"A certain kind of liquor which they call coffe . . . will soon intoxicate the brain." W. Parry, Sherley's Travels, 1601.

"Coffee is recommended against the Contagion." G. Harvey, Advice Against Plague, 1665.

"Coffee which makes the politician wise, And we see through all things with his half-shut eyes." Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, 1712-14.

"Ah! How sweet coffee taste! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! I must have my coffee." Johann Sebastian Bach, Kaffee-Kantate, 1732.

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Information Source: Oxford English Dictionary