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Quotation from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
“but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul”
The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. 2, Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subs. 1 (Purging Simples upward) (Project Gutenberg #10800 (modernized text checked against 1638))
The second half of the tobacco passage, turning praise into condemnation of habitual use.
Citation: "but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul" — Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. 2, Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subs. 1 (Purging Simples upward) (Project Gutenberg #10800 (modernized text checked against 1638)). (id the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q12)
Portrait: Robert Burton by Gilbert Jackson, Gilbert Jackson, Public domain.
