every
by-corner round about London."

"A Tobacco seller is described after this manner by Blount in a
volume "Micro-Cosmographie; Or A Piece of the World discovered; in
Essays and Characters" (1628).

"A tobacco seller is the only man that finds good in it
which others brag of, but doe not, for it is meate, drinke,
and clothes to him. No man opens his ware with greater
seriousness, or challenges your judgment more in the
operation. His Shop is the Randenvous of spitting, where men
dialogue with their noses, and their conversation is smoke.
It is the place only where Spain is commended, and preferred
before England itself.

"He should be well experienced in the World; for he has
daily tryall as men's nostrils, and none is better
acquainted with humour. His is the piecing commonly of some
other trade, which is bawd to his Tobacco, and that to his
wife, which is the flame that follows the smoke."

Early in the Seventeenth Century began the persecution by royal haters
of the plant, others, however, had denounced the weed and its use and
users, but venting nothing more than a tirade of words against it, had
but little effect in breaking up the trade or the custom.[44] James I.
sent forth his famous "Counterblast" and in the strongest manner
condemned its use. A portion of it reads thus:

[Footnote 44: Elizabeth during her reign, published an
edict against its use, assigning as a reason, that her
subjects, by employing the same luxuries as barbarians,
were likely to degenerate into barbarism.

"From the first introduction of the weed, the votaries
of the pipe have enjoyed all the blessings of
persecution. Kings have punished, priests have
anathematized, satirists satirized and women scolded;
but still the weed, with its divers shapes and different
names, reigns supreme among narcotics in every region of
the globe."--_Emerson's Magazine._]

"Surely smoke becomes a kitchen fane better than a dining
chamber: and yet it makes a kitchen oftentimes in the inward
parts of men, soyling and injecting with an unctuous oyly
kind of roote as hath been found in some great tobacco
takers, that after death were opened. A custom loathsome to
the eye, harmful to the braine, dangerous