![J. C. B. [Aphra Behn?], Rebellions antidote: or A Dialogue between coffee and tea (London, printed by George Croom, at the sign of the Blue-Ball in Thames-street, over against Baynard’s-Castle, 1685), 1/2°. BL: C.20.f.2(378). ESTCR35140. Hünersdorff](https://images.tandf.co.uk/common/jackets/crclarge/978131509/9781315094649.jpg "J. C. B. [Aphra Behn?], Rebellions antidote: or A Dialogue between coffee and tea (London, printed by George Croom, at the sign of the Blue-Ball in Thames-street, over against Baynard’s-Castle, 1685), 1/2°. BL: C.20.f.2(378). ESTCR35140. Hünersdorff")
ABSTRACT
A broadsheet verse satire of 73 lines, mostly in heroic couplets, but including a concluding acrostic on coffee. The verses offer a Tory commentary on the succession in 1685, calling for national unity in the new reign. Despite the predictions of some Whig controvertialists, the accession of James II passed without protest. A contemporary witness remarked ‘Everything is very happy here. Never king was proclaimed with more applause than he that raignes under the name of James the Second’ (Earl of Peterbrough, quoted in W. A. Speck, Reluctant Revolutionaries: Englishmen and the revolution of 1688 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988), p. 42). The peace was disturbed by the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth in June and early July. The dialogue of this text chimes with the Tory viewpoint that this was a time for moderation and unity.
