. A lyttel parcell of poems and parodyes in prayse of tobacco, contayning divers conceited ballades, and pithie sayinges, all newly collected and emprinted . theParodies (which have already appeared in print)all the best poetical pmises of Tobacco are heregathered in one sweet-smelling bouquet, luhich isdedicated, with all respect and esteem, to those con-genial spirits, and true lovers of the Indian Weed,the Sette of Odd Yolumes, by their grateful Friend, and Brother^ ©intents* ?GiiBSDnaaBc»9iv PAGBLiGHTING-UP -••• 7 Early Poems IN Praise OF Tobacco n Poems ON THE Pipe 45 Poems on the Cigar 7
. A lyttel parcell of poems and parodyes in prayse of tobacco, contayning divers conceited ballades, and pithie sayinges, all newly collected and emprinted . theParodies (which have already appeared in print)all the best poetical pmises of Tobacco are heregathered in one sweet-smelling bouquet, luhich isdedicated, with all respect and esteem, to those con-genial spirits, and true lovers of the Indian Weed,the Sette of Odd Yolumes, by their grateful Friend, and Brother^ ©intents* ?GiiBSDnaaBc»9iv PAGBLiGHTING-UP -••• 7 Early Poems IN Praise OF Tobacco n Poems ON THE Pipe 45 Poems on the Cigar 73 Poems ON THE Cigarette 87 Poems on Snuff 93 Parodies Relating to Smoking 105 Containing imitations of Horace, Shakespeare, AbrahamCowley, Colley Cibber, Ambrose Ph Hips, JamesThompson, Edward Young, Alexander Pope, DeanSwift, Grays Elegy, Sheridan, Sir Walter Scott,Thomas Moore, Thomas Hood, Eliza Cook, , Lord Byron, Wordsworth, My Mother,Dr. Watts, 0. W. Holmes, Charles Kin!?sley, BarryCornwall, C. S. Calverley, H. W. Longfellow, A. , and Alfred Tennyson. Ballades on Smoking 173 ^nJ^lHl^f*^H>»**^--*^***** ****». 43arotrj)e£» lu ^Srap^e c£ Cobacro* MHHHaaBBHBRBRin LIGHTING- UP, XT is almost universally admitted that theprimeval of the world were thenatives (so-called Indians) of North America, whohad been smokers for ages before the discoveryof their country by the Spaniards, and who looked 8 POEMS IN PRAISE upon Tobacco with superstitious awe as a specialgift sent by the Great Spirit for their delectation. The custom of smoking was moreover wide-spread, for wherever the early explorers travelledon the Western Hemisphere the tribes with whomthey came in contact were smokers, and from thatdate to the present time the votaries of the weedhave been ever on the increase. Tobacco (Nicotiana tahacum) is said to deriveits name from Tabacco, a province of Yucatan ;other authorities trace it to the isle of Tobago, inthe West Indies ; whil
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