Part pp. 255–7 - ‘The Coffee-house Wits’ (author unknown), 1679

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Crewe MS/36/pp. 255–7

Title

‘The Coffee-house Wits’ (author unknown), 1679

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Scope and content

First line: ‘Among the writing Race of modern Wit’. Subscribed ‘1679.’

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Publication note

Printed in Poems on Affairs of State (1704), iii. 147–8, where it is headed ‘The Answer’, being presented as a response to a satire beginning ‘Among the Race of England’s modern Peers’. See ECS, p. 313.