Hymnus tabaci; a poem in honour of tabaco / heroïcally composed by Raphael Thorius ; made English by Peter Hausted.

  • Thorius, Raphael, -1625. Hymnus tabaci. English
Date:
1651
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hymnus tabaci; a poem in honour of tabaco / heroïcally composed by Raphael Thorius ; made English by Peter Hausted. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A Feaver in his heart, *' his own decay; (nd ina lingring flame doth melt away. But if to /woke thy love be grown fo great, all hat not thy folemn ft vows can conquer it, ‘But reafon muft yeild unto blind defire, Wake then the * (Co/tsfoor, for his temperate fire v AY TS but iz flames not,whofe lis I oh it brufhi ng ai [f 1 e IL ean] eth the izward Ulcer Sy and makes sj Fair rhe ! Cabbin of the Breft. Once, if thou haft home hidden caufe which makes thy body waft, Dr if a generali diftemper dwels in every ill-affected part, or els An active Feaver in thy bloud be found, 'Drthouendurít the raging of a werz4, Eichew that Syren-weed 7 a54co than, Which pleafing kills ; ** appear to be a man. Ward though it be, yet from the flatterer run, nd do not feed thine own deferutlion. !] Befides all this, fometimes it fortunes fo, n plenteous manner, which a death portends, Wature having given the reyzs unto both ends. Ih fuch a cafe what ever happen may, lien from the * deadly Bowles fly,fly away. lor thence the current of thy bloud does fwell, jlhy fits of vomiting do grow more fell, 1»*