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SNUFF AND SNUFF-BOXES. 



a few affected airs." Tom Brown, in his Letters from 

 the Dead to the Living, speaks of " a flaming beau of 

 the first magnitude," whose long lace cravat, reaching 

 down to his waist, "was most agreeably discoloured 

 with snuff from top to bottom." In Congreve's Love 

 for Love, Mr. Tattle commences his advances to Miss 

 Price by the present of a snuff-box ; and she exclaims 

 joyously, "Look you here what Mr. Tattle has given 

 me ! Look you here, cousin, here's a snuff-box ; nay, 

 there's snuff in't : here, will you have any ? Oh, good ! 

 how sweet it is ! " In the Pleasant and Comical 

 History of Scaramouch (1698), is given an amusing 

 account of his shifts for a living (afterwards made the 

 subject of a paper in the Spec- 

 tator), one of which consisted 

 in obtaining large hanclfuls of 

 snuff from the boxes of friends 

 who " obliged him with a 

 pinch." Among the varieties 

 of snuff named, is Orangery, 

 Neroly, Bergamota, and Jassa- 

 mena; which when he resold 

 to the dealers, was necessarily 

 mixed and called " snuff of 

 millefleurs." To take snuff and 

 offer a box gracefully was one 

 part of a beau's education. 

 There is a curious wood- cut 

 of a full blown exquisite thus employed, on the title- 

 page of a rare pamphlet of four leaves, published in 



