Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—I

Indian Drug

(The). Tobacco.

His breath compounded of strong English beere,
And th' Indian drug, would suffer none come neere.

Taylor, the Water Poet (1630).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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