thoughts on tea

Here are some quotes my tea loving friends should enjoy:

~Thomas Garway~
From "An Exact Description of the
Growth, Quality, and Vertues of the Leaf Tee
*All spelling is exact to the original*

....Maketh the Body active and lusty....
helpeth the Head-ache, giddiness, and heaviness thereof.....
taketh away the difficulty of breathing, opening Obstructions.....
is good against Liptitude, Distillations, and cleareth the sight......
it vanquisheth heavy Dreams, easeth the Brain and strentheneth the Memory,
it overcometh superfluous Sleep and prevents Sleepiness in general....
it is good for Cold, Dropsies and Scurveys and expelleth Infection.

"Tea, though ridiculed by those who are
naturally coarse in their nervous systems...
will always be the favored beverage of the intellectual."

~Thomas DeQuincy

Tea! Thou soft, thou sober,
sage and venerable liquid...
to whose glorious insipidity,
I owe the happiest moments of my life,
let me fall prostrate.

~Colly Cibber

Estacy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

~Alexander Puskin