Choose for yourself, dear girl, our empire round;
Your portion is twelve hundred thousand pound.
H. Carey, Chrononhotonthologos (1734).
Tattle, a man who ruins characters by innuendo, and so denies a scandal as to confirm it. He is a mixture of “lying, foppery, vanity, cowardice, bragging, licentiousness, and ugliness, but a professed beau” (act i.). Tattle is entrapped into marriage with Mrs. Frail.--Congreve, Love for Love (1695).
⁂ “Mrs. Candour,” in Sheridan’s School for Scandal (1777), is a Tattle in petticoats.
Tattycoram, a handsome girl, with lustrous dark hair and eyes, who dressed very neatly. She was taken from the Foundling Asylum (London) by Mr. Meagles to wait upon his daughter. She was called in the hospital Harriet Beadle. Harriet was first changed to Hatty, then to Tatty, and Coram was added because the Foundling stands in Coram street. She was most impulsively passionate, and when excited had no control over herself. Miss Wade enticed her away for a time, but afterwards she returned to her first friends.--C. Dickens, Little Dorrit (1857)
Tawny (The). Alexandre Bonvici´no, the historian, was called Il Moretto (1514-1564).
Taylor, “the water-poet.” He wrote four score books, but never learnt “so much as the accidences” (1580-1654).
Taylor, their better Charon, lends an oar,
Once Swan of Thames, tho’ now he sings no more.