A Satyr Against Coffee ([London], n.p., [1679]). BL: Roxburghe Ballads III (831). ESTCR37203. Hünersdorff

A brief single-sheet Royalist broadside verse satire against coffee. The poem is 27 lines in length, organised into nine three-line stanzas, rhymed in triplets. The satire is directed against coffee, which is troped as a satanic interloper into England. The third stanza places coffee as the third in a line of serious subversions against the English crown, aft er printed libels and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Against the backdrop of the feverish conspiracies and counter-conspiracies of the Popish Plots of 1678, this suggest the poem plays a role in the wider cultural factionalism of the Exclusion Crisis, although a specific allegiance is not identifiable.