Nor hath nepenthe so great wonders wrought.

It is tobacco, whose sweet subtle[527] fume

The hellish torment of the teeth doth ease,10

By drawing down and drying up the rheum,

The mother and the nurse of each disease;

It is tobacco, which doth cold expel,

And clears th' obstructions of the arteries,

And surfeits threatening death digesteth well,

Decocting all the stomach's crudities;[528]

It is tobacco, which hath power to clarify