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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33605	Coffee-houses vindicated in ansvver to the late published Character of a coffee-house asserting from reason, experience, and good authours, the excellent use and physical vertues of that liquor : with the grand conveniency of such civil places of resort and ingenious conversation.		1673 (1673)	Wing C4887; ESTC R1813	4,832	10

and therefore a Lye must be fram'd That it is made of Soot For the first were they but so well acquainted with the Prince of Latine Poets As our Character-maker would make us believe he is with Ovid by his dull tedious and Impertinent Quotation They might remember Alba Ligustra cadunt vacciuia Nigra Leguntur 'T is the opinion of better Heads than any on their Shoulders That this Liquor is no other than that famous Black Broath of the Lacedemonians so much celebrated by Antiquity For it's Tast 't is a pittyful childish humour always to Indulge our Palates Diseases are removed by bitter Pills and the most sanative Potions are oft-times very ungrateful to swallow But the truth is this Drink has nothing in it of Nauseousness nor any Tast but what familiariz'd by a little use will become pleasant and delightful The dull Planet Saturn has not finished one Revolution through his Orb since Coffee-houses were first known amongst us yet 't is worth our wonder to observe how numerous they are already grown not only here in our Metropolis but in both Vniversities and most Cities and eminent Towns throughout the Nation Nor indeed have we any Places of entertainment of more use and general conveniency in several respects amongst us First In regard of easie expence being to wait for or meet a Friend A Tavern reckoning soon breeds a Purse-Consumption In an Ale-house you must gorge your self with Pot after Pot sit dully alone or be drawn in to club for others reckonings be frown'd on by your Landlady As one that cumbers the house and hinders better Guests But here for a penny or two you may spend 2 or 3 hours have the shelter of a House the warmth of a Fire the diversion of Company and conveniency if you please of taking a Pipe of Tobacco And all this without any grumbling or repining Secondly For Sobriety 't is grown by the Ill Influences of I know not what Hydroptick Stars almost a general custome amongst us That no Bargain can be drove or business concluded between Man and Man but it must be transacted at some Publick House This to Persons much concerned in the World must needs be very Injurious should they always run to Taverns or Ale-houses where continual sippings though never so warily would be apt to fly up into their Brains and render them drowsie and indisposed for business Whereas having now the opportunity of a Coffee-house they repair thither take each Man a dish or two so far from causing that it cures any dizziness or disturbant Fumes and so dispatching their business go out more sprightly about their affairs then before The like may be said of Mornings draughts which taken in Wine Ale or Beer most times either destroy or very much mayhem the business of the whole day whereas if people would be perswaded to play the Good-fellows in this wholesome wakeful Innocent drink They would find it do no less good to their bodies and much more promote and advance their business and Imployments Lastly For diversion T is older than Aristotle and will be true when Hobs is forgot that Man is a sociable creature and delights in Company Now whether shall a person wearied with hard study or the laborious turmoils of a tedious day repair to refresh himself or where can young Gentlemen or Shop-keepers more Innocently and advantagiously spend an hour or two in the Evening then at a Coffee-house where they shall be sure to meet Company and by the custome of the house not such as at other places stingy and reserved to themselves but free and communicative where every Man may modestly begin his story and propose to or Answer another as he thinks fit Discourse Is Pabulum Animi cos Ingenij The minds best Dyet and the great Whet-stone and Incentive of Ingenuity By that we come to know Men better than by their Physiognomy's Loquére ut te videam speak that I may see thee was the Phylosophers Adage To read Men Is acknowledged more useful then Books but where is there a better Library for that study generally than Here amongst such a variety of Humours all expressing themselves on divers subjects according to their respective Abilities But our Pamphlet-monger that sputters out senceless Characters faster than any Hocus can vomit Inckle will needs take upon him to be dictator of all Society and confine company to sit as mute in a Coffee-house As a Quaker at a silent meeting or himself with a little Wench when behind the Hangings they are playing a Game at Whist To this purpose he babbles mightily against Tatling and makes a great deal of cold mirth with three or four stale Humours that you may find a thousand times better described in a hundred old Plays yet to collect those excellent observables cost the poor Soul above half a years time in painful Pilgrimage from one Coffee-house to another where planting himself in a dark corner with the dexterity of short-hand he recorded these choice Remarks whilst all the Town took him for an Excise-man counting the number of dishes the World is now obliged with the fruits of his Industry which proves no more then that some giddy-headed Coxcombs like himself whose S●●lls instead of Brains are stuft with Saw-dust do sometimes intrude into Coffee-houses A doctrine we are easily perswaded to believe For if their doors had been kept shut against all Fops 't is more than probable Himself had never known so much of their Humours We confess In multiloquio non deest vanitas amongst so much Talk there may happen some to very little purpose But as we doubt not but the Royal Proclamation has had the good success to prevent for the future any dangerous Intelligence sawcy prying into Arcana Imperij or Irrevent reflections on Affairs of State so for the little Innocent Extravagancies we hold them very divertising Every Fool being a Fiddle to the Company for how else should our Author have raised so much laughter through the Town Besides how infinitely are the vain pratings of these ridiculous Pragmaticks over-balanced by the sage and solid Reasonings Here frequently to be heard of Experienced Gentlemen Judicious Lawyers able Physitians Ingenious Merchants and understanding Citizens In the abstrusest points of Reason Philosophy Law and publick Commerce In brief 't is undenyable That as you have here the most civil so 't is generally the most Intelligent Society The frequenting whose Converse and observing their Discourses and Department cannot but civilize our manners Inlarge our understandings refine our Language teach us a generous confidence and handsome Mode of Address And brush off that Pudor Subrusticus As I remember Tully somewhere calls it That clownish kind of modesty frequently incident to the best Natures which renders them Sheepish and Ridiculous in company So that upon the whole matter spight of the idle Sarcasms and paltry reproaches thrown upon it we may with no less truth than plainness give this brief Character of a well regulated Coffee-house for our Pen disdains to be Advocate for any sordid holes that assume that Name to cloak the Practice of Debauchery That it is The Sanctuary of Health The Nursery of Temperance The Delight of Frugality An Accademy of Civility AND Free-School of Ingenuity FINIS