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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    [53] W’ hear in this cafe,noConfcience-cafes holier. But, like to like, the Devil with the Collier* For a Tobacconift (I dare averj Is firftof all a rank Idolater As any of the Ignatian Hierachy y Next as conformed to their foppery Of burning day-light, and good Night at Noon, Setting up Candles to enlight the Sun > And laft the Kingdom of new Babylon, Stands in a dark and fmoky Region, So full of fuch variety of (mokes, That there-with-all, all Piety it choaks. For there is fir ft of all the fmoke of Ignorance, The fmoke of Error, fmoke of Arrogance, The fmoke of Merit fuper-er’gatory, The fmoke of Pardons, fmoke of Purgatory , The fmoke of cenling, fmoke of thurifying Of I mages, of Satans fury flying, The fmoke of Stews (from fmoking thence they cc As horrid hot, as torrid Sodom fome^) Then fmoke of Powder-Treafon, Piftol Knives, To blow up Kingdoms, and blow out Kings Lives And laftly too, Tobacco’s fmoky mills, Which (coming from Iberian Baalifts) No fmall addition of aduftion fit. Bring to the fmoke of the unbottom’d Pit Yerft opened, firft (as openeth St. John) By their Abaddon and Apollyon. But fith they are contented to admire What they diflike not, if they not defirej (For, with good reafon, may we ghefs that they Who fwallow Camels, fwallow Gnatlings may > } ?Tis ground enough for us in this difpute, Their Vanities thus obvious to refute (Their Vanities, Myfterious mills of Rome, ' Which have fo long befmoked Chriftendom.) And for the reft, it fhall fufficeto fay, Tobacconing is but a fmoky Play > Strong arguments againft fo weak a thing, Were neediefs, or unfuitable, to bring >