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THE VERTUES OF CHOCOLATE East-India Drink.
BY this pleasing drink health is preser∣ved, sicknesse diverted, It cures Con∣sumptions and Cough of the Lungs; it ex∣pells poyson, cleanseth the teeth, and sweet∣neth the Breath; provoketh Urine; cureth the stone and strangury, maketh Fatt and Corpulent, faire and aimeable, it cureth the running of the Reins, with sundry other desperate Diseases; It causeth Conception according to these Verses,
Nor need the Women longer grieve, Who spend their oyle yet not Conceive, For 'tis a Help Immediate, If such but Lick of Chocolate.
Beauty gaind and continued, as this verse speaketh,
The Nut-Browne Lasses of the Land, Whom Nature vail'd in Face and hand, Are quickly Beauties of High-Rate, By one small Draught of Chocolate.
It is impossible to innumerate all new and admirable effects then producing every day in such as drink it, therefore I'le leave the Judgement of it, to those who daily make a continuall proofe of it.