Dyets dry dinner consisting of eight seuerall courses: 1. Fruites 2. Hearbes. 3. Flesh. 4. Fish. 5. whitmeats. 6. Spice. 7. Sauce. 8. Tabacco. All serued in after the order of time vniuersall. By Henry Buttes, Maister of Artes, and fellowe of C.C.C. in C.

A Satyricall Epigram, vpon the wanton, and excessiue vse of Tabacco.

IT chaunc'd me gazing at the Theater, To spie a Lock-Tabacco-Chevalier, Clowding the loathing ayr with foggie fume Of Dock-Tabacco, friendly foe to rume. I wisht the Roman lawes seuerity: Alex. seu. Edict. Who smoke felleth, with smoke be donto dy Being well nigh smouldred with this smokie stir, I gan this wize bespeak my gallant Sir: Certes, me thinketh (Sir.) it ill beseems, Thus hereto vapour out these reeking steams: Like or to Maroes steeds, whose nosthrils flam'd; Or Plinies Nosemen (mouthles men) surnam'd, Whose breathing nose supply'd Mouths absency. He me regreets with this prophane reply: Nay; I resemble (Sir) Iehouah dread, From out whose nosthrils a smoake issued: Or the mid-ayrs tongealed region, Whose stomach with crude humors frozenon Sucks vp Tabacco-like the vpmost ayr, Enkindled by Fires neighbour candle fayr:

And hence it spits out watry reums amaine, As phleamy snow, and haile, and sheerer raine: Anon it smoakes beneath, it flames anon. Sooth then, quoth I, it's safest we be gon, Lest there arise some Ignis Fatuus From out this smoaking flame, and choken vs. On English foole: wanton Italianly; Go Frenchly: Duchly drink: breath Indiauly.

Tabacco.

Choise. TRanslated out of India in the séed or roote; Natiue or satun in our own fruitfullest soiles: Dried in the shade, and compiled very close: of a tawny colour, som∣what inclining to red: most perspi∣cuous and cleare: which the Nose soonest taketh in snuffe.

Vse. It cureth any griefe, dolour, opi∣lation, impostume, or obstruction, procéeding of cold or winde: especi∣ally in the head or breast: the leaues are good against the Migram, cold stomackes, sick kidnits, tooth-ache, fits of the moother, naughty breath, scaldings or burnings: 4. ounces of the iuyce drunk, purgeth vp and downe: cleanseth the eyes, being outwardly applied. The water di∣stilled and taken afore the fits, cu∣reth an Ague.

The sume taken in a Pipe, is good against Rumes, Catarrhs, hoarse∣nesse, ache in the head, stomacke, lungs, breast: also in want of meat, drinke, sléepe, or rest.

Hurt. Mortifieth and benummeth: cau∣seth drowsinesse: troubleth & dul∣leth the sences: makes (as it were) drunke: dangerous in meale time.

Correcti∣on. The leaues be-ashed or warmed in imbers and ashes: taken once a day at most, in y^e morning, fasting.

Degree. Hot and dry in the second: of a stiffening and soddering nature. Also disensing and dissoluing filthy humours, consisting of contrary qualities.

Season. Age. Constitu∣tion. In Winter and the Spring, for hot, strong, youthful and fat bodies only, as some thinke.

Tabacus Pilciet.

Storie for Table-talke.

THis Hearbe is of great anti∣quitie & high respect among the Indians, and especially tho•••• of America or new Spain. Of whō the Spaniards tooke it, after they had subdued those Countrie•• first vpon a liking of the hearde ve••••e faire and glorious to the eye; af∣terward vpon triall of his vertues worthie admiration.

The Name in India is Pilciet, surnamed Tabacco by the Spani∣ards, of the Ile Tabaco. By their meanes it spred farre and neare: but yet wee are not beholden to their tradition. Our English Vlis∣ses, renomed Syr Walter Raw∣leigh, a man admirably excel∣lent in Nauigation, of Natures priuy counsell, and infinitely

reade in the wide booke of the worlde, hath both farre fetcht it, and deare bought it: the estimate of the treasure I leaue to other: yet this all know, since it came in request, there hath bene Magnus fumi questue, and Fumi-vendulus is the best Epithite for an Apothecary.

Thus much late Histories tell vs: among the Indians it is so highly honoured, that when the Priests are consulting in matter of importance, they presently cast Tabacco into the fire, and re∣ceiue at their nose & mouth, the smoak through a Cane, till they fall downe dead-drunke. Af∣terward reuiuing againe, they giue answeres ac¦cording to the phantasmes and visions, which appeared to them in their sleepe.

FINIS.