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A Lover of the Ancient Plainness and Simplicity of That People1

Title: The Quakers tea table overturn'd, the tea spill'd and all the

china broke. [Biblical quotation.] A satyrical poem in

4parts ... 1717

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: A lover of the ancient plainness and simplicity of that people

Date(s): 1717 (title)

Manuscript: Lt 58

Contents: Lengthy satirical and didactic criticism of Quakers for hypocritically allowing their daughters to indulge in the social fashion for drinking tea, coffee and chocolate, seeing this as an opening to greater sin and corruption of the Society;

including the

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