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Fiat. Yes, sir, I am for one pipe of tobacco ; and I per- 

 ceive yours is very good by the smell. 



Pise. The best I can get in London, 1 I assure you. But, 

 sir, now you have thus far complied with my designs, as to 

 take a troublesome journey into an ill country, only to 

 satisfy me ; how long may 1 hope to enjoy you ? 



Fiat. Why truly, sir, as long as I conveniently can ; and 

 longer, I think, you would not have me. 



Pise. Not to your inconvenience by any means, sir, but I 

 see you are weary, and therefore I will presently w T ait on 

 you to your chamber, where take counsel of your pillow, 

 and to-morrow resolve me. Here ! take the lights, and 

 pray follow them, sir. Here you are like to lie : and, now 

 I have showed you your lodgings, I beseech you command 

 any thing you want ; and so I wish you good rest ! 



Fiat. Good night, sir ! 



1 [We have taken leave to doubt, at page 225, that Walton was a 

 smoker. ED.] The reader sees, by this passage, that Piscator, by -whom 

 we are to understand Cotton himself, was so curious as to have his tobacco 

 from London. Smoking was, in queen Elizabeth's and her successor's time, 

 esteemed the greatest of all foppery. Ben Jonson, who mortally hated it, 

 has numberless sarcasms against smoking and smokers ; all which are 

 nothing compared to those contained in that work of our King James the 

 First, ' ' A Counter-blast to Tobacco. " Nor was the ordinary conversation of 

 this monarch less fraught with invectives against that weed, as will appear 

 from the following extract from "A Collection of Witty Apophthegms," 

 delivered by him and others. 12mo, 1671 : "That tobacco was the lively 

 image and pattern of hell ; for that it had, by allusion, in it all the parts 

 and vices of the world whereby hell may be gained ; to wit : First, It was 

 a smoke : so are the vanities of this world. Secondly, It delighteth them 

 who take it : so do the pleasures of the world delight the men of the world. 

 Thirdly, It maketh men drunken and light in the head : so do the vanities 

 of the world, men are drunken therewith. Fourthly, He that taketh tobacco 

 saith he cannot leave it, it doth bewitch him : even so the pleasures of the 

 world make men loath to leave them, they are for the most part so en- 

 chanted with them. And further, besides all this, it is like hell in the 

 very substance of it, for it is a stinking, loathsome thing ; and so is hell. 

 And further, his majesty professed that, were he to invite the devil to 

 dinner, he should have three dishes; 1. A pig; 2. A pole of ling and 

 mustard ; and, 3. A pipe of tobacco for digesture." Sylvester, in proposing 

 its prohibition by a heavy impost on both sellers and buyers, enumerates 

 the descriptions then in use : 



Or at the least impose so deep a tax , 



On all these, ball, leaf, cane, and judding packs. H. 



