The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Mr. Fowle,
If you think the following Lines upon the Use of Tea worthy a Place in your valuable Collection, by inserting them in your next, you will oblige a Customer.

I.
Rouse ev'ry generous thoughtful Mind,
The rising Danger flee ;
If you would lasting Freedom find,
Now then abandon TEA.

II.
Scorn to be bound with golden Chains,
Though they allure the Sight ;
Bid them Defiance if they claim
Our Freedom and Birth-Right.

III.
Shall we our Freedom give away,
And all our Comfort place,
In drinking of outlandish TEA,
Only to please our Taste.

IV.
Forbid it Heaven, let us be wise,
And seek our Country's Good ;
Nor ever let a Thought arise,
That Tea should be our Food.

V.
Since we of great a Plenty have,
Of all that's for our Health ;
Shall we that baleful Herb receive,
Impoverishing our Wealth,

VI.
When we survey the breathless Corpse,
With putrid Matter fill'd ;
For crawling Worms a sweet Resort,
By us reputed ill.

VII.
Noxious Effluvia sending out,
From it's pernicious Store,
Not only from the foaming Mouth,
But ev'ry lifeless Pore.

VIII.
To view the same enrol'd in TEA.
Besmear'd with such Perfumes,
And then the Herb sent o'er the Sea.
To us it tainted comes.

IX.
Some of it tinctur'd with the Filth
Of Carcasses embalm'd :
Taste of this Herb then if thou wilt,
Sure me it cannot charm.

X.
Adieu, away O TEA be gone,
Salute our Taste no more ;
Though thou art coveted by some,
Who're destin'd to be poor.