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BC MS Lt 58, f. 2r: The opening of
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The Quakers tea table overturn'd, the tea spill'd and all the china broke. A satyrical poem in 4 parts, by a lover of the ancient plainness and simplicity of that people

1717

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 gr...

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