174 THE DEVIL AND TOBACCO. 
of the Elizabethan age. It contains many references to 
tobacco. In ‘Act IV., Scene ist,’ the characters are thus 
placed: ‘Sir Rodericke and Prodigo at one corner of the 
stage, Recorder and Amaretto at the other. Two pages 
scouring of Tobacco pipes.’ Actual smoking from tobacco- 
pipes was introduced on the stage afterwards ; and instances 
from the early dramas have been given by the writers on 
tobacco history. In the second scene of Act III. smoking is 
alluded to as one of the marks of the current inan of fashion, 
and is coupled with that of wearing love-locks, which was to 
prove such a scandal to the Puritans. ‘He gins to follow 
fashions. He wore thin sireduelt in a smooky roofe, must 
take tobacco and must weare a locke.’ ‘Work for Chimney 
Sweepers, or a Warning against Tobacconists, by J. H.,’ was 
published in quarto in the year 1602. 
“Tt was answered in the same year by the anonymous 
‘Defence of Tobacco, a quarto of seventy pages. The 
author of the attack followed the line of King James, or, I 
should rather say, showed him the line to take, for the 
King’s ‘Counterblast’ did not appear until he had been King 
of England for some years. The book is divided into sec- 
tions, each section being called ‘A Reason.’ The seventh 
‘Reason’ against the use of tobacco is, that the devil is the 
discoverer and suggester of smoking. ‘It was first used and 
practised,’ says J. H., ‘by devils, priests, and, therefore, not 
to be used by us Christians. That the devil was the first 
author hereof. Monardus, in his ‘ Treatise of Tabaco,’ dooth 
sufficiently witnesse, saying: The Indian priests, who, no 
: doubt, were instruments of the devil, whom they serve, even 
before they answer to questions propounded to them by their 
princes, drinke of this tobacco-fume, with the vigour and 
strength whereof they fall suddenly to the ground as dead 
men, remaining so according to the quantity of smoke that 
they had taken. And when the hearbe hath done his worke, 
they revive and wake, giving answers according to the vissions 
and illusions which they saw while they were wrapt in that 
order. It is not unlikely that J. H.’s authority had con- 
fused opium with tobacco. 
“It was the opinion of the age that every Pagan deity had 
a real existence in the world of evil spirits. fter further 
quotations of Monardus, to prove that the devil is ‘the 
author of Tobacco, and of the knowledge thereof,’ J. H. 
concludes his seventh reason by declaring, ‘Wherefore in 
mine opinion this practice is more to be excluded of us 
