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A69093
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Monsieur D'Oliue A comedie, as it vvas sundrie times acted by her Maiesties children at the Blacke-Friers. By George Chapman.
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Chapman, George, 1559?-1634.
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1606
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open note it seemes DOL: He was so Sir and hotly he envaid Against Tobacco with a most strong breath For he had eaten garlicke the same morning As t' was his vse partly against ill ayres Partly to make his speeches sauorie Said t' was a pagan plant a prophane weede And a most sinful smoke that had no warrant Out of the word inuented sure by Sathan In theise our latter dayes to cast a mist Before mens eyes that they might not behold The grosenes of olde superstition Which is as t' were deriu'd into the church From the fowle sincke of Romish popery And that it was a iudgement on our land That the svbstantiall commodities And mighty blessings of this Realme of France Bells Rattles hobby horses and such like Which had brought so much wealth into the Land Should now be changd into the smoke of vanitie The smoke of superstition for his owne part He held a Garlick cloue being sanctifyed Did edifie more the body of a man Then a whole tin of this prophane Tobacco Being tane without thankes-giuing in a word He said it was a ragge of Popery And none that were truely regenerate would Prophane his Nosthrils with the smoke thereof And speaking of your grace behind your back He chargd and coniur'd you to see the vse Of vaine Tobacco banisht from the land For feare least for the great abuse thereof Or candle were put out and there with all Taking his handker-chiefe to wipe his mouth As he had told a lie he tun'd his noise To the olde straine as if he were preparing For a new exercise But I my selfe Angry to heare this generous Tabacco The Gentlemans Saint and the souldiers idoll So ignorantly poluted stood me vp Tooke some Tabacco for a complement Brake fleame some twice or thrice then shooke mine eares And lickt my lipps as if I begg'd attention and so directing me to your sweet Grace Thus I replyed RHO: MVG Rome for a speach there Silence DOL. I am amused or I am in a quandarie gentlemen for in good faith I remember not well whether of them was my words PHI: T is no matter either of them will serue the turne DOL: Whether I should as the Poet sayes eloquar an siliam whether by answering a foole I should my selfe seeme no lesse or by giving way to his winde for words are but winde I might betray the cause to the maintaynance whereof all true Troyans from whose race we claime our decent owe all their patrimonies and if neede be their dearest blood and their sweetest breath I would not be tedious to your highnes PHI: You are not Sir Proceede DOL: TABACCO that excellent plant the vse whereof as of fift Element the world cannot want is that little shop of Nature wherein her whole workeman-ship is abridg'd where you may see Earth-kindled into fier the fire breath out an exhalation which entring in at the mouth walkes through the Regions of a mans brayne driues out all ill Vapours but it selfe downe all bad Humors by the mouth which in time might breed a Scabbe ouer the whole body if already they haue not a plant of singular vse for on the one side Nature being an Enemie to Vacuitie and emptines and on the other there beeing so many empty braines in the World as there are how shall Natures course be continued How shall thiese empty braines be filled but with ayre Natures immediate instrument to that purpose If with ayre what so proper as your fume what fume so healthfull as your perfume what perfume so soueraigne as Tabacco Besides the excellent edge it giues a mans wit as they can best iudge that haue beene present at a feast of Tobacco where commonly all good witts are consorted what varietie of discourse it begetts What sparkes of wit it yeelds it is a world to heare as likewise to the courage of a man for if it be true that Iohannes de sauo et sauo et writes that hee that drinkes Veriuice pisseth vinegere Then it must needs follow to be as true that hoe that eates smoke farts fire for Garlicke I will not say because it is a plant of our owne country but it may cure the diseases of the country but for the diseases of the Court they are out of the Element of Garlick to medicine to conclude as there is no enemy to Tabacco but Garlick so there is no friend to Garlick but a sheeps head and so I conclude PHIL: Well Sir Yf this be but your Naturall vaine I must confesse I knew you not indeede When I made offer to instruct your brayne For the Ambassage and will trust you now If t' were to send you foorth to the great Turke With an Ambassage DOL: But Sir in conclusion T' was orderd for my speach that since Tobacco Had so long bin in vse it should thence foorth Be brought to lawfull vse but limitted thus That none should dare to take it but a gentleman Or he that had some gentlemanly humor The Murr the Head-ach the Cattar the bone ach Or other branches of the sharpe salt Rhewme Fitting a gentleman RHO: Your grace has made choise Of a most simple Lo Ambassador PHI: Well Sir you neede not looke for a commission My hand shall well dispatch you for this busines Take now the place and state of an Ambassador Present our parson and performe our charge And so farewell good Lord Ambassador DOL: Farewell good Duke and GVEAQVIN to thee GVE How now you foole out you presumptious gull D'OL: How now you baggage Sfoote are you so coy To the Dukes parson to his second selfe are you to good dame to enlarge yourselfe Vnto your proper obiect slight t were a good deede GVE What meanes your grace to suffer me abus'd thus PHI: Sweet Loue be pleas'd you do not know this Lord Giue me thy hand my Lord DOL: And giue me thine PHIL: Farewell againe D'OL: Farewell againe to thee PHI: Now go thy ways for an ambassador Exiunt PHIL Gueaque Iero DOL: Now goe thy wayes for a Duke MVG: RHO: Most excellent Lord RHO. Why this was well performd and like a Duke Whose parson you most naturally present D'OL: I told you I would doo 't now I le begin To make the world take notice I am noble The first thing I will doe I le sweare to pay No debts vpon my honor MVG: A good cheape proofe of your Nobilitie D'ol. But if I knew where I might pawne mine honor For some odd thousand Crownes it shal be layd I le pay 't againe when I haue done withall Then t will be expected I shal be of some Religion I must thinke of some for fashion or for faction sake As it becomes great personages to doe I le thinke vpon 't betwixt this and the day Rho. Well sayd my Lord this Lordship of yours wil worke a mighty alteration in you do you not feele it begins to worke alreadie D'ol. Fayth onely in this it makes mee thinke how they