But had tobacco then been known,
Its burning juices swallow’d down,
Had prov’d a fitter sentence.
How callous are the lab’rers jaws,
Who this dire weed both smokes and chaws,
And feasts upon the venom!
While I by chance a taste once got,
That so inflam’d my mouth and throat,
I thought all hell was in ’em.
Sure, this vile drug, that serv’d me thus,