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The Deuils health-drinker.
VVho dares dispraise Tobacco,
while the smoke is in my nose?
Or say but ogh my pipe doth smell,
I would I knew but those
Durst offer such indignity,
To that which I prefer,
For all the brood of Black-a-moores
Will sweare I doe not err,
In taking this most worthy whiffe,
What valiant Caualeire,
That will not make his nostrils smoke,
At cups of wine and beere?
When as my purse cannot affoord,
My stomack flesh or fish,
I sup with smoke and feede as well,
And fat as one can wish.
Come into any company,
Though not a crosse you haue,
Yet offer them Tobacco,
And their liquor you shall haue.
They say old hospitalitie,
Kept chimneies smoaking still,
Now what our chimnies want of that,
Our smoaking noses will,
Much victualls serue for gluttony,
To fatten men like swine,
But he's a frugall man indeed,
That with a leafe can dine.
And needs no napkin for his hands,
His fingers ends to wipe,
But keepes his kitchin in a box
And roast meat in a pipe.
This is the way to help deare yeares,
A meale a day's enough,
Take out Tobacco for the rest,
By pipe or else by snuffe,
And you shall finde it phisicall,
A corpulent fatman,
Within a yeare will shrinke so small,
That one his guts may span,
Tis full of phisick rare effects
It worketh sundry waies,
The leafe greene, drie, steept, burned, the dust
Haue each their speciall praise,
It makes some sober that are drunke,
Some drunke of sober sence,
And all the moysture hurts the braine,
It fetcheth smoaking thence.
All the foure Elements vnite,
When you Tobacco take,
For Earth, and Water, Aire and Fire,
Doe a coniunction make,
Your pipe is Earth, the fires therein
The Aire your breathing smoke,
Good liquor must be present too,
For feare you chance to choke.
Heere Gentlemen a health t'ye all,
T'is passing good and strong,
I would speake more, but from the pipe
I can not stay so long.
while the smoke is in my nose?
Or say but ogh my pipe doth smell,
I would I knew but those
Durst offer such indignity,
To that which I prefer,
For all the brood of Black-a-moores
Will sweare I doe not err,
In taking this most worthy whiffe,
What valiant Caualeire,
That will not make his nostrils smoke,
At cups of wine and beere?
When as my purse cannot affoord,
My stomack flesh or fish,
I sup with smoke and feede as well,
And fat as one can wish.
Come into any company,
Though not a crosse you haue,
Yet offer them Tobacco,
And their liquor you shall haue.
Kept chimneies smoaking still,
Now what our chimnies want of that,
Our smoaking noses will,
Much victualls serue for gluttony,
To fatten men like swine,
But he's a frugall man indeed,
That with a leafe can dine.
And needs no napkin for his hands,
His fingers ends to wipe,
But keepes his kitchin in a box
And roast meat in a pipe.
This is the way to help deare yeares,
A meale a day's enough,
Take out Tobacco for the rest,
By pipe or else by snuffe,
And you shall finde it phisicall,
A corpulent fatman,
Within a yeare will shrinke so small,
That one his guts may span,
Tis full of phisick rare effects
It worketh sundry waies,
The leafe greene, drie, steept, burned, the dust
Haue each their speciall praise,
It makes some sober that are drunke,
Some drunke of sober sence,
It fetcheth smoaking thence.
All the foure Elements vnite,
When you Tobacco take,
For Earth, and Water, Aire and Fire,
Doe a coniunction make,
Your pipe is Earth, the fires therein
The Aire your breathing smoke,
Good liquor must be present too,
For feare you chance to choke.
Heere Gentlemen a health t'ye all,
T'is passing good and strong,
I would speake more, but from the pipe
I can not stay so long.
At Gads-hill late (where men are theeuish crost)
An honest friend his purse with ten pounds lost,
And as the villaines were new gone away,
Three horsemen came, to whome the mau did say
Oh Gentlemen, most happy all you be,
To scape two theeues, euen now haue robbed me,
T'was great good fortune that till now you staid,
Nay friend (qd. they) thou art deceiud they said,
The theeues were happy as the matter stands:
For by our stay they haue escaped our hands.
An honest friend his purse with ten pounds lost,
And as the villaines were new gone away,
Three horsemen came, to whome the mau did say
Oh Gentlemen, most happy all you be,
To scape two theeues, euen now haue robbed me,
T'was great good fortune that till now you staid,
Nay friend (qd. they) thou art deceiud they said,
The theeues were happy as the matter stands:
For by our stay they haue escaped our hands.
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