Note 151 — Chapter XIV · THE FIRST ATTEMPTS AT IMITATION IN EUROPE
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This feeling is well expressed in a contemporary drinking-song:—
‘To drink is a Christian diversion Unfit for your Turk or your Persian; Let Mohammedan fools live by heathenish rules, And get drunk over tea-cups and coffee, But let British lads sing, give a rouse for the king, A fig for your Turk and your Sophi.’
The punch-bowl of porcelain, however, came to the rescue about this time.