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(37) All dicky with me.

A corruption of devil-it is all the devil with me.

JOHNSON.

I presume that Dicky was some well known character that was always in a hobble.

MALONE.

(38) My lad of wax.

A complimentary phrase, signifying a well-made

handsome fellow.

JOHNSON.

(39) Beat a rub-a-dub.

Rub-a-dub and row-de-dow are synonymous terms.

JOHNSON.

(40) No matter for the row.

Row is an obsolete term-a corruption of the word

rout.

MALONE.

Row seems to me to be derived from row-de-dow,

the noise of a drum.

JOHNSON.

(41) Thou'rt gone to pot.

That is, thou art duped-it is a culinary phrase.

THEOBALD.

(42) I am not such a flat.

Fiat signifies dullness, stupidity, cowardice; for only a coward will lie down to receive the buffets of his antagonist.

JOHNSON.

(43) All 0-0—0.

He is endeavouring to repeat his former words, all over with me. This is exceedingly poetical. In the quarto edition the blundering editor has rendered it "it is all."-Oh! oh! oh!

THEOBALD.

MISCELLANIES.

MISCELLANIES.

PADDY'S DESCRIPTION OF THE VIRGIN

OF THE SUN.

A SONG.

TUNE." Paddy's Description of Pizarro.”

My cousin O'Shaugnessy said 'tother day,
Pizarro is now quite a different play,

So Paddy, cried he, with a comical laugh,
When you saw all Pizarro you did not see half.

To know the first part, as the last I had seen,
I saved for the Maid of the Sun a thirteen,
And when it struck five by a number of clocks,
Myself in the gallery took a snug box.

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