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when you rise, the divine smoke of this celestiall 

 herbe," it will do their complexions most good of any- 

 thing known. His friends jestingly allow its good 

 qualities toward himself, by assuring him that before 

 he took it he "was an arrant ass." He assents, "indeed 

 I was," and adds, " Faith, these gentlemen have not 

 long used my company, yet you see how tobacco hath 

 already refined their spirits." He very gallantly offers 

 to share his pleasure, " Dear Lady, please you take a 

 pipe of tobacco," but he becomes ultimately so trouble- 

 some, that he is " sworne on his owne tobacco-pipe," 

 not to trouble them more ; " you shall never come 

 with your squibs, and smoke squirts, amongst ladies 

 and gentlewomen, flinging out fume at your nostrils, 

 as a whale doth salt water, unlesse you be entreated 

 by them." 



Rossaline in Marston's first part of Antonio and 

 Mellinda (1602), speaks of a courtier as 



" A great tobacco-taker too, that's flat ; 

 For his eyes look as if they had been hung 

 In the smoake of his nose." 



The same lady is asked, in another part of the play, 

 " Faith, mad niece, I wonder when thou wilt marry," 

 to which she replies, "Faith, kind uncle, when men 

 abandon jealousy, forsake taking of tobacco, and cease 

 to wear their beards so rudely long. Oh, to have a 

 husband with a mouth continually smoking, with a 

 bush of furs on the ridge of his chin, readie still 

 to flop into his foaming chaps, 'tis more than most 



