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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

there is another vse also of that said humiditie which is laid vp in the store-house of our body as that learned Huernius hath well noted comparing the bodie of man to the frame of the world hauing the great Ocean sea so placed in it as it is that by his sufficiēt moisture and humiditie he might still temper the great excessiue heate of the Sunne which otherwise if that were not wold go neare happily with his cōtinual hote beames to set the whole world a fire The like vse saith he hath that same moisture and humiditie in our bodies c. But that this good matter for nourishment should be exhausted and consumed in that excessiue maner by the vse of poore Tabacco being taken in smoke for so you meane I thinke or else you say nothing to the purpose there neede no feare at all in all the world to be had of any such matter Nay rather in my opinion if it be well examined it will be found a great helper and maintainer of that true natural good humiditie which in time would become good nourishment as you say rather then a hinderer of the same as hath alreadie partly bene shewed before in your second Chapter and shall hereafter more at large be declared And for proofe thereof let this reason be something regarded which followeth This our countrie and natiue soile of England is an Island and the most famous Island in Christendome as all the world knoweth And be it but for that we are Islanders yet euen in that respect for the very situation of our countrie we are by nature subiect to ouermuch moisture and rheumaticke matter Now adde vnto this that English men commonly are great eaters nay rather great surfetters and do delight much and a great deale more then any Nation else in varietie and number of sundrie meates and dishes whereof the Prouerbe came Tam satur quàm Anglus And yet go farther Englishmen are now become excessiue great ●rinkers not onely of Beere and Ale but also of all kind of wine no Nation in the world more And moreouer beside all this we English men offend as much in idlenesse in carelesse sittings vp and watchings and distempering of our bodies in royotous sports and pastimes and in loosenesse of liuing as any people vnder the Sun whatsoeuer By all which inordinate meanes that same good and necessarie moisture which nature prouideth and layeth vp in store to do vs good withall is commonly so far surcharged and choked with another vnprofitable crude humiditie that she seemeth daily to make her mone and to call for helpe to haue that superfluous and combersom enemie remoued and consumed which otherwise wold be an impediment to the remainder of that other good natural moisture which nature would willingly prouide for the supply of nourishment and other good vses For as Conduits if they had not vents for to spend their wast water would in time either breake or else become vnprofitable so in our bodies this vnnaturall and ouer great increase of vnnecessary humidities and moistures being made by those meanes which I mentioned before would breed great annoyances if they were not lessened and wasted by some deuice or other Now here perchaunce you will say vnto me Why How did men in times past before Tabacco was known what helps had they then or how liued they in those daies All this is nothing to the purpose and is as soone answered by me as obiected by you For admit they liued more orderly then then we do now and so perchaunce had no need at all of other helpes which for all that I hardly beleeue or rather ●ay thus which indeede is the liker of the two that they had other helps and deuices to serue their turnes which in their opiniō was as good as Tabacco yet all this doth not proue that Tabacco is not good for the same purpose now as wel as those former things were then whatsoeuer they were Well it may proue that Tabacco is a thing later deuised and found out but yet it proueth nothing at all that because it was found out deuised but of late to speak of therfore it hath no force vertue at all to do good but rather to hurt as you would haue it Let Tabacco be a later deuice then the rest if ye wil but at my request I pray you let it be a better for any thing that I see For farther strengthening of this argument of yours you alledge that the great heat and vnmeasurable drinesse of Tabacco dissipateth naturall heat whereby concoction is hindred by that means many raw humors increased c. In which saying in my opinion you do far misse the cushion And this is the very point that in all your discourse is the chiefest cause and occasion of all your errors as I haue said alreadie before For you do reason still as though there were such a fierie heat in Tabacc● and such an exceeding extreame drinesse as nothing might wel be deuised hotter or drier You know the old schoole-saying Vno impossibili dato sequitur quodlibet Grant you but that false Principle once and then any thing indeed will follow It is not vnknowne to you and the learned that superexcelling obiects weaken and destroy the senses be they neuer so perfect for example sake the exceeding brightnes and the cleare shining of the Sunne ouercommeth our sight insomuch that the more firmly attentiuely you do gaze vpon it as many tried it but euen this last day when it was eclipsed the ●linder you are What then and shall it therfore follow ●hat his moderat and comfortable shining shal put out our eye-sight Who sees not that the extreme hot burning fire presently killeth and destroyeth that bodie that is cast into it and yet for all that I hope the moderat and pleasing warmth of the same fire whē we stand by it yeeldeth no offence at all but rather is a great cōfort vnto vs if Tabacco had that superexcelling heat or such an exceeding drinesse as you seeme to attribute vnto it it were another matter But it is neither so nor so I neuer yet heard in all my life that moderat heat or things that be hote in some measurable meane and degree as Tabacco is either did or could dissipate or decay naturall heat If that were so thē are they in a good pickle that cherish their stomacks with spices and warme drinks Vsquabah and D. Steeuens water Rosa solis and Aqua vitae greene Ginger preserued Nutmegs and the three Peppers and the like might go a begging What stronger men haue you or more actiue then our Irish people I hope they neuer came to that strength at the first or maintained it now they haue it with drinking of snow water And if Tabacco be not by many ods and degrees beneath all these things that I haue talked of in heate and drinesse then let me lose my credite And yet for farther proofe of your argument you