shall not assume to enumerate all the vertues of this
Confection: for that were Impossible, every day producing New and
Admirable effects in such as drinke it: I shall rather referre to the
Testimony of those Noble Personages who are known constantly to use
and receive constant and manifold benefits by it, having hereby no
other Aime then the Generall good of this Common-wealth (whereof I am
a Faithfull Member) and to be esteemed (as really I am)_

_Gentlemen_,

Westminster Your Affectionate Friend
_Decemb._ 20. to love and serve you,
1651.
_Don Diego de Vadesforte._

_THE TRANSLATOR_,
To every Individuall Man,
and Woman, Learn'd, or unlearn'd,
Honest, or Dishonest: In the
due Praise of Divine
_CHOCOLATE_.

_Doctors_ lay by your _Irksome Books_
And all ye Petty-Fogging _Rookes_
Leave _Quacking_; and _Enucleate_
The _vertues_ of our _Chocolate_.

Let th' _Universall Medicine_
(Made up of Dead-mens _Bones_ and _Skin_,)
Be henceforth _Illegitimate_,
And yeild to _Soveraigne-Chocolate_.

Let _Bawdy-Baths_ be us'd no more;
Nor _Smoaky-Stoves_ but by the whore
Of _Babilon_: since _Happy-Fate_
Hath _Blessed_ us with _Chocolate_.

Let old _Punctaeus_ Greaze his _shooes_
With his _Mock-Balsome_: and Abuse
No more the World: But _Meditate_
The _Excellence_ of _Chocolate_.

Let _Doctor Trigg_ (who so Excells)
No longer Trudge to _Westwood-Wells_:
For though that water _Expurgate_,
'Tis but the _Dreggs_ of _Chocolate_.

Let all the _Paracelsian_ Crew
Who can Extract _Christian_ from _Jew_;
Or out of _Monarchy_, A _State_,
Breake `all their _Stills_ for _Chocolate_.

Tell us no more of _Weapon-Salve_,
But rather Doome us to a _Grave_:
For sure our wounds will _Ulcerate_,
Unlesse they're _wash'd_ with _Chocolate_.

The _Thriving Saint_, who will not come
Within a _Sack-Shop_'s Bowzing-Roome
(His _Spirit_ to _Exhilerate_)
Drinkes _Bowles_ (at home) of _Chocolate_.

His _Spouse_ when she (_Brimfull_ of _Sense_)
Doth want _her due Benevolence_,
And _Babes_ of _Grace_ would _Propagate_,
Is alwayes Sipping _Chocolate_.

The _Roaring-Crew_ of _Gallant-Ones_
Whose _Mar