A Poem upon Tea (1712) [ Practices ]
… Last Night my Hours on Friendship I bestow'd, And Wine and Mirth a while profusely flow’d. Soon as some Beauty's Health had walk’d the Round, Another's Health succeeding Glasses crown'd. But while these Arts to raise our Joys we use, Our Mirth, our Friends, and ev'n … lov'd Abuses fail, Tea, Temperance and Reason will prevail. Wine proves moft fatal when it most invites, Tea most is healthful when it most delights. Wine conquers Man with its pernicious Fumes, Tea conquers Wine, tho' Wine the Man …
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