The New International Encyclopædia/Tattle

TATTLE. A vicious and hypocritical fop in Congreve's Love for Love, who boasts that he never “kisses and tells;” but he is not above a free discussion of his love affairs. He is smitten with the charms of Angelica, but is gulled into marriage with an aged coquette, Mrs. Frail. The character may have been an elaboration of Malagene in Otway's Friendship in Fashion.