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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    Se ee —— 14 - 3S) » 1 E 03 4 ET uam A s m » 50 (3) Or elfe the globy Cabbage Plowmans fare ; Muftard that bites for the foul mofe prepare, With Cretan wine free from the bottome dregs ; Then bring well-larded Collops frr'd with Egs; Next with her belly (tuffe a tender Hen, Not loofely fat, but well fed from the Pen, Which in her wób doth numerous off-fpring bear. Then fat with hurgry winter let appear The royall Pheafant {teaming in the platter, Or Partridge neatly dreft in wine and water. Now where's the Woodcock in whofe tail doth reft | More wifdome then in either brain or breft ? A4] Come boy, not yet doth the froze wine return To’its liquid fubftance,yet the flame doth burn About the Flagon; are wetortur'd thus With the fad pains of longing 7 autalus * To hearthe pot before the fier hiís, Yet be athir{t? Patience a vertue is. But friendsaccufe the hard congealing froft, Say not the. caufe was in your pinching Hoft. The hair-brain’d Frenchmans conftitution neither Can brook the fummers heat or winters weather; put give me Sack, for that de/pifeth cold, And cures the imperfections of the old, 1£ he the noble liquor largely quaffe, Then bid thy fad friend drink,'twil make him laugh. Yet too much is imperious in the brain, And likeatyrant doth command and reign. r1 Heark }