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Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet.

OTHELLO, iv, 2.

MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, i, 1.

That's meat and drink to me.

Weeds wide enough to wrap a fairy in.

MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, ii, 1.

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This Indian weed, now withered quite,
Though green at noon, cut down at night
Shows thy decay-

All flesh is hay:

Thus think and smoke tobacco.

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Friend to the spirits which with vapours bland
It gently mitigates, companion fit

Of pleasantry and wine.

A free school

For the education of young gentlemen,
To study how to drink and take tobacco.

J. Philips.

Randolph, MUSES' LOOKING-GLASS.

Cigars.

Cigars.

The spirit of wine and tobacco walks in your

brain.

Dekker, GULL'S HORNBOOK.

Most sweet attendance with tobacco and pipes of the best sort shall be administered.

Oh! finer far

B. Jonson, EVERY MAN OUT OF HIS HUMOUR, iii, 1.

Than fame or riches are

The graceful smoke wreaths of this free cigar.

A spirit all compact of fire

George Arnold.

Not gross to sink, but light and will aspire.

Shakspere, VENUS AND ADONIS.

His time is forever, everywhere his place.

Cowley, FRIENDSHIP IN ABSENCE.

Let's give fire in the works and noble vapours.

B. Jonson, BARTHOLOMEW FAIR, ii, 1.

Never kneels but to pledge healths, nor prays, but for a pipe of pudding tobacco.

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Pope's ODYSSEY, xix.

The Indians for their pastime, doe take the smoke of the Tabaco to see the visions and things that represent unto them that wherein they doe delight.

Nicholas Monardes, JOYFULL NEWES (1577).

Though I profess myself her adorer, not her

friend.

CYMBELINE, i, 4.

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By Hercules I do hold it and will affirm it, to be the most sovereign and precious herb that ever the earth tendered to the use of man.

B. Jonson, EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR, iii, 2.

He lets me have good tobacco, and he does not sophisticate it with sack-lees or oil.

Ben Jonson, THE ALCHEMIST, i.

I have my three sorts of tobacco in my pocket, my light by me, and thus I begin.

B. Jonson, CYNTHIA'S REVELS, INDUCTION.

Come, look not pale! Observe me!

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B. Jonson, CYNTHIA'S REVELS, ii, 1.

It is become . . . point of good fellowship, and he that will refuse to take a pipe of tobacco among his fellows. . is accounted peevish and

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no good company. King James, Counterblast to Tobacco.

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire. Lyly, EUPHUES.

An art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

Walton, COMPLete Angler, i, I.

Here's most herculanean tobacco! ha' some, acquaintance?

Dekker.

Cigars.

Thou silent power, whose welcome sway
Charms every anxious thought away.

Lo, the poor Indian!

Akenside.

Pope, ESSAY ON MAN, i.

And what comes then is master of the field!

Pope, MORAL ESSAYS, i.

Sweet to the world, and grateful to the skies.

Pope, EPILOGUE TO SATIRES, ii.

Soft peace she brings: wherever she arrives
She builds our quiet.

Prior, CHARITY.

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To waft me from distraction. Byron, CHILDE Harold, iii, 85.

Sublime tobacco! which from east to west
Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest.
Byron, THE ISLAND, ii.

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe.
Yet thy true lovers more admire by far
Thy naked beauties give me a cigar!

Byron, THE ISLAND, ii.

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