Two broad-sides against tobacco / the first given by King James ... his Counterblast to tobacco. The second transcribed out of ... Dr. Everard Maynwaringe, his treatise of the scurvy. To which is added, serious cautions against excess in drinking: taken out of ... the same author ... With a short collection, out of Dr. George Thompson's Treatise of bloud; against smoking tobacco. Also many examples of God's severe judgments upon notorious drunkards ... by Mr. Samuel Ward. Concluding with two poems against tobacco [by J. Sylvester] and coffee [by G. Wither?]. Collected and published ... by J[ohn] H[ancock] Philanthrōpos.

  • James I, King of England, 1566-1625
Date:
1672
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Credit: Two broad-sides against tobacco / the first given by King James ... his Counterblast to tobacco. The second transcribed out of ... Dr. Everard Maynwaringe, his treatise of the scurvy. To which is added, serious cautions against excess in drinking: taken out of ... the same author ... With a short collection, out of Dr. George Thompson's Treatise of bloud; against smoking tobacco. Also many examples of God's severe judgments upon notorious drunkards ... by Mr. Samuel Ward. Concluding with two poems against tobacco [by J. Sylvester] and coffee [by G. Wither?]. Collected and published ... by J[ohn] H[ancock] Philanthrōpos. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    191 therein it finds him > it makes a Tick man whole, but a whole man fick : And as Medicine helps Nature, being taken at times of ne- cdlity* fo being ever and continually ufed, it doth bat weaken, weary, and wear Nature. What fpeak I of Medicine ? Nay, let a man every hour of the day, oras oft as many in this Country ufe to take Tobacco * Let a man, I fay, but take as oft the be# forts of Nourifhments, in Meat and Drink, that can be devifed, he (half, with the continual ufe thereof, weaken both his Head and his Sto¬ mach, all his members (hall become feeble, his Spirits dull, and in the end, as a drowfie, lafie Belly-god, he (hall tvanilh in a Le¬ thargy And from this weaknefs it proceeds, that many in this Kingdom have had fuch a continual ufe of taking this unfavory Smoke, as now they are not able to forbear the fame, no more then an old Drunkard can abide to be long fober, without falling into an incu¬ rable Weaknefs, and evil Conftitution > for their continual ciutom hath made to them babitttm, alteram naturam: So to thole char, from their Birth, have been continually nourifhed upon Poylon, and things venemous, whokfome Meats are onely poyTen¬ able. ' V .... Thus having, as I truft, (ufficiently anfwered the moil principal Arguments that are ufed in defence of this vile cuftomc., ht rcils onely to inform you, what Sins and Vanities you commit in the filthy abufe thereof : Firft, Are you not guilty of [inful and (hameiui luff, (for luft may be as well in any of the Sences as in feeling) that although you be troubled with no Difeafe, but in perfetd: health,yet can you neither be merry at an Ordinary, nor lafeivious in the Stews', if you lack Tobacco to provoke your Apetite to any of thofe forts of Recreatiomlufting after it as the Children of IJracl did in the Wildernefs after Grails* Secondly, It is as you ufe, or ra¬ ther abufe it, a branch of the fin of Drunkennefs, which is the root of all Sinsi for as the onely delight that Drunkards take in Wine, is in the (Length of the taft, and the force of the fame thereof that mounts up to the Brain > for no Drunkards love any weak or fweet Drink » So are not thofe (I mean the ftrong heat and fumej the only qualities that make Tobacco fo deledfable to ail the Lovers of it ? And as no man likes ftrong heady Drink the hrft day (becauknemo repentefit turf iflimus) but by cuftomis piece and piece allured, while, in the end, a Drunkard will have as great a thrift to be drunk, as a fober man to quench his thirft with a C draught.