TOBACCO LEAVES 



" Laugh and Lie Downe, or the World's 

 Folly," is a quarto of 1605 A. D., London. 

 This little book describes a fop of the day, 

 and shows how indispensable the pipe had 

 become to complete the outfit of a " man 

 of fashion." 



" The next was a nimble-witted and 

 glib-tongued fellow, who having in his 

 youth spent his wits in the Arte of Love, 

 was now become the jest of wit; but his 

 looks were so demure, his words so in print, 

 his graces so in order, and his conceits so 

 in time, that he was yea iwis (I wis) 

 so was he, such a gentleman for a jester 

 that the Lady Folly could never be better 

 fitted for her entertainment of strangers. 

 The pick-tooth in the mouth, the flower in 

 the eare, the kisse of the hand, the stoupe 

 of the head, the leer of the eye, and what 

 not that was unneedful, but he so perfecte 

 at his fingers endes, that every she was my 

 Faire Ladye, and scarce a Knight but was 



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