This is from An Elizabethan Song Book, ed. Noah Greenberg, Doubleday 1955). James I, called by Henry IV of France “the wisest fool in Christendom,” once wrote a treatise decrying the “stinking subfumigation” of tobacco.
Tobacco, tobacco Sing sweetly for tobacco Tobacco is like love Oh love it For you see I will prove it Love maketh lean the fat man's tumor So doth tobacco Love still dries up the wanton humor So doth tobacco Love makes men sail from shore to shore So doth tobacco Tis fond love often makes men poor So doth tobacco Love makes men scorn all coward fears So doth tobacco Love often sets men by the ears So doth tobacco Tobacco, tobacco Sing sweetly for tobacco Tobacco is like love Oh love it For you see I have proved it