102 TOBACCO SELLING. 
Blount in a volume “ Micro-Cosmographie; Or A Piece of 
of the World discovered; in Essays and Characters” (1628), 
“ A tobacco seller is the only man that finds good in it 
which others brag of, but doe not, for it is meate, drinke, and 
clothes to him. No man opens his ware with greater serious- 
ness, or challenges your judgment more in the operation. His 
Shop is the Randenvous of spitting, where men dialogue with 
their noses, and their conversation is smoke. It is the place 
only where Spain is commended, and preferred before Eng- 
land itself. 
“He should be well experienced in the World; for he has 
daily tryall as men’s nostrils, and none is better acquainted 
with humour. His is the piecing commonly of some other 
trade, which is bawd to his Tobacco, and that to his wife, 
which is the flame that follows the smoke.” 
_ Early in the Seventeenth Century began the persecution by 
royal haters of the plant, others, however, had denounced’ 
the weed and its use and users, but venting nothing more 
than a tirade of words against it, had, but little effect in 
breaking up the trade or the custom.* James I. sent forth 
his famous “Counterblast ” and in the strongest manner con- 
demned its use. A portion of it reads thus: 
“Surely smoke becomes a kitchen fane better than a dining 
chamber: and yet it makes a kitchen oftentimes in the 
inward parts of men, soyling and injecting with an unctuous 
oyly kind of roote as hath been found in some great tobacco 
takers, that after death were opened. A custom loathsome 
to the eye, harmful to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and 
the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the 
horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.” + 
Quaint old Burton in his “Anatomy of Melancholy,” 
recognizes the virtues of the plant while he anathematizes its 
abuse. He says :— 
“Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes 
far beyond all their panacetas, potable gold, and philosophers’ 
stones, a soveraign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I 
* Elizabeth during her reign, published an edict against its use, assigning as a reason 
Poa Parpeupsects, by employing the same luxuries as barbarians, were iiely" to degenerate 
“From the first introduction of the weed, the votartes of the pipe have enjoyed all the 
Diceeines of persecution. Kings have punished, priests have Te Here Fae > Satirists 
bal rized and women scolded; but still the weed, with its divers shapes and different names, 
ee othaw me. mong narcotics in every region of the globe."—Emerson's Magactne. 
ist not ler writer in the same censorious manner says of the use of tobacco. ‘Smoking 
Pagan Wrestiviias Muster att oot pearaers.and the grand entertainment of idolatrous 
as Use it can hardly find Muinteneee foeue ie use of it to their servants or slaves and suc! 
