And sip with nymphs their elemental tea."

And also in canto iii—

"Where thou great Anna, whom these realms obey,

Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea."

And finally in the Basset Table—

"Tell, tell your grief, attentive will I stay,

Though time is precious, and I want some tea."

Shepherd. A body might think frae thae rhymes, that Pop had been an Eerishman.


"MERRY ENGLAND."