Could anyone tell me the literary source for this quote by Dr. Samuel Johnson?
"So hear it then, my Rennie dear, Nor hear it with a frown; You cannot make the tea so fast As I can gulp it down.
I therefore pray thee, Rennie dear, That thou wilt give to me with cream and sugar softened well, Another dish of tea."
A possible date is 1770 as conjectured by an author William Ukers in "Romance of Tea". Also found in Jane Pettigrew's "A Social History of Tea". Neither author provided source information.
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