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Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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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%20Club%20Life%20in%20London) 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.
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!"