The author of A Cup of Coffee, it will be seen, does not shrink from using epithets.
PLATE 2—COFFEE-HOUSE KEEPERS' TOKENS OF THE 17TH CENTURY
Drawn for this work from the originals in the British Museum, and in the Beaufoy collection at the Guildhall Museum]
The Coffee Man's Granado Discharged upon the Maiden's Complaint Against Coffee, a dialogue in verse, also appeared in 1663.
The Character of a Coffee House, by an Eye and Ear Witness appeared in 1665. It was a ten-page pamphlet, and proved to be excellent propaganda for coffee. It is so well done, and contains so much local color, that it is reproduced here, the text Museum. The title page reads:
| The Character of a Coffee-House wherein Is contained a Description of the Persons usually frequenting it, with their Discourse and Humors, As Also The Admirable Vertues of COFFEE By an Eye and Ear Witness |
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When Coffee once was vended here, The Alc'ron shortly did appear, For our Reformers were such Widgeons. New Liquors brought in new Religions. |
| Printed in the Year, 1665. |