A TOBACCO-SELLER

Is the only man that finds good in it which others brag of but do not;

for it is meat, drink, and clothes to him. No man opens his ware with

greater seriousness, or challenges your judgment more in the

approbation. His shop is the rendezvous of spitting, where men dialogue

with their noses, and their communication is smoke.[47] 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 trial of men's

nostrils, and none is better acquainted with humours. He 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 this smoke.

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