TALE-Tellers,
a sort of Servants in use with the great Men in Ireland, to lull them asleep with Stories of a Cock and a Bull, &c.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Tale Tellers in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).