. The poems of Sir John Beaumont, any cowards, base and recreantBy one pipes draught were turned valiant,And after in an artificiall mistHaue ouerthrowne their foes before they wist:How one that dreamt of a Tabacca roll,Though sick before, was straight made perfectwhole. 1 Philters bo charmcs to obtain© loue. B. 2 Astomi. Sec our Sibbes, G. 3 One of the characters in the Adelphi of Terence. G. TABACCO. 321 Peace, pratling Muse, offend sage eares no more,Die in the seas which canst not get the shore,And sinke, as ouerwhelind with too much matter,Least telling, all the world should t
. The poems of Sir John Beaumont, any cowards, base and recreantBy one pipes draught were turned valiant,And after in an artificiall mistHaue ouerthrowne their foes before they wist:How one that dreamt of a Tabacca roll,Though sick before, was straight made perfectwhole. 1 Philters bo charmcs to obtain© loue. B. 2 Astomi. Sec our Sibbes, G. 3 One of the characters in the Adelphi of Terence. G. TABACCO. 321 Peace, pratling Muse, offend sage eares no more,Die in the seas which canst not get the shore,And sinke, as ouerwhelind with too much matter,Least telling, all the world should thinke thee not, like curious Plinie,1 seeke to knowWhence the Earths smoke and secret flames do grow,Least this immortall fire, and sacred fumeLike to Yesuuius doe thy powers consume ;But clokd with vapours of a duskie hue,Bid both the world and thy sweet herb, Adue. lejmevos leal tcairvov airoOpuoKOv-a 1 Plinie was burnt searching to know from whencethe fire of the hill Vesuuius did rise. B 2 Homer: Od. i, 58. The literature of Tobacco is much, more extensive andsingular than is generally known. It is a wonder that aTimbs has not been found to make it the object of a a spare corner here, I add an Epigram from JohnHeaths Two Centuries of Epigrammes (1610): TOBACCO. We buy the driest wood that we can finde,And willingly would leave the smoke behind :But in Tobacco, a thwart course we take,Buying the hearb onely for the smokes sake. [2nd Cent., Ep. 92.] G. ,$pnYm. BY SON OF SIR JOHN BEAUMONT,BART. ftot*. Agreeably to our Memorial-Introduction and foot-notes (pp. 4, 12, &c.) I give as an Appendix, two additionalpoems by the son and heir of our Worthy—relativelyrather than intrinsically, of value. The first poem, inmemory of Ben Jonson is of the more interest from Jon-sons striking Lines prefixed to the volume of 1629 (Seepp 15-16 ante): and the second reminds us that it appearedin the same volume with Miltons * Lycidas. G. Jipjuttbix, fioem
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