316 SHAKESPEARE'S [TOBACCO. 



THE SECOND BILL : If this city or suburbs of the same 

 do afford any young gentleman of the first, second or third 

 head, more or less, whose friends are but lately deceased, 

 and whose lands are but new come into his hands, that (to 

 be as exactly qualified as the best of our ordinary gallants 

 are) is affected to entertain the most gentleman-like use of 

 Tobacco : as first, to give it the most exquisite perfume : 

 then, to know all the delicate sweet forms for the assumption 

 of it : as also the rare corollary and practice of the Cuban 

 ebullition, Euripus and whiff; which he shall receive, or 

 take in here at London, and evaporate at Uxbridge, or 

 farther, if it please him If there be any such generous 

 spirit, that is truly enamoured of these good faculties- 

 may it please him but by a note of his hand to specify 

 the place or Ordinary, where he uses to eat and lie, and 

 most sweet attendance with Tobacco and pipes of the best 

 sort shall be ministered. 



Ben Jonson, " Every Man out of his Humour," iii. 3. 

 Cf. " Return from Parnassus," iv. i, and " Lingua," iv. 



IN what Tobacco-shop in Fleet Street he takes a pipe 

 of smoke in the afternoon. 



Dekker, " Lanthorn and Candle-light." 



YOUR pipe bears the true form of a woodcock's head. 



" Every Man out of his Humour," iii. 9. 



HERE'S a clean gentleman to receive. 



" The Puritan," i. 4. 



Scattergood: Please you to impart your smoke? 



Longfield: Very willingly, sir. 



Scattergood: In good faith, a pipe of excellent vapour. 



^Greene, " Tu Quoque " (by John Cooke). 



[See Skeltorfs " Ellinor Rumming." 



Sixty thousand pounds' worth of tobacco was brought into 

 England in 1610, according to Harcourt's " Description of 

 Guiana."] 



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