. The Roxburghe ballads. found among the Coffee-house Politicians. On p. 172appears the Mug-house song, with its defiant permission : Let Zealots ore Coffee new Plots divine, And Lace with fresh Treasons the Pagan Drug ; etc. 174 Lace applied to Coffee, and to Libellers. With this compare the conclusion of our Roxburglie Ballads Satyragainst Coffee, where the Whifflers ( trifiers, smokers) are told, Give ore, ye Whifflers then, enough !Convert your Powder into Irish snuff,And fay your Lace upon some other stuff. The lacing required for coffee was then, as it is now, tin petitverre deau de
. The Roxburghe ballads. found among the Coffee-house Politicians. On p. 172appears the Mug-house song, with its defiant permission : Let Zealots ore Coffee new Plots divine, And Lace with fresh Treasons the Pagan Drug ; etc. 174 Lace applied to Coffee, and to Libellers. With this compare the conclusion of our Roxburglie Ballads Satyragainst Coffee, where the Whifflers ( trifiers, smokers) are told, Give ore, ye Whifflers then, enough !Convert your Powder into Irish snuff,And fay your Lace upon some other stuff. The lacing required for coffee was then, as it is now, tin petitverre deau de vie; but, as our motto shows, it was also doctoredwith long political argumentation. The lacing suitable to thepamphleteers Langley Curtis, Henry Care, and scandalous DickJaneway, was such as shortly afterwards, in 1685, tickled thecatastrophe of the peripatetic unphilosophers, Dangerfield andOates, at the carts-tail. We are no declaimers against any amountof tight lacing required to bring their bodies into shape. Palmam. Call you this Backing your Friends ? 170 qui meruit ferat: better than Swanbill corsets. They had been usedto back-biting of another sort, and deserved all they got in requital.
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