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their scent : — besides yours is made of the leaves of 

 the tobacco. 



" Wild. Why, what the devil's yours ? 



" ill? - . F. Mine, Sir, is right Palillio, made of the 

 fibres, the spirituous part of the plant ; there's not a 

 pinch of it out of my box in England ; 'twas made, I 

 assure you, to the palate of his most Catholick Majesty, 

 and sent me by a great Don of Spain, that's in his 

 Prince's particular pleasure." 



Dryden used to frequent Will's Coffee-house in 

 Bow street, Covent Garden ; and it hence became the 

 great resort of the wits of his time. Ned Ward 

 relates, in his London Spy, that " a parcel of raw, 

 second-rate beaux and wits, were conceited if they had 

 but the honour to dip a finger and thumb into Mr. 

 Dryden's snuff-box." 



In the Cornish Comedy (1G96), mention is made of 

 " a gay modish spark, with a long beau peruke, and 

 gawdy snuff-box." 



In Oldham's Poems (1682), a hanger-on of a foolish 

 nobleman is satirised : 



" There's nought so mean can 'scape the flattering sot, 

 Not his lord's suuff-box, nor his powder pot." 



Misson, in his Travels in England, 1097 (already 

 quoted for his account of the use of tobacco), speaks of 

 the beaux who frequented our public places. He de- 

 scribes them somewhat contemptuously as " creatures, 

 compounded of a periwig, and a coat laden with powder 

 as white as a miller's, a face besmeared with snuff, and 



