human
Le Père Couplet supped with me; he is a man of very good conversation. After supper we had tea, which he said was as good as any he had drank in China. The Chinese, who came over with him and Mr. Fraser, supped likewise with us.
gpt
Mr. Favy's 16_s._ Bohea tea, not much inferior in goodness to the best foreign Bohee tea, is sold by himself only at the 'Bell,' in Gracechurch Street. Note.--The best foreign Bohee is worth 30_s._ a pound; so that what is sold at 20_s._ or 21_s._ must either be faulty tea, or mixed with a proportionate quantity of damaged green or Bohee, the worst of which will remain black after infusion.
human
Autobiography, describing the fashionable mode of living at Harrowgate in 1763, wrote:--
gpt
The ladies gave afternoon's tea and coffee in their turn, which coming but once in four or six weeks amounted to a trifle. Probably the ladies did not drink so much as their servants, who are reported to have cared more for tea than for ale. In 1755 a visitor from Italy wrote:--
human
Even the common maid-servants must have their tea twice a day in all the parade of quality; they make it their bargain at first; this very article amounts to as much as the wages of servants in Italy.