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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 245. 



in any form with which I remember to have met, 

 and it certainly suggests that pipes for smoking, 

 as well as the practice of smoking itself, were 

 unknown to both author and translator. The 

 dried leaves of coltsfoot and of other plants, as 

 milfoil or yarrow, are still frequently smoked in 

 the country and generally mixed with tobacco ; 

 the motive for this is not always economy, but 

 sometimes preference, or supposed medical quali- 

 ties. We can easily account for the use of fra- 

 grant herbs, after tobacco had been introduced, 

 and men had learned to like it, from the dearness 

 of it. A list of Rates of Merchandises, printed 

 in 1642, now lies before me, and under the head 

 of Tobacco I observe the following. (The sums 

 are the duties payable) ; — 



" Tobacco vocat. * Spanish, and Brazeil tobacco, or 

 any not English plant, the 1., 3Z." 



There is no doubt that a curious chapter might 

 be written on the history and literature of this 

 subject. Everybody has heard of James I.'s 

 Counterblast to Tobacco, in which he inveighs 

 right royally against a habit already widely and 

 fondly cherished. Pope Urban VIII. (1623 — 

 1644) issued a bull against the use of tobacco in 

 churches. The third Mexican synod, and the 

 third synod of Lima, as well as a synod in the 

 Canary Islands, also expressly condemned it under 

 similar circumstances, as appears from 1\\q Sacerdos 

 Christianus of Abelly (ed. 1737, pp. 562-4.). 

 Jacobus Balde, a Jesuit, the author of sundry 

 Latin poems (cir. 1625), has one (Saiyra 19.) with 

 this title, Medici cujusdam longe clarissimi, Taba- 

 cophilia et fatum. Among the Lusus Westmona- 

 sterienses (ed. 1740, p. 25.) is one with the motto — 



" Disce tubo genitos haurire et reddere fumos." 



Nor are we'^likely to forget the lucubrations on 

 tobacco, appended by the Rev. R. Erskine to his 

 Gospel Sonnets ! To these many additions may 

 be made, especially from prose writers, as Salma- 

 sius, who, in his ludicrous character of the Inde- 

 pendents, given in the Defensio Regia (ed. 1649, 

 p. 354.) amusingly says of their ecclesiastical 

 assemblies : — " Quidam interim, hausti fistula 

 tabaci fumos in angulo revomunt ! " I pass over 



mation. The parfume of the dryed leaves layde upon 

 quicke coles, taken into the mouth through the pipe of 

 a funnell, or tunnell, helpeth suche as are troubled 

 with the shortness of winde, and fetche their breath 

 thicke or often, and do breake without daunger the 

 impostums of the breast. The roote is of the same 

 vertue, if it be layde upon the coles, and the fume 

 thereof received into the mouth." — Ed.] 



" * Note, that this sort of tobacco until the ninth 

 of September, 1642, is to pay after the rate of 2/., and 

 afterwards according to the rate of 3Z. 



" Spanish or Brazeil tobac. in pudding or rouU, 

 the 1., 3Z." 



Alsted, Yoet, &c., to add a remark on the inven- 

 tion of the tobacco-pipe. Some time since a 

 remarkable specimen of miniature size was found 

 under the foundation of a cottage, which bore the 

 date of 1588 on one of its beams. This pipe was 

 probably deposited where it was found, about the 

 date in question. The occurrence of tobacco- 

 pipes under the abbey floor, as mentioned by Mr. 

 Smith, is curious ; but has the floor never been 

 disturbed ? 



My own impression is, that the common account 

 of the introduction of tobacco, and of tobacco- 

 pipes, is correctly traced to the last quarter of the 

 sixteenth century, when the practice of smoking 

 was brought from the Caribbee Islands, where they 

 called, not the weed, but the pipe by the name of 

 tobacco. B. H. C. 



ARCHAIC WORDS. 



(^Continued from Vol. ix., p. 492.) 



Foule, greatly. " Than was Kynge Herode foule 

 astonyed of theyr wordes [the wise men's]." — The 

 Festival, fol. Ixxv. verso, edit. 1528. 



Fraccyon, breaking. The Festival, fol. li. recto. 

 *' Whan he [Odo] was at Masse, and had made the 

 fraccyon, he sawe that blode dropped." 



Fromwarde, returning. The Festival, fol. 1. verso. 

 " All his steppes towarde and fromwarde the holy 

 chyrche his good aungell rekeneth to his salvacyon." 



Halowe, a thing consecrated. " And the halowes of 

 God." — The Festival, fol. cxci. verso. 



Imposytoure, a conferrer. Festival, fol. cxxii. verso. 

 " Specyally the more, yf the imposytoure and gyver of 

 the name have perfyte scyence of the thynge." 



Ineffrenate, lawless. Stubbes, apud Papers of the 

 Shakspeare Society, iv. 82. 



Leprehode, the state of leprosy. The Festival, 

 fol. Ixxvi. verso. " And as soon as he was chrystened, 

 the leprehode fell into the water." 



Lowable, commendable. Caxton's Art of Dying Well, 

 fol. A. iii. verso. " Hope, thenne, is a vertue moche 

 lowable, and of grete mery te before God." 



Maldworp, a worldling? "Ye maken a maldworp 

 stonde there." — Wycliffite versions, Prolog, vol. i. 32. 



Maugre, dislike, enmity. Foxe, Acts and Monu- 

 ments, vii. 452., edit. 1843. (See also Prompt. Parvu- 

 lorum, in voc, at last "let loose from" press.) 



Mighths, weak. " Olde people that ben myghtles," — 

 The Festival, fol. xv, recto, edit. 1528. 



Mowing, mocking. Festival, fol. cxxviii. recto. The 

 devills " stode a ferre of, and sayd mowing, and with a 

 croked coiintenaunce." 



Nosethrylless, in Festival, fol. xcix. verso. 



Outstray, to enlarge. Wycliffite versions, i. 6P. 

 " The epistles streytnes sufFryd not lenger this to ben 

 outstrayed," the Latin of Jerome being evagari, cap.vi. 



Overlargely, fully. Wycliffite version, i- Q^-, later 

 version, cap. vi. 



Payrement, loss. " That in nothing payrement yee 

 suffre of us." — Wycliffe's version, 2 Cor. vii. 9. 



