Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging.

  • Seager, H. W. (Herbert West), 1848-
Date:
1896
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Credit: Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    The Second Bill :—If this city or suburbs of the same do afford any young gentleman of the first, second or third head, more or less, whose friends are but lately deceased, and whose lands are but new come into his hands, that (to be as exactly qualified as the best of our ordinary gallants are) is affected to entertain the most gentleman-like use of Tobacco : as first, to give it the most exquisite perfume : then, to know all the delicate sweet forms for the assumption of it: as also the rare corollary and practice of the Cuban ebullition, Euripus and whiff; which he shall receive, or take in here at London, and evaporate at Uxbridge, or farther, if it please him — If there be any such generous spirit, that is truly enamoured of these good faculties— may it please him but by a note of his hand to specify the place or Ordinary, where he uses to eat and lie,—-and most sweet attendance with Tobacco and pipes of the best sort shall be ministered. Ben Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, iii. 3. Cf. Return from Parnassus, \v. l, and Lingua, iv. In what Tobacco-shop in Fleet Street he takes a pipe of smoke in the afternoon. Dekker, Lanthorn and Candle-light. Your pipe bears the true form of a woodcock's head. Every Man out of his Humour, iii. 9. Here's a clean gentleman to receive. The Puritan, i. 4. Scattergood: Please you to impart your smoke.'* Longfield: Very willingly, sir. Scattergood: In good faith, a pipe of excellent vapour. ^^Greene, Tu Quoque (by John Cooke). [See Skeltoji's Ellinor Rumming. Sixty thousand pounds' worth of tobacco was brought into England in 1610, according to Harcourt's Description of Guiana.]