114 TOBACCO IN EUROPE. 



increased consumption in England: — "It is like Elias' 

 cloud, which was no bigger than a man's hand, that 

 hath suddenly covered the face of the earth ; the low 

 countries, Germany, Poland, Arabia, Persia, Turkey, 

 almost all countries, drive a trade of it ; and there is 

 no commodity that hath advanced so many from small 

 fortunes to gain great estates in the world. 



" Seamen will be supplied with it for their long 

 voyages. Soldiers cannot (but) want it when they keep 

 guard all night, or upon other hard duties in cold and 

 tempestuous weather. Farmers, ploughmen, porters, 

 and almost all labouring men plead for it, saying they 

 find great refreshment by it, and very many would as 

 soon part with their necessary food as they would be 

 totally deprived of the use of tobacco." 



" Scholars use it much, and many grave and great 

 men take tobacco to make them more serviceable in 

 their callings. Tobacco is grown to be not only the 

 ' physick, but even the meat and drink of many men, 

 women, and children. In a word, it hath prevailed so 

 far, that there is no living without it. 



" If we reflect upon our forefathers, and that within 

 the time of less than one hundred years, before the 

 use of tobacco came to be known amongst us, we 

 cannot but wonder how they did to subsist without 

 it: for were the planting or trafnck of tobacco now 

 hindered, millions of this nation in all probability 

 must perish for the want of food, their whole liveli- 

 hood almost depending upon it. So many druggists, 

 grocers, tobacco -shops, taverns, inns, alehouses,, vie- 



