54 TOBACCO IN EUEOPE. 



in St. Paul's, at that time the fashionable promenade 

 of the gallants of the day, and offering instruction in 

 these words : — " If this City, or the 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 enter- 

 tain the most gentlemanlike 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 

 ebolition, Euripus t and Whiffe, 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. Stet, qiueso, 

 candide lector.''' The highflown style and ridiculous 

 asseverations of the virtues of " the most divine herb," 



* Terms used in hunting to denote the ages of bucks. 



"t Euripus, a term for a particular mode of smoking ; in what its 

 peculiarity consisted it is not easy now to determine ; the name appears to 

 be derived from the narrow and rapid strait between the island of Eubcea 

 and the continent, proverbial for its flux and reflux ; hence it may perhaps 

 mean a rapid inhaling and emitting of the smoke. The Germans still 

 practise many quaint modes of emitting tobacco-smoke ; one accomplish- 

 ment of this kind consists in breathing it gently forth till it forms a ring, 

 and before it loses that form, sending another ring at right angles through 

 it. (See quotation from Dekker, p. 56.) The Studenten of the Universities 

 devote some time to acquiring the power of such feats. 



