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SNUFF AND SNUFF-BOXES. 



a few affected airs." Tom Brown, in his Letters from 

 the Dead to the Living, speaks of " a flaming beau of 

 the first magnitude," whose long lace cravat, reaching 

 clown to his waist, " was most agreeably discoloured 

 with snuff from top to bottom." In Congreve's Love 

 for Love, Mr. Tattle commences his advances to Miss 

 Prue by the present of a snuff-box ; and she exclaims 

 joyously, "Look you here what Mr. Tattle has given 

 me ! Look you here, cousin, here's a snuff-box ; nay, 

 there's snuff in't : here, will you have any ? Oh, good ! 

 how sweet it is ! " In the Pleasant and Comical 

 History of Scaramouch (1698), is given an amusing 

 account of his shifts for a living (afterwards made the 

 subject of a paper in the Spec- 

 tator), one of which consisted 

 in obtaining large handfuls of 

 snuff from the boxes of friends 

 who " obliged him with a 

 pinch." Among the varieties 

 of snuff named, is Orangery, 

 Neroly, Bergamota, and Jassa- 

 mena; which when he resold 

 to the dealers, was necessarily 

 mixed and called "snuff of 

 millefieurs." To take snuff and 

 offer a box gracefully was one 

 part of a beau's education. 

 There is a curious wood-cut 

 of a full blown exquisite thus employed, on the title- 

 page of a rare pamphlet of four leaves, published in 



