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<NAME>Megan Marion</NAME>
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<HEAD>Nicotianae Encomium; Or, The GOLDEN LEAF
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ta&mdash; <HI>Ab In|&s;ula</HI> Tabacco <HI>ubi provenit recti&ugrave;s (ni fallor) &s;cri|bitur quam</HI> To&mdash;</NOTE> TABACCO Di&s;play'd in its Soveraignty and &s;ingular Vertues.</HEAD>
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<L>_YE Hot! ye Cold! ye Rheumatick! draw nigh;</L>
<L>In this Rich Leafe a Soveraign Do&s;e doth lie</L>
<L>Will cure ye All; Phy&s;ick ye need not want,</L>
<L>Here 'tis i'th' Gummy Entralls of a Plant.</L>
<L>To purge the Brea&s;t from Flegm, to give a Stoole</L>
<L>To co&s;tive Bodies, glowing Veins to coole;</L>
<L>To rou&s;e up Spirits, and chill Blood to heat,</L>
<L>To rai&s;e the Pul&s;e, and make it nimbly beat;</L>
<L>Each Joynt and Nerve (from Head to Foot) to warme</L>
<L>With Active Vigour&mdash;<HI>Her's your Powerful Charme!</HI></L>
<L>And if th' Grand Bugbear-Toad, the Plague, ye fear,</L>
<L>Lo! under God, your <HI>Antidote</HI> is here.</L>
<L>Brave Leafe! thou act's the Able Doctor's Part,</L>
<L>In thee there's wrapt an <HI>Ae&s;culapian Art.</HI></L>
<L>Thou <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>&V;t Dei Mi|ni&s;tra, non adulterata, &amp; modic&egrave; &s;umpta.</HI></NOTE> frights Infection, bribes our Fatal Doomes,</L>
<L>Prolongs our Lives, and &s;aves us from our Tombes,</L>
<L>Per&s;umes our Throats, our Mouths, our Cloaths, our Rooms:</L>
<L>Thou Sleep procures, and rock'&s;t our Cradle-Beds,</L>
<L>Still'&s;t aching Teeth, and cures our aching Heads;</L>
<L>'Tis Salve, no Smoak &s;ure, which thy Chimney &s;heads.</L>
<L>Thy Juice ('tis &s;aid) Medicinal is found,</L>
<L>It heals (tho' poy&s;on'd) any bleeding Wound:</L>
<L>Then &s;uch as would Extemp're-Surg'ons be,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t not Box-up, but only Bottle Thee;</L>
<L>Not dry thy Leafe, but Drain't (this under&s;tood</L>
<L>Prevents abu&s;e) for them thy Liquor's good.</L>
<L>A Vomit-Broome made of thy Syrupe, &s;weeps</L>
<L>(When foule) and clean the Stomack's Kitchen keeps:</L>
<L>Cookes! think of this; ye are by right (ye &s;ee)</L>
<L>No Smoakers, but as Chimny-Sweepers be;</L>
<L>To clear your Cook-Roomes from Di&s;ea&s;ed Du&s;t,</L>
<L>Or make or buy <HI>Tabacco-Broomes</HI> ye mu&s;t.</L>
<L>Now for your u&s;e, I think they might do well,</L>
<L>If &s;ome would Cry'om, others keep to Sell:</L>
<L>So 'bout this Oake, like Ivy might ye twi&s;t,</L>
<L>And each Bro' live on's Bro'&mdash;<HI>Tabaconi&s;t.</HI></L>
<L>Nee'r fear to Break, ye 'Prentices to th' <HI>Trade!</HI></L>
<L>Your <HI>Leaf</HI> may <HI>Wither,</HI> but it cannot <HI>Fade:</HI></L>
<L>By Whole-&s;ale, Re-tale vend your Hearb; the while</L>
<L>Let &s;ome Sail o're to the <HI>Tabakian I'le;</HI></L>
<L>There Plant, and Reape, and fill their builded Cribbs,</L>
<L>And others mince Her Broad Tran&s;ported Ribbs:</L>
<L>Here &s;tarts a Paradox; &mdash; Thus &s;ome that do</L>
<L>No Pur&s;es take, may live by <HI>Cutting</HI> tho'.</L>
<L>Then fill your Boxes, &s;tore your Shops anew,</L>
<L>And Pipe, and Dance, and Sing, ye Jolly Crew!</L>
<L>For whil&s;t ye joyne, and each Man drives his <HI>Trade,</HI></L>
<L>Tho' your <HI>Leaf Wither,</HI> yet it &s;hall not <HI>Fade;</HI></L>
<L>But Coyn &s;hall Court y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">, and ye &s;hall go Brave,</L>
<L>As Merchants do that many Factors have,</L>
<L>And all have Cau&s;e to cry&mdash;<HI>O Vertue rare!</HI></L>
<L><HI>What Other Leaf may with Our Leaf Compare?</HI></L>
<L>Brave Leaf! thou acts the Able Doctor<HI>'s Part,</HI></L>
<L>In thee ther's wrapt an Ae&s;culapian Art.</L>
<L>Thy Bowels Soveraign Bal&s;ame drop, when burn'd,</L>
<L>And thou art good to Du&s;t and A&s;hes turn'd;</L>
<L>Thy Sneezing Powder has the art to drain</L>
<L>From all Rheumatick Humours, Head and Brain,</L>
<L>Which trickle down, as Water from the Ro&s;e,</L>
<L>Through th'open Conduits of the Mouth and No&s;e.</L>
<L>Come Di&s;tillations! Ti&s;&s;icks! Coughs! Catharres!</L>
<L>All Colds, all Moi&s;ture's Off-&s;pring! that make Warrs.</L>
<L>With Eyes, Gummes, Lungs; Di&s;ea&s;es&mdash;Hydra! bow</L>
<L>Thy Neck to th'Block, expect the Fatal Blow:</L>
<L><HI>Tabacco!</HI> here behold this Mon&s;ter lie,</L>
<L>With Apron and with Butcher-Sleeves draw nigh,</L>
<L>Strike with thy Smoakey Axe! Strike! &s;trike! &mdash;'tis done!</L>
<L>The Blow is given, off the Heads are gone!</L>
<L>Great <HI>Creature-Word!</HI> Who can thy Letters tell!</L>
<L>Or knowledge has thy Syllables to &s;pell!</L>
<L>Tho&s;e choice Effects thy Vertue yet affords</L>
<L>Swell much beyond the narrow Gra&s;pe of Words:</L>
<L>I faulter here; &mdash; Thy Depths are too profound</L>
<L>For Rea&s;on, and her Line too &s;hort to &s;ound</L>
<L>Or fathome'om; how can my Heart endite</L>
<L>Thy hidden Secrets! or thy prai&s;es write</L>
<L>How can my <HI>ABC</HI> and &s;hort-&s;ighted Quill!</L>
<L>This claimes &s;ome Rabby's,&mdash;yea an Angel's skill.</L>
<L>The Quicke&s;t Arti&s;t ver&s;t in Nature's Mine,</L>
<L>May &s;ooner read a <HI>Sybil's</HI> Leafe than Thine.</L>
<L>If &s;o, how high doth Natures Folio &s;wel!</L>
<L>If little Words, large pages &s;ure excel</L>
<L>The &s;trength and &s;tature of the talle&s;t Sage,</L>
<L>With which no Mortal's able to engage:</L>
<L>Sure the&s;e <HI>Goliaths</HI> with their Spear and Shield</L>
<L>Challenge the &s;toute&s;t <HI>David</HI> into th' Field.</L>
<L>What's th' Bark to th' Tree! can none peru&s;e or look</L>
<L>The Covers o're! who then can read the Book!</L>
<L>What e're the Heav'ns contain, or Earthly Ball,</L>
<L>Per&s;pectives are to view <HI>Man's All in All,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Faire Copys of that Great ORIGINAL:</HI></L>
<L>Straight Lines which in this Center are connext,</L>
<L>Sermons that Comment on this Sacred Text.</L>
<L>Even here the Learn'd of Learning &s;ee their want,</L>
<L>By knowledge learn to know they're ignorant.</L>
<L>My Mu&s;e was nipt i'th' Bud; a Poet's Name</L>
<L>Belongs to &s;uch who&s;e True-bred Genius flame,</L>
<L>As Lackey by His Side this Ru&s;h &s;hall run,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Taper-Mu&s;e is lighted at the <HI>SuN:</HI></L>
<L>With brighter Beams &s;ome Noble <HI>Sol</HI> might grace</L>
<L>This Subject, and my <HI>Luna's</HI> &s;potted face.</L>
<L>Ri&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3+ letters">is Orbe, <HI>Brave Luminary!</HI> mine</L>
<L>Shall quickly Set, and give You room to Shine:</L>
<L>Mean time, this Starre, as Harbenger of Day,</L>
<L>Shall March before Your more Refulgent Ray.</L>
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