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indulged in by these needy professors, who dogged the 

 steps of every silly young country gentleman, are well 

 depicted in the same author's Captain Bobadil. 



Lodge, in his Wit's Miserie, and the World's 

 Madnesse (1596), speaking of "another devil of this 

 age Adulation " and his subserviency, says, " This 

 Damocles amongst the' retinue carries alwaies the 

 tabacco-pipe," and is the toady to silly young gal- 

 lants. 



In Every Man out of his Humour (1599), the author 

 notes one gallant who takes lessons in smoking in a 

 hired chamber at an ordinary, " private to practise in." 

 " There we might see Sogliardo sit in a chair holding 

 his snout like a sow under an apple-tree, while the 

 other open'd his nostrils with a poking-stick, to give 

 the smoke a more free delivery." 



Samuel Rowlands, in his Paire of Spy-knaves (circa 

 1G10), has a tale how a countryman was cheated in 

 a London tavern, by a knave who pretended to teach 

 him smoking. 



' ' I'll teach thee (do observe mee heere) 



To take tobacco like a cavalier ; 



Thus draw the vapour through your nose, and say, 



Puffe, it is gone, fuming the smoke away." 



Dekker, in that very curious picture of manners, The 

 Gull's Horn-book (1602), thus narrates the approved 

 fashion among smokers in his day : — " Before the meat 

 come smoking to the board, our gallant must draw out 

 his tobacco-box, the ladle for the cold snuff into the 

 nostril, the tongs, and priming-iron ; all which artillery 



