Du Bartas His Divine Weekes And Workes with A Compleate Collectio[n] of all the other most delight-full Workes: Translated and written by yt famous Philomusus: Iosvah Sylvester |
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 | Du Bartas |  |
Oft had I seen Fooles of all sorts frequent it,
Fooles of all Size Fooles of all Sexes hant it,
Fooles of all Colours, Fooles of all Complexions,
Fooles of all Fashions, Fooles of all Affections,
Fooles naturall, Fooles artificiall,
Fooles rich and poor, young Fooles, old Fooles, and all;
Whom, Foole I pitied, for their wilfull Folly;
Supposing, None discreetly Wise (or Holy)
Could be entangled with so fond a thing,
As is the habit of Tobacconing.
For, what Discretion, or what Wisedom can,
Think Physick Food, or Med'cine Meat, for Man?
Fooles of all Size Fooles of all Sexes hant it,
Fooles of all Colours, Fooles of all Complexions,
Fooles of all Fashions, Fooles of all Affections,
Fooles naturall, Fooles artificiall,
Fooles rich and poor, young Fooles, old Fooles, and all;
Whom, Foole I pitied, for their wilfull Folly;
Supposing, None discreetly Wise (or Holy)
Could be entangled with so fond a thing,
As is the habit of Tobacconing.
For, what Discretion, or what Wisedom can,
Think Physick Food, or Med'cine Meat, for Man?
I rather thought Vlysses rather would
Have stopt his Eeares, Eyes, Hands, and Mouth with-hold
From such a Cyrcean Drug, whose working strange,
Would soon his best into a Beast exchange.
But wen I saw som Wise-ones snared-in
This Spanish Cobweb (Satans speciall Gin)
And that so fast, they cannot when they would
Get out againe; or will not if they could:
Wisdom, me thought, must varie much; or else
This Ware is spiced with som Forrain Spels,
So to bewitch the Wise (need-less, and nilling)
To take and love; and not to leave it, willing.
For, those that say and sweare they euen abhorre it,
Cannot abandon, but Thus bandie for it:
Have stopt his Eeares, Eyes, Hands, and Mouth with-hold
From such a Cyrcean Drug, whose working strange,
Would soon his best into a Beast exchange.
But wen I saw som Wise-ones snared-in
This Spanish Cobweb (Satans speciall Gin)
And that so fast, they cannot when they would
Get out againe; or will not if they could:
Wisdom, me thought, must varie much; or else
This Ware is spiced with som Forrain Spels,
So to bewitch the Wise (need-less, and nilling)
To take and love; and not to leave it, willing.
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Cannot abandon, but Thus bandie for it:
Tis good (say They) Tis speciall good for Rheumes;
Exhales gross Humors, their Excesse consumes;
And voids, with-all, all inconuenience
There-on depending, or descending, Thence.
Which should I grant, it must be yet with Clauses
Of needfull Caution, suitable to Causes;
When time requireth Preparation fit
To rarifie congealed Rags of it;
Which by the Heat and Drynesse, probably,
This Plant performes, in mediocritie:
Or else, where the aboundant Quantity,
Dangerous Effect, malignant Quality,
Of ouer-moistures, aske Euacuation,
To free the Parts from totall Inundation.
Exhales gross Humors, their Excesse consumes;
And voids, with-all, all inconuenience
There-on depending, or descending, Thence.
Which should I grant, it must be yet with Clauses
Of needfull Caution, suitable to Causes;
When time requireth Preparation fit
To rarifie congealed Rags of it;
Which by the Heat and Drynesse, probably,
This Plant performes, in mediocritie:
Or else, where the aboundant Quantity,
Dangerous Effect, malignant Quality,
Of ouer-moistures, aske Euacuation,
To free the Parts from totall Inundation.
How-be-it, many safer Meanes there are.
Better and fitter in themselues by farre;
More certaine, more direct; with lesse adoo,
Lesse Cost, lesse Damage, and lesse Danger too
Than Don TOBACCO's damnable Infection,
Slutting the Body, slauing the Affection.
Better and fitter in themselues by farre;
More certaine, more direct; with lesse adoo,
Lesse Cost, lesse Damage, and lesse Danger too
Than Don TOBACCO's damnable Infection,
Slutting the Body, slauing the Affection.
Twere therefore better somewhat else to seek,
Then rest in this, so worthie of Dis-like;
Sith, curing Thus one small Infirmity,
It doth create a greater Malady,
When there-by freed (perhaps) from Rheumes, we fall
In Bondage of this Custome capitall.
For, they that Physicke to a Custome bring,
Bring their Disease too, to accustoming.
Perpetuall Physicke must of force imply
Perpetuall Sicknesse; or deep Foolerie
Compos'd of Anticke and of Phrantick too:
For, where's no Sickness, what should Med'cine doo?
Then rest in this, so worthie of Dis-like;
Sith, curing Thus one small Infirmity,
It doth create a greater Malady,
When there-by freed (perhaps) from Rheumes, we fall
In Bondage of this Custome capitall.
For, they that Physicke to a Custome bring,
Bring their Disease too, to accustoming.
Perpetuall Physicke must of force imply
Perpetuall Sicknesse; or deep Foolerie
Compos'd of Anticke and of Phrantick too:
For, where's no Sickness, what should Med'cine doo?
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