With these plants we may also class Tobacco, that best abused of all weeds. Sometimes we see a pictorial representation of the TOBACCO PLANT, but most usually it occurs in the form of TOBACCO ROLLS, representing coils of the so-called spun or twist tobacco, otherwise pigtail, for the sake of ornament, painted brown and gold alternately. Decker, in his “Gull’s Hornbook,” mentions _Roll Trinidado_, leaf, and pudding tobacco, which probably were the three sorts smokers at that day preferred. That it was used mixed may be conjectured from the introduction to “Cinthia’s Revels,” a play by Ben Jonson; one of the interlocutors says,--“I have my three sorts of tobacco in my pocket.” [326] “The Country Carbonadoed,” by D. Lupton, 1632. _Voce_ “Alehouse.” [327] “The tavern opened With signboard and bush; The landlady’s hair neatly dressed. Tied up in a knot.” [328] Be thou, rose, queen of flowers, the cure of my diseases. [329] Through thee, rose, sins are taken away, Through thee, gladness is given to the sorrowing. [330] Blount’s “Fragmenta Antiquitatis, or Ancient Tenures,” p. 248. [331] See Boynes’ Tokens issued in the seventeenth century in England, Wales, and Ireland. [332] Like the rose in spring, hidden in its bud, so must the mouth be closed and restrained with strong reins, enforcing silence to the loquacious lips. [333] All that is done here, under the Rose, Leave it here and do not divulge it. [334] Memoirs by Samuel Sainthill, 1659, _Gent. Mag._, lxxxiii. p. 520. [335] _London Gazette_, Nov. 6, 1673. [336] _Ibid._, Oct. 20, 1673. [337] See the “Little London Directory, 1677,” recently reprinted. [338] _Domestic Intelligencer_, Sept. 9, 1679. [339] Banks’s Bills in the British Museum. [340] _Hereford Journal_, January 7, 1775. [341] Stow’s Survey, p. 340. [342] _Daily Courant_, July 1, 1718. [343] Banks’s Bills. [344] Harl. MSS., 279, p. 47, a cookery book of that period. [345] Lansdowne MS., No. 1, fol. 49. Three weeks’ diet of the Lords of the Star Chamber. These lords appear to have lived very well, as we may learn from some of the items of one day’s dinner:--ffirst for bread, xijd.; ale, iijs. iiijd.; and wine, xvjd. Item to viijd. vjd. vd. ijd. loyne of moton; maribones and beef; powdered beef; ij capons; xiiijd. xd. iiijd. xviijd. vd. ij geese; v conyes; j leg moton; vj places; vj pegions; xijd. vjd. xd. ij doz. larkes; salt and sause; butter and eggs, &c., &c., &c. [346] Machyn’s Diary. [347] Archæologia, vol. xii. [348] Prefixed to Collectanea, 1770, p. lxxv.; there is also a paper on Vines in England in Archæologia, i. p. 321; and Roach Smith’s Collectanea Antiqua, vol. vi., p. 78, _et seq._ may be consulted with advantage upon this subject.