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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20030	A defence of tabacco vvith a friendly answer to the late printed booke called Worke for chimny-sweepers, &c.	Marbecke, Roger, 1536-1605.	1602 (1602)	STC 6468; ESTC S109505	41,491	72

very good meddow be ouermuch glutted with water and altogether ouerwhelmed as it were with continuall raine and you shall see what wise hay and what trim grasse you shall haue of that meddow So that vpon the reckening lay but the hare-worts against the goose-giblets as we are wont to say and for my part I see not but that Tabacco may worke as much good to vs in the auoiding of too much moisture as it is like to bring harme in the procuring of too much drinesse Touching your painting out of olde age with his stiffe and dry sinewes and with many other of his infirmities and imperfections I confesse them all to be true and wish with all my hart that I were able to remedie them were it but to amend some crooked conditions in my selfe and some thing else But yet I see no reason why that great cold should not be as great an occasion of the increase of all these harmes and imperfections in old age as any thing else that can be named For he that thinketh not that cold hath a mightie strength to worke a wonderfull hardnesse and drinesse let him but remember this last great frost in Nouember last past or if he hath bene in some of these great cold countries such as Russia where in very deed I neuer was although not verie farre from it when it was he can then tell that the ground is so hard and dry and all by the reason of cold onely for one halfe yeare or thereabout that they are enforced to leaue their dead bodies vnburied during all that time being not able with any instrument in the world to enter into the earth and to breake it vp vntill the Sunne be come about againe to relent and mollifie the same So that thus I conclude whether we take Tabacco or take no Tabacco yet seeing all those infirmities and imperfections which you haue reckened vp do follow old age euen by the course of nature much like as the shadow waiteth vppon our bodies and seeing that great cold either is or may be as great an increaser and hastiner of those infirmities as any one thing else is that can be named in all the world and seeing our poore friend Tabacco hath a good and a speciall property to resist that professed great enemy the cold me ●hinke it were a reasonable sute to intreate that Tabacco might rather be esteemed as a friend then a foe euen to old age also whose heate in this case no doubt is rather a pleasure then any offence at all vnto old men And yet you haue one other conceit more which maintaineth one of the strangest opinions that euer I heard of in all my life as olde as I am and that is this That by reason of hote and dry Sommers in haruest time the greatest waters and land flouds are most wont to appeare c. This in very truth is a point beyond Eela and I am not able to reach vnto it or to vnderstand it It was my chance to stand by when it was when that a Noble man in this land was in an exceeding great rage with a certaine gentleman an acquaintance of mine a very proper man and a stout The Noble man grew into such choler with him that at the length he all to be knaued the gentleman and often times repeated these words I tell thee thou art a knaue nay I tell thee troth thou art a very knaue The gentleman stood long mute and sayd neuer a word but at the length he could hold no longer but burst out into these words As God iudge me my Lord If your Lordship should tell me neuer so oft that I am a knaue yet you shall pardon me for by God I will neuer beleeue it and sayd not one word more The like answer I must be bold to make vnto you for if you tell me neuer so oft that dry Sommers make great water flouds yet in very truth I will neuer beleeue it And what your meaning is in so saying I protest I know not but this I wot well I am sure of that vpon this last great drought that we had as well in the Sommer time as also in the fall this yeare the riuer of the Thamis was become so shallow and dry as it were that the poore Westerne barges complained much of their hard passages downe the riuer to serue her Maiestie and her Maiesties citie of London while she lay at Richmond and now since her Maiestie i● come to White-hall to I know diuerse good farmers that are enforced to driue their cattell two miles and more to water them who were wont to haue great store and plenty of water euen at their owne doores before this hote and dry weather came to drie vp their springs And therefore to thinke that dry Sommers is cause of great waters in my opinion is nothing else but to dreame of a dry Sommer The sixt reason is for that This herbe or rather weede seemeth not voide of venome and thereby seemeth an enemy to the life of man c. I marry this is a matter of some importance indeed and would be well looked vnto But by the way this discourse of venomes or poysons would rather be tripped ouer then much dwelt vpon for diuerse good respects The times being so dangerous as they are I think● it not conuenient to meddle with any such matters and such gaps as these be would not so rashly and vnaduisedly be opened to the common people I knew a Preacher once and a verie honest learned man who meant no harme I dare sweare for him yet inueighing in his Sermon earnestly against the wickednesse of this age and telling of the bad dealing that lewd Ostlers vsed about the greasing of their horse teeth and the like vnhonest trickes that Bailifes vsed about the altering and changing of cowes hornes that were missing and strayed abroad did more harme in repeating these deceitfull sleights then all the rest of his Sermon could do good to his auditorie And you also in this place by your leaue might in my opinion haue bene something better aduised then to haue vsed so liberall or rather so lauishing a kind of talke both of poysons and of purgatiue medicines still coupling of them together in such an odious hatefull manner as you do Whereas in very deed there is no such matter if things be rightly vnderstood as hereafter shall better appeare In the meane time yet happie it is that God himselfe hath pronounced by himselfe that he is the author of Phisicke and hath therefore commanded the Phisition to be had in some good regard and reuerence for his knowledge sake Otherwise if such tales as you haue told of poysons and of purgatiues should be beleeued as indeed God be thanked they are not to be credited Phisitions might say they haue spun a fine threed and brought their hogs to a faire market and Phisicke her selfe might haue great cause to reioyce for bringing vp so