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who is smoking — " Please you to impart your smoke?" 

 To which he replies, "very willingly, Sir." The other, 

 after a whiff or two, exclaims, " In good faith, a pipe of 

 excellent vapour ! " which the donor confirms by 

 declaring it " the best the house yields." To which the 

 other rejoins in some surprise, " Had you it in the 

 house ? I thought it had been your own : 'tis not so 

 good now as I took it for ! " The custom of passing 

 the pipe from one to another is noted in Barnaby 

 Kich's Irish Hubbub (1622), " One pipe of tobacco will 

 suffice three or four men at once," and he adds, that 

 the custom was indulged in by men of all grades. 



Lodge, in his Wit's Miserie, and the World's Mad- 

 nesse (1596), speaks of a foolish fellow, " Who will hug 

 you in his armes, kisse you on the cheeke, and rapping 

 out an horrible oath, crie ' Gods soule, Tom, I love 

 you. You know my poore heart, come to my chamber 

 for a pipe of tobacco ; there lives not a man in this 

 world that I more honour.' " 



Samuel Eowlands, a prolific writer of ephemera in 

 the reign of Elizabeth and James ; and whose works, 

 now exceedingly rare, are chiefly valuable for the 

 pictures they afford of popular manners ; has the 

 following poem on tobacco, which contains four lines 

 still popularly quoted as a vindication of smoking, 

 without knowledge of their antiquity. It occurs in 

 his Knave of Clubbs, 1611. We have marked them 

 with inverted commas : — 



" Who durst dispraise tobacco whilst the smoke is in my nose, 

 Or say, but fah ! my pipe cloth smell ? I would I knew but those 



