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Title: Winter quarters
Author: Motteux, Peter Anthony
Date(s): 1692 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Love song by a girl welcoming winter as the season when her soldier lover
will return
Title: Tea compar'd with wine
Author: Motteux, Peter Anthony
Attribution: Motteux, Poem upon tea, 1712, p.5
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: In praise of tea as a more beneficial drink than wine; an
extract, the beginning of Motteux's poem. Cf. BCMSV 2526 in the
same manuscript.
Title: Tea
Author: Motteux, Peter Anthony
Attribution: Motteux, Poem upon tea, 1712, p.11
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: In praise of tea, extolling its beneficial, curative and
health-giving effects on both body and mind; prefaced by the
word 'Phoebus', this extract from the poem (part of a debate
between the gods) put into his mouth. Cf. BCMSV 2520 in
the same manuscript