The smoker's text book / by J. Hamer. (A reprint).

  • Hamer, J. (John)
Date:
1889
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Credit: The smoker's text book / by J. Hamer. (A reprint). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dean Swift’s style imitated. “ Ex fumo dare lucem.—Hor. B0Y!, bring an ounce of Freeman’s best, And bid the vicar be my guest; Let all be placed in order due, A pot wherein to spit or spue, And “London Journal” and “Free Briton,” Of use to light a pipe, or . . . This village, unmolested yet By troopers, shall be my retreat; Who cannot flatter, bribe, betray; Who cannot write or vote for — . Far from the vermin of the town, Here let me rather live, my own ; Dose o’er a pipe, whose vapour bland In sweet oblivion lulls the land ; Of all which at Vienna passes, Vs ignorant a.s . . Brass is; Vnd scorning rascals to caress, Extol the days of good Queen Bess, When first tobacco blest our isle, Then think of other queens—and smile. Come, jovial pipe, and bring along Midnight revelry and song: The merry catch, the Madrigal, That echoes sweet in City Hall; The parson’s pun, the smutty tale Of country jusdce o’er his ale. I ask not what the French are doing, Or Spain, to compass Briton’s ruin. Britons, if undone, can go Where tobacco loves to grow. WEIGHING SMOKE. CIR WALTER RALEIGH’S pipe often furnished him ° with an opening for displaying his ready wit to the Queen. One day he was conversing on the singular properties of the new herb. “ I can assure your Majesty,
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