CONTENTS XY 



Joshua Sylvester sends a ' volley of holy shot ' against 

 the ' idolatrous weed ' Samuel Rowland's ' Knave of 

 Clubbs,' a humorous satire on tobacco-smoking Eastern 

 potentates' treatment of smokers of the Prankish novelty 

 Russian atrocities inflicted on users of the weed 

 Foreign Governments begin to see in it an easy means of 

 augmenting revenue Peter the Great invites English 

 tobacco merchants to Moscow in order to establish a 

 factory there for the manufacture of tobacco Queen 

 Anne in Council disapproves of the scheme, and orders 

 our Envoy to destroy the works and return the 

 workmen to their homes. 



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SOCIAL GOSSIP ABOUT THE WEED 



GEORGE WITHER'S song on tobacco-smoking Undergoes 

 numerous alterations by later writers Mr. Chappell, 

 through Mr. Payne Collier, traces the original song to 

 Wither Bishop Fletcher succumbs to over-indulgence in 

 the pipe Rev. W. Bredon resorts to the hemp cut off 

 the ends of the church bell-ropes as a substitute for 

 tobacco Raleigh carries the novelty to Court and makes 

 smoking popular Merriment in the city over the 

 ' tobacconists ' Ben Jonson's mention of smoking 

 ' Every Man out of his Humour ' ' The Gipsies Meta- 

 morphosed ' ' Bartholomew Faire ' Dekker's ' Gull's 

 Horn Book ' His ' Satiromastix ' Women smokers 

 The daughters of Louis XIV. smoke in their private 

 apartments England's paper warfare over the merits or 

 demerits of the weed Joshua Sylvester supports the 

 King's ' Counterblaste ' Heavy duty on tobacco and its 

 ruinous cost to the consumer Peter Campbell's will 

 Sir Edwin Sandys on the sum paid for tobacco received 

 from Spain Dr. Everard on the ' Wonderful Vertues of 

 Tobacco taken in a Pipe ' Dr. Barclay's Nepenthes 

 De Rochefort tells of smoking in rural England 

 Mentions the case of a Spaniard using a bit of the cable 



