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A87472	The touchstone, or, Trial of tobacco whether it be good for all constitutions : with a word of advice against immoderate drinking and smoaking : likewise examples of some that have drunk their lives away, and died suddenly : with King Jame's [sic] opinion of tobacco, and how it came first into England : also the first original of coffee : to which is added, witty poems about tobacco and coffe [sic] : something about tobacco, written by George Withers, the late famous poet ...; Two broad-sides against tobacco.	Hancock, John, fl. 1638-1675.; Hancock, John, fl. 1669-1705.; James I, King of England, 1566-1625. Counterblaste to tobacco. 1676.; Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?; Thomson, George, fl. 1648-1679. Aimatiasis. Selections. 1676.; Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640. Woe to drunkards. 1676.; Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618. Tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered. 1676.; Everard, Giles. De herba panacea. English. Selections. 1676.; Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1676 (1676)	Wing J144A; ESTC R42598	56,406	78

too mean for a King to interpose his Authority or bend his Eye upon yet are they Corruptions as well as the greatest of them So is an Ant an Animal as well as an Elephant so is a Wren Avis as well as a Swan and so is a small dint of the Tooth-ach a Disease as well as the fearful Plague is But for these base sorts of Corruption in Common-wealths not only the King or any inferiour Magistrate but Quilibet ê populo may serve to be a Physician by discovering and impugning the error and by perswading reformation thereof And surely in my Opinion there cannot be a more base and yet hurtful Corruption in a Country then is the vile use or rather abuse of taking Tobacco in this Kingdome which hath moved me shortly to discover the abuses in this following little Pamphlet If any think it a light Argument so it is but a Toy that is bestowed upon it And since the Subject is but of Smoke I think the sume of an idle Brain may serve for a sufficient battery against so fumous a feblean Enemy If my grounds be found true it is all I look for but if they carry the force of perswasion with them it is all I can wish and more then I can expect My only care is my dear Country-men may rightly conceive even by this smallest trifle of the sincerity of my meaning in greater matters never to spare any pains that may tend to the procuring of your Weale and Prosperity A COUNTERBLAST TO TOBACCO THat the manifold abuses of this vile custome of Tobacco-taking may the better be espied It is fit That first you enter into Consideration both of the first Original thereof and likewise of the Reasons of the first entry thereof into this Countrey for certainly as such Customs that have their first Institution either from a godly necessary or honourable ground and are first brought in by the means of some worthy vertuous and great Personage are ever and most justly holden in great and reverent estimation and account by all wise vertuous and temperate Spirits So should it by the contrary justly bring a great Disgrace into that sort of Customs which having their Original from base Corruption and Barbarity do in like sort make their first entry into a Country by an inconsiderate and childish affectation of Novelty as is the true case of the first Invention of Tobacco-taking and of the first entry thereof amongst us For Tobacco being a common Herb which though under divers Names grows almost every where was first found out by some of the Barbarous Indians to be a Preservative or Antidote against the Pox a filthy Disease whereunto these Barbarous People are as all men know very much subject what through the uncleanly and adust constitution of their Bodies and what through the intemperate heat of their Climate So that as from them was first brought into Christendome that most detestable Disease So from the likewise was brought this use of Tobacco as a stinking and unsavory Antidote for so corrupted and execrable a Malady the stinking suffumigation whereof they yet use against that Disease making so one Canker or Vermine to eat out another And now good Country-men let us I pray you consider what Honour or Policy can move us to imitate the barbarous and beastly Manners of the wild godless and slavish Indians especially in so vile and stinking a Custome Shall we that disdain to imitate the Manners of our Neighbour France having the stile of the great Christian Kingdome and that cannot endure the Spirit of the Spaniards their King being now comparable in largeness of Dominions to the greatest Emperour of Turky Shall we I say that have been so long civil and wealthy in Peace famous and invincible in War fortunate in both We that have been ever able to Aid any of our Neighbours but never deafed any of their Ears with any of our Supplications for assistance Shall we I say without blushing abase our selves so far as to imitate these beastly Indians Slaves to the Spaniards Refuse to the World and as yet Aliens from the holy Covenant of God Why do we not as well imitate them in walking naked as they do in preferring Glasses Feathers and such toys to Gold and precious Stones as they do Yea why do we not deny God and adore the Devil as they do Now to the corrupted baseness of the first use of this Tobacco doth very well agree the foolish and groundless first Entry thereof into this Kingdom It is not long since the first entry of this abuse amongst us here as this present Age cannot yet very well remember both the first Author and the form of the first Introduction of it against us It was neither brought in by King great Conqueror nor learned Doctor of Physick With the Report of a great Discovery for a Conquest some two or three Savage men were brought in together with this Savage Custome But the pity is the poor wild barbarous men died but that vile barbarous Custome is yet alive yea in fresh vigour so as it seems 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 upon so slender a warrant For if they that first put it in practice here had remembred for what respect it was used by them from whence it came I am sure they would have been loath to have taken so far the Imputation of that Disease upon them as they did by using the Cure thereof for Sanis non est opus medice and Counter-Poysons are never used but where Poyson is thought to proceed But since it is true that divers Customs slightly grounded and with no better warrant entred in a Common-wealth may yet in the use of them thereafter prove both necessary and profitable it is therefore next to be examined if there be not a ful sympathy and true proportion between the base ground and foolish entry and the loathsome and hurtful use of this stinking Antidote I am now therefore heartily to pray you to consider first upon what false and erroneous grounds you have first built the general good liking thereof and next what Sins towards God and foolish Vanities before the World you commit in the detestable use of it As for those deceitful grounds that have specially moved you to take a good and great conceit thereof I shall content my self to examine here onely four of the Principals of them two founded upon the Theorick of a deceivable appearance of Reason and two of them upon the mistaken practick of general Experience First It is thought by you a sure Aphorisme in the Physick That the brains of all men being naturally cold and wet all dry and hot things should be good for them of which nature this stinking suffumigation is and therefore of good use to them Of this Argument both the Proposition and Assumption are false and so the Conclusion cannot but

The Touchstone OR TRIAL OF TOBACCO Whether it be good for all Constitutions With a Word of Advice against immoderate Drinking and Smoaking LIKEWISE Examples of some that have drunk their Lives away and died suddenly With King JAME's Opinion of Tobacco and how it came first into England Also the first Original of Coffee To which is Added Witty Poems about Tobacco and Coffe something about Tobacco written by George Withers the late Famous Poet. The Picture Represents the Tobacchonists Armes and Turks Coffee-House COFFEE a kind of Turkish Renegade Has late a match with Christian water made A Coachman was the first here Coffee made And ever since the rest drove on the trade Me no good Engalash and sure enough He plaid the Quack to salve his Stygian stuff Ver boon for de stomach de Cough de Ptisick And I believe him for it looks like Physick London Printed and are to be Sold by the several Booksellers 1676. To all Taverns Inns Victualling-Houses Ale-houses Coffee-houses Strong-water-shops Tobacconists-shops in England Scotland or Ireland Gentle Readers HEre is presented to you a Brief Learned and a very seasonable Treatise for the Age we live in It was many years since Penned by King James of happy and blessed Memory Entituled A Counterblast to Tobacco It it here verbatim faithfully transcribed out of the large and learned Volume of His other Works in Folio which are rare and scarce to be had for money and of too great a price for the common sort of Tobacco-smokers to purchase It is granted the thing may be good and Physical and healthful being moderately and but seldom taken but for men to take ten or twenty Pipes in a day in all Companies Morning Noon and Night before and presently after Meals this is a strange way of taking Physick Now the King understanding the evil Custom of taking Tobacco or as we now call it smoking a Pipe was grown to a great head he seems to be very much insensed at it and discovers how it first came into England and its first Original and how that it was used much amongst the savage Indians to cure Lewes Venerea a Disease among them His Majesty wisely fore-seeing the evil consequences that would follow by such immoderate sucking in the foul smoke of this Indian Weed and He being the Physician of the Body Politick doth by many strong and excellent Arguments disswade his Subjects from imitating the practise of the Heathen Indians in drinking this noxious fume It was in his Time but a Novelty and practised but a little except amongst the Nobility Gentry or great Ones But now what is more frequently used in every Ale-house and Coffee-house besides great Inns and Taverns in London and all the Three Kingdoms over Whereas if men were so wise for their own good both in Body Soul and Estate as to handle a good Book either of Divinity or of Morality half so often as they do the Pipe of smoke it would be better for them in all respects more precious time and money would be saved I shall detain you no longer from a more learned Epistle and Treatise of the matter in hand And as King Solomon who was the wisest of Kings saith in his Book of Ecclesiastes That where the word of a King is there is power so I say If what our famous King James hath written be not of Power sufficient to divert all English men c. from this evil and hurtful Custom It is here seconded and backed home by the words and advice of an able and learned Doctor of Physick now living it being so sutable to the purpose was thought fit to be added to this Counterblast And that it may not be said as the common Proverb is To be only one Doctors opinion I have thought fit to add another Collected out of a Treatise Of the Bloud written by that learned Physician Dr. George Thompson who agreeth with the former against smoking Tobacco as dangerous I apprehend that what hath been spoken against drinking Tobacco may much more be said against immoderate drinking of Wine Ale Beer or any strong Liquors and Dishes of Coffee c. Thus hoping thou wilt make a good use of what is here gathered together and offered for thy good I rest A Well-wisher to thy Health J. H. To the Reader AS every humane body dear Country-men how wholsome soever is notwithstanding subject or at least naturally inclined to some sorts of Diseases or Infirmities So is here no Common-wealth or Body-Politick how well governed or peaceable soever it be that lacks their own popular Errors and naturally inclined Corruptions And therefore it is no wonder although this our Country and Common-wealth though peaceable though wealthy though long flourishing in both be amongst the rest subject to their own natural Infirmities We are of all Nations the people most Loving and most reverently Obedient to our Prince yet we are as time hath often born witness too easie to be seduced to make Rebellion upon very slight grounds Our fortunate and oft-proved Valour in Wars abroad our hearty and reverent Obedience to our Princes at home hath given us a long and thrice-happy Peace our Peace hath bred wealth And Peace and Wealth hath brough forth a general sluggishness which makes us wallow in all sorts of idle Delights and soft Delicacies the first seeds of the subversion of all great Monarchies Our Clergy are become negligent and lasie our Nobility and Gentry prodigal and sold to their private Delights Our Lawyers covetous our common People prodigal and curious and generally all sorts of People more careful for their private ends then for their Mother the Common-wealth For remedy whereof It is the King's part as the proper Physician of his Politick Body to purge it of all those Diseases by Medicines meet for the same as by a certain mild and yet just form of Government to maintain the Publick quietness and prevent all occasions of Commotion by the example of his own Person and Court to make us all ashamed of our sluggish Delicacy and to stir us up to the practice again of all honest Exercises and martial shadows of War as likewise by His and His Courts moderateness in Apparel to make us ashamed of our Prodigality By his quick Admonitions and careful over-seeing of the Clergy to waken them up again to be more diligent in their Offices By the sharp Tryal and severe Punishment of the partial covetous and bribing Lawyers to reform their Corruptions And generally by the example of His own Person and by the due execution of good Laws to reform and abolish piece and piece these old and evil-grounded Abuses For this will not be Opus unius Diei but as every one of these Diseases must from the King receive the one Cure proper for it so are there some sorts of Abuses in Common-wealths that though they be of so base and contemptible a condition as they are too low for the Law to look on and