the ends of them on fire,
and sucked in as much of the smoak as they could."]

"In a pleasant room of Durham House, in the Strand,--a room
overhanging a lovely garden, with the river, the old bridge,
the towers of Lambeth Palace, and the flags of Paris Garden
and the Globe in view,--three men may have often met and
smoked a pipe in the days of Good Queen Bess, who are dear
to all readers of English blood; because, in the first
place, they were the highest types of our race in genius and
in daring; in the second place because the work of their
hands has shaped the whole after-life of their countrymen in
every sphere of enterprise and thought. That splendid Durham
House, in which the nine-days queen had been married to
Guilford Dudley, and which had afterwards been the
town-house of Elizabeth, belonged to Sir Walter Raleigh, by
whom it was held on leave from the queen. Raleigh, a friend
of William Shakespeare and the players, was also a friend of
Francis Bacon and the philosophers. Raleigh is said to have
founded the Mermaid Club; and it is certain that he numbered
friends among the poets and players. The proofs of his
having known Shakespeare, though indirect, are strong. Of
his long intercourse with Bacon every one is aware. Thus it
requires no effort of the fancy to picture these three men
as lounging in a window of Durham House, puffing the new
Indian weed from silver bowls, discussing the highest themes
in poetry and science, while gazing on the flower-beds and
the river, the darting barges of dames and cavalier, and the
distant pavilions of Paris Garden and the Globe."

Its use by so distinguished a person as Raleigh was equivalent to its
general introduction.[36] Aubrey says:

[Footnote 36: So common was the indulgence that in 1600,
only seventeen years after Sir Francis Drake returned
from America, and set the example of using tobacco, the
French Embassador writes in his dispatches to Paris,
that the peers, while engaged in the trials of Essex and
Southampton, deliberated upon their verdicts with pipes
in their mouths!]

"He was the first that brought tobacco into England, and
into fashion. In our part--Malmsbury Hundred--it came first
into fashion by Sir