tobacco. :):)i) 



the people whatfwoonders, visions, or illu- 

 sions they haue seene, and so giue them a 

 propheticall direction of foretelling (if we 

 may trust the diuell) of the successe of their 

 business/' 



Tobacco was brought to England by Sir 

 Francis Drake, in 1570, who that year made 

 his first expedition against the Spaniards in 

 South America. Lobel informs us, that it 

 had been cultivated in this kingdom pre- 

 viously to that date. Sir Walter Raleigh 

 brought the Virginia tobacco to this country 

 about the year 1586, and it is related that he 

 was the first who brought tobacco into re- 

 pute ; but, by the caution he took in smok- 

 ing it privately, it appears he did not intend 

 that it should be copied. But sitting one 

 day in a deep meditation, with a pipe in his 

 mouth, he inadvertently called to his man to 

 bring him a tankard of small ale : the fellow 

 coming into the room, threw all the liquor in 

 his master's face, and running down stairs, 

 bawled out " Fire ! help! Sir Walter has 

 studied till his head 's on fire, and the smoke 

 bursts out of his mouth and nose." After 

 this, Sir Walter made it no secret, and took 

 two pipes just before he went to be beheaded. 



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