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Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Hath
Sugar
Milk
Infusion
Luxury
Boiled
Woods
Tempered
China
Delicacy
Beyond
Wood
Kind
Tea

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