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A04224	The vvorkes of the most high and mightie prince, Iames by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. Published by Iames, Bishop of Winton, and deane of his Maiesties Chappel Royall; Works	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Montagu, James, 1568?-1618.; Elstracke, Renold, fl. 1590-1630, engraver.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1616 (1616)	STC 14344; ESTC S122229	618,837	614

make their first entry into a Countrey by an inconsiderate and childish affectation of Noueltie as is the trew case of the first inuention of Tobacco taking and of the first entry thereof among vs. For Tobacco being a common herbe which though vnder diuers names growes almost euery where was first found out by some of the barbarous Indians to be a Preseruatiue or Antidote against the Pocks a filthy disease wherunto these barbarous people are as all men know very much subiect what through the vncleanely and adust constitution of their bodies and what through the intemperate heate of their Climate so that as from them was first brought into Christendome that most detestable disease so from them likewise was brought this vse of Tobacco as a stinking and vnsauourie Antidote for so corrupted and execrable a maladie the stinking suffumigation whereof they yet vse against that disease making so one canker or venime to eate out another And now good Countrey-men let vs I pray you consider what honour or policy can mooue vs to imitate the barbarous and beastly maners of the wilde godlesse and slauish Indians especially in so vile and stinking a custome Shall we that disdaine to imitate the maners of our neighbour France hauing the stile of the first Christian Kingdome and that cannot endure the spirit of the Spaniards their King being now comparable in largenesse of Dominions to the great Emperour of Turkie Shall wee I say that haue bene so long ciuill and wealthy in Peace famous and inuincible in Warre fortunate in both we that haue bene euer able to aide any of our neighbours but neuer deafed any of their eares with any of our supplications for assistance shall wee I say without blushing abase our selues so farre as to imitate these beastly Indians slaues to the Spaniards refuse to the world and as yet aliens from the holy Couenant of God Why doe we not as well imitate them in walking naked as they doe in preferring glasses feathers and such toyes to gold and precious stones as they doe yea why doe we not denie God and adore the diuel as they doe Now to the corrupted basenesse of the first vse of this Tobacco doeth very well agree the foolish and groundlesse first entry thereof into this Kingdome It is not so long since the first entry of this abuse amongst vs here as this present aage cannot yet very well remember both the first Authour and the forme of the first introduction of it amongst vs. It was neither brought in by King great Conquerour nor learned doctour of Phisicke With the report of a great discouery for a Conquest some two or three Sauage men were brought in together with this Sauage custome But the pitie is the poore wilde barbarous men died but that vile barbarous custome is yet aliue yea in fresh vigor so as it seemes a miracle to me how a custome springing from so vile a ground and brought in by a father so generally hated should be welcomed vpon so slender a warrant For if they that first put it in practise here had remembred for what respect it was vsed by them from whence it came I am sure they would haue bene loath to haue taken so farre the imputation of that disease vpon them as they did by vsing the cure thereof For Sanis non est opus medico and counterpoisons are neuer vsed but where poison is thought to precede But since it is trew that diuers customes slightly grounded and with no better warrant entred in a Common-wealth may yet in the vse of them thereafter prooue both necessary and profitable it is therefore next to bee examined if there be not a full Sympathie and true Proportion betweene the base ground and foolish entrie and the loathsome and hurtfull vse of this stinking Antidote I am now therefore heartily to pray you to consider first vpon what false and erroneous grounds you haue first built the generall good liking thereof and next what sinnes towards God and foolish vanities before the world you commit in the detestable vse of it As for these deceitfull grounds that haue specially moued you to take a good and great conceit thereof I shall content my selfe to examine here onely foure of the principals of them two founded vpon the Theoricke of a deceiueable apparance of reason and two of them vpon the mistaken practicke of generall experience First it is thought by you a sure Aphorisme in the Physickes That the braines of all men beeing naturally cold and wet all drie and hote things should be good for them of which nature this stinking suffumigation is and therefore of good vse to them Of this argument both the proposition and assumption are false and so the conclusion cannot but be voyd of it selfe For as to the Proposition That because the braines are colde and moist therefore things that are hote and dry are best for them it is an inept consequence For man beeing compounded of the foure Complexions whose fathers are the foure Elements although there be a mixture of them all in all the parts of his body yet must the diuers parts of our Microcosme or little world within our selues be diuersly more inclined some to one some to another complexion according to the diuersitie of their vses that of these discords a perfect harmonie may be made vp for the maintenance of the whole body The application then of a thing of a contrary nature to any of these parts is to interrupt them of their due function and by consequence hurtfull to the health of the whole bodie As if a man because the Liuer is hote as the fountaine of blood and as it were an ouen to the stomacke would therefore apply and weare close vpon his Liuer and stomacke a cake of lead he might within a very short time I hope bee susteined very good cheape at an Ordinarie beside the clearing of his conscience from that deadly sinne of gluttonie And as if because the Heart is full of vitall spirits and in perpetuall motion a man would therefore lay a heauie pound stone on his breast for staying and holding downe that wanton palpitation I doubt not but his breast would be more bruised with the weight therof then the heart would be comforted with such a disagreeable and contrarious cure And euen so is it with the braines For if a man because the braines are cold and humide would therefore vse inwardly by smells or outwardly by application things of hot and dry qualitie all the gaine that he could make thereof would onely be to put himselfe in a great forwardnes for running mad by ouerwatching himselfe the coldnesse and moistnesse of our braine being the onely ordinary meanes that procure our sleepe and rest Indeed I doe not deny but when it falls out that any of these or any part of our bodie growes to be distempered and to tend to an extremitie beyond the compasse of Natures temperate mixture that in that case cures of

made his conquest the Law and Prophets are thought sufficient to serue vs or make vs inexcusable as Christ saith in his parable of Lazarus and the rich man CHAP. III. ARGV The description of a particular sort of that kinde of following Spirits called Incubi and Succubi And what is the reason wherefore these kinds of Spirits haunt most the Northerne and barbarous parts of the world PHILOMATHES THe next question that I would speere is likewise concerning this first of these two kinds of Spirits that ye haue conioyned and it is this ye know how it is commonly written and reported that amongst the rest of the sorts of Spirits that follow certaine persons there is one more monstrous nor all the rest in respect as it is alleaged they conuerse naturally with them whom they trouble and haunt with and therefore I would know in two things your opinion herein First if such a thing can be and next if it be whether there be a difference of sexes amongst these Spirits or not EPI That abhominable kinde of the diuels abusing of men or women was called of old Incubi and Succubi according to the difference of the sexes that they conuersed with By two meanes this great kinde of abuse might possibly be performed The one when the diuel onely as a Spirit and stealing out the sperme of a dead bodie abuses them that way they not graithly seeing any shape or feeling any thing but that which hee so conueyes in that part as we reade of a Monasterie of Nunnes which were burnt for their being that way abused The other meane is when he borrowes a dead body and so visibly and as it seemes vnto them naturally as a man conuerses with them But it is to be noted that in whatsoeuer way he vseth it that sperme seemes intollerably cold to the person abused For if he steale out the nature of a quicke person it cannot be so quickly caried but it will both tine the strength and heate by the way which it could neuer haue had for lacke of agitation which in the time of procreation is the procurer and wakener vp of these two naturall qualities And if he occupying the dead bodie as his lodging expell the same out thereof in the due time it must likewise be cold by the participation with the qualities of the dead body whereout of it comes And whereas ye enquire if these Spirits be diuided in sexes or not I thinke the rules of Philosophie may easily resolue a man of the contrary For it is a sure principle of that Art that nothing can be diuided in sexes except such liuing bodies as must haue a naturall seed to genere by But we know Spirits haue no seed proper to themselues nor yet can they gender one with an other PHI. How is it then that they say sundrie monsters haue bene gotten by that way EPI These tales are nothing but Aniles fabulae For that they haue no nature of their owne I haue shewed you alreadie And that the cold nature of a dead bodie can worke nothing in generation it is more nor plaine as being alreadie dead of it selfe as well as the rest of the bodie is wanting the naturall heate and such other naturall operation as is necessarie for working that effect and in case such a thing were possible which were vtterly against all the rules of nature it would breed no monster but onely such a naturall off-spring as would haue come betwixt that man or woman and that other abused person in case they both being aliue had had a doe with other For the Diuels part therein is but the naked carrying or expelling of that substance and so it could participate with no quality of the same Indeede it is possible to the craft of the Diuell to make a womans belly to swell after he hath that way abused her which hee may doe either by stirring vp her owne humour or by hearbes as wee see beggers daily doe And when the time of her deliuery should come to make her thoil great dolours like vnto that naturall course and then subtilly to slip in the Mid-wiues hands stocks stones or some monstrous barne brought from some other place but this is more reported and guessed at by others nor beleeued by me PHI. But what is the cause that this kinde of abuse is thought to bee most common in such wilde parts of the world as Lap-land and Fin-land or in our North Isles of Orknay and Schet-land EPI Because where the Diuell findes greatest ignorance and barbaritie there assailes he grosseliest as I gaue you the reason wherfore there were moe Witches of women-kinde nor men PHI. Can any be so vnhappie as to giue their willing consent to the Diuels vile abusing them in this forme EPI Yea some of the Witches haue confessed that he hath perswaded them to giue their willing consent thereunto that hee may thereby haue them feltred the sikarer in his snares but as the other compelled sort is to be pitied and prayed for so is this most highly to be punished and detested PHI. Is it not the thing which we call the Mare which takes folkes sleeping in their beds a kinde of these spirits whereof ye are speaking EPI No that is but a naturall sickenesse which the Mediciners haue giuen that name of Incubus vnto ab incubando because it being a thicke fleume falling into our breast vpon the heart while we are sleeping intercludes so our vitall spirits and takes all powerfrom vs as makes vs think that there were some vnnaturall burden or spirit lying vpon vs and holding vs downe CHAP. IIII. ARGV The description of the Daemoniackes and possessed By what reason the Papists may haue power to cure them PHILOMATHES WEll I haue tolde you now all my doubts and ye haue satisfied me therein concerning the first of these two kindes of spirits that yee haue conioyned now I am to enquire onely two things at you concerning the last kinde I meane the Daemoniackes The first is whereby shall these possessed folkes be discerned fra them that are troubled with a naturall Phrensie or Manie The next is how can it be that they can be remedied by the Papists Church whom we counting as Heretiques it should appeare that one diuell should not cast out another Matth. 12. Marke 3. for then would his kingdome be diuided in it selfe as Christ said EPI As to your first question there are diuers symptomes whereby that heauie trouble may be discerned from a naturall sickenesse and specially three omitting the diuers vaine signes that the Papists attribute vnto it Such as the raging at holy water their fleeing abacke from the Crosse their not abiding the hearing of God named and innumerable such like vaine things that were alike fashious and feckles to recite But to come to these three symptomes then whereof I spake I account the one of them to be the incredible strength of the possessed creature which will farre exceede the strength