A
Counterblaste
to
Tobacco
.
THat
the
manifolde
abuses
of
this
vile
custome
of
Tobacco
taking
,
may
the
better
be
espied
,
it
is
fit
,
that
first
you
enter
into
consideration
both
of
the
first
originall
thereof
,
and
likewise
of
the
reasons
of
the
first
entry
thereof
into
this
Countrey
.
For
certainely
as
such
customes
,
that
haue
their
first
institution
either
from
a
godly
,
necessary
,
or
honorable
ground
,
and
are
first
brought
in
,
by
the
meanes
of
some
worthy
,
vertuous
,
and
great
Personage
,
are
euer
,
and
most
iustly
,
holden
in
great
&
reuerent
estimation
and
account
,
by
all
wise
,
vertuous
,
and
temperate
spirits
:
So
should
it
by
the
contrary
,
iustly
bring
a
great
disgrace
into
that
sort
of
customes
,
which
hauing
their
originall
from
base
corruption
and
barbarity
,
doe
in
like
sort
,
make
their
first
entry
into
a
Countrey
,
by
an
inconsiderate
and
childish
affectation
of
Noueltie
,
as
is
the
true
case
of
the
first
inuention
of
Tobacco
taking
,
and
of
the
first
entry
thereof
among
vs
.
For
Tobacco
being
a
common
herbe
,
which
(
though
vnder
diuers
names
)
growes
almost
euery
where
,
was
first
found
out
by
some
of
the
barbarous
Indians
,
to
be
a
Preseruatiue
,
or
Antidot
against
the
Pockes
,
a
filthy
disease
,
whereunto
these
barbarous
people
are
(
as
all
men
know
)
very
much
subiect
,
what
through
the
vncleanly
and
adust
constitution
of
their
bodies
,
and
what
through
the
intemperate
heate
of
their
Climat
:
so
that
as
from
them
was
first
brought
into
Christendome
,
that
most
detestable
disease
,
so
from
them
likewise
was
brought
this
vse
of
Tobacco
,
as
a
stinking
and
vnsauorie
Antidot
,
for
so
corrupted
and
execrable
a
Maladie
,
the
stinking
Suffumigation
whereof
they
yet
vse
against
that
disease
,
making
so
one
canker
or
venime
to
eate
out
another
.
And
now
good
Countrey
men
,
let
vs
(
I
pray
you
)
consider
,
what
honour
or
policie
can
mooue
vs
to
imitate
the
barbarous
and
beastly
maners
of
the
wilde
,
godlesse
,
and
slauish
Indians
,
especially
in
so
vile
and
stinking
a
custome
?
Shall
wee
that
disdaine
to
imitate
the
maners
of
our
neighbour
France
(
hauing
the
stile
of
the
first
Christian
Kingdom
)
and
that
cannot
endure
the
spirit
of
the
Spaniards
(
their
King
being
now
comparable
in
largenes
of
Dominions
,
to
the
great
Emperor
of
Turkie
)
Shall
wee
,
I
say
,
that
haue
bene
so
long
ciuill
and
wealthy
in
Peace
,
famous
and
inuincible
in
Warre
,
fortunate
in
both
,
we
that
haue
bene
euer
able
to
aide
any
of
our
neighbours
(
but
neuer
deafed
any
of
their
eares
with
any
of
our
supplications
for
assistance
)
shall
we
,
I
say
,
without
blushing
,
abase
our selues
so
farre
,
as
to
imitate
these
beastly
Indians
,
slaues
to
the
Spaniards
,
refuse
to
the
world
,
and
as
yet
aliens
from
the
holy
Couenant
of
God
?
Why
doe
we
not
as
well
imitate
them
in
walking
naked
as
they
doe
?
in
preferring
glasses
,
feathers
,
and
such
toyes
,
to
golde
and
precious
stones
,
as
they
do
?
yea
why
do
we
not
denie
God
and
adore
the
Deuill
,
as
they
doe
?
Now
to
the
corrupted
basenesse
of
the
first
vse
of
this
Tobacco
,
doeth
very
well
agree
the
foolish
and
groundlesse
first
entry
thereof
into
this
Kingdome
.
It
is
not
so
long
since
the
first
entry
of
this
abuse
amongst
vs
here
,
as
this
present
age
cannot
yet
very
well
remember
,
both
the
first
Author
,
and
the
forme
of
the
first
introduction
of
it
amongst
vs
.
It
was
neither
brought
in
by
King
,
great
Conquerour
,
nor
learned
Doctor
of
Phisicke
.
With
the
report
of
a
great
discouery
for
a
Conquest
,
some
two
or
three
Sauage
men
,
were
brought
in
,
together
with
this
Sauage
custome
.
But
the
pitie
is
,
the
poore
wilde
barbarous
men
died
,
but
that
vile
barbarous
custome
is
yet
aliue
,
yea
in
fresh
vigor
:
so
as
it
seemes
a
miracle
to
me
,
how
a
custome
springing
from
so
vile
a
ground
,
and
brought
in
by
a
father
so
generally
hated
,
should
be
welcomed
vpon
so
slender
a
warrant
.
For
if
they
that
first
put
it
in
practise
heere
,
had
remembred
for
what
respect
it
was
vsed
by
them
from
whence
it
came
,
I
am
sure
they
would
haue
bene
loath
,
to
haue
taken
so
farre
the
imputation
of
that
disease
vpon
them
as
they
did
,
by
vsing
the
cure
thereof
.
For
Sanis
non
est
opus
medico
,
and
counterpoisons
are
neuer
vsed
,
but
where
poyson
is
thought
to
precede
.
But
since
it
is
true
,
that
diuers
customes
slightly
grounded
,
and
with
no
better
warrant
entred
in
a
Commonwealth
,
may
yet
in
the
vse
of
them
thereafter
,
prooue
both
necessary
and
profitable
;
it
is
therefore
next
to
be
examined
,
if
there
be
not
a
full
Sympathie
and
true
Proportion
,
betweene
the
base
ground
and
foolish
entrie
,
and
the
loathsome
and
hurtfull
vse
of
this
stinking
Antidote
.
I
am
now
therefore
heartily
to
pray
you
to
consider
,
first
vpon
what
false
and
erroneous
grounds
you
haue
first
built
the
generall
good
liking
thereof
;
and
next
,
what
sinnes
towards
God
,
and
foolish
vanities
before
the
world
you
commit
,
in
the
detestable
vse
of
it
.
As
for
these
deceitfull
grounds
,
that
haue
specially
mooued
you
to
take
a
good
and
great
conceit
thereof
,
I
shall
content
my selfe
to
examine
here
onely
foure
of
the
principals
of
them
;
two
founded
vpon
the
Theoricke
of
a
deceiueable
apparance
of
Reason
,
and
two
of
them
vpon
the
mistaken
Practicke
of
generall
Experience
.
First
,
it
is
thought
by
you
a
sure
Aphorisme
in
the
Physickes
,
That
the
braines
of
all
men
,
beeing
naturally
colde
and
wet
,
all
dry
and
hote
things
should
be
good
for
them
;
of
which
nature
this
stinking
suffumigation
is
,
and
therefore
of
good
vse
to
them
.
Of
this
Argument
,
both
the
Proposition
and
Assumption
are
false
,
and
so
the
Conclusion
cannot
but
be
voyd
of
it selfe
.
For
as
to
the
Proposition
,
That
because
the
braines
are
colde
and
moist
,
therefore
things
that
are
hote
and
drie
are
best
for
them
,
it
is
an
inept
consequence
:
For
man
beeing
compounded
of
the
foure
Complexions
,
(
whose
fathers
are
the
foure
Elements
)
although
there
be
a
mixture
of
them
all
in
all
the
parts
of
his
body
,
yet
must
the
diuers
parts
of
our
Microcosme
or
little
world
within
our selues
,
be
diuersly
more
inclined
,
some
to
one
,
some
to
another
complexion
,
according
to
the
diuersitie
of
their
vses
,
that
of
these
discords
a
perfect
harmonie
may
bee
made
vp
for
the
maintenance
of
the
whole
body
.
The
application
then
of
a
thing
of
a
contrary
nature
,
to
any
of
these
parts
,
is
to
interrupt
them
of
their
due
function
,
and
by
consequence
hurtfull
to
the
health
of
the
whole
body
.
As
if
a
man
,
because
the
Liuer
is
hote
(
as
the
fountaine
of
blood
)
and
as
it
were
and
ouen
to
the
stomacke
,
would
therfore
apply
and
weare
close
vpon
his
Liuer
and
stomacke
a
cake
of
lead
;
he
might
within
a
very
short
time
(
I
hope
)
be
susteined
very
good
cheape
at
an
Ordinarie
,
beside
the
cleering
of
his
conscience
from
that
deadly
sinne
of
gluttonie
.
And
as
if
,
because
the
Heart
is
full
of
vitall
spirits
,
and
in
perpetuall
motion
,
a
man
would
therefore
lay
a
heauy
pound
stone
on
his
breast
,
for
staying
and
holding
downe
that
wanton
palpitation
,
I
doubt
not
but
his
breast
would
bee
more
bruised
with
the
weight
thereof
,
then
the
heart
would
be
comforted
with
such
a
disagreeable
&
contrarious
cure
.
And
euen
so
is
it
with
the
Braines
.
For
if
a
man
,
because
the
Braines
are
cold
and
humide
,
would
therefore
vse
inwardly
by
smells
,
or
outwardly
by
application
,
things
of
hot
and
drie
qualite
,
all
the
gaine
that
he
could
make
thereof
would
onely
be
to
put
himselfe
in
a
great
forwardnesse
for
running
mad
,
by
ouerwatching
himselfe
,
the
coldnesse
and
moistnesse
of
our
braine
beeing
the
onely
ordinarie
meanes
that
procure
our
sleepe
and
rest
.
Indeed
I
doe
not
denie
,
but
when
it
falls
out
that
any
of
these
,
or
any
part
of
our
bodie
growes
to
be
distempered
,
and
to
tend
to
an
extremitie
beyond
the
compasse
of
Natures
temperate
mixture
,
that
in
that
case
cures
of
contrary
qualities
,
to
the
intemperate
inclination
of
that
part
,
being
wisely
prepared
and
discreetely
ministred
,
may
be
both
necessarie
and
helpefull
for
strengthning
and
assisting
Nature
in
the
expulsion
of
her
enemies
:
for
this
is
the
true
definition
of
all
profitable
Physicke
.
But
first
these
Cures
ought
not
to
bee
vsed
,
but
where
there
is
neede
of
them
,
the
contrarie
whereof
,
is
daily
practised
in
this
generall
vse
of
Tobacco
by
all
sorts
and
complexions
of
people
.
And
next
,
I
deny
the
Minor
of
this
argument
,
as
I
have
already
said
,
in
regard
that
this
Tobacco
,
is
not
simply
of
a
dry
&
hot
qualitie
;
but
rather
hath
a
certaine
venemous
facultie
ioyned
with
the
heate
thereof
,
which
makes
it
haue
an
Antipathie
against
nature
,
as
by
the
hatefull
smell
thereof
doeth
well
appeare
.
For
the
Nose
being
the
proper
Organ
and
conuoy
of
the
sense
of
smelling
to
the
braines
,
which
are
the
onely
fountaine
of
that
sense
,
doeth
euer
serue
vs
for
an
infallible
witnesse
,
whether
that
Odour
which
we
smell
,
be
healthfull
or
hurtfull
to
the
braine
,
(
except
when
it
fals
out
that
the
sense
it selfe
is
corrupted
and
abused
through
some
infirmitie
,
and
distemper
in
the
braine
.
)
And
that
the
suffumigation
thereof
cannot
haue
a
drying
qualitie
,
it
needes
to
further
probation
,
then
that
it
is
a
smoake
,
all
smoake
and
vapour
,
being
of
it selfe
humide
,
as
drawing
neere
to
the
nature
of
the
ayre
,
and
easie
to
be
resolued
againe
into
water
,
whereof
there
needes
no
other
proofe
but
the
Meteors
,
which
being
bred
of
nothing
else
but
of
the
vapours
and
exhalations
sucked
vp
by
the
Sunne
out
of
the
earth
,
the
Sea
,
and
waters
,
yet
are
the
same
smoakie
vapours
turned
,
and
transformed
into
Raynes
,
Snowes
,
Deawes
,
hoare
Frostes
,
and
such
like
waterie
Meteors
,
as
by
the
contrarie
the
raynie
cloudes
are
often
transformed
and
euaporated
in
blustering
winds
.
The
second
Argument
grounded
on
a
show
of
reason
is
,
That
this
filthie
smoake
,
as
well
through
the
heat
and
strength
thereof
,
as
by
a
naturall
force
and
qualitie
,
is
able
and
fit
to
purge
both
the
head
and
stomacke
of
Rhewmes
and
distillations
,
as
experience
teacheth
,
by
the
spitting
and
auoyding
fleame
,
immediatly
after
the
taking
of
it
.
But
the
fallacie
of
this
Argument
may
easily
appeare
,
by
my
late
preceding
description
of
the
Meteors
.
For
euen
as
the
smoakie
vapours
sucked
vp
by
the
Sunne
,
and
staied
in
the
lowest
and
colde
Region
of
the
ayre
,
are
there
contracted
into
cloudes
,
and
turned
into
raine
and
such
other
watery
Meteors
:
So
this
stinking
smoake
being
sucked
vp
by
the
Nose
,
and
imprisoned
in
the
colde
and
moyst
braines
,
is
by
their
colde
and
wett
facultie
,
turned
and
cast
foorth
againe
in
waterie
distillations
,
and
so
are
you
made
free
and
purged
of
nothing
,
but
that
wherewith
you
wilfully
burdened
your selues
:
and
therefore
are
you
no
wiser
in
taking
Tobacco
for
purging
you
of
distillations
,
then
if
for
preuenting
the
Cholike
you
would
take
all
kinde
of
windie
meates
and
drinkes
,
and
for
preuenting
of
the
Stone
,
you
would
take
all
kinde
of
meates
and
drinkes
that
would
breede
grauell
in
the
Kidneyes
,
and
then
when
you
were
forced
to
auoyde
much
winde
out
of
your
stomacke
,
and
much
grauell
in
your
Vrine
,
that
you
should
attribute
the
thanke
thereof
to
such
nourishments
as
bred
those
within
you
,
that
behoued
either
to
be
expelled
by
the
force
of
Nature
,
or
you
to
haue
burst
at
the
broad
side
,
as
the
Prouerbe
is
.
As
for
the
other
two
reasons
founded
vpon
experience
,
the
first
of
which
is
,
That
the
whole
people
would
not
haue
taken
so
generall
a
good
liking
thereof
,
if
they
had
not
by
experience
found
it
verie
soueraigne
and
good
for
them
:
For
answere
thereunto
,
how
easily
the
mindes
of
any
people
,
wherewith
God
hath
replenished
this
world
,
may
be
drawen
to
the
foolish
affectation
of
any
noueltie
,
I
leaue
it
to
the
discreet
iudgement
of
any
man
that
is
reasonable
.
Doe
we
not
dayly
see
,
that
a
man
can
no
sooner
bring
ouer
from
beyond
the
Seas
any
new
forme
of
apparrell
,
but
that
hee
can
not
bee
thought
a
man
of
spirit
,
that
would
not
presently
imitate
the
same
?
And
so
from
hand
to
hand
it
spreades
,
till
it
be
practised
by
all
,
not
for
any
commoditie
that
is
in
it
,
but
only
because
it
is
come
to
be
the
fashion
.
For
such
is
the
force
of
that
naturall
Selfe-loue
in
euery
one
of
vs
,
and
such
is
the
corruption
of
enuie
bred
in
the
brest
of
euery
one
,
as
we
cannot
be
content
vnlesse
we
imitate
euery
thing
that
our
fellowes
doe
,
and
so
prooue
our selues
capable
of
euery
thing
whereof
they
are
capable
,
like
Apes
,
counterfeiting
the
maners
of
others
,
to
our
owne
destruction
.
For
let
one
or
two
of
the
greatest
Masters
of
Mathematickes
in
any
of
the
two
famous
Vniuersities
,
but
constantly
affirme
any
cleare
day
,
that
they
see
some
strange
apparition
in
the
skies
:
they
will
I
warrant
you
be
seconded
by
the
greatest
part
of
the
Students
in
that
profession
:
So
loath
will
they
be
,
to
bee
thought
inferiour
to
their
fellowes
,
either
in
depth
of
knowledge
or
sharpnesse
of
sight
:
And
therefore
the
generall
good
liking
and
imbracing
of
this
foolish
custome
,
doeth
but
onely
proceede
from
that
affectation
of
noueltie
,
and
popular
errour
,
wherof
I
haue
already
spoken
.
The
other
argument
drawen
from
a
mistaken
experience
,
is
but
the
more
particular
probation
of
this
generall
,
because
it
is
alleaged
to
be
found
true
by
proofe
,
that
by
the
taking
of
Tobacco
diuers
and
very
many
doe
finde
themselues
cured
of
diuers
diseases
,
as
on
the
other
part
,
no
man
euer
receiued
harme
thereby
.
In
this
argument
there
is
first
a
great
mistaking
,
and
next
a
monstrous
absurditie
.
For
is
it
not
a
very
great
mistaking
,
to
take
Non
causam
pro
causa
,
as
they
say
in
the
Logicks
?
because
peraduenture
when
a
sicke
man
hath
had
his
disease
at
the
height
,
hee
hath
at
that
instant
taken
Tobacco
,
and
afterward
his
disease
taking
the
naturall
course
of
declining
,
and
consequently
the
patient
of
recouering
his
health
,
O
then
the
Tobacco
forsooth
,
was
the
worker
of
that
miracle
.
Beside
that
,
it
is
a
thing
well
knowen
to
all
Phisicians
,
that
the
apprehension
and
conceit
of
the
patient
,
hath
by
wakening
and
vniting
the
vitall
spirits
,
and
so
strengthening
nature
,
a
great
power
and
vertue
,
to
cure
diuers
diseases
For
an
euident
proofe
of
mistaking
in
the
like
case
,
I
pray
you
what
foolish
boy
,
what
sillie
wench
,
what
olde
doting
wife
,
or
ignorant
countrey
clowne
,
is
not
a
Phisician
for
the
toothach
,
for
the
cholicke
,
&
diuers
such
common
diseases
?
Yea
,
will
not
euery
man
you
meete
withal
,
teach
you
a
sundry
cure
for
the
same
,
and
sweare
by
that
meane
either
himselfe
,
or
some
of
his
neerest
kinsmen
and
friends
was
cured
?
And
yet
I
hope
no
man
is
so
foolish
as
to
beleeue
them
.
And
al
these
toyes
do
only
proceed
from
the
mistaking
Non
causam
pro
causa
,
as
I
haue
already
sayd
,
and
so
if
a
man
chance
to
recouer
one
of
any
disease
,
after
he
hath
taken
Tobacco
,
that
must
haue
the
thankes
of
all
But
by
the
contrary
,
if
a
man
smoke
himselfe
to
death
with
it
(
and
many
haue
done
)
O
then
some
other
disease
must
beare
the
blame
for
that
fault
.
So
doe
olde
harlots
thanke
their
harlotrie
for
their
many
yeeres
,
that
custome
being
healthfull
(
say
they
)
ad
purgandos
Renes
,
but
neuer
haue
minde
how
many
die
of
the
Pockes
in
the
flower
of
their
youth
.
And
so
doe
olde
drunkards
thinke
they
prolong
their
dayes
,
by
their
swinelike
diet
,
but
neuer
remember
howe
many
die
drowned
in
drinke
before
they
be
halfe
olde
.
And
what
greater
absurditie
can
there
bee
,
then
to
say
that
one
cure
shall
serue
for
diuers
,
nay
,
contrarious
sortes
of
diseases
?
It
is
an
vndoubted
ground
among
all
Phisicians
,
that
there
is
almost
no
sort
either
of
nourishment
or
medicine
,
that
hath
not
something
in
it
disagreeable
to
some
part
of
mans
bodie
,
because
,
as
I
haue
already
sayd
,
the
nature
of
the
temperature
of
euery
part
,
is
so
different
from
another
,
that
according
to
the
olde
prouerbe
,
That
which
is
good
for
the
head
,
is
euill
for
the
necke
and
the
shoulders
.
For
euen
as
a
strong
enemie
,
that
inuades
a
towne
or
fortresse
,
although
in
his
siege
thereof
,
he
doe
belaie
and
compasse
it
round
about
,
yet
he
makes
his
breach
and
entrie
,
at
some
one
or
few
speciall
parts
thereof
,
which
hee
hath
tried
and
found
to
bee
weakest
and
least
able
to
resist
;
so
sickenesse
doth
make
her
particular
assault
,
vpon
such
part
or
parts
of
our
bodie
,
as
are
weakest
and
easiest
to
be
ouercome
by
that
sort
of
disease
,
which
then
doth
assaile
vs
,
although
all
the
rest
of
the
body
by
Sympathie
feele
it selfe
,
to
be
as
it
were
belaied
,
and
besieged
by
the
affliction
of
that
speciall
part
,
the
griefe
and
smart
thereof
being
by
the
sence
of
feeling
dispersed
through
all
the
rest
of
our
members
.
And
therefore
the
skilfull
Phisician
presses
by
such
cures
to
purge
&
strengthen
that
part
which
is
afflicted
,
as
are
onely
fit
for
that
sort
of
disease
,
and
doe
best
agree
with
the
nature
of
that
infirme
part
;
which
being
abused
to
a
disease
of
another
nature
,
would
prooue
as
hurtfull
for
the
one
,
as
helpfull
for
the
other
.
Yea
,
not
only
will
a
skilfull
and
warie
Phisician
bee
carefull
to
vse
no
cure
but
that
which
is
fit
for
that
sort
of
disease
,
but
he
wil
also
consider
all
other
circumstances
,
and
make
the
remedies
sutable
thereunto
:
as
the
temperature
of
the
clime
where
the
Patient
is
,
the
constitution
of
the
Planets
,
the
time
of
the
Moone
,
the
season
of
the
yere
,
the
age
&
complexion
of
the
Patient
,
&
the
present
state
of
his
body
,
in
strength
or
weakenesse
.
For
one
cure
must
not
euer
be
vsed
for
the
selfe-same
disease
,
but
according
to
the
varying
of
any
of
the
foresaid
circumstances
,
that
sort
of
remedie
must
be
vsed
which
is
fittest
for
the
same
.
Whear
by
the
contrarie
in
this
case
,
such
is
the
miraculous
omnipotencie
of
our
strong
tasted
Tobacco
,
as
it
cures
all
sorts
of
diseases
(
which
neuer
any
drugge
could
do
before
)
in
all
persons
,
and
at
all
times
.
It
cures
all
maner
of
distillations
,
either
in
the
head
or
stomacke
(
if
you
beleeue
their
Axiomes
)
although
in
very
deede
it
doe
both
corrupt
the
braine
,
and
by
causing
ouer
quicke
disgestion
,
fill
the
stomacke
full
of
crudities
.
It
cures
the
Gowt
in
the
feet
,
and
(
which
is
miraculous
)
in
that
very
instant
when
the
smoke
thereof
,
as
light
,
flies
vp
into
the
head
,
the
vertue
thereof
,
as
heauie
,
runs
downe
to
the
little
toe
.
It
helpes
all
sorts
of
Agues
.
It
makes
a
man
sober
that
was
drunke
.
It
refreshes
a
weary
man
,
and
yet
makes
a
man
hungry
.
Being
taken
when
they
goe
to
bed
,
it
makes
one
sleepe
soundly
,
and
yet
being
taken
when
a
man
is
sleepie
and
drowsie
,
it
will
,
as
they
say
,
awake
his
braine
,
and
quicken
his
vnderstanding
.
As
for
curing
of
the
Pockes
,
it
serues
for
that
vse
but
among
the
pockie
Indian
slaues
.
Here
in
England
it
is
refined
,
and
will
not
deigne
to
cure
heere
any
other
then
cleanly
and
gentlemanly
diseases
.
O
omnipotent
power
of
Tobacco
!
And
if
it
could
by
the
smoke
thereof
chace
out
deuils
,
as
the
smoke
of
Tobias
fish
did
(
which
I
am
sure
could
smel
no
stronglier
)
it
would
serue
for
a
precious
Relicke
,
both
for
the
superstitious
Priests
,
and
the
insolent
Puritanes
,
to
cast
out
deuils
withall
.
Admitting
then
,
and
not
confessing
that
the
vse
thereof
were
healthfull
for
some
sortes
of
diseases
;
should
it
be
vsed
for
all
sicknesses
?
should
it
be
vsed
by
all
men
?
should
it
be
vsed
at
al
times
?
yea
should
it
be
vsed
by
able
,
yong
,
strong
,
healthful
men
?
Medicine
hath
that
vertue
,
that
it
neuer
leaueth
a
man
in
that
state
wherin
it
findeth
him
:
it
makes
a
sicke
man
whole
,
but
a
whole
man
sicke
.
And
as
Medicine
helpes
nature
being
taken
at
times
of
necessitie
,
so
being
euer
and
continually
vsed
,
it
doth
but
weaken
,
wearie
,
and
weare
nature
.
What
speake
I
of
Medicine
?
Nay
let
a
man
euery
houre
of
the
day
,
or
as
oft
as
many
in
this
countrey
vse
to
take
Tobacco
,
let
a
man
I
say
,
but
take
as
oft
the
best
sorts
of
nourishments
in
meate
and
drinke
that
can
bee
deuised
,
hee
shall
with
the
continuall
vse
thereof
weaken
both
his
head
and
his
stomacke
:
all
his
members
shall
become
feeble
,
his
spirits
dull
,
and
in
the
end
,
as
a
drousie
lazie
belly-god
,
he
shall
euanish
in
a
Lethargie
.
And
from
this
weakenesse
it
proceeds
,
that
many
in
this
kingdome
haue
had
such
a
continuall
vse
of
taking
this
vnsauorie
smoke
,
as
now
they
are
not
able
to
forbeare
the
same
,
no
more
then
an
olde
drunkard
can
abide
to
be
long
sober
,
without
falling
into
an
vncurable
weakenesse
and
euill
constitution
:
for
their
continuall
custome
hath
made
to
them
,
habitum
,
alteram
naturam
:
so
to
those
that
from
their
birth
haue
bene
continually
nourished
vpon
poison
and
things
venemous
,
wholesome
meates
are
onely
poisonable
.
Thus
hauing
,
as
I
truste
,
sufficiently
answered
the
most
principall
arguments
that
are
vsed
in
defence
of
this
vile
custome
,
it
rests
onely
to
informe
you
what
sinnes
and
vanities
you
commit
in
the
filthie
abuse
thereof
.
First
,
are
you
not
guiltie
of
sinnefull
and
shamefull
lust
?
(
for
lust
may
bee
as
well
in
any
of
the
senses
as
in
feeling
)
that
although
you
bee
troubled
with
no
disease
,
but
in
perfect
health
,
yet
can
you
neither
be
merry
at
an
Ordinarie
,
nor
lasciuious
in
the
Stewes
,
if
you
lacke
Tobacco
to
prouoke
your
appetite
to
any
of
those
sorts
of
recreation
,
lusting
after
it
as
the
children
of
Israel
did
in
the
wildernesse
after
Quailes
?
Secondly
it
is
,
as
you
vse
or
rather
abuse
it
,
a
branche
of
the
sinne
of
drunkennesse
,
which
is
the
roote
of
all
sinnes
:
for
as
the
onely
delight
that
drunkards
take
in
Wine
is
in
the
strength
of
the
taste
,
&
the
force
of
the
fume
thereof
that
mounts
vp
to
the
braine
:
for
no
drunkards
loue
any
weake
,
or
sweete
drinke
:
so
are
not
those
(
I
meane
the
strong
heate
and
the
fume
)
the
onely
qualities
that
make
Tobacco
so
delectable
to
all
the
louers
of
it
?
And
as
no
man
likes
strong
headie
drinke
the
first
day
(
because
nemo
repente
fit
turpissimus
)
but
by
custome
is
piece
and
piece
allured
,
while
in
the
ende
,
a
drunkard
will
haue
as
great
a
thirst
to
bee
drunke
,
as
a
sober
man
to
quench
his
thirst
with
a
draught
when
hee
hath
need
of
it
:
So
is
not
this
the
very
case
of
all
the
great
takers
of
Tobacco
?
which
therefore
they
themselues
do
attribute
to
a
bewitching
qualitie
in
it
.
Thirdly
,
is
it
not
the
greatest
sinne
of
all
,
that
you
the
people
of
all
sortes
of
this
Kingdome
,
who
are
created
and
ordeined
by
God
to
bestowe
both
your
persons
and
goods
for
the
maintenance
both
of
the
honour
and
safetie
of
your
King
and
Common-wealth
,
should
disable
your selues
in
both
?
In
your
persons
hauing
by
this
continuall
vile
custome
brought
your selues
to
this
shamefull
imbecilitie
,
that
you
are
not
able
to
ride
or
walke
the
iourney
of
a
Iewes
Sabboth
,
but
you
must
haue
a
reekie
cole
brought
you
from
the
next
poore
house
to
kindle
your
Tobacco
with
?
whereas
he
cannot
be
thought
able
for
any
seruice
in
the
warres
,
that
cannot
endure
oftentimes
the
want
of
meate
,
drinke
,
and
sleepe
,
much
more
then
must
hee
endure
the
want
of
Tobacco
.
In
the
times
of
the
many
glorious
and
victorious
battailes
fought
by
this
Nation
,
there
was
no
word
of
Tobacco
:
but
now
if
it
were
time
of
warres
,
and
that
you
were
to
make
some
sudden
Caualcado
vpon
your
enemies
,
if
any
of
you
should
seeke
leisure
to
stay
behinde
his
fellowe
for
taking
of
Tobacco
,
for
my
part
I
should
neuer
bee
sorie
for
any
euill
chance
that
might
befall
him
.
To
take
a
custome
in
any
thing
that
cannot
bee
left
againe
,
is
most
harmefull
to
the
people
of
any
land
.
Mollicies
and
delicacie
were
the
wracke
and
ouerthrow
,
first
of
the
Persian
,
and
next
of
the
Romane
Empire
.
And
this
very
custome
of
taking
Tobacco
(
whereof
our
present
purpose
is
)
is
euen
at
this
day
accounted
so
effeminate
among
the
Indians
themselues
,
as
in
the
market
they
will
offer
no
price
for
a
slaue
to
be
sold
,
whome
they
finde
to
be
a
great
Tobacco
taker
.
Now
how
you
are
by
this
custome
disabled
in
your
goods
,
let
the
Gentry
of
this
land
beare
witnesse
,
some
of
them
bestowing
three
,
some
foure
hundred
pounds
a
yeere
vpon
this
precious
stinke
,
which
I
am
sure
might
be
bestowed
vpon
many
farre
better
vses
.
I
read
indeede
of
a
knauish
Courtier
,
who
for
abusing
the
fauour
of
the
Emperour
Alexander
Seuerus
his
Master
by
taking
bribes
to
intercede
,
for
sundry
persons
in
his
Masters
eare
,
(
for
whom
he
neuer
once
opened
his
mouth
)
was
iustly
choked
with
smoke
,
with
this
doome
,
Fumo
pereat
,
qui
fumum
vendidit
:
but
of
so
many
smoke-buyers
,
as
are
at
this
present
in
this
kingdome
,
I
neuer
read
nor
heard
.
And
for
the
vanities
committed
in
this
filthie
custome
,
is
it
not
both
great
vanitie
and
vncleanenesse
,
that
at
the
table
,
a
place
of
respect
,
of
cleanlinesse
,
of
modestie
,
men
should
not
be
ashamed
,
to
sit
tossing
of
Tobacco
pipes
,
and
puffing
of
the
smoke
of
Tobacco
one
to
another
,
making
the
filthy
smoke
and
stinke
thereof
,
to
exhale
athwart
the
dishes
,
and
infect
the
aire
,
when
very
often
,
men
that
abhorre
it
are
at
their
repast
?
Surely
Smoke
becomes
a
kitchin
far
better
then
a
Dining
chamber
,
and
yet
it
makes
a
kitchin
also
oftentimes
in
the
inward
parts
of
men
,
soiling
and
infecting
them
,
with
an
vnctuous
and
oily
kinde
of
Soote
,
as
hath
bene
found
in
some
great
Tobacco
takers
,
that
after
their
death
were
opened
.
And
not
onely
meate
time
,
but
no
other
time
nor
action
is
exempted
from
the
publike
vse
of
this
vnciuill
tricke
:
so
as
if
the
wiues
of
Diepe
list
to
contest
with
this
Nation
for
good
maners
,
their
worst
maners
would
in
all
reason
be
found
at
least
not
so
dishonest
(
as
ours
are
)
in
this
point
.
The
publike
vse
whereof
,
at
all
times
,
and
in
all
places
,
hath
now
so
farre
preuailed
,
as
diuers
men
very
sound
both
in
iudgement
,
and
complexion
,
haue
bene
at
last
forced
to
take
it
also
without
desire
,
partly
because
they
were
ashamed
to
seeme
singular
,
(
like
the
two
Philosophers
that
were
forced
to
duck
themselues
in
that
raine
water
,
and
to
become
fooles
aswell
as
the
rest
of
the
people
)
and
partly
to
be
as
one
that
was
content
to
eate
Garlicke
(
which
hee
did
not
loue
)
that
he
might
not
be
troubled
with
the
smell
of
it
,
in
the
breath
of
his
fellowes
.
And
is
it
not
a
great
vanitie
,
that
a
man
cannot
heartily
welcome
his
friend
now
,
but
straight
they
must
bee
in
hand
with
Tobacco
?
No
it
is
become
in
place
of
a
cure
,
a
point
of
good
fellowship
,
and
he
that
will
refuse
to
take
a
pipe
of
Tobacco
among
his
fellowes
,
(
though
by
his
owne
election
he
would
rather
feele
the
fauour
of
a
Sinke
)
is
accounted
peeuish
and
no
good
company
,
euen
as
they
doe
with
tippeling
in
the
cold
Easterne
Countries
.
Yea
the
Mistresse
cannot
in
a
more
manerly
kinde
,
entertaine
her
seruant
,
then
by
giuing
him
out
of
her
faire
hand
a
pipe
of
Tobacco
.
But
herein
is
not
onely
a
great
vanitie
,
but
a
great
contempt
of
Gods
good
giftes
,
that
the
sweetenesse
of
mans
breath
,
being
a
good
gift
of
God
,
should
be
wilfully
corrupted
by
this
stinking
smoke
,
wherein
I
must
confesse
,
it
hath
too
strong
a
vertue
:
and
so
that
which
is
an
ornament
of
nature
,
and
can
neither
by
any
artifice
be
at
the
first
acquired
,
nor
once
lost
,
be
recouered
againe
,
shall
be
filthily
corrupted
with
an
incurable
stinke
,
which
vile
qualitie
is
as
directly
contrary
to
that
wrong
opinion
which
is
holden
of
the
wholesomnesse
thereof
,
as
the
venime
of
putrifaction
is
contrary
to
the
vertue
Preseruatiue
.
Moreouer
,
which
is
a
great
iniquitie
,
and
against
all
humanitie
,
the
husband
shall
not
bee
ashamed
,
to
reduce
thereby
his
delicate
,
wholesome
,
and
cleane
complexioned
wife
,
to
that
extremitie
,
that
either
shee
must
also
corrupt
her
sweete
breath
therewith
,
or
else
resolue
to
liue
in
a
perpetuall
stinking
torment
.
Haue
you
not
reason
then
to
bee
ashamed
,
and
to
forbeare
this
filthie
noueltie
,
so
basely
grounded
,
so
foolishly
receiued
,
and
so
grossely
mistaken
in
the
right
vse
thereof
?
In
your
abuse
thereof
sinning
against
God
,
harming
your selues
both
in
persons
and
goods
,
and
raking
also
thereby
the
markes
and
notes
of
vanitie
vpon
you
:
by
the
custome
thereof
making
your selues
to
be
wondered
at
by
all
forraine
ciuil
Nations
,
and
by
all
strangers
that
come
among
you
,
to
be
scorned
and
contemned
.
A
custome
lothsome
to
the
eye
,
hatefull
to
the
Nose
,
harmefull
to
the
braine
,
daungerous
to
the
Lungs
and
in
the
blacke
stinking
fume
thereof
,
neerest
resembling
the
horrible
Stigian
smoke
of
the
pit
that
is
bottomelesse
.