thou must;
Thus thinke, then drinke Tobacco."

Buttes, in a little volume entitled "Dyets Dry Dinner," (1599) says
that
"Tobacco was translated out of India in the seede or roote;
native or sative in our own fruitfullest soils. It cureth
any griefe, dolour, imposture, or obstruction proceeding of
colde or winde, especially in the head or breast. The fume
taken in a pipe is good against Rumes, ache in the head,
stomacke, lungs, breast; also in want of meate, drinke,
sleepe, or rest."

The introduction of tobacco from the colony of Virginia was followed
soon after by a reduction of price that led to more frequent use among
the poorer classes, such as grooms and hangers on at taverns and
ale-houses, who are alluded to in Rich's "Honestie of this Age":

"There is not so base a groome that comes into an ale-house
to call for his pott, but he must have his pipe of tobacco;
for it is a commodity that is nowe as vendible in every
tavern, wine and ale-house, as eyther wine, ale or beare;
and for apothecaerie's shops, grocer's shops, chandler's
shops, they are never without company, that from morning
till night, are still taking of tobacco. What a number are
there besides, that doe keepe houses, set open shoppes, that
have no other trade to live by, but by selling of tobacco. I
have heard it told, that now very lately there hath been a
catalogue of all those new erected houses that have sett up
that trade of selling tobacco in London, and neare about
London; and if a man may believe what is confidently
reported, there are found to be upwards of seven thousand of
houses that doth live by that trade.

[Illustration: Old London Ale-house.]

"If it be true that there be seven thousand shops in and
about London, that doth vend tobacco, as it is credibly
reported that there be over and above that number, it may
well be supposed to be but an ill customed shop, that taketh
not five shillings a day, one day with another throughout
the whole year; or, if one doth take lesse, two other may
take more; but let us make our account, but after two
shillings sixpence a day, for he that taketh lesse than that
would be ill able to pay his rent, or to keepe open his shop
windows; neither would tobacco houses make such a muster as
they do, and that almost in every lane, and in