certaine curdled matter is increased and this same smokie stinking fume setled in the roome thereof Capn. But Sir the fume of Tobacco fréeth the spirits from those burdensome humours as it were from fetters and so maketh them more prompt and nimble by much Hydr. And doth it so indeed When rather the spirits whom nature hath ordained to be cleare and bright both for the discoursing of reason as also for the ministerie of the senses themselues by this filthie fume-drinking are made obscure and darke and the braine and whole bodie infected with a smokie blacke colour yea and when in stead of that same drie clearenesse light which Heraclitus and with him all both Philosophers and Physitions of any sound iudgement do accompt the principall and purest soule those fume-drinkers do substitute and thrust in their appointed place most palpably obscured and darkened spirits In which their so preposterous a purging of the braine it selfe they do both confound the orderly works of nature and euen quite ouerthrow the infallible precepts and rules prescribed by Physitions who are the appointed ministers of nature her selfe for the orderly preseruation of the body in health Who all ioyntly with one vniforme assent do affirme that a cloudy and obscure aire or such as proceedeth from hollow and fennie places is very vnwholsome for the bodies of men Which their canonicall iudgment those our fume-deuourers do neuer obserue vntill with an extreme hazard of life they do find by their miserable and wofull experience how pernicious a thing it is Neither without an exceeding great cause were chimnies by our Ancestors formerly inuented that thereby the smoke drawne by a vehement heate of the fire from matter apt to burning might be dispersed abroad in the aire for feare of hurting the bodies of men Capn. Why Sir there are many sorts of fumes inuented and taught by the Physitions themselues as well for the strengthning of diuerse parts as also for the curing of hard diseases Hydr. There are so I confesse but what dost thou conclude from the same That therefore the smoke of Tobacco sucked vp by a pipe or conduite is exceeding wholsome for the bodies of men Alas sillie soules who may not plainly perceiue a flat fallacion in this their consequence For almost all sorts of fumes are vsed by expert Physitions to recreate and comfort the spirits by their odoriferous smels rather then to draw any thing out of the bodie by such scorching fumes as do heate and drie Yea and that sweete kind of refreshing the spirits was instituted first by nature her selfe who telleth vs directly and truly that sweete oyntments and perfumes reioyce the heart And as this was dame natures owne institution so was the primarie practise thereof set first afloate by learned Hippocrates the prime interpreter of natures purpose therein Whereas these filthie scorching Tobacco smokes do nothing else but daunt and drie vp the spirits a thing flat opposite to natures institution and the witles inuention of vicious and wild dispositions Capn. Not so Sir for some stinking fumes are also applied by Physitions themselues in the suffocation of the matrixe or rising of the mother and this also with laudable and happie successe Hydr. Very true as thou sayest Howbeit those stinking fumes they are not so applied by expert Physitions with any purpose or mind to cure the disease but for this end rather Namely that nature her selfe and the naturall heate so sodainly surprised by reason of those stinking fumes which they naturally abhorre might be the sooner prouoked to gather their naturall strength and vigour afresh and thereby disperse and expell that venimous aire wherewith the matrixe it selfe being stuffed did so dainly arise and ascend vpward Capn. But ouer and besides the suffocation of the matrixe namely in the consumption of the lungs as also in y e French pore certaine fumes of Cynoper red Arsnicke quick-siluer Orpiment and other venimous things are admitted and vsed of sundrie late writers in Physicke as Fallopius and others Hydr. They are so I confesse Howbeit warily sparingly and in very small quantitie yea and this also not without a considerate and proportionable mixture of some other things else to correct and alay the force of their venimous qualities And that moreouer the operation thereof in drying onely which agreeth with nature might be communicated to the bodie it selfe and yet notwithstanding all this the learned for their parts haue euermore had a very vehement suspition of this kind of curing And in the consumption of the lungs especially I see that Galene mislikes those fumes and approueth rather of a sweete bath or hot-house And certainly Fallopius himselfe doth not altogether approue of those fumes And for learned Fernellius he vtterly misliketh of them in so much as in the cure of the French-poxe he will not admit any ointment compounded of quick-siluer And verily if Galene durst not so much as taste of the herbe Lycoporsium because onely it but smelt somewhat strong shall those our smoke-deuourers thus dare not onely to taste but also to entertaine into the secret and most inward parts of their bodies yea euen into the very treasury of nature it selfe such an infectious venimous and most deadly consuming poyson Capn. But be it Sir there were as you say in this Tobacco smoke some certaine contagious venime our artificiall Tobacconists they can very skilfully correct and allay that selfesame venimous qualitie with the powder of a Nutmeg and two or thrée drops of the Chymicall oyle of Anise compounded and blended with the pouder of Tobacco it selfe or euer the same be inwardly taken Hydr. Our artificiall Tobacconists sayest thou Nay rather our Seraphicall smokie Asies Who by this their skilfull vnskilfull mingle-mangle do shew themselues such soddenheadded sots as blend Sugar-candie with rats-bane Of very purpose forsooth that howsoeuer the rats-bane it selfe be mortally dangerous it might by the sweet taste be made to passe more pleasantly downe and thereby also more vnperceiueably conuey the venimous poyson it selfe into the inward parts and so more powerfully surprise the vitall spirits And yet for all this these fantasticall fellowes they must by thy calculation be accompted forsooth our artificiall Tobacconists Well then be it so for this once and now do tell me withall whether thou thy selfe by the very purport of thine owne proper speech doest not couertly confesse the inward taking of Tobacco smoke to be very pernicious vnto the body except the same be consideratly and skilfully corrected before But what a strange and monstrous kind of correction is this that thou speakest of What man When the very smoke of Tobacco it selfe is a mortall enemie to the natuâ—e of the bodie may the grosse muddie smoke of those oylie matters commixed with that former poysonsome fume be possibly made either good or wholsome What is this else but to adde fire vnto fire and in stead of suppressing to set that scorching flame yet further afloate That so with
an ouer hastie and vntimely death they may the more speedily consume and scorch vp their vitall spirits and radicall humours Capn. Well Sir And yet for all that if this smoke of Tobacco were taken but once in a wéeke peraduenture it might do much good in resoluing the excremental humours onely as also in expelling them out of the bodie and yet not consume the naturall moisture thereof Hydr. Doest thou place the preseruation of mens health vpō blind peraduentures Surely a wise man should be without all peraduenture before he aduenture to take any thing inwardly into his body or else he may peraduenture but play the part of a foole And yet this I confesse withall y t the taking of Tobacco but once in a weeke would do y e lesse hurt though it would notwithstanding do very much hurt by working such an imbecillitie and weakenesse in the braine it selfe as would make it much more apt to entertaine sundry other excrementall humours afresh and by procuring the said braine withall by reason of the excessiue heate and drines thereof to draw and sucke vp from the lower parts some such excrementall humours as were not to be expelled that way And verily if our common prouerbe be true in any one thing it is infallible and most certaine in this so seldome a sucking vp of Tobacco smoke namely That a little can do no harme at all if the same be not taken Capn. But Sir what spéedier course may possibly be inuented for purging those excrementall humours out of the bodie then by drinking this smoke Hydr. What Capnistus And must we in very deede be inforced to borrow from the furthermost parts of India this stinking infectious and venimous smoke to expell that masse or sinke of humours from out of the body when we haue here at home that selfesame method of curing whether by pilles by medicines to be chewed in the mouth or put into the nose or by sweating which was formerly deriued from the ancient most famous Physical fountaines of the world Or if that do not like thee so well thou maist then by the meere benefit of nature it selfe very easily dispatch thy selfe from all such corruptions if thou diligently and religiously obserue that golden meane which Hippocrates perswades and prescribes in thy labour thy meate thy drinke thy sleepe and thy lust For as in domesticall and household affaires parsimonie or sparing is worth a great stipend so surely from the very manner of thy conuersation and cariage thou mayest receiue a very rich benefite as well for retaining thy strength as for preseruing thy health And herein I will giue to thy selfe and all our Tobacconists this onely precept which if thou and they do conscionably and carefully obserue as you ought you may easily and a long time preserue your bodilie healths healths in good estate The precept for that purpose is this Do not lift vp your hands so oft to your mouths for an insatiable swilling downe of wine ale and beere as also this inordinate sucking vp of filthie Tobacco smoke do euen band and bend themselues ioyntly together to breede hatch and nourish this filthie foule channell or sinke of corruptions Saint Bernard is reported to haue sharply accused himselfe for that whiles he went about with ouermuch abstinence to keepe his bodie vnder by corrupting the vigour and temperature of that his said bodie he did after a sort defraud the functions of his mind of their appointed organe or instrument For vnderstanding at length that he ought not to liue priuately to himselfe alone but also to the publicke benefite of others by instructing exhorting and comforting them and perceiuing withall that those publicke duties of pietie required the ministery of the bodie it selfe he found by experience at length that a man ought so far foorth to make much of his bodie or otherwise to keepe the same vnder as in the meane time the powers and operations of the mind be neither choked with pleasures nor dulled by too much austeritie Now then if so grieuous a pricke of conscience did euen sting that holy man Bernard because he but made his bodie too too leane and withered with godly exercises what punishment thinkest thou are those men to expect and looke hourely for from the hands of our God who by vnseasonable swilling and riotous fumes do most prodigally consume and so riotously weaken and waste the very treasurie of nature it selfe I for my owne part will put downe no censure vpon them but with all my heart I will beseech the Almightie to giue them farre better minds Lo this is the very worst I wish vnto them and this is the best I can do for them Capn. As your prayer is most charitable euen so are your earnest perswasions with me so auaileable as I am vtterly vnable any further to gainesay your spéeches herein Hydr. Great is the truth I perceiue and will euer preuaile Well then seeing therefore the smoke of Tobacco consumeth the naturall heate sith it drieth vp that radicall moisture which is the very fountaine of that selfesame heate sith by corrupting the due proportion of the Elements it dissolueth the primarie composition of the whole bodie it selfe sith by the sharpenesse thereof which partly it hath by nature partly doth draw from the burning it euen gnaweth and fretteth the members of the bodie seeing it causeth the cleare sweete and wholsome spirits of the bodie to become obscure stinking and vnwholsome seeing it disperseth throughout the whole bodie a venimous aire and repugnant to nature assayling the head heart and life finally for so much as it bringeth all these incommodities to mans naturall life without any one hope of profite at all to the same let nature her selfe and the iudgement of sound reason both say and affirme for me that the smoke of Tobacco taken inward is very pernicious vnto the bodie Capn. Alas poore Tobacco my pretie Tobacco thou that hast bene hitherto accompted the Ale-knights armes the Béere brewers badge the Carousers crest the Drunkards darling the Draffe-sackes delight the Easterlings ensigne the Fantasticals foretresse the Gormandizers glorie the hungry Hostesses alepole the Mad-braines merriment the New-fangles noueltie the Poope noddies paramour the Ruffians reflection the Swil bols swine-troffe the Linkers trull the Tospots protection the Vintners vintage and the vnthrifts pasport thou must now I feare me bee enforced forthwith to take thy farewell towards the vttermost parts of India from whence thou wert first transported to England by vicious and wild dispositions and there must make thy finall abode hauing now I plainly perceiue the very head of man the braines the radicall humours the vitall spirits the wit the memorie the senses all the naturall faculties the whole body and soule yea nature her selfe and the sway of sound reason so strongly combined in one to proue thy inward taken smoke a very pernicious matter for the bodies of men Hydr. It is euen certainly so as thou
there may not any thing be possibly found more hurtfull to the happie estate of those the forenamed stomacks then superfluous excesse or pining wants For as by superfluous excesse the good â—state of those the said stomacks is fearefully ouerwhelmed and tumbled headlong into most dangerous surfeits and deadly distempers so surely by oppressing and pining wants they are fearefully enfeebled and finally disabled from the timely performance of their proper designements for publike good First therefore for the timely suppressing of whatsoeuer superfluous excesse annoying the healthfull estate of both these stomacks a prouident care must forthwith be had that not onely all carowsing and quaffing all gulling and gormandizing all excessiue and riotous banquetting but also that all superfluous buildings all needlesse braueries all extrauagant sports and all other profluuious dispendings be heedfully auoyded in euery state more especially in those the forenamed stomacks themselues For these onely respects I haue here euen purposely although yet synecdochically censured all those the former most foule and shamefull disorders vnder the onely name of Tobacco fumes putting downe a part for the whole and naming that one vice especially as a most liuely represent of those other the smokelike vanishing vapours and as the very principall annoyance to both the stomacks and so consequently to the flourishing estate of the naturall and Politicall bodies themselues And not onely all such superfluous excesse but which more is by much all those oppressing and pining wants whatsoeuer which may in any sort surprize the good estate of those stomacks must forthwith be warily suppressed Namely the want of competent tillage for corne the want of conuenient pasturing for beeues for oxen for milch-kine for sheepe with such other conuenient meanes to manure mannage enable and strengthen their seuerall tillages and pasture grounds for such a conuenient increase as may fully suffice from time to time about the necessarie supportation of their owne and the publike good The want in like manner of politicke of peaceable and publike good orders about the orderly and quiet collecting of such singular blessings as the Lord in much mercie bestoweth vpon any their ordinarie labours for publike good must be heedfully respected and timely redressed by publike authoritie So as your excellent Highnesse may herein againe be pleased to see the great conueniencie of all those good penall statutes were they but carefully executed which do necessarily concerne the orderly vpholding of husbandrie in it owne proper nature or do purposely tend to the timely suppressing of whatsoeuer riots routs and vnlawfull assemblies that might respectiuely ouerlay the poore husbandmens labours and peaceable proiects concerning any their peculiar professions for publike good In consideration whereof I haue here purposely and largely laid open the vrgent necessitie for the timely suppressing of that late disordered and vnlawfull attempt of lawlesse persons in and about the vnorderly and tumultuous disparking of pastures and seuerall grounds vnder an idle pretence of the necessarie though needlesse augmentation of tillage demonstrating most plainly that their falsely supposed defect of tillage is no such an oppressing want as doth presently hurt the poore husbandmans happy estate all other things else proportionably and euenly respected and that therefore there needed no such disordered and headie attempts for the timely supply of that their falsly supposed want Hauing hitherto anatomized the whole purport of this my purposed proiect for publike good I am now not vnwilling the same should be soundly peized with those the approued weights of the Sanctuary which will not deceiue Especially if our learned Physitions be made the indifferent cyzers and censurers concerning all Physicall questions as also if those our experimented Politicians and Politicke States-men may become the prouident weigh-masters of what points soeuer appertaining to matters of policie More respectiuely most dread Soueraigne I do here very freely and submissiuely put ouer the whole to your Maiesties approued consideration and view as vnto the most competent Iudge of publike regard very humbly intreating your excellent Highnesse that from out of your long experimented Physicall skill you would first of all be pleased very soundly to censure that former part of this present Discourse which more especially concernes those exceeding great hurts that do vnperceiueably surprise the bodies of men by meanes of their inward taking of Tobacco fumes And then next with no lesse humble submission I humbly intreate that your vnmatchable wisedome for publike good would likewise be pleased from out of your long setled iudgement and experimented practise about the orderly suppressing of whatsoeuer shamefull disorders adiudged pestiferous to the publike good of our countrey to priuiledge with the approued stampe of your authenticall approbation that other part of this present Discourse which more respectiuely relateth the purses profluuitie about the superfluous charges of filthie Tobacco fumes and the pestiferous poysoning of the long setled peace of our publike State so farre forth especially as the truth it selfe and present occasions do instantly craue from time to time Very submissiuely intreating moreouer that the whole Treatise it selfe may find at your Maiesties hands that fauourable entertainment which your gracious wisedome shall thinke good to grace it withall and thereupon also may publikely and boldly march vnder the martiall ensigne of your kingly care for publike good against all the fiery encounters of whatsoeuer fuming Tobacconists So shall the almightie Iehouah his absolute wisedome be freely iustified of all her children so shall your kingly reputation be iustly eternized among all posterities so shall the publike State of our countrey be much more bettered and more soundly conserued in a solide condition so shall the almightie Law-maker be more largely magnified for his manifold mercies bestowed among vs so shall the poore husbandmens hearts as it were with kingly cordials be forthwith reuiued so shall our disordered Tobacconists be presently daunted and for euer hereafter discouraged yea and so shall my poore selfe be more securely protected from whatsoeuer the fierie strokes of venimous tongues to my better emboldning and further encouragement in such other like future attempts for publike good And euen so I most humbly surceasse my purposed suite for the present good of our publike State beseeching the almightie Iehouah to blesse your excellent Highnesse in bodie and soule and to enrich you in both with a principall spirit correspondent to your Princely place to the publike good of our countrey and your owne euerlasting comfort in Iesus Christ. Euen so Lord Iesus Amen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Your Maiesties most humble and most dutifull Subiect IOHN DEACON TO THE CHRISTIAN READER grace in Christ with an holy discerning spirit So be it GEntle Reader if thou wilt more seriously bend thy best thoughts awhile towards some serious consideration concerning thine accustomed inward taking of filthie Tobacco fumes it may be thy good hap by the merciful goodnesse of our gracious God to haue thereby thy fantasticall
doth euen secretly seeme as it were to point also at the earthie constitution of euery of these which their said constitution is an effectuall and a speciall furtherer of such conseruation Capn. Well Sir procéed to the other kinds of smoke I beséech you Hydr. The second kind of smoke he calleth fulîgo that is a vapouring earthie fume extracted by heate and making blacke the very beames of mens houses Whereupon Quintilian describing a Student rethorically doth tell vs directly that vnto such a one fuligo lucubrationum bibenda est the very smoke of the candle or lampe must be sucked vp meaning thereby that a good Student must abide by his booke and spend light after light for the timely attainment of learning In like manner Aulus Gellius alluding directly to the besmearing nature of fuligo very liuely setteth forth by the same the deceiptfull speeches of a subtile man saying thus Verborum argutiarum fuliginem ob oculos audientium facit that is He casteth a mist of words before the eies of his hearers And as the witnesse of these men is a pregnant proofe for this point so surely the Hebrewes they haue a word very consonant thereunto For that which we name fuligo they call kitor The Septuagint they terme it athrachia the Latines fuligo that is a vapouring fume or subfumigation extracted from Frankinsence Mirrhe Aloes or some such other aromaticall spices or hearbes being cast in the fire as may plainly appeare by sundry places of Scripture Wherein thou maist plainly perceiue that Aristotle in his former booke doth fully accord with the infallible truth of God by telling vs confidently that fuligo is some such vapouring exhalation as proceedeth from matter of fatty substance especially from Frankinsence Pitch and such other like subiects that are of a more fattie and pitchie nature Capn. And what is the third kind of smoke Hydr. The third kind of smoake named Nidor is that which the Hebrewes call riach id est odoratus est olfecit the Grecians call it osmein the Latines odor as appeareth euidently by sundrie places of Scripture put downe in the margent All which do plainly approue vnto vs that Nidor is the fume or sauour of any thing burned or broyled according to the French-mens opinion who call it L'odeur flair de quelque chose qui est au feu ou bruslé The Italian he tearmes it odor di cosa arostica The Germans they name it ein geschmunerezeren Againe ein gescmack eines gebratnem oder geroesteren dings And the Spaniard intitles it odor suave del maniar Whereunto also accordeth Virgil saying Illi ingens barba reluxit Nidorémque arbusta dedit Properly it signifieth some smell of oylie-meates either boyled or broyled according to that of Martiall saying Pasceris nigrae solo nidore culinae By the premisses then it is very apparent that Aristotle he was not deceiued at all in defining Nidor to be such a vapouring fume as is vsually sent forth from some vnctuous and oylie matter Capn. But Sir you séeme herein by your leaue to confound fuligo and nidor and so to make of them both but one kind of smoke For what difference I pray you betwéene a fattie and an oylie matter Hydr. How a fattie and oylie matter do differ one from another the said Aristotle in the former place very plainly declareth affirming fatte to be more drie and oyle more moist Yea and Galen in his booke of Simples as also Aristotle in the forenamed Treatise do ioyntly affirme the fattie fume called fuligo to be more drie then that oylie exhalation which is commonly called nidor for that it consisteth of an earthie substance and retaineth withall some strength or force of the fier Capn. Well then let it be so as you say but what do you obserue from this your thréefold difference of smoke it selfe Hydr. Surely a very fit introduction to this our intended businesse For seeing fume is drawne by the operation of heate from those selfesame materiall substances which being by nature more earthie will not nor cannot be made to melt but by reason of their drinesse which is the nature of flame in an only losse of their coldnesse are turned estsoones into fire and seeing flame it selfe is nothing else but aire or smoke set on fire and kindled it must necessarily follow thou seest that therefore fume it hath a farre greater force to heate and drie then either fuligo or nidor hath Capn. The consequence I fréely acknowledge but what inferre you hereof Hydr. A very pregnant gradation to this our purposed discourse concerning the fierie pernicious fume of filthie Tobacco For these things being thus orderly set downe and determined according to the vndoubted truth of that naturall Philosophie which holdeth so apt a consonancie with the sacred Scriptures themselues how can it possibly seeme strange to any man liuing that I should thus confidently affirme the fume of Tobacco inwardly taken to be very pernicious to the bodies of men For seeing all kind of smoke doth not onely drie vp the humors of the body and inflame the inward parts but also doth scorch and burne them vp yea and consume those radicall humours which should vphold and nourish the spirits and euen feedeth as it were vpon the heate both naturall and externall or accidentall how should not the smoke of Tobacco being a more forcible fume then many of the rest be much more able to drie vp the humours to inflame the intrals to scorch and consume the radicall humors and so vtterly to extinguish the naturall heate it selfe whereupon must necessarily ensue not onely a most fearefull extraction of that the said naturall heate but also of those the vitall spirits wherein are contained the vigor and power of the whole life it selfe Capn. I perceiue no such necessary consequent Sir as your selfe would here séeme to conclude from the fume of Tobacco Besides that howsoeuersome nimble and exquisite wits by such a voluntarie discourse as this of yours is are sufficiently able to set a Vermilion die vpon whatsoeuer subiect or matter they please yet being at any time drawne to a more deliberate and succinct dispute then a man may easily espie the manifold imperfections which couertly lurke in their extrauagant and rouing collations And therefore procéede now more syllogistically I beséech you in the orderly prosecution of this your intended discourse without any such soaring aloft in the aire Hydr. With very good will And therefore to shut vp this my wide open hand a firme closed fist and to reduce my succeeding discourse into the ordinarie limites of an artificiall argument I may thus propound my first reason fyllogistically which also being absolutely grounded vpon the premisses as vpon a firme foundation and infallible ground may by no cunning opposition or crafâ—ie engine be possibly ouerthrowne Capn. Go to then propound it I pray you
especially among such as do make their glorie their shame minding nothing at all but earthly things Neither do I much maruell at this their bewitched blindnesse For how is it possible that they whom this smokie fume hath made so fantasticall I will not say so senslesse in iudgement should euer be able to determine substantially concerning this matter And therefore sith this their seducing Tobacco smoke is such an intoxicating Circes a monster of so many heads and hath taken withall so deepe roote in those our besotted Tobacconists minds as it will be found but an Herculean labour to eradicate and roote out the same from a soile so suting vnto it I hold it euery way a very good course yet still to bend moe engines about it and euen to pull vp if possibly it may be all the farre spread sprouts and riotous springs thereof Capn. Undertake what exploit you please to supplant the same for neither they nor I do craue any fauour herein Hydr. Go to then let this which followeth now and which also in such gallant brauerie against those gallant Tobacconists here marcheth on gallantly towards the very forefront of the battell it selfe be entertained afresh for a third encounter against the inward taking of Tobacco fumes That which maketh the cleare sweete and holsome spirits to become obscure stinking and vnholsome is very pernicious vnto the body But the smoke of Tobacco taken inward maketh the cleare sweete and holsome spirits to become obscure stinking and vnholsome Therefore the smoke of Tobacco taken inward is very pernicious vnto the body Capn. Pardon me Sir though I do absolutely deny this Argument Hydr. Oh nay Capnistus beware of such an absurd and senslesse deniall For as the Argument it selfe is absolutely sound in moode and figure so surely either of both propositions may thus be easily proued Whatsoeuer infecteth the instruments of both bodie and mind that same doth most perniciously procure the destruction of the bodie But that which maketh the cleare sweete and holsome spirits to become obscure stinking and vnholsome infecteth the instruments of both bodie and mind Therefore that which maketh the cleare sweete and holsome spirits to become obscure stinking and vnholsome that same doth most perniciously procure the destruction of the body Capn. I do not as yet conceiue the soundnesse of your first proposition namely that that which infecteth the instruments of both bodie and mind doth most perniciously procure the destruction of the body Hydr. The soundnesse thereof is hereby apparent namely for that no one action of life can be exercised without the mind and body But neither body nor mind may possibly performe their dutie that way without their proper instruments Howbeit the instruments of both they are the spirits the clearenesse sweetnesse and holsomnesie of which said spirits being made obscure stinking and vnwholsome how should either bodie or minde be able to exercise any one action of life in good order Capn. Uery true as you say But how are you able to proue your second Proposition namely that the smoke of Tobacco taken inward doth so infect and corrupt the spirits Hydr. The same may very plainly be proued by this following argument Whatsoeuer infecteth and defileth the whole bodie with a blacke filthie and smokie colour that same doth make the cleare sweete and wholsome spirits to become obscure stinking and vnwholsome But the smoke of Tobacco taken inward infecteth and defileth the whole bodie with a blacke filthie and smokie colour Therefore the smoke of Tobacco taken inward doth make the cleare sweete and wholsome spirits to become obscure stinking and vnholsome Capn. Howsoeuer amazed herein at all aduentures I denie your argument Hydr. Thine amazednesse it seemes hath made thee at all aduentures to bewray thy palpable ignorance in denying the argument For the first Proposition thereof is such and so sound as no man of sound iudgement will once dare to denie it being euen in common sense no lesse apparently euident then the Sun-shine at mid-day For must not that which infecteth and defileth the whole body with a blacke filthie and smokie colour euen necessarily make the cleare sweet and wholsome spirits to become obscure stinking and vnwholsome What one man being well in his wits may not plainly perceiue the apparent necessitie and truth of such a consequent Capn. But how proue you the second Proposition namely that the smoke of Tobacco taken inward infecteth and defileth the whole body with a blacke filthie and smokie colour Hydr. That is fully ratified by the authoritie of Aristotle in his former Treatise where as I haue eftsoones told thee before he affirmeth all sorts of smoke and therefore the smoke of Tobacco to infect with a blacke colour the same also auoucheth Galene in sundry places And besides their two approued testimonies that which I haue heard eftsoones very credibly reported by many as also that whereof my selfe was once an eye-witnesse namely an approued experience in the opening of sundry mens bodies which being fearefully strangled vp with this poysonsome smoke very sodainly died doth apparently prooue the truth of this proposition for so much as those dead bodies being so cut vp were euery of them found strangely infected with a certaâ—ne blacke and smokie colour Seeing therefore the inward taking of Tobacco smoke doth make the cleare sweete and holsome spirits obscure stinkâ—ng and vnholsome sith it infecteth all the instruments of the bodie and mind briefly seeing it corrupteth and defileth the whole body with a blacke filthie and smokie colour who can without blushing denie but that the taking of Tobacco inwardly is very pernicious vnto the bodie Capn. Howsoeuer my selfe be vnable with sway of argument to denie the same yet be you well assured of this that you shall find ten thousand Tobacconists flat opposite to you Hydr. That may very well be For so one onely Michaiah did find foure hundred opposite to that which he spake from the mouth of the Lord and yet their exceeding great multitude was no manner of preiudice to the truth which he taught Howbeit that I may here as much as possiblie lieth in my power take away whatsoeuer occasion of either gainsaying or doubting and that the truth of this matter might be made to appeare as manifest as the Sunne in his strength I haue euen purposely placed this following argument in the rereward of the battell as an armour of proofe to giue a fresh encounter against Tobacco fumes Capn. Discharge your vttermost force and spare not Hydr. Well then stand strongly vpon thy guard for this it is Whatsoeuer spreadeth and disperseth throughout the whole bodie a most venimous matter and a mortall enemie to the nature of man that same doth bring destruction vnto the bodie But the smoke of Tobacco taken inward spreadeth and disperseth throughout the whole body a most venimous matter and a mortall enemie to the nature of man Therefore the smoke of Tobacco taken inward
For so should we Set seruants on horsebâ—cke and make Princes to plod by their sides as Pages yea so sâ—ould the crew of some idlely conceited companions becâ—me the canonized counsellers to those that haue farre finer wits then themselues Concerning therefore that former superfluous and riotous waste which those Tobacconists do so wilfully make about their beastly Tobacco fumes do tell me in good sadnesse whether it be not a superfluous waste for any man of great place to paddle forth yâ—arely one hundred pounds at the least for an hundred gallons of filthy fumes for a Gentleman of meaner condition to be at fortie pound annuall expences about bare fortie pottels of stinking flames for a Yeoman an Husbandman an Artificer a Trades-man a Tinker a Shoomaker or a Cobbler to bestow weekely some three shillings fourepence at the least for but one onely ounce of fantasticall fooleries What sayest thou Capnistus Is not this a very superfluous and riotous waste Do answer directly either yea or no to the same Capn. In very déed Sir I must néeds acknowledge it a superfluous and riotous waste yea and no better in effect then the fantasticall purchasing of vanitie it selfe Hydr. Go to then Can such a superfluous and riotous waste be possibly performed without a prodigall dispending of those our Tobacconists their patrimonies and worldly preferments or without a friuolous pursing vp of their annuall reuenewes and rents in a bottomlesse bag Who seeth not then but that their filthie Tobacco fumes being ordinarily at such an exceeding high rate at such an excessiue reckoning at such a chargeable cost at such a superfluous-waste and at such a prodigall dispending of patrimonies with other like worldly preferments must needs become too too profluuious for any our Tobacconists purses and very pestiferous to the publike State Capn. It is euen certainly so And therefore Sir hauing hitherto succinctly shewed the vndoubted profluuitie of the purse it selfe I pray you now likewise procéed to the orderly setting downe of those fearefull effects which successiuely follow thereof Hydr. With a very good will Wherein we haue to obserue that those selfe same effects they are such as more especially concerne the Tobacconists themselues or some other besides Capn. Very well But what are those effects first which more properly concerne themselues Hydr. They are all those accidentall occurrents which proceeding collaterally from those their Tobacco fumes do more especially respect the parties themselues without any proper relation or peculiar reference to any other man else besides themselues being such withall as more especially concerne either their owne person or their proper estate Capn. What are those effects first which more especially concerne their owne person Hydr. They are those dangerous diseases and those desperate deaths which by reason of such an insatiable sucking in of filthie Tobacco fumes do euen ordinarily attend like pursuiuants vpon their very bodies and soules Namely a fearefull consuming of the naturall heate an vnquenchable scorching and drying vp of the radicall moisture an vtter exhausting and sucking out of the corporall humours a most poysonsome corrupting of the due proportion of Elements appointed by nature a continuall fâ—etting and gnawing of all the bodily members a pernicious dissoluing of the primarie composition of the whole bodie it selfe a preposterous procuring of the cleare sweete and wholsome spirits to become obscure stinking and vnwholsome a most dangerous dispersing of a venimous ayre through out all parts of the bodie a violent assailing of the head the braine the heart the whole body and life it selfe yea and eftsoones a most so daine and desperate death as we haue more laâ—gely declared before Lo Capnistus euen these and sundry such other occurrents they are those proper effects which do vndoubtedly attend vpon the poore Tobacconists body and as ordinarily follow his insatiable swilling in of filthie Tobacco fumes as the shadow followes the bodie And as his said bodie is therewith very dangerously infected so surely that his honest reputation which should be vnto him as a precious oyntment is thereby most shamefully blemished Being pointed at by all sorts of people when he walketh abroad in the open streets and too too reprochfully termed a tippling Tobacconist a swaggering swil smoke a sodden headed Asse a fantasticall foole a proper tale stripling to play at Poope-noddie a man of a wonderfull wit forsooth coÌ„cerning those our newly deuised chymicall extractions being sufficiently able in very short time to turne a shilling to nine-pence one that hath a meruellous dexteritie in augmenting his patrimonie by a plaine retrogradation beginning directly where his ancestors ended and neuer giuing ouer before he come where they first began to knit vp all in a word he is say they ThericleÃouphilâ—s that is in plaine English a friend and follower of cup companions What one ingenious nature may possibly but heare these disdainefull reproches and his very eares not burne on his head Or who is the wight which being thus odiously branded in euery place would not grow grosly ashamed of that shamefull condition which thus makes him the shame of the world Surely the timely consideration of these fearefull effects concerning especially their owne proper persons would euen presently take vp our Tobacconists minds with farre better imployments were they not too too beastly bewitched with those venimous vapours which flow from their filthie fumes For lo these are the faire fragrant flowers of their chargeable flames the vndoubted successe of those their sottish attempts and the flourishing fruites of those their fantasticall fooleries The very feeling of these and such other most fearefull effects should cause them continually to crie out and say thus Oh how pestiferous is that transitorie pleasure which we haue dearely purchased with such perpetuall paine shame For lo now we do find and feele in our proper experience that these our filthie Tobacco fumes are not onely pernicious vnto our bodies but too too profluuious also for our purses in procuring such fearefull effects to our owne proper persons Capn. They should so I confesse And I doubt not but by that time they haue bene better schooled a while with the mistris of fooles they will learne that lesson by roate But what are those other effects I beséech you which do likewise concerne their proper estates Hydr. They are those accidentall occurrents which do ordinarily attend vpon such chargeable cost such superfluous waste such a prodigall and profluuious dispending of ancient patrimonies with other like worldly preferments For what other things else may possibly follow thereof besides a pernicious hurt to the body and vntimely vndermining of mens honest reputations but an vnrecouerable subuersion of that their ancient estate which they formerly receiued from their forefathers frugalitie a perpetuall supplanting of that their primarie approued condition and a monstrous metamorphosing of their former well managed Mannors with other their domesticall maintenance So as by these meanes they make great
but endeuour to trafficke home rather the cedar trées and firre trées the Algummin wood the gold of Ophir and precious stones so shall we be worthely estéemed those honest and frugall aduenturers who séeke rather the publike good of our countrey then the priuate gaine of our purses But if notwithstanding any thing hitherto said we neither care what bad trafficke we buy nor passe not what excessiue prices our poore countreymen pay for our paysonsome pelse all the while wee our selues may liue by their losse then surely we shall most filthily shame our selues and plucke a iustly deserued reproch vpon our worthie profession For mine owne part my reuerend brethren I had rather vndergo I assure you ten hundred thousand tortures of death then but once more to vndertake the enriching of mine owne selfe by the sale of that which not onely doth no manner of good and which is many waies so pernicious to the bodies of men so profluuious to poore mens purses and so pestiferous to the publike good of my natiue countrey For surely knowing so much as now by the swéete mercies of my God I do sincerely know and féeling what comfort by the worke of his spirit I presently féele if I should still continue that my former most couetous nay rather most cutthroate-like course all the whole world might iustly conclude that if time would serue to vent them forth by open sale I would desperately aduenture with the Babilonish Merchants to trafficke also from Rome euen Agnus Deies crucifixes popish pardons with other like paultrey pelfe by the fearefull Tale of any poore countrymens soules Yea and which more is by much that I would with the most vicious Venetian Panders very desirously packe ouer whole ships-full of sorrie Venetian Courteghianes and most shamefully lease them forth in fée-farme for a filthie lucre Alas my deare brethren alas what a proportionable equitie is that thinke you which chaffereth but chaffe vnto men for their precious wheate which giueth them goose-quils for their glittring gold and which onely affordeth them a foule thinking fume for their seuenfold refined siluer Is not this to accomplish that ancient hyperbolicall prouerbe which so accustomably accompleth each vile contemptible trafficke no better in effect then the very shadow of smoke that is but a vanishing shew without any substance at all Is not this to make men beléeue that we prouided them very daintie fine cates howsoeuer most dearely bought when yet as is vsually spoken we set onely before them an holy sacrifice forsooth without any swéete smoke that is a poore beggerly banquet without either béefe or browesse at all Would we our own selues my reuerend masters be willingly feasted so at other mens tables Could we at any hand endure to pay so excessiuely deare for our suppers before hand and when all cometh to all be then so conie catchingly fobbed forth with such a vaine shew of fantasticall fooleries Can we be contented I pray you that any one liuing person vpon any such our former most chargeable payments should promise vs the gainefull purchase of golden mountaines and then for our substantiall siluer procure onely vnto vs but the deceiptfull sale of a most filthie vanishing fume that is should make vs many great glorious promises which notwithstanding are finally destitute of their wished effects Might we not my worshipfull brethren for these our insatiable and dog-like inordinate desires of gréedie gaine be iustly termed not the worshipfull Merchant venturers but rather those worrie-shéep mucke-scrape Vespasian vipers who for filling their extraordinary gaping after gréedie gaine do make an ordinarie sale being spoken with reuerence of their most filthie stinking stale Yea and which more vile is when at any time their godly minded Matrons or their sanctified sonnes with great anguish of heart and griefe of mind do but once séeme to distaste or dislike of such kind of sale euen then most contemptuously to proffer the most poysonsome stinke of that stinking gaine to their sanctified noses bidding them boldly to smell thereof and then tell him withall whether that same siluer so gathered together doth not yéeld as redolent a sauour as any of the swéetest gold couched vp long since intheir Cabbinets made of spruce By this meanes making good vpon their owne paultrie pates the pestiferous Vespasian prouerbe which telleth them plainly that the sauour of insatiable gaine from what filthie matter soeuer the same ariseth doth afford as fragrant a smell to those their insatiable and hunger-sterued nostrils as any the finest ciuet or muske Thereby also canonizing that heathenish Poet for a Preacher of truth who telleth them plainly thus From whence it comes we neuer care So it may fall vnto our share Perhaps your good worhips would willingly know the maine reason it selfe why those filthie mucke merchants should become such hungersterued Heluoes concerning the holy hunger of gold such gréedie gormandizers of filthie gaine yea and such insatiable Philargyrians in gathering treasures togither the reason hereof saith Zenodor is onely this namely because the néedie beggars satchell can neuer be satisfied Now then if we also our selues my worshipfull masters should in these our sea-faring courses declare our selues to be such were we not very well worthie euen for this onely respect to be no lesse odiously estéemed of and therein also as deseruedly in all points to be dealt withall as was that notable conie chatcher Thurinus in the daies of Alexander Seuerus Who being sharpely accused and presently produced before the said Alexander for that he remaining otherwise in no fauour at all with his Maiestie did notwithstanding continually beare the sillie poore subiects in hand that he was all in all and in excellent accompt with his Highnesse By this base and paltrie practise vnder an onely pretence of speaking for them to his Maiestie he did very péeuishly pilfer much mony from out of the poore mens purses Howbeit so soone as that his said knauerie brake forth to the open view of the world and the same accordingly made knowne to the King he was forthwith adiudged to be surely made fast to a stake and hauing great store of gréene wood then kindled about him to be so smothered to death by the violent smoke of that fire The Executioner also then crying out to the by-standers and saying thus He is worthily adiudged to perish with smoke who hath so deceiptfully sold forth his smoke vnto others And herein moreouer that conie catching companion did personally accomplish the old ancient Prouerbe which speaketh thus By flying from smoke I fell forthwith into the flame it selfe These the precedent matters being now more naturally and more exactly considered with their seuerall circumstances concurring also therewith let vs in Gods name my worshipfull fathers and fellowes at no time hereafter after giue any further offence this way but very conscionably and carefully from henceforth carrie our selues towards all
proofe of that which I affirmed before namely that there is in the fume of Tobacco inwardly taken some venimous matter which so dainly ouerthroweth the faculties of mind and strength of body For whereas Dodonaeus and Metellus do so skilfully sort Tobacco among the sundrie kinds of Henbane it is apparently manifest from out of Dioscorides his approued iudgement that all kind of Henbane is venimous as an enemie disturbing nature disordering reason assailing the braine which is the Metropolitane ouer the whole body the very tower of the heart yea and procuring a certaine madnesse withall for the present Capn. Dodonaeus Metellus and Dioscorides they onely say so as for the truth of their spéech that we must take at their hands vpon trust for they onely say so but shew no one reason at all Howbeit Sir our Tobacconists be you sure they hold not those men of Pythagoras authoritie neither will they be brought to conclude on this sort Dodonaeus Metellus and Dioscorides do ioyntly auouch that all kind of Henbane is of a poysonsome and venimous nature and therefore it is certainly so indéed Hydr. Why Capnistus hast thou not a more reuerend regard of that the accustomed and ancient axiome which telleth plainly That euery expert and skilfull Artist must be beleeued in his proper profession Notwithstanding because thou makest no more accompt of those their authenticall iudgements thou shalt heare further what Gesnerus auoucheth from his proper experience who hauing experimented the true operation of Tobacco in his owne proper bodie giueth a iudicious censure concerning the nature thereof in an Epistle to Iohn Functius that renowned and learned Physition Capn. What is his censure thereof Sir I pray you Hydr. I will put downe the same in his owne proper words without either adding or taking therefrom The leafe saith he which was sent out of France to Augusta seemed most strange vnto me and a very plaine noueltie Wherefore I was very desirous to taste therof but presently I perceiued a maruellous sharpnesse therein and it did most strangely affect me So as me thought verily I was starke drunke and as it were sayling downe a Riuer in some staggering ship yea and trying the same againe and againe some three or foure times I eftsoones found the selfesame effect Wherefore washing my mouth and drinking vp a spoonefull of vineger I forthwith put away the giddinesse of my head Moreouer I gaue a peece of the leafe bruised and wrapped in flesh vnto a dog which presently after some few houres did cause him to vomit abundantly Verily whatsoeuer it is I suppose it cannot possibly be without some secret venime Thus much Gesnerus concerning the vertue and force of Tobacco in his proper experience Capn. This I confesse is something to our present purpose in hand but Sir one Swallow you know maketh no sommer Hydr. Well then let vs adde to Gesnerus experience that which Theuittus in his description of West India as also that which Monardus Clusius and Weckerus do ioyntly remember thereof Namely that the Priests and other the common people of the Indians do vse to sucke vp the fume of Tobacco through a pipe or conduite either when as being asked they giue answers concerning the successe of businesse or when they are desirous to see visions and as it were to be rapt from themselues in a trance or being to enter into the dangers of battell Which said disturbance of mind and soule by no meanes can be so sodainly wrought in mans body without the force and efficacie of some venimous quality concurring therewith Capn. Not so Sir for then should the force thereof be generally perceiued in all men alike Howbeit this swimming of the head is not generally in all and in them whom it so strangely possesseth the same may séeme rather to procéede of a certaine thinne humour sodainly turned into wind and of a whirling about of that aire so sodainly changed then of any other supposed quality in the smoke it selfe as being venimous and a mortall enemie to the nature of man Hydr. This peraduenture in a simple swimming and such as is eftsoones felt at some other time else might seeme to carrie some shew of truth but in this sodaine darknesse and falling into trances vpon the onely taking of Tobacco and at none other time else and wherein all the senses and the whole braine is so sodainly ouerwhelmed with an obscure and cloudie smoke it cannot possibly haue any place at all but by the operation of some venimous matter concurring therewith For such a swimming for the most part is the vndoubted forerunner of the falling euill and impresseth such a sensible weaknesse in the braine as may not possibly be cured nor ordinarily helped by any medicine at all Capn. Why Sir not all that drinke of this smoke do feéele such a smming Hydr. That is nothing at all to the purpose For the pestilence and such other infectious venimes they do not forthwith destroy all whom they possesse nor infect euery one indifferently which notwithstanding haue in them naturally a power of killing and slaying And therefore whereas all men are not equally affected with y e selfesame swimming that ought rather to be attributed to the benefit of nature and sound constitution of the braine then vnto any defectiue poysonsome qualitie in the smoke it selfe which is euermore venimous and a mortall enemie to the nature of man Capn. But Sir the vse of Tobacco is very profitable for such as are affected with shortnesse of breath and with stopping of the lungs by reason of grosse humours ouergrowing the same Hydr. What vse of Tobacco is profitable for those diseases The scorching smoke thereof drawne or sucked into the body by a Tobacco pipe Nothing lesse be thou sure For so the lungs themselues being made hard and stiffe as in old age it commonly cometh to passe by reason of the extreme force of the fume in drying so as they cannot be fanned nor lifted vp any longer the naturall heate is choaked vp quite for want of breathing And there is much difference betwixt the smoke of the earthie and stinking fume of a burnt hearbe and the airie iuyce of the said hearbe drawne forth by infusion by steeping by boyling or seething Indeed the broath of Tobacco or a sirupe made of the infusion thereof doth somewhat helpe the stopping of the lungs but not the smoke Capn. And yet for all this the smoke of Tobacco disburdeneth the braine from this sinke of humours and purgeth the bloud from filthie and vnwholsome matter Hydr. Yea marrie Sir a very trimme purgation no doubt that draweth so forth from the bodie and braine such a thinne subtile and waterish matter as it may be nature her selfe had proportionably appointed to both for the better and more easie conueyance of the bloud it selfe throughout the whole bodie and in stead thereof placeth grosse humours in the braine and all the rest of the members and whereby a