sin. Mothers, lay about you as <HI>Bath&s;heba,</HI> with all entreaties, What my Son, my Son of my loves and delights, Wine is not for you, &amp;c.</P>
<P>My next hope is, to arou&s;e and awaken the vigilancy of all faithful Pa&s;tors and Teachers. I &s;peak not to &s;uch Stars as this Dragon hath &s;wept down from Heaven with its tayl: for of &s;uch the Prophets, the Fathers of the Primitive, yea, all Ages complain of. I hate and abhor to mention this abomination: to alter the Proverb, <HI>As drunk as a Beggar,</HI> to a Gentleman is odious; but to a Man of God, to an Angel, how har&s;h and helli&s;h a &s;ound it is in a Chri&s;tians ears? I &s;peak therefore to &s;ober Watchmen, <HI>Watch, and be &s;ober,</HI> and labour to keep your Charges &s;ober and watchful, that they may be &s;o found of him, that comes like a Thief in the night. Two means have you of great vertue for the quelling of this Serpent, zealous Preaching and Praying again&s;t it. It's an old received Antidote, that mans &s;pittle, e&s;pecially fa&s;ting &s;pittle, is mortal to Serpents. Saint <HI>Donatus</HI> is famous in &s;tory for &s;pitting upon a Dragon, that kept an High-way, and devoured many Pa&s;&s;en|gers. This have I made good Ob&s;ervation of, That where God hath rai&s;ed up zealous Preachers, in &s;uch Towns this Serpent hath no ne&s;tling, no &s;tabling or denning. If this will not do, <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI>
<PB N="45" REF="26">enforceth another, which I conceive God's and Man's Laws allow us upon the rea&s;on he gives: If <HI>Paul</HI> (&s;aith he) forbid to eat with &s;uch our common Bread, in our own private Hou&s;es, how much more the Lord's Body in Church-A&s;&s;emblies: If in our Times, this were &s;trictly ob&s;erved, the Serpent would &s;oon langui&s;h and vani&s;h. In the time of an Epidemical Di&s;ea&s;e, &s;uch as the Sweating or Neezing Sickne&s;s, a wi&s;e Phy&s;ician would leave the &s;tudy of all other Di&s;ea&s;es, to find out the Cure of the pre&s;ent raging Evil. If <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tome</HI> were now alive, the bent of all his Homilies, or at lea&s;t one part of them, &s;hould be &s;pent to cry drown Drunkenne&s;s, as he did &s;wearing in <HI>Antioch:</HI> never de&s;i&s;ting to reprove it, till (if not the fear of God, yet) his imporunity made them weary of the fin.</P>
<P>Such <HI>Anakims</HI> and <HI>Zanzummims,</HI> as the &s;piritual Sword will not work upon, I turn them over to the Secular Arm, with a &s;ignifi|cation of the dangerous and contagious &s;preading of this poy&s;on in the Veins and Bowels of the Common-wealth. In the Church and Chri&s;t his name al&s;o, intreating them to carry a more vigilant Eye over the Dens and Burrows of this Cockatrice, &s;uperfluous, blind, and Clande&s;tin&eacute; Ale-hou&s;es I mean, the very Pe&s;t-hou&s;es of the Nation? which I could wi&s;h had all for their fign, a picture of &s;ome hideous Serpent, or a pair of them, as the be&s;t Hierogly|phick of the genius of the place, to warn Pa&s;&s;engers to &s;hun and avoid the danger of them. Who &s;ees and knows not, that &s;ome one needle&s;s Ale-hou&s;e in a Countrey-Town, un does all the re&s;t of the Hou&s;es in it, eating up the thrift and fruit of their Labours; the ill manner of &s;undry places, being there to meet in &s;ome one Night of the Week, and &s;pend what they they have gathered and &s;pared all the days of the &s;ame before, to the prejudice of their poor Wives and Children at home; and upon the Lords day (after Evening Prayers) there to quench and drown all the good Le&s;&s;ons they have heard that day at Church. If this go on, what &s;hall become of us in time? If woe be to single Drunkards, is not a Na|tional woe to be feared and expected of a Nation over-run with Drunkenne&s;s? Had we no other Sin reigning but this (which can|not reign alone) will not God ju&s;tly &s;pue us out of his mouth for this alone? We read of whole Countreys wa&s;ted, di&s;peopled by Serpents. <HI>Pliny</HI> tells us of the <HI>Amyclae, Lycophron</HI> of <HI>Salamis; Herodotus</HI> of the <HI>Neuri,</HI> utterly depopulate and made unhabitable by them. Verily, if the&s;e Cockatrices multiply and get head among&s;t
<PB N="46" REF="27">us a while longer, as they have of late begun, where &s;nall the peo|ple have &s;ober Servants to till their Lands, or Children to hold and enjoy them. They &s;peak of drayning Fens; but if this Evil be not &s;topped, we &s;hall all &s;hortly be drowned with it. I wi&s;h the Magi&s;tracy, Gentry, and Yeomanry, would take it to &s;erious con&s;i|deration, how to deal with this Serpent, before he grow too &s;trong and fierce for them. It is pa&s;t the egge already, and much at that pa&s;s, of which <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> complains of in his time, that he &s;carce knew what remedy to advi&s;e, but thought it required the meeting of a general Council. The be&s;t cour&s;e I think of, is, if the great Per&s;ons would fir&s;t begin through Reformation in their own Fami|lies, bani&s;h the &s;pirits of their Butteries, abandon that fooli&s;h and vitious Cu&s;tom, as <HI>Ambro&s;e</HI> and <HI>Ba&s;il</HI> calls it, of drinking Healths, and making that a Sacrifice to God for the health of others, which is rather a Sacrifice to the Devil, and a bane of their own. I re|member well <HI>Sigi&s;mund</HI> the Emperor's grave An&s;wer, wherein there concurred excellent Wi&s;dom and Wit (&s;eldom meeting in one &s;aying) which he gave before the Council of <HI>Con&s;tance,</HI> to &s;uch as propo&s;ed a Reformation of the Church to begin with the <HI>Franci&s;|eans</HI> and <HI>Minorites.</HI> You will never do any good (&s;aith he) unle&s;s you begin with the <HI>Majorites</HI> fir&s;t. Sure, till it be out of fa&s;hion and grace in Gentlemens Tables, Butteries and Cellars, hardly &s;hall you per&s;wade the Countrey-man to lay it down, who, as in Fa&s;hi|ons, &s;o in Vices, will ever be the Ape of the Gentry.</P>
<P>If this help not, I &s;hall then conclude it to be &s;uch an Evil as is only by Soveraign Power, and the King's Hand curable. And verily next under the word of God, which is Omnipotent, how potent and wonder-working is the Word of a King? when both meet as the Sun, and &s;ome good Star in a benigne Conjunction; what Enemy &s;hall &s;tand before the Sword of God and <HI>Gideon?</HI> what Vice &s;o predominant which the&s;e &s;ubdue not? If the Lion roar, what Bea&s;t of the Fore&s;t &s;hall not tremble and hide their head? have we not a noble experiment hereof yet fre&s;h in our memory, and worthy never to die, in the timely and &s;peedy &s;up|pre&s;&s;ion of that impudent abomination of Womens manni&s;h habit, threatning the confu&s;ion of Sexes, and ruine of Mode&s;ty? The &s;ame Royal Hand, and care the Church and Common-wealth im|plores for the vanqui&s;hing of this Poy&s;on, no le&s;s pernicious, more &s;preading and prevailing. Take us the&s;e little Foxes was wont to be the &s;uit of the Church, for they gnabble our Grapes, and hurt
<PB N="47" REF="27">our tender Branches: but now it is become more &s;erious. Take us the&s;e Serpents, le&s;t they de&s;troy our Vines, Vine-Dre&s;&s;ers, Vine|yards and all: This hath ever been Royal Game. How famous in the &s;tory of <HI>Diodorus Siculus,</HI> is the Royal munificence of <HI>Ptolomy</HI> King of <HI>Egypt</HI> for provi&s;ion of Nets, and maintenance of Hunt&s;men, for the taking and de&s;troying of Serpents, noxious and noi&s;ome to his Countrey. The like of <HI>Philip</HI> in <HI>Ari&s;totle,</HI> and of <HI>Attilius Re|Gulus</HI> in <HI>Aulus Gellius.</HI> The Embleme mentioned at large by <HI>Plu|tarch,</HI> engraven on <HI>Hercules</HI> Shield; what is it but a Symbol of the Divine honor due to Princes following their <HI>Herculean</HI> labours, in &s;ubduing the like <HI>Hidraes,</HI> too mighty for any inferior per&s;on to take in hand? It is their honor to tread upon <HI>Ba&s;ilisks,</HI> and tram|ple <HI>Dragons</HI> under their Feet, <HI>Solomon</HI> thinks it not unworthy his Pen to di&s;cour&s;e their danger.</P>
<P>A royal and eloquent Oration is happily and worthily pre&s;erved in the large Volume of ancient Writings, with this Title, <HI>Oratio magnifici &amp; pacifici</HI> Edgari <HI>Regis habita ad Dun&s;tanum Archiep. Epi&s;|copos, &amp;c.</HI> The main &s;cope whereof is, to excite the Clergies care and devotion for the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of this Vice, for the common good. Undertakers of difficult Plots promi&s;e them&s;elves &s;peed and effect, if once they intere&s;t the King, and make him Party. And what more generally beneficial can be devi&s;ed or propo&s;ed then this, with more Honour and le&s;s Charge to be effected, if it &s;hall plea&s;e his Maje&s;ty but to make trial of the &s;trength of his Temporal and Spi|ritual Arms? For the effecting of it, if this help not, what have we el&s;e remaining, but wi&s;hes and prayers to ca&s;t out this kind withall. God help us. To him I commend the &s;ucce&s;s of the&s;e Labors, and the vanqui&s;hing of this <HI>Cockatrice.</HI></P>
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<PB N="48" REF="28">
<HEAD>TOBACCO BATTERED, AND THE PIPES SHATTERED (About their Ears, that id'ly Idolize &s;o ba&s;e and barbarous a WEED: OR, At lea&s;t-wi&s;e over-love &s;o loath&s;ome Vanity.)</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Collected out of the famous <HI>POEMS</HI> of <HI>Jo&s;hua Sylve&s;ter,</HI> Gent.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>_WHat-ever God created, fir&s;t was good,</L>
<L>And good for man, while man uprightly &s;tood:</L>
<L>But, falling Angels cau&s;ing man to fall,</L>
<L>His foul Contagion con-corrupted all</L>
<L>His Fellow-Creatures for his Sin accur&s;t,</L>
<L>And for his &s;ake transformed from the fir&s;t;</L>
<PB N="49" REF="28">
<L>Till God and man, man's Leprie to re-cure,</L>
<L>By Death kill'd Death, re-making all things pure.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But to the Pure, not to the &s;till Prophane,</L>
<L>Who Spider-like turns Ble&s;&s;ing into Bane;</L>
<L>U&s;urping (right-le&s;s, thank-le&s;s, need-le&s;s) here,</L>
<L>In wanton, wilful, wa&s;tful, lu&s;tful chear,</L>
<L>Earths plenteous Crop, which God hath onely given</L>
<L>Unto his own (Heirs both of Earth and Heaven)</L>
<L>Who only (rightly) may with Prai&s;e and Prayer,</L>
<L>Enjoy th'increa&s;e of Earth, of Sea, of Air,</L>
<L>Fowl, Fi&s;h and Fle&s;h, Gems, Mettals, Cattel, Plants,</L>
<L>And namely (that which now no Angle wants)</L>
<L><HI>Indian</HI> Tobacco, when due cau&s;e Requires,</L>
<L>Not the dry Drop&s;ie of Phanta&s;tick Squires.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>None therefore deem that I am now to learn,</L>
<L>(However dim I many things di&s;cern)</L>
<L>Rea&s;on and Sea&s;on to di&s;tingui&s;h fit,</L>
<L>Th' u&s;e of a thing, from the abu&s;e of it;</L>
<L>Drinking, from Drunking, <HI>Saccharum cum Sacco,</HI></L>
<L>And taking of, from taking all Tobacco.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet out of high Di&s;dain and Indignation</L>
<L>Of that &s;tern Tyrant's &s;trange&s;t U&s;urpation,</L>
<L>Once Demi-captive to his puffing pride,</L>
<L>(As millions are too-wilful foolifi'd)</L>
<L>Needs mu&s;t I band again&s;t the needle&s;s u&s;e</L>
<L>Of <HI>Don Tobacco,</HI> and his foul abu&s;e;</L>
<L>Which (though in <HI>Inde</HI> it be an Herb indeed)</L>
<L>In <HI>Europe</HI> is no better then a Weed,</L>
<L>Which to their Idols <HI>Pagans</HI> Sacrifice,</L>
<L>And <HI>Chri&s;tians</HI> (here) do well-nigh Idolize:</L>
<L>Which taking, <HI>Heathens</HI> to the Devils bow</L>
<L>Their Bodies, <HI>Chri&s;tians</HI> even their Souls do vow;</L>
<L>Yet th' <HI>Heathen</HI> have, with th' ill, &s;ome good withall,</L>
<L>Sith their con-native, 'tis non-natural:</L>
<L>But &s;ee the nature of abounding &s;in,</L>
<L>Which more abounding, puni&s;hment doth win;</L>
<L>For knowing Servants wilful Arrogance,</L>
<L>Then &s;illy Strangers &s;avage Ignorance,</L>
<L>For what to them is Meat, and Med'cinable,</L>
<L>Is turn'd tous a Plague intolerable.</L>
</LG>
<PB N="50" REF="29">
<LG>
<L>Two &s;moky Engins, in this latter Age,</L>
<L>(Satan's &s;hort Circuit; the more &s;harp his Rage)</L>
<L>Have been invented by too-wanton wit,</L>
<L>Or rather vented from th' infernal Pit;</L>
<L>Guns and Tobacco-Pipes, with fire and &s;moke,</L>
<L>(At lea&s;t) a third part of Mankind to choke,</L>
<L>(Which, happily, th' <HI>Apocalyps</HI> fold-told)</L>
<L>Yet of the two, we may (think I) be bold</L>
<L>In &s;ome re&s;pect, to think the la&s;t the wor&s;t,</L>
<L>(However, both in their effects accur&s;t,)</L>
<L>For Guns &s;hoot from-ward, only at their foen,</L>
<L>Tobacco-Pipes home-ward, into their own,</L>
<L>(When for the touch-hole firing the wrong end</L>
<L>Into our &s;elves the Poy&s;ons force we &s;end;)</L>
<L>Tho&s;e in the Field, in brave and ho&s;tile manner,</L>
<L>The&s;e, cowardly, under a covert banner;</L>
<L>Tho&s;e with defiance, in a threatful Terror,</L>
<L>The&s;e with affiance, in a wilful Error,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e, (though loud-roaring, goaring-deep) quick-ridding;</L>
<L>The&s;e, &s;tilly &s;tealing, longer Languors breeding,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e, full of pain (perhaps) and fell de&s;pight,</L>
<L>The&s;e with fal&s;e plea&s;ure, and a &s;eem-delight,</L>
<L>(As Cats with Mice, Spiders with Flyes) full rife,</L>
<L>Pipe-Playing, dallying and deluding life.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who would not wonder in the&s;e &s;unny-days,</L>
<L>(So bright illightned with the Gofpel's Rays)</L>
<L>Whence &s;o much &s;moke and deadly vapors come,</L>
<L>To dim and dam &s;o much of Chri&s;tendom;</L>
<L>But we mu&s;t ponder too, the&s;e days are tho&s;e,</L>
<L>Wherein the Devil was to be let lo&s;e,</L>
<L>And yawning broad-gate of that black aby&s;s</L>
<L>To be &s;et ope, who&s;e bottom boundle&s;s is,</L>
<L>That Satan, de&s;tin'd evermore to dwell</L>
<L>In &s;moky Fornace of that Dark&s;om Cell,</L>
<L>In &s;moke and darkne&s;s might inure and train</L>
<L>His own deer minions, while they here remain;</L>
<L>As Roguing Gip&s;ies tan their little Elves,</L>
<L>To make them tan'd and ugly like them&s;elves.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then in de&s;pight, who ever dare &s;ay nay,</L>
<L>Tobacconi&s;ts keep on your cour&s;e; you may,</L>
<PB N="51" REF="29">
<L>If you continue in your &s;moky ure,</L>
<L>The better far Hells &s;ulphury Smoke endure;</L>
<L>And herein (as in all your other evil)</L>
<L>Grow nearer &s;till, and liker to the Devil,</L>
<L>Save that the Devil (if he could revoke)</L>
<L>Would fly from filthy, and unhealthy Smoke;</L>
<L>Wherein (ca&s;t out of Heav'n for Helli&s;h-pride)</L>
<L>Unwilling he, and forced, doth abide;</L>
<L>Which herein wor&s;e than he (the wor&s;t of ill)</L>
<L>You long for, lu&s;t for, lye for, die for, &s;till;</L>
<L>For as the <HI>Salamander</HI> lives in fire,</L>
<L>You live in &s;moke, and without &s;moke expire.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Should it be que&s;tion'd (as right well it may)</L>
<L>Whether di&s;covery of <HI>America,</HI></L>
<L>That New-found World, have yielded to our old</L>
<L>More hurt or good, till fuller an&s;wer &s;hould</L>
<L>Decide the doubt, and quite determine it,</L>
<L>Thus for the pre&s;ent might we an&s;wer fit;</L>
<L>That, thereby we have (rightly under&s;tood)</L>
<L>Both given and taken greater hurt then good:</L>
<L>And that on both &s;ides, both for <HI>Chri&s;tians,</HI></L>
<L>It had been better, and for <HI>Indians,</HI></L>
<L>That only good men to their coa&s;t had come,</L>
<L>Or that the Evil had &s;till &s;taid at home;</L>
<L>For, what our People have brought thence to us,</L>
<L>Is like the head-piece of a <HI>Polypus,</HI></L>
<L>Wherein is (quoted by &s;age <HI>Plutarch</HI>'s quill)</L>
<L>A Pe&s;t'lence great good, and great Pe&s;t'lence ill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>We had from them, fir&s;t to augment our Stocks,</L>
<L>Two grand Di&s;ea&s;es, Scurvy and the Pocks;</L>
<L>Then two great Cordials (for a Counterpoize)</L>
<L>Gold and Tobacco; both which, many wayes,</L>
<L>Have done more mi&s;chief, then the former twain;</L>
<L>And all together-brought more lo&s;s then gain.</L>
<L>But true it is, we had this tra&s;h of theirs,</L>
<L>Only in barter for our broken Wares;</L>
<L>Ours for the mo&s;t part carried out but &s;in,</L>
<L>And, for the mo&s;t part, brought but Vengeance in;</L>
<L>Their Fraight was Sloth, Lu&s;t, Avarice and Drink,</L>
<L>(A burden able with the weight to &s;ink</L>
<PB N="52" REF="30">
<L>The huge&s;t Carrak; yea, tho&s;e hallowed Twelve</L>
<L><HI>Spain</HI>'s great Apo&s;tles-even to over-whelve)</L>
<L>They carried Sloth, and brought home &s;curvy skin;</L>
<L>They carried Lu&s;t, and brought home Pox within:</L>
<L>They carried Avarice, and Gold they got;</L>
<L>They carried <HI>Bacchus,</HI> and Tobacco brought:</L>
<L>Alas poor <HI>Indians!</HI> That, but <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> none,</L>
<L>Could put them down in their own Trade alone!</L>
<L>That none but <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> (more alas! more &s;trange!)</L>
<L>Could ju&s;tifie their pittiful exchange.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Of all the Plants that <HI>Tellus</HI> Bo&s;om yields,</L>
<L>In Groves, Glades, Gardens, Mar&s;hes, Mountains, Fields:</L>
<L>None &s;o pernicious to mans life is known,</L>
<L>As is Tobacco, &s;aving Hemp alone,</L>
<L>Betwixt which two there &s;eems great &s;ympathy,</L>
<L>To ruinate poor <HI>Adam</HI>'s Progeny;</L>
<L>For in them both a &s;trangling vertue note,</L>
<L>And both of them do work upon the Throat;</L>
<L>The one, within it; and without the other;</L>
<L>And th' one prepareth work unto the tother:</L>
<L>For there do meet (I mean at Gaile and Gallows)</L>
<L>More of the&s;e bea&s;tly, ba&s;e Tobacco-Fellows,</L>
<L>Then el&s;e to any prophane Haunt do u&s;e,</L>
<L>(Excepting &s;till the Play-hou&s;e and the Stews)</L>
<L>Sith 'tis their common lot (&s;o double-choaked)</L>
<L>Ju&s;t bacon-like to be hang'd up and &s;moked;</L>
<L>A de&s;tiny as proper to befall</L>
<L>To moral Swine, as to Swine natural.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If there be any Herb in any place,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t oppo&s;ite to God's good Herb of Grace,</L>
<L>'Tis doubtle&s;s this; and this doth plainly prove it,</L>
<L>That, for the mo&s;t, mo&s;t gracele&s;s men do love it;</L>
<L>Or rather doat mo&s;t on this wither'd Weed,</L>
<L>Them&s;elves as wither'd, in all gracious deed:</L>
<L>'Tis &s;trange to &s;ee, (and unto me a wonder)</L>
<L>When the prodigious &s;tr&agrave;nge abu&s;e we ponder</L>
<L>Of this unruly, ru&s;ty Vegetal,</L>
<L>From modern Symmi&s;ts Je&s;u critical,</L>
<L>(Carping at us, and ca&s;ting in our di&s;h</L>
<L>Not Crimes, but Crums, as eating Fle&s;h for Fi&s;h;)</L>
<PB N="53" REF="30">
<L>W' hear in this ca&s;e, no Con&s;cience-ca&s;es holier,</L>
<L>But, like to like, the Devil with the Collier.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For a Tobacconi&s;t (I dare aver)</L>
<L>Is fir&s;t of all a rank Idolater</L>
<L>As any of the Ignatian Hierachy;</L>
<L>Next as conformed to their foppery</L>
<L>Of burning day-light, and good Night at Noon,</L>
<L>Setting up Candles to enlight the Sun;</L>
<L>And la&s;t the Kingdom of new <HI>Babylon,</HI></L>
<L>Stands in a dark and &s;moky Region,</L>
<L>So full of &s;uch variety of &s;mokes,</L>
<L>That there-with-all, all Piety it choaks.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For there is fir&s;t of all the &s;moke of Ignorance,</L>
<L>The &s;moke of Error, &s;moke of Arrogance,</L>
<L>The &s;moke of Merit &s;uper-er'gatory,</L>
<L>The &s;moke of Pardons, &s;moke of Purgatory,</L>
<L>The &s;moke of cen&s;ing, &s;moke of thurifying</L>
<L>Of Images, of Satans fury flying,</L>
<L>The &s;moke of Stews (from &s;moking thence they come,</L>
<L>As horrid hot, as torrid <HI>Sodom</HI> &s;ome)</L>
<L>Then &s;moke of Powder-Trea&s;on, Pi&s;tol Knives,</L>
<L>To blow up Kingdoms, and blow out Kings Lives:</L>
<L>And la&s;tly too, Tobacco's &s;moky mi&s;ts,</L>
<L>Which (coming from Iberian Baali&s;ts)</L>
<L>No &s;mall addition of adu&s;tion fit,</L>
<L>Bring to the &s;moke of the unbottom'd Pit</L>
<L>Yer&s;t opened, fir&s;t (as openeth St. <HI>John</HI>)</L>
<L>By their <HI>Abaddon</HI> and <HI>Apollyon.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But &s;ith they are contented to admire</L>
<L>What they di&s;like not, if they not de&s;ire;</L>
<L>(For, with good rea&s;on, may we ghe&s;s that they</L>
<L>Who &s;wallow Camels, &s;wallow Gnatlings may;)</L>
<L>'Tis ground enough for us in this di&s;pute,</L>
<L>Their Vanities thus obvious to refute</L>
<L>(Their Vanities, My&s;terious mi&s;ts of <HI>Rome,</HI></L>
<L>Which have &s;o long be&s;moked Chri&s;tendom.)</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And for the re&s;t, it &s;hall &s;uffice to &s;ay,</L>
<L>Tobacconing is but a &s;moky Play;</L>
<L>Strong arguments again&s;t &s;o weak a thing,</L>
<L>Were needle&s;s, or un&s;uitable, to bring;</L>
<PB N="54" REF="31">
<L>In this behalf there needs no more be done,</L>
<L>Sith of it &s;elf the &s;ame will vani&s;h &s;oon;</L>
<L>T' evaporate this &s;moke, it is enough,</L>
<L>But with a breath the &s;ame a&s;ide to puffe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now, my fir&s;t puff, &s;hall but repel th' ill &s;avour</L>
<L>Of Place and Per&s;ons (of debaucht behaviour)</L>
<L>Where 'tis mo&s;t frequent; &s;econd, &s;hew I will,</L>
<L>How little good it doth; third, how great ill:</L>
<L>'Tis vented mo&s;t in Taverns, Tipling-cotts,</L>
<L>To Ruffians, Roarers, Tip&s;y-to&s;ty-pots,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Cu&s;tom is, between the Pipe and Pot,</L>
<L>(Th'one cold and moi&s;t, th'other dry and hot;)</L>
<L>To skirmi&s;h &s;o (like Sword-and-Dagger-fight,)</L>
<L>That 'tis not ea&s;ie to determine right,</L>
<L>Which of their Weapons hath the Conque&s;t got</L>
<L>Over their Wits, the Pipe or el&s;e the Pot;</L>
<L>Yet 'tis apparent, and by proof expre&s;s,</L>
<L>Both &s;tab and wound the Brain with drunkenne&s;s;</L>
<L>For even the derivation of the name,</L>
<L>Seems to allude, and to include the &s;ame:</L>
<L>Tobacco, as &Tgr;&ohgr; &Bgr;&agr;&kgr;&khgr;&ohgr;, one would &s;ay,</L>
<L>To <HI>Bacchus</HI> (Cup-god) dedicated ay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And for conclu&s;ion of this Point, ob&s;erve</L>
<L>The places which to the&s;e abu&s;es &s;erve;</L>
<L>How-ever of them&s;elves noy&s;ome enough,</L>
<L>Are much more loath&s;ome with the &s;tench and &s;tuff,</L>
<L>Extracted from their Limbeckt Lips and No&s;e,</L>
<L>So that the Hou&s;es, common haunts of tho&s;e,</L>
<L>Are liker Hell than Heav'n, for Hell hath &s;moke,</L>
<L>Impenitent Tobacconi&s;ts to choak;</L>
<L>Though never dead, there &s;hall they have their fill;</L>
<L>In Heav'n is none, but Light and Glory &s;till.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Next, multitudes them daily, hourly, drawn</L>
<L>In this black Sea of &s;moke, to&s;t up and down</L>
<L>In this va&s;t Ocean, of &s;uch latitude,</L>
<L>That <HI>Europe</HI> only cannot it include;</L>
<L>But out it ru&s;hes, over-runs the whole,</L>
<L>And reaches well-nigh round, from Pole to Pole</L>
<L>Among the <HI>Moors, Turks, Tartars, Per&s;ians,</HI></L>
<L>And other <HI>Ethnicks</HI> full of Ignorance</L>
<PB N="55" REF="31">
<L>Of God and good; and, if we &s;hall look home,</L>
<L>To view (and rew) the State of Chri&s;tendom;</L>
<L>Upon this Point, we may this Riddle bring;</L>
<L>The Subject hath more Subjects then the King:</L>
<L>For <HI>Don Tocacco</HI> hath an ampler Reign,</L>
<L>Than <HI>Don Philippo,</HI> the great King of <HI>Spain,</HI></L>
<L>(In who&s;e Dominions, for the mo&s;t it grows,)</L>
<L>Nay, &s;hall I &s;ay (O horror to &s;uppo&s;e!)</L>
<L>Heatheni&s;h Tobacco (almo&s;t every where)</L>
<L>In Chri&s;tendom (Chri&s;t's outward Kingdom here)</L>
<L>Hath more Di&s;ciples than Chri&s;t hath, I fear,</L>
<L>More Suits, more Service (Bodies, Souls, and good)</L>
<L>Than Chri&s;t that bought us with his pretious Bloud:</L>
<L>O great <HI>Tobacco,</HI> greater then great <HI>Can,</HI></L>
<L>Great <HI>Turk,</HI> great <HI>Tartar,</HI> or great <HI>Tamerlan!</HI></L>
<L>With <HI>Vulturs</HI> Wings thou ha&s;t (and &s;wifter yet</L>
<L>Then an <HI>Hungarian</HI> Ague, <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Sweat)</L>
<L>Through all degrees flown, far, nigh, up and down,</L>
<L>From Court to Cart, from Count to Country-Clown;</L>
<L>Not &s;corning Scullions, Coblers, Colliers,</L>
<L>Jakes-farmers, Fidlers, O&s;tlers, Oy&s;terers,</L>
<L>Rogues, Gip&s;ies, Players, Pandars, Punks, and all,</L>
<L>What common Scums in Common-Sewers fall;</L>
<L>For all as Va&s;&s;als at thy beck are bent,</L>
<L>And breath by thee, as their new Element:</L>
<L>Which well may prove thy Monarchy the greater,</L>
<L>Yet prove not thee to be a whit the better;</L>
<L>But rather wor&s;e, for Hells wide-open road</L>
<L>Is ea&s;ie&s;t found, and by the mo&s;t &s;till trod,</L>
<L>Which, even the <HI>Heathen</HI> had the Light to know,</L>
<L>By Arguments, as many times they &s;how.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Here may we al&s;o gather (for a need)</L>
<L>Whether <HI>Tobacco</HI> be a Herb or Weed;</L>
<L>And whether the exce&s;&s;ive u&s;e be fit,</L>
<L>Or good or bad, by tho&s;e that favour it;</L>
<L>Weeds, wild and wicked, mo&s;tly entertain it;</L>
<L>Herbs, whol&s;ome Herbs, and holy minds di&s;dain it.</L>
<L>If then Tobacconing be good, how is't,</L>
<L>That lewde&s;t, loo&s;e&s;t, ba&s;e&s;t, fooli&s;he&s;t;</L>
<PB N="56" REF="32">
<L>The mo&s;t unthrifty, mo&s;t intemperate,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t vitious, mo&s;t debaucht, mo&s;t de&s;perate,</L>
<L>Pur&s;ue it mo&s;t: The wi&s;e&s;t, and the be&s;t,</L>
<L>Abhor it, &s;hun it, flee it as the Pe&s;t,</L>
<L>Or piercing poy&s;on of a <HI>Dracons</HI> whisk,</L>
<L>Or deadly eye-&s;hot of a <HI>Ba&s;ilisk</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If Wi&s;dom baulk it, mu&s;t it not be folly?</L>
<L>If Vertue hate it, is it not unholy?</L>
<L>If men of worth, and minds right generous,</L>
<L>Di&s;card it, &s;corn it, is't not &s;candalous?</L>
<L>And (to conclude) is it not, to the Devil,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t plea&s;ing, plea&s;ing &s;o (mo&s;t) the mo&s;t evil?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My &s;econd puff, is proof, how little good</L>
<L>This &s;moke hath done (that ever hear I cou'd:)</L>
<L>For fir&s;t, there's none that takes Tobacco mo&s;t,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t u&s;ually, mo&s;t earne&s;tly, can boa&s;t,</L>
<L>That the exce&s;&s;ive and continual u&s;e</L>
<L>Of this dry-&s;uck-at ever did produce</L>
<L>Him any good, civil or natural,</L>
<L>Or moral good, or artificial;</L>
<L>Unle&s;s perhaps, they will alledge, it draws</L>
<L>Away the ill, which &s;till it &s;elf doth cau&s;e;</L>
<L>Which cour&s;e (me-thinks) I cannot liken better,</L>
<L>Then to a U&s;erers kindne&s;s to his Debter;</L>
<L>Who under &s;hew of lending, &s;till &s;ubtracts</L>
<L>The Debters own, and then his own exacts,</L>
<L>Till, at the la&s;t, he utterly confound him,</L>
<L>Or leave him wor&s;e, and weaker then he found him.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Next, if the Cu&s;tom of Tobacconing</L>
<L>Yield th' U&s;ers any good in any thing,</L>
<L>Either they have it, or they hope it pre&s;t,</L>
<L>(By proof and practice, taking &s;till the be&s;t:)</L>
<L>For, none but Fools will them to ought be&s;lave,</L>
<L>Whence benefit they neither hope nor have.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Therefore yet farther (as a Que&s;tioni&s;t)</L>
<L>I mu&s;t enquire of my Tobacconi&s;t,</L>
<L>Why if a Chri&s;tian (as &s;ome &s;ometimes &s;eem)</L>
<L>Believing God, waiting all good from him;</L>
<L>And unto him all good again referring,</L>
<L>Why (to e&s;chew th' Ungodly's gracele&s;s erring)</L>
<PB N="57" REF="32">
<L>Why pray they not not? why prai&s;e they not his name</L>
<L>For hoped good, and good had by this &s;ame?</L>
<L>As all men do, or ought to do for all,</L>
<L>The gifts and goods that from his goodne&s;s fall;</L>
<L>Is't not, becau&s;e they neither hope nor have,</L>
<L>Good (hence) to thank God for, nor farther crave:</L>
<L>But as they had it from the <HI>Heathen</HI> fir&s;t,</L>
<L>So heatheni&s;hly they u&s;e it &s;till accur&s;t;</L>
<L>And (as &s;ome je&s;t of Ji&s;ters) this is more,</L>
<L>Ungodly meat, both after and before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>La&s;tly, if all delights of all Mankind</L>
<L>Be vanity, vexation of the Mind,</L>
<L>All under Sun, mu&s;t not <HI>Tobacco</HI> bee,</L>
<L>Of Vanities, the vaine&s;t Vanity?</L>
<L>If <HI>Solomon,</HI> the wi&s;e&s;t earthly Prince</L>
<L>That ever was before, or hath been &s;ince;</L>
<L>Knowing all Plants, and then peru&s;ing all,</L>
<L>From <HI>Cedar</HI> to the <HI>Hy&s;op</HI> on the&mdash;Wall;</L>
<L>In none of all profe&s;&s;eth, that&mdash;he &s;ound</L>
<L>A firm Content, or Con&s;olation found:</L>
<L>Can we &s;uppo&s;e, that any &s;hallowing,</L>
<L>Can find much good in oft Tobacconing?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My third and la&s;t Puff points at the great evil,</L>
<L>This noy&s;ome Vapor works (through wily Devil)</L>
<L>If we may judge; if knowledge may be had,</L>
<L>By their effects, how things be good or bad:</L>
<L>Doubtle&s;s, th' effects of this pernitious Weed</L>
<L>Be many bad, &s;carce any good indeed;</L>
<L>Nor doth a man &s;carce any good contain,</L>
<L>But of this Evil ju&s;tly may complain;</L>
<L>As thereby made in every part the wor&s;e,</L>
<L>In Body, Soul, in Credit, and in Pur&s;e.</L>
</LG>
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<PB N="58" REF="33">
<HEAD>A Broad-Side AGAINST COFFEE: OR, THE Marriage of the Turk.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>COFFEE,</HI> a kind of <HI>Turki&s;h Renegade,</HI></L>
<L>Has late a match with <HI>Chri&s;tian water</HI> made;</L>
<L>At fir&s;t between them happen'd a Demur,</L>
<L>Yet joyn'd they were, but not without great <HI>&s;tir;</HI></L>
<L>For both &s;o cold were, and &s;o faintly meet,</L>
<L>The <HI>Turki&s;h Hymen</HI> in his <HI>Turbant</HI> &s;wet.</L>
<L><HI>coffee</HI> was cold as <HI>Earth, Water</HI> as <HI>Thames,</HI></L>
<L>And &s;tood in need of recommending Flames;</L>
<L>For each of them &s;teers a contrary cour&s;e,</L>
<L>And of them&s;elves they &s;ue out a Divorce.</L>
<PB N="59" REF="33">
<L><HI>Coffee</HI> &s;o brown as berry does appear,</L>
<L>Too &s;warthy for a Nymph &s;o fair, &s;o clear:</L>
<L>And yet his &s;ails he did for <HI>England</HI> hoi&s;t,</L>
<L>Though cold and dry, to court the cold and moi&s;t;</L>
<L>If there be ought we can, as love admit;</L>
<L>'Tis a hot love, and la&s;teth but a fit.</L>
<L>For this indeed the cau&s;e is of their &s;tay,</L>
<L><HI>New ca&s;tle's</HI> bowels warmer are than they.</L>
<L>The melting Nymph di&s;tills her &s;elf to do't,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t the Slave <HI>Coffee</HI> mu&s;t be <HI>beaten</HI> to't:</L>
<L>Incorporate him clo&s;e as clo&s;e may be,</L>
<L>Pau&s;e but a while, and he is none of he;</L>
<L>Which for a truth, and not a &s;tory tells,</L>
<L><HI>No Faith is to be kept with Infidels.</HI></L>
<L>Sure he &s;u&s;pects, and &s;huns her as a Whore,</L>
<L>And loves, and kills, like the <HI>Venetian Moor;</HI></L>
<L>Bold A&s;ian Brat! with &s;peed our con&s;ines flee;</L>
<L><HI>Water,</HI> though common, is too good for thee.</L>
<L>Sure <HI>Coffee's</HI> vext he has the breeches lo&s;t,</L>
<L>For &s;he's above, and he lies undermo&s;t;</L>
<L>What &s;hall I add but this? (and &s;ure 'tis right)</L>
<L>The Groom is <HI>heavy,</HI> 'cau&s;e the Bride is <HI>light.</HI></L>
<L>This canting <HI>Coffe</HI> has his Crew inricht,</L>
<L>And both the <HI>Water</HI> and the <HI>Men</HI> bewitcht.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A Coachman was the fir&s;t (here) <HI>Coffee</HI> made,</L>
<L>And ever &s;ince the re&s;t <HI>drive on</HI> the trade;</L>
<L><HI>Me no good Engala&s;h!</HI> and &s;ure enough,</L>
<L>He plaid the Quack to &s;alve his Stygian &s;tuff;</L>
<L><HI>Ver boon for de &s;tomach, de Cough, de Pti&s;ick,</HI></L>
<L>And I believe him, for it looks like Phy&s;ick.</L>
<L><HI>Coffee</HI> a cru&s;t is charkt into a coal,</L>
<L>The &s;mell and ta&s;te of the Mock <HI>China</HI> bowl;</L>
<L>Where huff and puff, they labor out their Lungs,</L>
<L>Le&s;t <HI>Dives</HI>-like they &s;hould bewail their Tongues.</L>
<PB N="60" REF="34">
<L>And yet they tell ye that it will not burn,</L>
<L>Though on the Jury Bli&s;ters you return:</L>
<L>Who&s;e furious heat does make the water ri&s;e,</L>
<L>And &s;till through the Alembicks of your eyes,</L>
<L>Dread and de&s;ire, ye fall to't &s;nap by &s;nap,</L>
<L>As hungry Dogs do &s;calding porrige lap.</L>
<L>But to cure Drunkards it has got great Fame;</L>
<L><HI>Po&s;&s;et</HI> or <HI>Porrige,</HI> will't not do the &s;ame?</L>
<L>Confu&s;ion huddles all into one Scene,</L>
<L>Like <HI>Noah's</HI> Ark, the clean and the unclean.</L>
<L>But now, alas! the Drench has credit got,</L>
<L>And he's no Gentleman that drinks it not;</L>
<L>That &s;uch a <HI>Dwarf</HI> &s;hould ri&s;e to &s;uch a &s;tature!</L>
<L>But Cu&s;tom is but a remove from Nature.</L>
<L>A <HI>little</HI> Di&s;h, and a <HI>large</HI> Coffee-hou&s;e,</L>
<L>What is it, but a <HI>Mountain</HI> and a <HI>Mou&s;e?</HI></L>
</LG>
<P><HI>Mens humana novitatis avidi&s;&s;ima.</HI></P>
<P>I have heard it is good for one thing (and that falls out too often) when men are &s;o drunk with <HI>Wine, Beer</HI> or <HI>Ale,</HI> or <HI>Brandy,</HI> that they are unfit to manage their Imployment; then a Di&s;h of hot <HI>Coffee</HI> is a pre&s;ent Re|medy to &s;ettle their Heads.</P>
<P>No doubt, but a Di&s;h of Broth, or Beer, will work the &s;ame Cure, if it be drank as hot.</P>
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<PB N="61" REF="34">
<HEADNOTE>
<P>This &s;hort Collection &s;hould more properly have taken place next to what was collected out of the other Doctors, but it came not to my &s;ight, till it was too late: And becau&s;e it agrees with what is mentioned in the fir&s;t Epi&s;tle, that it is a &s;trange way of taking <HI>Tobacco,</HI> as Phy|&s;ick, ju&s;t before, and pre&s;ently after Meals; I thought fit to put it in here. And if any are &s;o wi&s;e as to be convinced by what hath been written, That immoderate &s;moking of <HI>Tobacco</HI> is hurtful for them, they were be&s;t to leave it gradnally; for that is mo&s;t &s;afe, for &s;uch as have been accu&s;tomed long to it; or el&s;e it is good to chew the leafe in the mouth; or as &s;ome do, &s;moke a Pipe with other Ingredients, as <HI>Ro&s;emary, Bitony,</HI> or <HI>Mints:</HI> This Collection was taken out of that Book of Dr. <HI>Everard's,</HI> Entituled, <HI>The Vertue of To|bacco.</HI></P>
</HEADNOTE>
<P>YOung men e&s;pecially mu&s;t take great care how they &s;uck in this &s;moke, for the cu&s;tome and too much u&s;e of it, brings their brains out of order, and makes them to be over-hot, &s;o that they lo&s;e their good temper, and are beyond the bounds of their health, and that &s;acred anchor is lo&s;t irrecoverably. For the nou|ri&s;hment of young men requires a gentle moi&s;ture, to &s;trengthen them, and to make their bodies grow to their ju&s;t perfection. E&s;pecially for tho&s;e that are cholerick, who&s;e brains cannot en|dure exce&s;s of heat, for the native heat would be oppre&s;&s;ed by the accidental heat. See <HI>Gallen</HI> his Comment, <HI>in lib. de vict. &s;alub.</HI></P>
<P>Al&s;o this &s;moke doth vehemently move the Stomach to nau&s;eat, and to vomit, (as daily experience teacheth us) namely, by clea|ving to the inward parts, and &s;o offending the peculiar juyces con|tain'd in the Stomach, and the Me&s;entary; it de&s;troys their ordi|nary operations. For in thru&s;ting forth the matter from the Sto|mach it cannot be, but al&s;o &s;omething mu&s;t be ca&s;t out, wherein the force of nature re&s;ides; and al&s;o, becau&s;e when nature is doing her office, &s;he &s;ends the nouri&s;hment into the habit of the body, as to the circumference, but all di&s;turbing and purgative things draw the juyces &amp; &s;pirits to the center. Wherefore nature is wonderfully tired with the&s;e contrary motions, for &s;he can endure nothing le&s;s
<PB N="62" REF="35">then two contrary motions at the &s;ame time. Wherefore it is a mo&s;t bitter enemy to the Stomachs of very many men, e&s;pecially if they u&s;e to take it pre&s;ently after Supper or Dinner. And in this re&s;pect it is mi&s;chievous to the bodies of all &s;ound men, according to <HI>Hippo|crates</HI> his Rule. 2. <HI>Aphori&s;. 37. It is trouble&s;ome to purge tho&s;e that are in good health.</HI> For frequent u&s;e of purging Medicaments will &s;oon make a man old; for the &s;orces are broken by the re&s;olving of the &s;olid parts, by an <HI>Hypercathar&s;is</HI> of all nutrimental juyce.</P>
<P>By the&s;e things mentioned, it is ea&s;ie to collect, that the &s;moke of Tobacco &s;hortneth mens days. For being that our native heat is like to a flame, which continually feeds upon natural moi&s;ture, as a Lamp lighted, drinks up the Oyl by its heat; it follows nece&s;&s;arily, that for want of food, life mu&s;t needs fly away quickly, when the proper &s;ubject of life is di&s;&s;ipated and con&s;umed: for with that moi&s;ture, the imbred heat fails al&s;o, and death &s;ucceeds.</P>
<P>You under&s;tand therefore (that are Tobacconi&s;ts) that the &s;ooty fumes of Tobacco, wherein you are wallowing (as it were) in the deepe&s;t mire, are of great force to &s;horten your days. <HI>Galen</HI> &s;peaking of opening Medicaments, a&s;&s;erts, that by the frequent u&s;e of them, the &s;olid parts of the body are dried, and that the blood grows gro&s;s and clotted, which being burned in the Reins, breed the &s;tone. The &s;ame thing may be truly maintained concerning Tobacco, which many u&s;e too frequently, and more then any do u&s;e tho&s;e kind of opening Medicaments; for this is more hot and dry then they are, and therefore is more forcible to hurt &s;ound and well-tempered bodies. Take warning therefore you that love Tobacco, that you do not exceed in u&s;ing too much of it, and en&s;lave your &s;elves to this fuliginous &s;moke, by hunting after it, and making a god of it. The goods of the body, are beauty, &s;trength, and &s;ound health. The mo&s;t grave Author <HI>Plutarch,</HI> commending the la&s;t as the be&s;t of all, affirmed mo&s;t gravely and learnedly, That <HI>health is the mo&s;t divine, and the mo&s;t excellent property of the body, and a mo&s;t precious thing.</HI> There is nothing in this World better; nothing more to be de&s;ired, and nothing can be found to be more plea&s;ant. <HI>Without this</HI> (as <HI>Hippocrates</HI> faith) <HI>there is no plea&s;ure or fruit of any other things.</HI> This is it, which in this life fills all perfection: Without this no man could ever be &s;aid to be happy: This far exceeds the greate&s;t Ho|nours, Trea&s;ures, and Riches.</P>
<PB REF="35">
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>tobacconist's arms in a Turkish coffee house</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="postscript">
<PB REF="36">
<PB N="65" REF="36">
<HEAD>A POSTSCRIPT By way of APOLOGY.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Hone&s;t Reader,</HI></P>
<P>_THis intended Porch being &s;o Impoli&s;hed, and &s;o rude a Draught, I have judged it more fit to make a Back-Door, then a Fore: Nei|ther dur&s;t I pre&s;ume to &s;et it in the Fore|front, for I count it but as an over-plus Sheet; however it may &s;erve for wa&s;t Paper to wrap up the learned <HI>Collections,</HI> or el&s;e to light a Pipe of Tobacco, and will make as good Smoke: It lies at thy mercy, to u&s;e or to abu&s;e as thou plea&s;e&s;t.</P>
<P>For my part, I pretend to no great Learning, yet am a Lover of it, and a well-wi&s;her to it: Neither am I worthy to carry the Books after the&s;e learned Authors, out of who&s;e Works I have
<PB N="66" REF="37">made this <HI>Collection;</HI> therefore I make this humble Apologetical <HI>Po&s;t&s;cript.</HI> I know for my labour of reviving this noble <HI>Counter|bla&s;t, &amp;c.</HI> I can expect no better, but to be counterbla&s;ted by the black and foul mouths of many <HI>Tobacconi&s;ts,</HI> and common Tobacco-Smokers; for endeavoring to pull down their great <HI>Diana,</HI> which they labour <HI>Demetrius</HI> like to cry up, becau&s;e of the much gain it brings them. If I meet with Reproaches and Scorns, it is no more then I expected from them, and I value it not: Neither is it any news or wonder; for we live in the la&s;t dayes, and as the Apo&s;tle <HI>Peter</HI> fore-told many hundred years &s;ince, in 2 <HI>Pet. 3.3. That in the la&s;t dayes &s;hould come Scoffers, walking after their own lu&s;ts.</HI> To &s;uch King <HI>Solomon</HI> propounds a, que&s;tion, which they can hardly be able to an&s;wer, in <HI>Prov.</HI> 22. <HI>How long ye &s;imple Ones will ye love &s;umplicity? and ye Scorners delight in &s;corning, and Fools hate Know|ledge?</HI> There have been many &s;uch in all Age, of the World, as it may ea&s;ily be in&s;tanced.</P>
<P>Before I conclude, I thought it not ami&s;s, or improper, to &s;ay &s;omething briefly again&s;t exce&s;&s;ive drinking of Healths, and Drunkenne&s;s, which calls to remembrance, among&s;t other, of His Maje&s;ties noble and gracious Acts, &s;ince his Re&s;tuaration, wherein he hath had merciful Re&s;pect to the Lives, E&s;tates, Souls and Bodies of his good Subjects, and therein gone beyond his Predece&s;&s;ors. I &s;hall but name to his perpetual Honour the&s;e three, <HI>viz.</HI> In the fir&s;t place, His <HI>Act of Oblivion,</HI> pa&s;&s;ing by all that was done again&s;t Him or his Father, excepting only tho&s;e that were his Royal Fathers Judges. In the next place, He was plea&s;ed to publi&s;h a Proclama|tion to all His loving Subjects, again&s;t that &s;inful Cu&s;tom of drink|ing his Health, His Maje&s;ty wi&s;ely con&s;idering how apt many would be to fall into that evil extreme, doth in that Proclamation, rebuke &s;uch as can expre&s;s their Love him in no better way, then drinking His Health. In the next place, I cannot but take notice, and mention, to His Maje&s;ties Renown, His late gracious Declaration, <HI>For Liberty and Indulgence to tender Con&s;ci|ences,</HI> that could not in all things conform to the Ceremonies and Di&s;cipline of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> by Law e&s;tabli&s;hed: This by the way. But now to &s;peak a little more again&s;t drinking Healths, which is to our purpo&s;e in hand.</P>
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<P>There was many years &s;ince a Book Publi&s;hed, by Mr. <HI>William Prynne,</HI> again&s;t drinking of Healths, Entituled, <HI>Healths Sickne&s;s,</HI> but not now to be had, or &s;eldom thought of; he &s;hews the great|ne&s;s of that Sin, and the dangerous con&s;equence of it both to the Souls and Bodies of Men. There is another large Treati&s;e pub|li&s;hed by Mr. <HI>Robert Younge,</HI> Entituled, <HI>The Drunkard</HI>'s <HI>Character:</HI> Al&s;o a Sermon preached long &s;ince by Doctor <HI>Robert Harris,</HI> called <HI>The Drunkard</HI>'s <HI>Cup,</HI> out of <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> 5. from the 11. to the 18. <HI>ver&s;e.</HI> And a Sermon publi&s;hed many years &s;ince, Preached at <HI>Pauls Cro&s;s,</HI> by Doctor <HI>Abraham Gib&s;on,</HI> Entituled, <HI>The Lands mourning for vain Swearing;</HI> out of the&s;e words, <HI>Becau&s;e of Oaths the Land mourns.</HI></P>
<P>And now the Land may mourn, not only for vain Swearing, but for vain Drinking of Healths and Drunkenne&s;s.</P>
<P>After His Maje&s;ties Re&s;tauration, there was, I remember, a great Fea&s;t, at which time there was a Health drank for His Maje&s;ty, and when it came to the turn of an able learned grave Mini&s;ter there pre&s;ent, he utterly di&s;liked and refu&s;ed it: An&s;wering, That he would pray for His Maje&s;ties Heath. And if all that are Well|wi&s;hers to his Maje&s;ties Health, would obey his Proclamation again&s;t that Vice, in leaving off drinking, either of the Kings Health, or any others, &amp; leave of &s;wearing and prophaning the Sabbath; and would con&s;tantly, earne&s;tly, and heartily pray for His Maje&s;ties Health, according as the Apo&s;tle St. <HI>Paul</HI> exhorts <HI>Timothy,</HI> 1 Tim. 2.3. <HI>That Supplication and Prayer be made for Kings, and all that are in Autho|rity; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godline&s;s and hone&s;ty.</HI> I &s;ay, then we &s;hould be in hopes to &s;ee better Times, and better Trading: The generality cry out of their want of Trading, and of the Sins of the Rulers; but our chief Work and Duty is to look more narrowly at home, and to find out the Plague of our own Hearts. Who &s;mites upon his Thigh? who &s;aith, what have I done? We are apt to forget the late dreadful Judgments of God; as that of the De&s;troying-Sword, the &s;ad de&s;troying Pe&s;tilence, when from the 20th of <HI>December,</HI> 1664, to the 15th of <HI>December,</HI> 1665. there died of all Di&s;ea&s;es 97396, and of the Plague 68596; and in one week, which I find to be the greate&s;t of all, was in <HI>September 19.</HI> 1665, there died of the Plague in <HI>London</HI> and Liberties 7165, of all Di&s;ea&s;es 8297 that one week. Can <HI>London</HI> ever forget tho&s;e &s;ad and lamentable con&s;uming Flames, that brake
<PB N="68" REF="38">forth the Second of <HI>September, 1666?</HI> The ruinous heaps on 373 Acres within, and 63 Acres without the old Line, the gha&s;tly walls of 89 Pari&s;h-Churches, and &s;tately Hou&s;es and Halls, with the Royal <HI>Exchange,</HI> and as it was computed Thirteen thou&s;and and two hundred Hou&s;es, with a va&s;t deal of Goods, Hou&s;hold-&s;tuff, and rich Commodities; and, I think, <HI>Book-&s;ellers</HI> may ea&s;ily remem|ber the many Ware-hou&s;es of good Books of all &s;orts, then turned to A&s;hes, at St. <HI>Faiths</HI> Church, and in other places about the City.</P>
<P>There was a Book publi&s;hed by Mr. <HI>Thomas Brooks,</HI> Dedicated to Sir <HI>William Turner</HI> Lord Mayor (who de&s;erved much Love and Honour, for being &s;o great a Furtherer of building the City and Royal <HI>Exchange,</HI> that lay long in Ruins) Entituled, <HI>London</HI>'s <HI>Lamen|tations,</HI> being a &s;erious Di&s;cour&s;e of the late fiery Di&s;pen&s;ation, that turned our Renowned City into a ruinous Heap. In the &s;econd part, or application of that Book, <HI>Page 36.</HI> is &s;hewed, That the burning of <HI>London</HI> was a National Judgment, and that God in &s;miting <HI>London,</HI> did &s;mite <HI>England</HI> round: And what Sins bring de&s;olating Judgments upon Per&s;ons and Places? Intemperance and Drunkenne&s;s is one Sin, and that we are to &s;ee the hand of the Lord in that dreadful Fire, and to take heed of tho&s;e Sins that bring the fiery Rod, with the &s;everal Le&s;&s;ons and Duties we are to learn by it.</P>
<P>We may ea&s;ily &s;ee that the Lord will not &s;uffer us to be forgetful of his great Judgments, by the &s;everal fre&s;h Remembrances he hath given us, by &s;ad Fires in divers places &s;ince, in and near the City. Not long after the dreadful Fire, there was a Merchants great hou&s;e, almo&s;t fini&s;hed, in <HI>Mincing Lane,</HI> burned and quite defaced; after that, two great Fires brake forth in <HI>Southwark</HI> at &s;everal times and places: Another at the <HI>Savoy,</HI> which did much harm; Another at the corner of St. <HI>Bartholomew Lane,</HI> a <HI>Herald Painter</HI>'s Hou&s;e, Mr. <HI>Francis Nowers</HI> him&s;elf, his Child and Nur&s;e was burned. Another in <HI>White-Chappel,</HI> and &s;everal per&s;ons burned there. Ano|ther &s;ad Fire was in or near <HI>Thames &s;treet,</HI> which burned to the ground a great <HI>Sugar-Baker</HI>'s Hou&s;e, with many thou&s;and pounds worth of Sugar, belonging to &s;everal Partners; it began <HI>September</HI> the Second, the <HI>Lords-day,</HI> 1671. And now la&s;t <HI>Whit-Sunday</HI> morning, at St. <HI>Katherines</HI> near <HI>Tower-hill,</HI> brake forth a very grie|vous lamentable Fire, which, as it is Reported, con&s;umed above one hundred Dwelling-hou&s;es, and divers Ships, and &s;ome people were burned and killed by it. After that, another great Fire that con|&s;umed about a dozen Hou&s;es, and part of Sir <HI>Paul Pindar</HI>'s hou&s;e,
<PB N="69" REF="38">without <HI>Bi&s;hop&s;gate,</HI> in <HI>June,</HI> 1672. A few dayys after brake forth another Fire, which burned &s;everal Hou&s;es in <HI>Crutched Friers.</HI> One at <HI>Camomile-&s;treet:</HI> At the <HI>Swan</HI> at <HI>Holborn-Bridge:</HI> A Brick hou&s;e in <HI>Grub-&s;treet.</HI></P>
<P>We may do well to take that Coun&s;el of our Saviour to the im|potent man that he had cured, and had been at the Pool of <HI>Both|&s;aida,</HI> who had an Infirmity thirty eight years, <HI>John</HI> 5.14. Chri&s;t bid him go and &s;in no more, lea&s;t a wor&s;e thing befal him; it was old Mr. <HI>Wheatlyes</HI> Text of <HI>Banbury,</HI> after it was burned: Read the 26. of <HI>Leviticus,</HI> how greatly the Lord threatned the people of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> if they were Di&s;obedient to him; He threatens great Judgments, and to make their Cities wa&s;t, and the Land de&s;olate; and in the <HI>ver&s;es</HI> 18, 21, 24, 28. it is four times threatned, That he will puni&s;h them &s;even times more for their Iniquities. God hath &s;hot Three Arrows again&s;t us, and how ea&s;ily can he &s;hoot a Fourth &s;ore Arrow, that of the Famine, unle&s;s we turn from our Sins by true Repentance. It is to be feared, that after all that hath or can be &s;aid to reclaim men from their evil Cour&s;es, and exce&s;&s;es in Drinking, that they will be &s;wayed by Cu&s;tome, which is a &s;econd Nature; and it will be found as difficult for them to be temperate in Smoking, and Drinking, and Fea&s;ting, as it is for the <HI>Blackmore</HI> to change his Skin, or the <HI>Leopard</HI> his Spots. So that they will rather &s;ay, as he that being advi&s;ed by his Phy&s;ician to leave of his evil Cour&s;es, or el&s;e he would loo&s;e his Sight, an&s;wered, <HI>Tum valeat lumen amicum,</HI> Then farewel &s;weet Light. To &s;uch it may be &s;aid, as <HI>Solomon</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Rejoyce O young man in thy Youth, walk in the &s;ight of thine Eyes, and let thy Heart chear thee; but remember that for all the&s;e things God will bring thee to Judgment.</HI></P>
<P>We all know, That Sin is the fore-runner of all Plagues and Calamities, that ever came upon any People or Nation under Hea|ven; it is the Plague of Plagues: What provoked God to drown the old World, but Sin? What cau&s;ed God to rain down Fire and Brim&s;tone on <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Gomorrah,</HI> but their Sins of Pride, Idlene&s;s, and fulne&s;s of Bread? And whil&s;t <HI>Abraham</HI> interceded for <HI>Sodom,</HI> had there been but Ten righteous per&s;ons found among&s;t them, God would have &s;pared them for their &s;akes. Thus I have &s;poken again&s;t Sin in general, as that which draws down Judgments upon our Heads: I will only lay a few Scriptures before you, touching the Lord's anger again&s;t Sin, which he cannot indure to behold without great indignation: For it is only Sin that makes a &s;epara|tion
<PB N="70" REF="39">between God and our Souls; and I de&s;ire the Reader to turn to them at his lei&s;ure, and to make the be&s;t u&s;e and application of them, <HI>Ho&s;ea</HI> 4.1, 2, 3. <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> 22.12, 13, 14. <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> 24.7, 8, 9. <HI>Gene&s;is</HI> 12.10. <HI>Chap</HI> 26.1.42.5.43.1. <HI>Chap.</HI> 41.30.36.50.56. 57. <HI>Prov.</HI> 15.26.29.</P>
<P>That Sea-man that being ingaged in a Ship, and &s;ees it in dan|ger to &s;ink or to be ca&s;t away; is but an ill and unworthy Sea-man that will not put to his helping hand to &s;ave her. And are not all Engli&s;h-men engaged in the Ship of the Kingdom, or Common|wealth of <HI>England?</HI> and is it not in a Storm, compa&s;&s;ed with Ene|mies without, and within mole&s;ted and a&s;&s;aulted with the mo&s;t dangerous Enemies of all; over-laden with our grand Enemies, Sins of all &s;orts? Is it not the part of an hone&s;t true Engli&s;h-man to help to &s;ave this Ship, by lightening its burden, and ca&s;ting the&s;e bad Commodities over-board? I mean its Sins, that by &s;o doing, we may engage God, the Lord of Ho&s;ts on our &s;ide, and then, <HI>&s;i Deus nobi&s;cum cuis contranos:</HI> Did but <HI>England</HI>'s Sins weigh lighter then her Enemies Sins, then we were more likely to be Victorious and Conquerors over all our Forreign Enemies.</P>
<P>Doth not <HI>England</HI> match any of her Enemies in Sins and Pro|vocations, namely Drunkenne&s;s? Doth it come behind the <HI>Dutch, Dane,</HI> or <HI>Swede,</HI> which are counted the highe&s;t Drinkers in the World, of the highe&s;t form, and &s;o for &s;wearing mo&s;t horrible Oaths, and &s;coffing at Religion and Piety.</P>
<P>Within ten days &s;ince I began this <HI>Collection</HI> or <HI>Po&s;t&s;cript</HI> I was an Eye and Ear-witne&s;s, That a &s;waggering Blade rapt out this Oath, <HI>God damn me,</HI> about a trifle in a &s;coffing Frolick, &s;aying, <HI>He had got a Presbyterian Band on he thought.</HI> Another man on <HI>Whit&s;on-Eve</HI> I &s;aw &s;o &s;adly drunk, he could neither go nor &s;tand, but &s;ate down on a Door-&s;tone, I asked him, <HI>Where he had been?</HI> He would give no other An&s;wer but this, <HI>That he was troubled with the Megromes.</HI> So I and others about him left him, and know not what became of him: The&s;e two were in the heart of the City, near the <HI>Exchange.</HI></P>
<P>After I had &s;een King <HI>James</HI> his <HI>Counterbla&s;t again&s;t Tobacco,</HI> and taken a liking to it: I did at the fir&s;t intend only to get that printed alone, but afterwards meeting with the&s;e pertinent, &s;utable, and profitable Directions, for the pre&s;ervation of long, Life, both again&s;t <HI>Tobacco,</HI> and intemperate drinking; Publi&s;hed in the Works of that learned Phy&s;ician Doctor <HI>Maynwaring,</HI> now living: I thought it not ami&s;s to joyn them together, and likewi&s;e to add
<PB N="71" REF="39">a good old Sermon at the latter end, Preached, in or near the time of King <HI>James,</HI> by a famous Learned Divine, Mr. <HI>Samuel Ward</HI> then Preacher of <HI>Ip&s;wich,</HI> printed 1627. It is but brief, and the be&s;t I know of in print again&s;t the Sin of Drunkenne&s;s and Health-drinking, wherein are di&s;covered divers &s;ad Examples of many that have been notorious Drinkers or Drunkards, called <HI>Woe to Drunkards,</HI> that have kill'd them&s;elves by drinking immode|rately.</P>
<P>In the la&s;t place I &s;hall but commend to the Reader a few good u&s;eful Books, <HI>viz.</HI> Mr <HI>Thomas Brook</HI>'s <HI>Londons Lamentations,</HI> al&s;o his Book called <HI>Precious Remedies again&s;t Satan</HI>'s <HI>Devices,</HI> and his <HI>Twenty two Sermons on</HI> Ephe&s;. 3.8. <HI>Of the un&s;earchable Riches of Chri&s;t,</HI> His <HI>Cabinet of Jewels,</HI> His <HI>Clo&s;et Prayer,</HI> and a profitable and very delight&s;ome Book of good Coun&s;el for all young Per&s;ons, cal|led <HI>His Apples of Gold for young Men and Women &amp;c.</HI> Mr. <HI>Thomas Wat&s;on</HI>'s new Treati&s;e, Entituled, <HI>The mi&s;chief of Sin, it brings a per|&s;on low,</HI> on <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 106.43. Mr. <HI>Ralph Venning</HI>'s Book, called <HI>Sin the Plague of Plagues, or &s;inful Sin the wor&s;t of Evils,</HI> on <HI>Rom.</HI> 7.13. The&s;e Books do &s;et forth Sin in its own proper colours; it is com|pared in Scripture <HI>to filthy Rags,</HI> and to <HI>a men&s;truous Cloth;</HI> and I think it cannot be called by &s;o bad a name as it is. Al&s;o lately Pub|li&s;hed Mr. <HI>Robert Perrot</HI>'s new Book called <HI>Englands Sole, and Soveraign way of being &s;aved.</HI> Mr. <HI>Calamie</HI>'s <HI>Godly mans Ark,</HI> which I think is a u&s;eful and &s;ea&s;onable Book the&s;e &s;tormy Times: Now we are pur&s;ued by Enemies on all &s;ides, outward and inward, it's good to get into an Ark, or City of Refuge: The&s;e are &s;old at the <HI>Three Bibles</HI> in <HI>Popes head Alley,</HI> where the be&s;t and newe&s;t &s;hort|hand Books, and Books of Divinity are to be had: Al&s;o <HI>Hi&s;tory, Husbandry A&s;tronomy, Mathematicks, Arithmetick, Law, Sea, Phy|&s;ick,</HI> the be&s;t <HI>Poetry, School Books, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Five Books of the learned Doctor <HI>Maynwarings.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. His <HI>Pre&s;ervation of Health, and Prolongation of Life.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. His Treati&s;e <HI>Of the Sourvy,</HI> &s;hewing, <HI>That</HI> Tobacco <HI>is a procuring Cau&s;e.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>The ri&s;e and progre&s;s of Phy&s;ick Hi&s;torically, Chromologically and Philo&s;ophically illu&s;trated,</HI> &s;hewing, <HI>The abu&s;e of Medicines &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. His Treati&s;e <HI>Of Con&s;umptions, demon&s;trating their Nature and Cure.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>5. <HI>The ancient and modern Practice of Phy&s;ick examined, &s;tated and compared.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>The true <HI>Elixir Proprietatis</HI> of <HI>Van Helmont, Paracel&s;us</HI> &amp; <HI>Crollius,</HI> with a Book of its u&s;e and vertue, highly commended by Mr. <HI>Lilly.</HI></P>
<P>As for other Books of vain idle <HI>Romances, La&s;civious</HI> and <HI>Vitious Poetry</HI> and <HI>Drollery,</HI> which are wor&s;e then the Smoke of <HI>Tobacco,</HI> and more fit for the Fire to make Smoke of, then for the Study; I wi&s;h the Lovers of them to take notice of this one Pa&s;&s;age about &s;uch, in Mr. <HI>Philip Goodwin</HI>'s <HI>My&s;tery of Drunkenne&s;s,</HI> printed for <HI>Francis Tyton;</HI> it is in <HI>Page</HI> 50. <HI>Satan &s;ends out his Books as Baits, by which many are cunningly caught, with the Venome of which &s;o many are poy&s;oned.</HI></P>
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