TOBACCO ON THE STAGE. 175 
Christians, who follow Veritie and Truth, and detest and 
abhor the devil as a lyar and deceiver of mankind” In the 
first year of this century, pipes were not only exhibited, but 
were used upon the stage. They seem at first to have been 
smoked, not during ‘the induction.’ In the induction to 
Ben Jonson’s ‘Cynthia’s Revels’ (1601), the Third Child 
‘says: ‘Now, sir, suppose I am one of your genteel auditors, 
that am come in, having paid my money at the door, with 
much ado; and here take my place, and sit down, I have my 
three sorts of tobacco in my pocket, my light by me, and 
thus I begin’ The Third Child thereupon smokes; but it 
seems as if the smoking on the stage was a kind of protest 
against a prior smoking in the pit. In John Webster’s 
‘Malcontent,’ as augmented by John Marston in 1604, Sly 
says in the introduction: ‘Come, coose, (coz or goose!) let’s 
take some tobacco.’ 
“In ‘The Puritan, or the Widow of Watling Street, 
published in 1607, and attributed by some to Shakespeare, 
tobacco-taking or tobacco-drinking (as smoking was then 
usually called) appears no longer in the induction, but in the 
play itself, Idle, the highwayman, says to the old soldier, 
Skirmish, ‘Have you any tobacco about you? Idle being 
supplied, smokes a pipe on the stage. These extracts, how- 
ever, may have been cited before, together with others of 
like character in the great days of the English Drama, 
Pipes continued to appear upon the stage until its abolition 
{in company with the Prayer Book) by the Puritan rulers. 
They reappeared on the stage of the Restoration. In 
Thomas Shadwell’s ‘ Virtuos’ (1676),—to take one instance,— 
Mirando and Clarinda fling away Snarl’s cane, hat and _peri- 
wig, and break his pipes, because he ‘takes nasty tobacco 
before ladies.’” 
There is printed evidence, however, in this same period to 
show not only that all the English ladies of the time were 
not enemies to tobacco, but that some of them were them- 
selves smokers. In 1674 an anonymous quarto appeared 
under the title of “The Women’s Petition against Coffee.” 
It was a protest against the growing influence of the coffee- 
houses in seducing men away from their homes to sit together 
making mischief and drinking “this boiled soot.” It was 
-answered in the same year by “The Men’s Answer to the 
Women’s Petition.” After speaking of the providential 
