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TOBACCO. 
but straight they must in hand with tobacco ; yea, the mislresse 
cannot in more mannerly kind entertaine her servant than by giving 
him out of her faiie hand a pipe, of tobacco — ** a w'eed,” he adds, 
“ the smoking whereof is loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, 
harmful to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the blacke 
stinking fume thereof nearest resembles the Stigian smoke of the pit 
that is bottomlesse.” 
He is still more bitter in his witty apopbthayms, in which he avers 
that tobacco is the lively image and pattern of hell, for that it has by 
allusion in it all the parts and vices of the world, whereby hell may 
be gained. For, first, it is a smoke, so are all the vanities of the 
world. Secondly, it delighteth them that take it ; so do all the 
pleasures of the world* Thirdly, it maketh men drunken and 
light in the head ; so do all the vanities of this world. Fourthly, 
he that taketh tobacco saith he cannot leave it, it doth bewdtch him ; 
even so the pleasures of the w'orld make men loath to leave them : and 
further, besides all this, it is like hell iu the very substance of it ; for 
it is a stinking loathsome thing, and so is hell.” And further his 
majesty professed, that, were he to invite the devil to a dinner, he 
should have three dishes : — first a pig ; second a poll of ling and 
mustard ; and third, a pipe of tobacco for digesture. 
The king’s aversion was adopted by his courtiers as a matter of 
courtesy, who all pretended a great horror of smoking. , The people 
generally, howe-ver, paid no attention to this, or all the other methods 
which were used to discountenance it, and in some respects even car- 
ried it to a greater excess than at present, particularly by smoking 
tobacco in the theatres. Malone, (History of the English Stage,) 
mentioning the custom, in Shakspeare’s time, of spectators being 
allowed to sit on the stage during performances, says, they were 
attended by pages, who furnished them with pipes and tobacco, 
which were smoked there, as well as in other parts of the house : 
“When young Roger goes to see a play. 
His pleasure is, you place him on the stage. 
The better to demonstrate his array, 
And how he sits, attended by his page. 
That only serves to fill those pipes with smoke, 
For which he pawned hath his riding cloak.” 
Springs to Catch Woodcocks , — 1613. 
But Hentzner’s account, at this same period, 1598, which Mr. Ma^ 
lone has omitted to quote, as to the custom mentioned is far more expli- 
cit and amusing. Speaking of the London playhouse then, he says, 
“ Here, and every w here else, the English are constantly smoking of 
tobacco, and in this manner : they have pipes on purpose made of 
clay, into the further end of which they put the herb, so dry that it 
may be rubbed into powder, and, putting fire to it, they draw the 
smoke into their mouths, which they puff out again through their 
nostrils, like funnels, along with it plenty of phlegm and defluxion of 
the bead .” — Paul Henlzner^s Journey into England^ 
Sir Walter Raleigh is well known to have first introduced the use 
of tobacco into England, aud oerson king James hints at. 
