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About General coffee house information

Anthony on 5 Jan 2018  •  Link

There is a wonderful book (one of many similar, I gather) titled CLUBS AND CLUB LIFE IN LONDON, (1872) (https://archive.org/search.php?query=Clubs%20and%…) which has numerous anecdotes about literary and political lights of the early days of Coffee Houses. Pepys features notably at "Will's", as well as Pope, Sheridan, and many others.

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About Neats' Tongue

Anthony on 7 Jul 2017  •  Link

And of course Shakespeare' s
GRATIANO
Thanks, i' faith, for silence is only commendable
In a neat’s tongue dried and a maid not vendible.
and
Falstaff: "'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish!"