On Tobacco: A Branch Of The Sin

I Will Govern According To The Common Weal, But Not According To The Common Will.

Were I Not A King, I Would Be A University Man.

Herein Is Not Only A Great Vanity, But A Great Contempt Of God's Good Gifts, That The Sweetness Of Man's Breath, Being A Good Gift Of God, Should Be Willfully Corrupted By This Stinking Smoke.

God Has Power To Create, Or Destroy, Make, Or Unmake At His Pleasure, To Give Life, Or Send Death, To Judge All, And To Be Judged Nor Accountable To None: To Raise Low Things, And To Make High Things Low At His Pleasure, And To God Are Both Soul And Body Due. And The Like Power Have Kings; They Make And Unmake Their Subjects: They Have Power Of Raising, And Casting Down: Of Life, And Of Death: Judges Over All Their Subjects, And In All Causes, And Yet Accountable To None But God Only.

If I Were Not A King, I Would Be A University Man; And If It Were So That I Must Be A Prisoner, If I Might Have My Wish, I Would Desire To Have No Other Prison Than That Library [the Bodleian].