William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.
A Religious Use of Taking TobaccoRobert Wisdome (d. 1568)
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Green at morn, cut down at night;
Shows thy decay; all flesh is hay:
Thus think, then drink Tobacco.
Think thou behold’st the vanity
Of worldly stuff; gone with a puff:
Thus think, then drink Tobacco.
May serve to put thee still in mind,
That unto dust return thou must:
Thus think, then drink Tobacco.