And so you’re welcome to come every Day.”
To know of coffee-houses in their prime, we must turn to the pages of Addison and Steele, to the Guardian, the Spectator, the Tatler, etc., but they are well epitomised in the following poem, which bears date 1667:—
“NEWS FROM THE COFFEE-HOUSE.
“In which is shewn their several sorts of Passions,
Containing Newes from all our Neighbour Nations.
“A Poem.
“You that delight in Wit and Mirth,
And long to hear such News,
As comes from all Parts of the Earth,
Dutch, Danes, and Turks, and Jews,