"Dear father, do not be so strict! If I can’t have my little demi-tasse of coffee three times a day, I’m just like a dried up piece of roast goat! Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! I must have my coffee, and if anyone wishes to please me, let him present me with — coffee!"
"Oh, Daddy, don’t be such a drag," a modern librettist translates the cantata. "If I don’t get my coffee fix three times a day, I’ll die!"
- Lifted from Uncommon Grounds By Mark Pendergrast
