Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture And Commerce
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These extracts, however, may have been cited before, together with others of like character in the great days of the English Drama. Pipes continued to appear upon the stage until its abolition (in company with the Prayer Book) by the Puritan rulers. They reappeared on the stage of the Restoration. In Thomas Shadwell's 'Virtuos' (1676), --to take one instance, --Mirando and Clarinda fling away Snarl's cane, hat and periwig, and break his pipes, because he 'takes nasty tobacco before ladies. '" T...here is printed evidence, however, in this same period to show notonly that all the English ladies of the time were not enemies totobacco, but that some of them were themselves smokers. In 1674 ananonymous quarto appeared under the title of "The Women's Petitionagainst Coffee. " It was a protest against the growing influence of thecoffee-houses in seducing men away from their homes to sit togethermaking mischief and drinking "this boiled soot. " It was answered inthe same year by "The Men's Answer to the Women's Petition.
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