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DRINKS.
Behold
!
the
Beau-complexion'd
Porcelain,
As
Bell
turn'd
Tulips
variegated
show,
In order
set
among
the
tittering
Train,
Replete
with
Spoils
which
from
Cathaya
flow.
The
leading
Fair
the
Word
harmonious
gives,
Betty
around
attends
with
bending
Knee
;
Each
white-arm
Fair,
the
painted
Cup
receives
Pours
the
rich
Cream,
or
stirs
the
sweetened
Tea,"
etc.,
etc.
But,
although
some
wrote
in
praise
of
it,
there
was
a
class
of
people
who
were
opposed
to
its
use,
and
one
of
them
was
the
celebrated
Jonas
Hanway,
of
umbrella
fame.
Possessed
of
a
competence,
he
had
nothing
particular
to
do,
so
he
turned
philanthrope.
He
took
up
the
cause
of
the
Marine
Society,
he
was
a
Governor
of
the
Foundling
Hospital,
and
he
founded
a
Magdalen
Hospital,
which
is
now
at
Streatham.
These
things,
however,
did
not
fully
occupy
his
time,
and
he
scribbled
de
omnibus
rebus
:
among
other
things,
about
Tea,
against
which
he
had
a
great
aversion.
In
1757
he
wrote
''An
Essay
on
Tea,
considered
as
pernicious
to
Health,
obstructing
Industry,
and
im-
poverishing
the
Nation
;
also
an
Account
of
its
Growth,
and
great
Consumption
in
these
Kingdoms!'
Judged
from
our
present
standpoint,
it
was
a
farrago
of
rubbish
and
false
arguments,
and
he
recommends
*'
Herbs
of
our
own
growth
in lieu
of
Tea."
He
gives
a
list
of
plants
which he
thinks
useful
for
the
pur-
pose
:
—
Ground
Ivy,
plain,
or
with
a
few
drops
of
lemon
Balm,
or
lemon
Balm
alone,
or
mixed
with
Sage,
and
Lavender
flowers;
Lavender
itself;
the
fresh
tops
of
Thyme
;
Mint
;
the
flowery
tops
of