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TEA.
-III.
Pepys
and
Tea—
First
English
Poem
on
Tea
—
Price
of
Tea
temp
Queen
Anne
—
Scandal
over'
the
Tea
Cap
—
Jonas
Hanway
and
Dr.
Johnson
on
Tea
—
Love
of
the
latter
for
this
Beverage
—
How
to
make
Good
Tea.
BY
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we
get
at
one
fact,
that
the
use
of
tea
bad
not
been
brought
into
popular
use
before
1657
:
a
fact
which
is
borne
out
by
that
old
quid
nunc
Pepys,
who
would
surely
have
noticed
it,
as,
indeed,
he
did
as
soon
as
it
was
brought
under
his
ken.
He
mentions
it
in
his
diary
under
date
25th
Sept.,
1661,
as
being
then
a
novelty,
at
all
events
to
him.
'*
I
did
send
for
a
Cup
of
Tee,
a
China
Drink
of
which
I
never
drank
before."
And
again,
28th
June,
1667,
**
Home,
and
there
find
my
wife
making
of
Tee,
a
drink
which
Mr.
Felling
the
Potti-
cary
tells
her
is
good
for
her
cold
and
defluxions."
So
that
even
then
it
was
not
a
common
drink
with
people
well
to
do,
as
we
know
Pepys
was.
The
old
English
custom
of
drinking
beer
at
breakfast
died
very
hard
nay,
it
is
not
yet
dead
—
surviving
in
farm
houses
in
many
places
in
the
country,
notably
in
Somersetshire
and
when
tea
became
cheap
enough
to
be
drank
by
the
middle
classes,
those
beneath
them
in
the
social