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XXVII: Joseph Hall and Work for Chimny - Sweepers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Robert J. Kane*
Affiliation:
Ohio State University

Extract

The second English treatise on tobacco, as well as the first to oppose it, was Work for Chimny-sweepers: or A warning for Tabacconists. Describing the pernicious vse of Tabacco, no lesse pleasant then profitable for all sorts to reade. [quotation] … Imprinted at London by T. Este, for Thomas Bushell, & are to be sould at the great North dore of Powles. 1602.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1936

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References

1 Arber, Transcript, iii, 186.

2 Ibid., iii, 199.—I am postulating, of course, no error in the Transcript.

3 Geschichte des Tabaks (Frankfurt a.M., 1854), p. 154n.

4 Early English Tobacco Trade (London: Kegan Paul, 1926), p. 37.

5 A letter sent to him some years ago remains unanswered.

6 Handbook (1867), p. 608.

7 Sig. Aiii. (The original, except for the words which I have italicized, is in italics.)

8 On the “smoakie Societie” presided over by Humphrey King and numbering among its members Thomas Nashe and Anthony Chute (author of the first English treatise on tobacco), cf. my article in RES, vii (1931), 151 ff.

9 Sigs. Aivv–B i.—I have not attempted to reproduce long ∫ in this and other quotations.

10 Some Early Books on Tobacco: A Paper Read before the Club of Odd Volumes, Boston, April 20, 1910 (typed MS.; Harvard College Library: H5442.16.9*), p. 8.

11 Bk. iv, Sat. iv; Bk. v, Sat. ii.

12 Lib. iii, cap. 7, sect. 2.

13 Works (1839), xii, 157–159.

14 John Hanson, author of Time is a Turne-Coate (1604), did not receive the degree of B.A. until 1603. Corser, in his Collectanea (Chetham Soc.), vii, 147, reprints the lines “To the iudiciall Reader” from Hanson's volume. Except for the rhetorical use of negation, I find nothing in them to remind one of the poem in Chimny-sweepers.

15 Sig. A iv.

16 Sig. C iv–ivv.

17 Sig. C iii–iiiv.

18 A Defence of Tabacco (1602), sig. A3.

19 Ibid., sig. D2.

20 Cf., for example, the first sentence of his Postsscript to Bks. iv, v, and vi of the satires (Works, xii, 285).

21 Edmund Gardiner, The Triall of Tabacco (1610), sig. B2–2V.