his owne Person, and by the due execution of good Lawes, to reform and abolish, piece and piece, these old and euill grounded abuses. For this will not bee_ Opus vnius diei, _but as euery one of these diseases, must from the_ King _receiue the owne cure proper for it, so are there some sorts of abuses in Common-wealths, that though they be of so base and contemptible a condition, as they are too low for the Law to looke on, and too meane for a_ King _to interpone his authoritie, or bend his eye vpon: yet are they corruptions, as well as the greatest of them. So is an Ant an_ Animal, _as well as an Elephant: so is a VVrenne_ Auis, _as well as a Swanne, and so is a small dint of the Toothake, a disease as well as the fearefull Plague is. But for these base sorts of corruption in Common-wealthes, not onely the_ King, _or any inferior Magistrate, but_ Quilibet e populo _may serve to be a Phisician, by discouering and impugning the error, and by perswading reformation thereof._ _And surely in my opinion, there cannot be a more base, and yet hurtfull corruption in a Countrey, then is the vile vse (or other abuse) of taking_ Tobacco _in this Kingdome, which hath moued me, shortly to discouer the abuses thereof in this following little Pamphlet._ _If any thinke it a light Argument, so it is but a toy that is bestowed upon it. And since the Subiect is but of Smoke, I thinke the fume of an idle braine, may serue for a sufficient battery against so fumous and feeble an enemy. If my grounds be found true, it is all I looke for; but if they cary the force of perswasion with them, it is all I can wish, and more than I can expect. My onely care is, that you, my deare Countrey-men, may rightly conceiue euen by this smallest trifle, of the sinceritie of my meaning in great matters, never to spare any_ _paine that may tend to the_ _procuring of your weale_ _and prosperitie._ A COVNTER-BLASTE TO TOBACCO.