I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth...
As Maria Edgeworth put it in her Castle Rackrent (1800): Deal on, deal on, my merry men all, Deal on your cakes and your wine, For whatever is dealt at her funeral to-day Shall be dealth to-morrow at mine.16 Tobacco was a central feature of the merry wake, both as a stimulant...