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where gallants were accommodated with stools to sit 

 during the play at an increased charge, is alluded to by 

 Cokes in Ben Jonson's admirable play, Bartholomew 

 Fair. He has gone into a booth to see a puppet-play, 

 and asks of the master, "Ha' you none of your pretty 

 impudent boys, now ; to bring stooles, fill Tobacco, 

 fetch ale, and beg money as they have at other 

 houses ? " The inconvenience occasionally felt by the 

 female part of the audience is demonstrated by the 

 Grocer's wife in Beaumont and Fletcher's Knight of the 

 Burning Pestle, who taking her seat on the stage, 

 exclaims, " Fie ! this stinking tobacco kils men ; would 

 there were none in England : now I pray, gentlemen, 

 what good does this stinking tobacco ? — doe you 

 nothing ? — I warrant you make chimnies of your 

 faces ! " * Collier, in his Annals of the Stage, notes f 

 that one of the boy-actors in the induction to Cynthia's 

 Revels, imitating a gallant supposed to be sitting on 

 the stage, speaks of having his "three sorts of tobacco 

 in his .pocket, and his light by him." Dekker in 1609 

 tells his gallant to " get his match lighted ; " and in the 

 Scornful Lady (1616) Captains of gally-foists are ridi- 

 culed, who only "wear swords to reach fire at a play," 

 for the purpose of lighting their pipes. Hutton, in his 



* This idea seems to have been taken from a tirade against tobacco 

 smoking, entitled WorJce for Chimney Sweepers, which Gardiner, in his 

 Triall of Tobacco, says the author was " commanded or compelled to 

 write " (probably by James the First, who afterwards took pen in hand 

 himself) ; it was answered in 1602 by A Defence of Tobacco, in which 

 the author shows that his opponent has injured his own cause, by his 

 desire to prove too much — a not uncommon case ! 



t Vol. iii. p. 416. 



