The first Argument , is : That in the vse , or custome of Tabacco , no methode , or order is obserued : diuersity , and distinction of persons , times , and seasons considered : no varieties of accidents , and diseases pondered , &c.

The first reason dependeth wholly vpon this point : Because there is no order , or methode kept therein : therefore either it , or rather the daily vse of it , is to be discommended . And for proofe therof , there is mentioned , the decay of a Commonwealth , for lacke of order , and right gouernment : and beside ●hat , a long discourse is brought in , out of Hippocrates , Galen , and other good writers , as also grounded vpon good experience : That there must regard be had , of the age , of the time , of the disease , of the sexe , of the region and place , of the complexion , &c. or else all is marred : and there can come no good either of it , or of any thing else that is disorderly taken , &c.

All this is yeelded vnto , so that there needeth no longer speech at al ▪ where th●re is no contradiction . So that briefly to conclude : This Argument seemeth , altogether to driue against the immoderat , and disorderly abuse of Tabacco : and not much against the thing it self : and euery artificer and meane trades man , can both see it , and also say as much : that where no order is kept , there the worke cannot prosper , or come to good effect . As for example : He were a simple Cooke , that thought all meates should be dressed alike : or that a Chine of Beefe , should haue no greater a fire , nor no longer a time of rosting , then a dousin of Larkes . And he hath small knowledge in baked meate , that supposeth that a good fat pastie of Venison , must haue no longer a time , either of baking , or of soaking , then an apple Tart. Neither is he to be accounted to haue any skill in baking of bread , I trow , that will first thrust in the batch of bread into the Ouen , and then make the fire afterward .

So that to conclude , where all circumstances are not considered , that ought to be regarded : and where any action is to be performed , and where methode , order , and proportion is not kept and obserued , there all the labour is lost , and whatsoeuer is taken in hand , is mard for lacke of discretion . So fareth it with Tabacco : that where it is immoderately and disorderly vsed , there I confesse some offence perchaunce , may well inough grow by the abuse therof : and yet for all that , the poore Simple of it selfe , and the right vse thereof , may iustly deserue great commendation . Hitherto then , it seems we agree well inough .

But here in your farther discourse you say : That we see by experience , that some diseased of the Dropsie , and mois● complexions , and maladies growing of superfluities of humors , haue receiued great helpe by the frequent vse of this Tabacco , &c.

Tabacco is very much beholding to you for this , I assure you , that your selfe hath here confessed by the way : and it is almost as much , as is either to be wished , or looked for , for the great good of Tabacco . For if it be well weighed , it mightily confuteth , all the rest in a maner of your bitter inueighing against it ; in other places : namely : that it hindreth digestion , it depriueth nature of nourishment , it destroyeth naturall heate , it marreth propagation , it is a daungerous poison : and the like .

For now in the meane while , ex confessis : Tabacco in this place is held for a thing very good for dropsies you say and moist complexions , and waterish diseases : and in some other placeshereafter , as you affirme , it is good for the scuruy , for weake cold stomackes , for rheumaticke fluxes , for grosse & foggy bodies , yea : and for expelling of poyson in some sort , &c. All which sayings of yours , are in my opinion maruellous great praises for Tabacco : & so great , as no greater praise can well be deuised , to be attributed , or giuen , to any one simple in the garden . What ? To be good to cure dropsies , and waterish diseases , and rheumes , and scuruies , and cold , and weake stomackes , &c. Why ? what would you more ? would you haue it good for all things ? Nay : the honest stranger that praised butter so much , could neuer bring that to passe in his butter as good as it was : for when that he had said all the good that he could of it , saying , it was good to eate at all times , both morning and euening , and good for all sorts of people both early and late , and good for pies , cakes , and spice-bread , and many other iunketing knackes ; and in the end praised it so excessiuely , that at the last he confirmed it with an oath , that it was the only thing in the world , for it was good for all things : Nay , ho there , sayd a good fellow , and a stander by , That s not so : for it is not good to stop ouens . Although Tabacco be not good for all things : no , nor for so many things neither , as butter is perchance , yet by my fay : it is well , if it be good for so many things , and so great matters , as dropsies and the like , as you haue sayd : and you shall hardly match him againe I warra●t you , with his like in all points .

Marry if your meaning be by this reason , onely to reprehend the abuse and disorder thereof : Then this controuersie is at an end . But yet as I haue already said : The lacke of discretion of the party that vseth it : is no dispraise to the thing that is abused .

You still go on , and at the last you find fault with Tabacco , For that by the vse of Tabacco , the natuall offices and functions of the body are peruerted , as namely the mouth , throat , and stomacke , are made emunctory cleansing places , and sinkes for the filth , and superfluous excrements of the whole body , &c.

But this obiection is very weake , and to little purpose . For who sees not , that those parts which you haue named , are in some sort appointed by nature , to serue for the selfe same purposes , which you haue here mentioned : as the mouth to auoide superfluous spittle , by hawking , reaching , and spitting : the nose , by vttering such filth , as descendeth from the braine , and forepart of the head : the throate , by coughing , to rid , & make passage for tough fleame , from the lungs , and also to cast vp and discharge ill matters from the stomacke , by the way of vomiting , either pr●cured by art , or otherwise comming voluntarily by natures motion , when she findeth her selfe surcharged with an ouerplus . So that by these doings it should seeme , here is either no offence at all done vnto nature , neither yet her course peruerted : or at the least , nothing so much wronged , & peruerted , as is by you supposed . Marry if these excrements which are wont to be brought thither , and to be conueyed away by those places , were left there to remaine , it we●e another matter , and there were somewhat to be sayd ▪ but daily experience maketh it manifest , and your selfe also confesseth it , that it bringeth no more thi●her , then it carieth away from thence . And so vpon the reckening , it should seeme it is so farre from causing any annoyance or offence , that it rather cleanseth and preserueth those places , by keeping them much better , and sweeter , then otherwise .

The second reason is , for that It is in quality and complexion , more hote and dry , then may be conueniently vsed daily of any man : much lesse of the hote , and cholericke constitution .

True it is that the good temperament , and constitution of our bodies dependeth vpon the iust , and due proportion and mixture of the foure Elements : not that each body hath a like quantity , or proportion of the sayd Elements in them , by weight and measure : but according to the rules of iustice , and sufficiency for euery particular body to haue , they be so orderly mingled and proportioned , as is best for the health and strength of that particular body , to make him able to do , and performe , all those functions and actions , which are fittest for the body to do , and performe . For example sake , as that horse is said to haue his health best , and to be of a good constitution , which is best able in running , and other actions , to performe those things best , which appertaine to a horse , for to do : and as that dog likewise is said , to be best , & soundest , which in hunting , and smelling , &c. with best strength and agility performeth his functions : so is that man sayd to be in best plight of body and perfect health , which findeth himselfe best able to performe , and discharge all those actions which are agreeable for his body , and incident to the nature of man : so that , they and we consist of the like elements : but not of the like proportion & mixture of the same elements ; but yet of such a sufficient & conuenient temperature , as shall be most befitting for the health and good estate of each creature in his degree . And of this due commixtion of these elements , riseth those foure compound temperaments , or complexions that are so famous : The Sanguine : the Cholericke : the Melancholy : and the Flegmaticke : all agreeing , in hauing all the Elements in them : yet all disagreeing , in hauing them proportioned a like in them ; and yet euery one well pleased in that quantity & proportion , which he hath , and enioyeth in himselfe .

Now , whether these foresaid Elements be in our bodies substantially , and materially , as they be in nature , and essence : or only but the qualities , powers and properties of the same : so placed and conueyed , into the mould of our temperature , as they are able to worke , and be get their like effects in vs , and our bodies : that is a darke and a tedious question , and hath bred great contention among the learned : but yet , not much materiall to the purpose of that thing which we haue now in hand .

But this one thing is to be noted by the way , that none of these temperatures , or complexions , are so narrowly scantled , or pent vp into such a streight , but that each one of them may in some sort , admit a certaine kind either of increase , or decrease , of his principall humor , whereof he carieth his denomination , and yet retaine his naturall and perfect constitution still . As for example : The sanguine man may leese some bloud , or else alter some part of the same : the cholericke man likewise , may either increase , or decrease some part of his choler ; and so of the rest : and yet retaine his health : and remaine of a sanguine , or a cholericke constitution still . For as the Base , and Treble in Musicke haue diuerse alterations of rising and falling in them , which I thinke ▪ they call keyes , and ●treines , all differing in proportion , yet in sound , and noyse , making all a pleasing musicall concord : so in like maner haue these constitutions , or complexions of ours , a certaine decent scope , or latitude ( as we call it ) to walke in : and yet for all that , each one of them , may be said to keepe his first strength , and constitution , with a sweete pleasing proportion and harmonie . Thus much being generally spoken : now let vs weigh your argument , and the materiall notes , and proofes , annexed to the same .

In this place it is said by you : that , the daily vse of Tabacco , is not good for any man : much lesse for the cholericke constitution .

If you meane , by these words , daily vse : too much , or immoderate vse ; I yeeld vnto it : and in that sence , it is not good , for any other complexion : be it neuer so cold , and Phlegmaticke . No more is any thing else , that I do k●ow . But if you meane by daily vse , the often and frequent vse thereof , and then meane that the frequent and often vse is not good for any , as here you say that it is not : then you contradict your selfe . For but euen now , in a few lines going before in your first Chapter , you said : many moist complexions , haue receiued great helpe , by the frequent vse of Tabacco , &c. which is flat against that , which you do now here affirme .

But it had bene well done of you , here to haue put downe , which way of taking of Tabacco you do meane , when you thus condemne , the daily vse thereof . If you meane the daily taking of it in substance , as a foode , &c. I know none , for my part , that vseth it so ; if you meane , by infusion , or decoction , or otherwise , as a medicine to purge withall , &c. I thinke likewise none so mad , or so foolish , as to offend that way . But if you meane , by fume , and Pipe , as I thinke you do : how comes it then to passe , that you stand so greatly in feare of it now , when you confesse in another place : that ▪ the fume of it is not any matter , of any great importance , or able to make any great impression , too or fro , to do any great good , or ill at all . Me think ( as the poore old man said by his patcht torne cloke ) this geere hardly hange●h well together .

And whereas this misliking of yours , seemeth to rise of his two manifest qualities that be in him : that is to say , ●or his great heat , and drinesse : why , you know , and I know , that hotter things then this is ▪ and drier too , are daily taken of all sorts , yea and of all complexions ; as Ginger , Pepper , Clo●es , ●raines , and Mace , and other good spices , as well with meat , as also in their daily drinke , suppinses , and cawdels : and yet for any thing , that either you , or I can see ; God be thanked , there comes no hurt at all in the world thereby .

But why it should destroy , and consume natura●● heate and moisture , as you affirme , which are the principals of our life ; in truth I vnderstand not , vnlesse , as I said , the takers thereof , should make whole meales thereof , which I am sure no man doth . For then indeed it may be , it would worke that effect : and so would all your cordiall spices do also : if men should in that disorderly maner feede on them : as to make whole meales thereof . Whereas now being moderately taken : and yet daily too : they be great preseruers of health , in most sort of men , or rather in all kind of complexions : as a●l men I am sure , will confesse .

That which is added out of Aristotle ; O●ne simile , additum simili , reddit ipsum simile magis simile : maketh lit●e for your purpose . For as your selfe confesseth , that ; Contraria contrarijs curantur : so I thinke you are as willing to confesse also : that , similia similibus nutriuntur . Now ●ir ; if Tabacco be hote and drie , as you put downe that it is , and the cholericke man hote likewise ; and then if ●●ke be increased with like : as Aristotle saith : or if like be nourished , maintained , and preserued with like , as Ph●sitions affirme : then like inough it is , that the choleric●e mans complexion , is rather preserued by Tabacco , then destroyed : presupposed alwaies , if it be moderately taken . It may be , you will here haue a kind of euasion , and a certaine starting hole : and I guesse well inough what it is , yet neuerthelesse I will not name it . But for anything that is yet said of you to the contrarie , this argument holdeth ; and so it shall rest for me .

Moreouer , that Principle of Aristotle : Omne simile , additum simili , &c. must haue a nice interpretation , and must be rightly vnderstood : or else it is like inough , I tell you , to breede an errour . Like increaseth like , you say . It is true : but yet in quantitie it increaseth it , and not in qualitie : vnlesse that same like , be in a higher , and stronger degree , of qualitie and likenesse . And yet , how it should then rightly be called like , being by reason of a higher degree vnlike , for my part , I see not . As for example : hote water , being put to as hote water , maketh not that hote wa●er , hotter then it was , vnto the which it is put . It may well increase the substance , and quantitie of that hote water : but yet not the heate , and quality thereof . Then , vnlesse Tabacco , be hotter then choler , ( which will be very hard to proue ) it cannot increase choler in heate , and qualitie . But if it be colder in power and qualitie , ( as I thinke it will fall out , that it is ) then doth it rather abate , and suppresse the heate of choler , then increase it . For warme water , yea though it be good and warme water : yet because it is not so hote , as scalding hote water is , being put to scalding hote water ; it doth not increase his heate a whit : but rather cooleth it , I warrant you , try it when you will .

Touching the great store , of vndigested , and crude humors , which are the effects of immoderate heates in vs , as you affirme ; and so consequently are cause and occasion of hote feuers ; I see no cause of any such feare by Tabacco . For if daily experience may serue for a sufficient proofe of the contrarie : I for my part , haue seene none at all : neither hath any man else I am sure knowne any ; or at the least , very few , among so many thousands , that daily take it , that haue fallen into agues directly vpon the taking of Tabacco : and therefore , euen by that experiment also it doth seeme vnto me , that the taking thereof , especially in fume , ( which as your selfe graunteth , hath very , small force to worke any great matter vpon our bodies ) can cause no such fierie , and extreame heate in the bodie , as is by you supposed , but rather , if it do giue any heate , yet that heate is rather a familiar , and a pleasing heate , then an immoderate , extraordinarie , and an aguish distemperature .

And as for them that affirme , Agues to be cured by Tabacco , as you say ; if any vnlearned so say : in my iudgement , it is an vnsauory speech , & without sence or methode , and I leaue it to them that so say , to defend it as they can . But it may be , you mistake them . Possible it is , that their saying , yea , and their meaning too , is thus : that in the curing of Agues , Tabacco , may haue his good vse , if he be rightly vsed : as well as other purgatiues haue . And that opinion well vnderstood , is not greatly amisse . For if Purgations , being done in good order , and conueniently giuen in their due times , and seasons , be one of the especiall helpes , to rid and cure rotten Agues , as you know it is : then it is like inough ▪ that Tabacco , by his purging facultie , may do much good , by taking away the cause of the Ague , as other Purgations do . For if you thinke it can do no good that way , because it is hote and drie : then by that reason likewise , no Purgatiues in a maner , that the old auncient writers did vse , can do any good that way . For that they were all , or most of them of the same nature , hote and dry : as for example : Elleborus , Colocinth , Elatery , Esulus , Scammony : which was not onely vsed by them in a manner altogether : but at this day also , is one of the most common , and vsuallest things that we haue ; especially , in our great , and magistrall compositions .

As for the daunger that you presuppose ▪ is in the often vse of Tabacco , to them that be in health , for dissipating , & consuming that wholesome humor , by often vomits , seeges , sweatings , spittings , and coughings , which otherwise would be turned to good bloud , and nourishment : and all this to be done to by the fume of Tabacco , ( which by and by vanisheth away , as all smokes do . ) In my fancy , all this is but a meere imagination : and directly against that which your selfe hath sayd already : affirming that the fume hath no great force to worke , any matter of moment in our bodies , as also flat against common and daily experience . For neither I , nor you , nor any man else , in my opinion , euer did see , that the fume ( for of that your talke must be , or else you talke to no purpose ) which is the thing onely that is in daily vse , did euer worke , any great purgings , or vomits , or sweates : or if it did at any time : yet it was by a meere accident and chance ; which is nothing to purpose . As for the other humidities , which as you say , it prouoketh , from the braine , and other parts of the head : a man may thinke , that those things may as conueniently be done , and with as litle hurt or danger with Tabacco , as we see them daily done by your Errhinaes , and Nasaliaes , and Sternutatories , which are vsually giuen in Phisicke by the nose , to procure sneesing , and clammy filth to come downe that way : or by your Mastichatories , which you vse to chew and to prouoke the passing away of offensiue humours by the mouth : or by your expertorating medicines , and procurers of Phleagme to be discharged , and auoided by coughings .

But if your meaning be , that it consumeth only that humidity , which is layed vp in the stomach , as in a store-house , to serue to good purpose hereafter ; euen in that point also , you are deceiued , considering the great waterishn●sse , and ouermuch moisture , of our country , and the people thereof : as shal be more at large spoken of hereafter : in so much that there is a great deale mor● feare and care to be had , of the offences , that may grow by too much humiditie in the stomacke ; then any whit , to stand in feare , of any great matter , or harme that may ensue , vpon the abating of the abundance , of that humiditie and moisture .

And now : whereas you affirme , it maketh , the grosse , and foggy , to be leane , &c. If this be certaine , which by you is put downe and auouched , you haue giuen Tabacco , one of the greatest praises , that can be deuised . And if there were no other matter , why it should be had in good regard : yet for this only point it deserueth immortall praise . You are not ignorant I am sure , how many learned men , haue of long time labored , and do daily busie themselues from time , to time , how to de●ise remedies , to make the grosse , and foggy man , leane , in some reasonable measure , and yet notwithstanding , you see , how few haue , or can effect the same . For my part , I would I were indebted to you , in a good round summe of money , that I might be assured , Tabacco , could worke that feate . Do you but assure me , that it can do it indeed : and I will be bound to assure you , that no Consumption , or decay , either of naturall heat , or radicall & substantiall moisture , shal follow vpon the taking of Tabacco . But to come something close to the point . If Phisicke haue any direct , and ordinary meanes to pull downe a grosse and foggy body , as you call it : in my conceit , it must be , by conuenient competent euacuations , and drying diets , fit , and agreeable for the purpose . Now sir : if those ordinary remedies which are vsuall in the common course of Phisicke , for the abating of ouermuch foggy fatnesse , are , and ought to be of the same quality and condition that Tabacco is : that is to say , hote , and dry : and notwithstanding the daily vse of them , yet for all that , we stand no whit in feare , that either consumptions , or decay of naturall heate and moisture , will ensue vpon the vse thereof , when they are ministred : what is the reason then , why we should be so much afeard , of the vsing of Tabacco , in the like case , hauing the selfe same properties , that other medicines either haue , or should haue , being vsed to the same effect , and purpose ?

And whereas you imagine it is very vnapt , to breed good nourishment ( and vpon that hangeth the greatest weight , and moment of your reasons : ) I see not well , how that can be : except it be , by one of these two meanes following : that is to say , either because Tabacco it selfe maketh not good nourishment , if it be taken into the body : or else because Tabacco decayeth and destroyeth , the chiefest instrument , that maketh good nourishment for our bodies , which is the stomach . If we meane , it breedeth no good nourishment of it selfe , as other good meates do : I yeeld thereunto , as I sayd before : and confe●●e as much now : neither did I euer take Tabacco , to be any good meate at all : neither doth any man vse it for foode , that I know . But if your meaning be , that therefore it hindreth good nourishment , because it hindreth , and destroyeth the chiefest instrument of good nourishment , I meane our stomach : in my iudgement , you are farre deceiued : for it is rather a principall helpe in that respect , then any hinderer at all . For if ouermuch moisture be a great hinderer of the stomach , by relaxing of it : and by dulling the desire , and appetite of meate : and if great cold be another great enemy , to the same ; for that it hindereth , and decayeth good concoction : then Tabacco , as Tabacco hauing the contrary qualities , that is to say , being hote , and dry , is no such ill meanes to amend those foresayd defects , and infirmities of the stomach , as you presupposed that it is . I say , Tabacco , as Tabacco : that is , as Tabacco I meane rightly , and moderatly vsed : for too much wood , suddenly , and out of order heaped on , choaketh , and putteth out the fire : and too much good wine , being immoderatly and excessiuely swilled in , though of his owne nature it be warme , and comfortable , yet , so taken , it killeth and extinguisheth naturall heate : and so in this , as in other things , the common saying is fulfilled : Too much of any thing , is good for nothing .

Your discourse of smels , is for the most part true and pretty , and very well to be liked : but yet in all parts , but weake , and faint , to proue the matter in hand . The Aristotelians , and the Galenists , are at a iarre about the nature of smels : and some of the old writer● ; as also some of the latter to , yea , and those of the best sort , and greatest fame : haue much a do about this point : to proue that sweet swels do nourish , and are mightily puzzled in it . But yet to be briefe , in this point , for my part , I do ●ssen● vnto you , and am of opinion , as you are , that sweete smels do nourish . But yet the principall point in question remaineth still in doubt : which is this : whether Tabacco stinke , or no ? Then , whether it do stinke in that high degree , that it doth breed such great offence to nature , as it must needs be abhorred so much , as you do beare vs in hand it must . And by the way : if it do stinke : is it therefore to be thought vtterly vnprofitable , to be vsed , in Phisicke ? For the deciding of this question , whether it stinke , or no : I know no better way , or directer course , then to appeale to the multitude of indifferent voices .

True it is , that as all noses are not alike in shape , and making but some are long noses , some short : some thin , and sharpe , as they say shrewes be : some great and botteld , as I know whose is : so is there great variety of iudgement in their smels , and that which pleaseth one much displeaseth another : as appeared by the merry tale of the Collier , that passing through Bucklersbury , fell into a kind of trance , with the sweete smels of that street , and was reuiued againe with the smell of , you wot what , if all Caunterbury tales be true . But yet thus much I do know , and I thinke your selfe also will not deny ; That men of great learning and iudgement , men of right good bringing vp , men of fine , and deinty diet , men of good worth , and worship , yea men , of right honorable estate , and calling ; do like of the smell of Tabacco well inough . Why then should it be so mightily condemned by you , for such an horrible stinker ? If it were possible to haue , so great an assembly , of so indifferent , and worthy Iudges for this matter , as there is now , a most honorable meeting , at this very instant in the high Parliament for other greater matters , & if it might be put to their indgement , assure your selfe , it would go against you , and you would quite be ouerthrowne : and for one voice of your side , there would be twenty , at the least on the other ; and all for Tabacco . For I can tell you , that this is held for an infallible rule , and to be one of the most perfectest signes of good Tabacco ; that it be sweete , and yeeld a kind of pleasing , fragrant , aromaticall smell . But by the way of admittance , let it be sayd , that it hath a kind of ranke , or vnpleasant sauour . What then ? shall it therefore be banished out of the vse of Phisicke ? or if it bring , a greater commodity with it , shall it therefore , for a little ranke smell , be reiected ? Smell me to the simple , called Vuluaria : or to your Castoreum : or to your Assa foetida , called of some Stercus Diaboli , or to your great composition of Mithridat , the glory of Phisicke , and the wonder of the world : and such other , which are no small fooles in the course of Phisicke : and I beleeue , when you haue but once handled some of them ; you would thanke him , that would bring you a little good Tabacco , to helpe to put away those smels , and to sweeten your selfe againe . If men did commend Tabacco , to make Pomanders withall : or for lip-salue , or for fine perfumes , and sweete smels , for Ladies chambers , it were another matter : and might perchance haue bene instly misliked .

Your storie of Ambrose Pary , is farre fetcht , and to no purpose in all the world . What needed you to haue fetched your proofes out of Fraunce , to perswade that ill smels do offend ? Euery dunghil in England , and something else too , can testifie that well inough .

And here I must needs tell you by the way , that your speeches , be a litle too much exceeding , and as I might tearme them , too farre transcendent , and your comparisons too vnequall , when you inueigh against poore Tabacco . For when you talke of his manifest qualities , which are hot , and dry , and yet that to not excessiue : but in some measurable manner , yet you terme him to be , fi●ry , hellish , burning , scorching , out of Plutoes forge , and the like : whereas indeede , there is no such matter : and ye● vpon that hyperbolicall ground , as I may say , are most 〈◊〉 your arguments builded . As if a man should reason thus : Because too great a fire , and therewithall standing too neare vnto it , doth burne a man : therefore , a moderate fire , with a reasonable distance standing from it , were not fit to warme a man pleasingly , and with delight . Or because scalding hot water , is fitter to scald a pig , then to trim a mans beard : therefore luke-warme water ▪ is not good to be vsed in Barbors basons : for euen much a like hang these your arguments together ▪

And now , in like manner , what a comparison haue you pickt out ▪ be●weene Tabacco , and that most hatefull thing , the plag●●● He that knoweth not of what a monsterous deepe , filthy , corrupt , stinking putrefaction , the plague proceedeth , being able not onely to infect another : but also to beget in a second person , in a third , yea and in a fourth man , another monsterous , stinking , contagious seminarie as he calleth it ( a Seminarie Priest if ye will ) like to himselfe ; let him but reade that learned Fracastorius vpon that point in his bookes De morbis contagiosis ; and he shall be satisfied . And now alas , what comparison is there betweene the smell of such a monster , and poore Tabacco : whose smell is deemed no worse of such as loue him , and are men of good account , and of a dainty sence , then to haue a certaine , drying , odoriferous , aromaticall sauour : and of such as hate him , yet if they do him right , and be not too partiall , can be thought to be but something hote in smell , and as it were a little rancke at the most .

Touching the story of D. T. it dieth of it selfe : and is to as little purpose , as the other of Ambrose Pary . Yea , and if it be well scand , it is directly against your selfe . For you confesse , he would not for a hundreth pounds , but that he had vsed it : and why ? himselfe answereth : for thereby saith : he found great ease , of his cold , and rheumaticke stomach . So that vpon this mans confession : Tabacco is nothing so ill a thing , or such a terrible bugge , as you haue made him , to hinder nourishment , or to destroy and ouerthrow concoction . For , as you see , it mended his stomach , which was weake , and feeble before . And whereas he saies , he cannot , now leaue it : euen in that also , he seemeth by implication as it were , to confesse : That there is no such horrible ill smell in it , as you preten● there is . For if D. T. be he , whom I do thinke , you meane : then do I knowe the man well , and knowe him also to be a very learned gentleman : and of a fine graine , as also to be a moderate , sweete , ciuill gentleman , in all his whole cariage of his life : and if the stinke were so offensiue , as you would make it to be , assure your selfe , a man of his gentlemanly course of life , and dainty nature , would haue the discretion in common sence , to shun , and abhorre it . As for the saying of the Noble man ; it must be taken , and regarded , as a particular speech , of an honourable person , that could not abide Tabacco , and as the testimony onely of one ; and for that one , you shall haue a dozen , of the same order , and degree , to thinke , and to say the contrary .