Note 968 — ACT II. SCENE I.
Reading edition
minces tobacco] When this play was written tobacco was sold by apothecaries:
"Or in th’ Apothicaryes shop bee seene
To wrap Druggs, or to dry Tobacco in."
Certain Elegies, with [Fitz Geffrey’s] Satyrs
and Epigrams, 1620, sig. G 4.