40 COCOA AND CHOCOLATE. 



merly sell it in Grace Church street, and 

 Clement's Churchyard, being the first man 

 who did sell it in England ; and its virtues 

 are highly extolled." 



A book written in the time of Charles 

 II., entitled "The Indian Nectar, or a 

 Discourse concerning Chocolate, etc.," 

 says the best kind can be purchased of one 

 Mortimer, " an honest though poor man, 

 living in East Smithfield," for 6s. 8d. per 

 pound, and commoner sorts for about half 

 that price. 



About the beginning of the eighteenth 

 century chocolate had become an exceed- 

 ingly fashionable beverage, and the cocoa- 

 tree was a favorite sign and name for places 

 of public refreshment. Cocoa and choco- 

 late are frequently mentioned in contem- 

 porary literature ; and among others Pope, 

 in his " Rape of the Lock," alludes to it ; 

 the negligent spirit, fixed like Ixion, 



" In fumes of burning chocolate shall glow, 

 And tremble at the sea that froths below." 



