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satirical Notes from Blachfriars (1617), speaks of a 

 " spruce coxcomb : " — 



" That never walkes without his looking-glass, 

 In a tobacco-box or diall set, 

 That he may privately conferre with it." 



There is a good satirical description of the smoker 

 and his paraphernalia, in The Man in the Moone, 

 1609, (a pamphlet levelled at the fashionable follies of 

 the day) in which one person questions another as to 

 who one of the company present may be, and he is 

 answered; "I know not certainly, but I think he cometh 

 to play you a fit of mirth, for I behelde pipes in his 

 pocket ; now he draweth forth his tinder-box and his 

 touchwood, and falleth to his tacklings : sure his 

 throate is on fire, the smoke flyeth so fast from his 

 mouth ; blesse his beard with a bason of water, lest he 

 burn it : some terrible thing he taketh, it maketh him 

 pant and look pale, and hath an odious taste, he 

 spitteth so after it." 



The pedlar, in his song given in the Duke of New- 

 castle's play, The Triumphant Widow (1677), enume- 

 rates pipes and tobacco-boxes among his wares ; and a 

 silver tobacco-box of thirty shillings value is mentioned 

 in an inventory of the time of James II. ; as well as 

 a tobacco-box of tortoise-shell. 



The old tobacco-box was generally capacious, and 

 made for the pipe as well, which was laid in one 

 compartment of the interior. Such large brass boxes 

 were generally carried by sailors, particularly Dutch 



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