“Love and scandal are the best sweeteneers of tea.”
Henry Fielding Love in Several Masques
Act IV, sc. xi
Love in Several Masques (1728)
“Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.”
Act I, scene i
The Double Dealer (1694)
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Her eyes, Monsignore,
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On everything that she looks at,
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