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■ by the Superiors, in introducing the Ufe of Coffee amongfl their 
Religious. 
Coffee being thus eftabliflied at Aden, continues our Arahian 
Author, where it has held its ground without any Interruption 
ever fince, pafs’d by degrees to the neighbouring Towns 5 and 
about the end of the fifteenth Century it reach’d Mecca. The 
Vervizes who belong’d to the famous Mofque of that City, were 
the firfl who ufed it, and with the fame intention as thofe of 
Aden had done before them. The other Inhabitants of 
came foon likewife to relilh it, and not contenting themfelves to 
drink it in their Houfes, they began to fell it in publick Places fet 
apart for that Purpofe. Thither Crouds of People referred at all 
Hours of the Day, to enjoy the Pleafure of Converfation, play at 
Chefs and other Games, dance, fing, and diveit themfelves all 
manner of Ways, under the pretence of drinking Coffee. 
Thefe are the firfl: publick Coffee-Houfes we any where hear 
of j and the ufe of them, it feems, was from the beginning very 
little diderent from what it is in London and Laris at this day. 
At London we can hardly go into a Coffee-Houfe, a very few ex- 
cepted, to which Politicians and People of Bufinefs refort, but 
we are cither ffunn’d and deafen’d with the Noife of Dice and 
Tables in all Corners of the Room, or fee the whole Company 
watching the Event of a Party at Ombre or a Game of Chefle, 
with the fime Eagernefs as if their own Welfire depended upon 
it : And at Laris, there is nothing more common than to fee 
a Leiit^Maitre dancing a Minuet round the Codec-Room to his 
own finging, or to near him diverting the Company with the 
lad new Air from the Opera. 
From Mecca this Liquor fpread over all the other Places of 
Arabia, and particularly Medma, from whence it pafs’d to Grand 
Cairo in Egypt. It was introduced there by fome Der^izes of the 
Kingdom of Yemen, who, it feems, have fome Mofques in one 
Qiiarter of the City, and to whom the Fame of it in their own 
Country had recommended it. Our Author, who wrote his 
Book at Grand Cairo., takes notice, that there they made Coffee 
in a large Earthen Vedcl, that the Superior of the Mofque fill’d it 
out, and that the Religious receiv’d every Man his Difh from his 
Hand, with great Ceremony and Refpedl. This happen’d not 
long after the beginning of the fixteenth Century i and the Ex- 
ample of thefe Arabian Der^vizes was foon imitated by the other 
Religious of that City, by dudious Perfons, and a little time by 
People of all Ranks, Coffee becoming as common there as it was 
in Arabia 5 and thus it continued to gain ground both in Arabia 
