Me no good Engalash! and sure enough,
He plaid the Quack to salve his Stygian stuff;
Ver boon for de stomach, de Cough, de Ptisick,
And I believe him, for it looks like Physick.”
Here is Rosee’s handbill:—
“The Vertue of the Coffee Drink.
“First publiquely made and sold in England, by Pasqua Rosee.
“The grain or berry called Coffee, groweth upon little Trees, only in the Deserts of Arabia.
“It is brought from thence, and drunk generally throughout all the Grand Seignior’s Dominions.
“It is a simple innocent thing, composed into a Drink, by being dryed in an Oven, and ground to Powder, and boiled up with Spring water, and about half a pint of it to be drunk, fasting an hour before, and not Eating an hour after, and to be taken as hot as possibly can be endured; the which will never fetch the skin off the mouth, or raise any Blisters, by reason of that Heat.