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The Anatomy of Tobacco
Note, then, that in this synopsis the subdivisions of I and D are marked with other significant letters; and for the better remembering the whole division, the following hexameters are much to the purpose:—
Q Tabacum teneat: des U Calamosque cigarris,
Et Tubulos: ac I solum Rot continet omne:
Ultima Bosh teneat, quæ D dicatur; et usque
Dum spiro fumem, recubans sub tegmine fagi.[1]
Et Tubulos: ac I solum Rot continet omne:
Ultima Bosh teneat, quæ D dicatur; et usque
Dum spiro fumem, recubans sub tegmine fagi.[1]
And by this synopsis we ascertain the exact signification of the four categories.
- ↑ Concerning these notable lines much dispute hath arisen, and especially as to the last. For Sabrinus Corollarius conjectures from the last half thereof that the author must have had access to Vergilius' waste-paper basket, while Bibliothecarius Classicus denies that Vergilius had a waste-paper basket at all, and holds the writer to have been one of the brilliant circle of poets and philosophers who gathered round the famous Pomposus de Bretoburcus, citing as a proof the expression, "dum spiro fumem," which he compares to the fragment "dum spiro, spero," universally attributed to Bretoburcus. The purpose and intent of the line after the D hath also been the subject of much strife, some assigning to the letter a mystical and cabalistic meaning, and identifying it with that D which, according to Gilbertus, it was not lawful for seamen to utter. But on this see the Orphic poem of Gilbertus, called D. M. S. Pinaphoria.
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