Second Part of Merry Drollery, 1661.
[Page 22 [235].] You that in love, &c.
A different version of this same song, only half its length, in four-line stanzas, had appeared in J. Cotgrave’s Wit’s Interpreter, 1655, p. 124. It is also in the 1671 edition, p. 229; and in Wit and Drollery, 1682 edit., 287, entitled “The Tobacconist.” We prefer the briefer version, although bound to print the longer one; bad enough, but not nearly so gross as another On Tobacco, in Jovial Drollery, 1656, beginning “When I do smoak my nose with a pipe of Tobacco.”
In the Collection of Songs by the Wits of the Age, appended to Le Prince d’Amour, 1660, (but on broadsheet, 1641) we find the following far-superior lyric on
TOBACCO.
To feed on Flesh is Gluttony,
It maketh men fat like swine.
But is not he a frugal Man
That on a leaf can dine!
He needs no linnen for to foul,