[41] B.-G. xi. (2) p. 3.
[42] This and the two following exist in MS. at Berlin.
[43] B.-G. xx. (2) p. 3. It was revived for a royal anniversary in 1736 or 1737.
[44] Cp. below, p. 106.
[45] The Edifying Reflexions of a Tobacco-smoker are printed by C. H. Bitter in his Life of Bach, vol. i. pp. 124 f. (Berlin, 1865), and the music added in facsimile at the end. The words recall entirely the old English song, Tobacco’s but an Indian weed, of Tom d’Urfey’s Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1699, or Wither’s delicious verses, with the refrain Thus think and drink tobacco, of which d’Urfey’s are a réchauffé. But the English has not the analogy of the pipe and the human soul carried into such detail as Bach’s text; witness the lines:—
Wie oft geschieht’s nicht bei dem Rauchen,
Dass, wenn der Stopfer nicht zu Hand,
Man pflegt den Finger zu gebrauchen?
Dann denk’ ich, wenn ich mich verbrannt,
O macht die Kohle solche Pein;