For the general subject see Dekker, _Guls
Horne-booke_; Barnaby Riche,
_Honestie
of this Age_, 1613; Harrison,
_Chronology_, 1573; _Every Man in_, etc.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
_ 3. 293: 'I think the Diuell is sucking Tabaccho, heeres
such a Mist.' _Ibid._ 327: 'Are there gentleman diuels too? this
is one of those, who studies the black Art, thats to say, drinkes
Tobacco.' Massinger, _Guardian_, _Wks._, p. 344:
--You shall fry first
For a rotten piece of touchwood, and give fire
To the great fiend's nostrils, when he smokes tobacco!
Dekker (_Non-dram. Wks._ 2. 89) speaks of 'that great _Tobacconist_
the Prince of Smoake & darknes, _Don Pluto_.'
The art of _taking_ or _drinking_ tobacco was much cultivated
and had its regular professors. The _whiff_, the _ring_, etc.,
are often spoken of.
For the general subject see Dekker, _Guls
Horne-booke_; Barnaby Riche,
_Honestie
of this Age_, 1613; Harrison,
_Chronology_, 1573; _Every Man in_, etc.
An excellent description of
a tobacconist's shop is given in _Alchemist_, _Wks._ 4. 37. For a
historical account of its introduction see Wheatley. _Ev. Man in_,
p. xlvii.
Jonson's form _tabacco_ is the same as the Italian and Portuguese.
See Alden, _Bart. Fair_, p. 169.
