. A little book of songs and ballads, gathered from ancient musick books, ms. and printed . dent airProclaimed them the subjects of Bartlemy Eair. A Walk to Smithjield, 1701. Tobacco is an Indian weed. (p. 170). The following version of this BaUad is from a MS. in the possession of Mr. CoUier, and is the one referred to as having the initials Gr. W. (i. e. Gleorge Withers) at the end. | Why should we so much despise, \ So good and wholesome an exercise, | As early and late to meditate; \ Thus think, and drink tobacco. \ AND ILLUSTUATIONS. 227 The earthen pipe so lily that thou art
. A little book of songs and ballads, gathered from ancient musick books, ms. and printed . dent airProclaimed them the subjects of Bartlemy Eair. A Walk to Smithjield, 1701. Tobacco is an Indian weed. (p. 170). The following version of this BaUad is from a MS. in the possession of Mr. CoUier, and is the one referred to as having the initials Gr. W. (i. e. Gleorge Withers) at the end. | Why should we so much despise, \ So good and wholesome an exercise, | As early and late to meditate; \ Thus think, and drink tobacco. \ AND ILLUSTUATIONS. 227 The earthen pipe so lily that thou art a mortal wight,Even suchj and gone with a small touch;Thus think, and drink tobacco. And when the smoke ascends on high,Think on the worldly vanityOf worldly stuff, tis gone with a puff;Thus think, and drink tobacco. And when the pipe is foul how the souls defiled with sin,To purge with fire it doth require;Thus think, and drink tobacco. Lastly, the ashes left daily show to move the mind,That to ashes and dust return we must;Thus think, and drink tobacco. LONDON: Printed by Arliss and Tucker, 15; Frith Street, Soho. i \ VALUABLE AND INTERESTING BOOKS, PUBLISHED OR SOLD BY JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 4, OLD COMPTON STREET, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON. pfttoloB:p anil ®arlp (0nglis6 ^literatures A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Reign of Edward I. by James Orchard Halliwell, , , &c. 2 vols. 8vo. containing upwards of 1000 pages, closely printed in double columns, cloth, £2. 2sThis work, which has occupied the Editor some years, is now completed; it containsabove 50,000 words (embodying all the known scattered glossaries of the English lan-guage) forming a complete key for the reader of the works of our old Poets, Dramatists,Theologians, and other authors whose works abound with allusions, of which explanationsare not to be found in ordinary Dictionaries and books of j-eference. Mo
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