58 TOBACCO IN EUROPE. 



depicts the whole paraphernalia of a smoker, with 

 the roll of Tobacco on the table before him, and the 

 knife and trencher with which he cuts it up for use. 

 This was termed carotte and " Pudding-cane tobacco," 

 by which latter name it is described in Chapman's 

 Comedy, All Fooles, 1605. In the same play, Dariotto 

 says : — " My boy once lighted a pipe of cane Tobacco 

 with a peece of a vile ballad, and I'll sweare I had a 

 singing in my head a whole week after." 



In Field's Amends for Ladies (1618) is a scene with 

 London swaggerers at a wineshop in Turnbull- street 

 where one jestingly asks a silly nobleman, "Will your 

 lordship take any tobacco ? " and another sneeringly 

 remarks " 'Sheart ! he cannot put it through his 

 nose ! " A severe comment on the incapacity of a 

 " fast man " of the days of James I. 



Paul Hentzner, who visited England in 1598, notes 

 the constant custom of smoking at all public places : 

 He visited the Bear Garden in Southwark, and says :• — 

 " At these spectacles, and everywhere else, the English 

 are constantly smoking tobacco, and in this manner; 

 They have pipes on purpose, made of clay, into the 

 farther end of which they put the herb, so dry that 

 it may be rubbed into powder, and putting fire to it, 

 they draw the smoak into their mouths, which they 

 puff out again, through their nostrils, like funnels, 

 along with it plenty of phlegm and defluxion from the 

 head." This was in fact one of the chief " medical 

 virtues " for which the herb was professedly taken. 



The prevalence of tobacco-smoking on the stage, 



