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The Metamorphosis of Tabacco

[by Sir John Beaumont]

Beaumont, John (1583-1627)

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Ad mare riuuli.

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IN LAVDEM AVTHORIS

[Graunt me smooth vtt'rance Muses to reherse]

[See how the chatt'ring throngs of Poets vaine]

[Whom Helicon, and Tempe doe adorne]

[If that the Bee, whose winter paines are rest]

[What my poore Muse can doe, she vowes it thine]

[Sometimes all man, that hath vs'd soule and breath]

To the white Reader.

[My new-borne Muse assaies her tender wing]

[I doe inuoke none but thy selfe to praise thee]

[The tender plant, which goodly fruit hath bore]

THE METAMORPHOSIS OF TABACCO.

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The Metamorphosis of Tabacco

[by Sir John Beaumont]

John Beaumont

1583-1627

Imprinted for Iohn Flasknet [etc.]

London

1602