| [No. 568] | Friday, July 16, 1714 | Addison |
—Dum recitas, incipit esse Tuus—
Mart.
I was Yesterday in a Coffee-House not far from the
Royal Exchange
, where I observed three Persons in close Conference over a Pipe of Tobacco; upon which, having filled one for my own use, I lighted it at the little Wax Candle that stood before them; and after having thrown in two or three Whiffs amongst them, sat down and made one of the Company. I need not tell my Reader, that lighting a Man's Pipe at the same Candle, is looked upon among Brother-smokers as an Overture to Conversation and Friendship. As we here lay our Heads together in a very amicable Manner, being intrenched under a Cloud of our own raising, I took up the last SPECTATOR, and casting my Eye over it,
The
SPECTATOR, says I,
is very witty to-Day;