(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. PADDY'S DESCRIPTION OF THE VIRGIN OF THE SUN. A SONG. TUNE." Paddy's Description of Pizarro.” My cousin O'Shaugnessy said 'tother day, So Paddy, cried he, with a comical laugh, To know the first part, as the last I had seen, |