*  In  the  MS.  Common-place  Booh  of  Thomas  Brampton,  of  Kinton,
Suffolk  [Gough's  Norfolk  MS.,  Bodleian  Lib.  (No.  46)  ],  is  the  following
dog-Latin  recipe,  entitled  "  Mr.  Butlers  true  medycine  for  the  Rewme"  :

Saccio  cum  sugarro,

Nobilis  ala  cum  gingero

Et  nutmeggo  et  tosta  bruno

Bona  phisica  curare  morbum  de  rheumo,

Et  ego  indico,
Melior  est  quam  tobacco.
Fuller,  in  his  Worthies,  styles  Dr.  Butler  the  "Esculapius  of  the  age  ;"
he  was  born  at  Ipswich,  1535,  and  died  at  Cambridge,  1617.  He  was
especially  consulted  in  the  last  illness  of  Prince  Henry,  son  of  James  I.  His
curious  treatment  of  a  confirmed  smoker  is  given  in  a  note  to  our  next
chapter.  Sir  John  Hawkins,  in  his  edition  of  The  Angler,  1784,  says,  "he
invented  a  medicated  drink  called  Dr.  Butler's  Ale,  which,  if  not  now,
was  a  few  years  ago  sold  at  certain  houses  in  London,  that  had  his  head  for
a  sign."


LAUDATORY    SONGS.  99

Tobacco  is  a  Critticke,

That  still  old  paper  turneth,

"Whose  labour  and  care,

Is  as  smoke  in  the  aire,

That  ascends  from  a  rag  when  it  burnetii.
This  makes  me  sing,  &c.
Tobacco's  an  ignis  fatuus
A  fat  and  fyrie  vapour,
That  leads  men  about
Till  the  fire  be  out,
Consuming  like  a  taper.
This  makes  me  sing,  &c.
Tobacco  is  a  Whyffier,

And  cries  'huff  snuff'  with  furie,
His  pipes,  his  club,  and  linke,
He's  the  wiser  that  does  drinke  ;
Thus  armed  I  fear  not  a  furie.
This  makes  me  siug  so  ho,  so  ho,  boyes,
Ho  boyes  sound  I  loudly  ;
Earth  ne're  did  breed
Such  a  jovial  weed,
Whereof  to  boast  so  proudly.
