TOBACCO LEAVES 



If you to pledge his health denie 



Out comes his poinard there you lie. 



If his Tobacco you dispraise, 



He swears a stabbe shall end your daies." 



The author then continues to threaten all 

 classes, dagger in hand. In another pam- 

 phlet by the same writer, published a few 

 years later, he assumes a more peaceful 

 attitude. It is a satire called " A Whole 

 Crew of Kind Gossips, All Met to be 

 Merry," and in it he shows up the man- 

 ners of the time by imaginary crimina- 

 tions and recriminations between six hus- 

 bands and their wives. " Good tobacco, 

 sweet and strong," is spoken of as one of 

 the allurements to public resorts. Perhaps 

 the husbands did not dare or care to smoke 

 in the home then, and that was the cause 

 of the trouble. How times have changed; 

 tobacco has come to its own in these regen- 

 erate days. 



73 



