NOTED SMOKERS, 209 
Shakespeare hated every form of debauchery. The peni- 
tence of Cassio is more prominent than was hisfun. ‘What! 
drunk? and talk fustian and speak parrot, and discourse with 
one’s shadow? Shakespeare held drunkenness in disgust. 
Even Falstaff is more an intellectual man than a sot. What 
actor could play Falstaff after riding forty miles and being 
well thrashed? Yet, when Falstaff sustains the evening at 
the Boar’s Head, he has ridden to Gadshill and back, forty- 
four miles! No palsied sot, he. Hamlet’s disgust at his 
countrymen is well known. ‘Grim death, how foul and 
loathsome is thine image!’ is the comment on the drunken 
Kit Sly. In short, when you look at the smooth, happy, 
half-feminine face of Shakespeare, you see one to whom all 
forms of debauchery were ungenial. A courtier certainly, 
and a lover of money; The king had written against 
Tobacco, and Will Shakespeare set his watch to the time. 
Raleigh and Coliban Jonson might smoke at the Mermaid— 
Will kept his head clear and his doublet sweet. 
“Alfred Tennyson is a persistent smoker of some forty 
years. Dickens, Jerrold and Thackeray all puffed. Lord 
Lytton loves a long pipe 
at night and cigars by day. 
Lord Houghton smokes 
, moderately. ‘The late J. 
M. Kemble, author of 
‘The Seasons in England,’ 
Jn, Wasa tremendous smoker. 
2°) Moore cared not for it; 
¥ indeed, I think that Irish 
gentlemen smoke much 
less than English. Well- 
He ington shunned it; so did 
PS Peel. D’Israeli loved the 
long pipe in his youth, 
but in middle age pro- 
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TENNYSON, SMOKING. LE sage “a 
ing, it is not too much to aver that 99 persons out of 100, 
taken at random, under forty years of age, smoke habitually 
every day of their lives. How many in Melbourne injure 
health and brain, I leave to more skilled and morose critics. 
But my mind misgives me. Paralysis is becoming very 
frequent. : ; 
“J have seen stone pipes from Gambia, shaped like the 
letter U consisting each of one solid flint, hollowed through, 
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