112 TOBACCO IN EUROPE. 



wife, in Marston's comedy, The Dutch Courtezan, 

 1605, preparing for the entertainment of her friends, 

 sa}^s to her servants, " Perfume this parlor, it does so 

 smell of prophane tohacco. I could never endure this 

 ungodly tobacco, since one of our elders assured me 

 upon his knowledge, tobacco was not used in the con- 

 gregation of the family of Love " (a religious sect then 

 notorious). Hutton, in his Follies Anatomie, 1611, 

 speaks of a puritan who — 



' { Abhorres a sattin suit, a velvet cloak, 

 And sayes tobacco is the devill's smoke." 



Penn, the Quaker, disliked tobacco. Clarkson, in 

 his Life of him, records this, and says, that while in 

 America he was often annoyed by it, but here submitted 

 in good humour. Once, on his way to Pensburg, he 

 stopped at Burlington to see old friends, who happened 

 to be smoking ; knowing his dislike, they concealed 

 their pipes. Perceiving, from the smell when he 

 entered the room, that they had been smoking, and 

 discovering that the pipes had been hid, he said 

 pleasantly, " Well, friends, I am glad that you are at 

 last ashamed of your old practice." "Not entirely 

 so," replied Samuel Jennings, one of the company; 

 " but we preferred laying down our pipes to the clanger 

 of offending a weak brother." 



The old colonists who planted tobacco were equally 

 severe against Quakers. Thus, in what are termed the 

 "Blue Laws" of old Virginia, 1663, we find it enacted: 

 " Every master of a ship or vessel, that shall bring in 



