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WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
STRAWBERRY HILL : ' DESCRIPTION OF
THE VILLA,' 1774. Among the publica-
tions of the Strawberry Hill Press in the
sale catalogue of J. W. K. Eyton, London,
1848, is this item :
"1464. Description of the Villa. Another edition of 65 pages, complete ; sewed, uncut, ib. [Strawberry Hill], 4to, 1774.
" This edition is stated by Kirgate as having been printed only for the use of the servants in showing the house."
Does any reader of ' N. & Q.' possess, or know of the existence of, this or a similar copy ? If so, I should greatly appreciate it if an exact description and collation were forwarded to me, care of the Editor of < N. & Q.'
Eyton may have secured this copy from Kirgate' s collection through the collection of R. P. Cruden. Various bibliographers of the Strawberry Hill publications cite this edition, but apparently none of them has seen and examined it. E. P. MERRITT.
Boston, U.S.A.
MY EYE AND BETTY MARTIN." - In
a review of Mr. Patterson's ' Tillers of the Soil ' in Public Opinion for 27 January last, p. 81, col. 1, I read the following quota- tion from the book :
" ' They tell you, as a nation, we can't feed our own that is, in meat and corn. I tell you that's all my eye and Betty Martin.' "
Consulting the ' N.E.D.,' I found sub
- Eye,' sb. 1 , 2. Phrases, h, " Slang or vulgar.
All my eye ; all humbug, ' stuff and non- sense ' " ; but no mention is made of " Betty Martin " except though not as in the above quotation from Mr. Patterson's book in one or two quotations. In fact, I find there the following variant readings :
1768, Goldsmith, ' The Good-natured Man,' II., " That's all my eye."
1782, ' George Bateman,' II. 113, " That's all my eye, and my elbow, as the saying is."
1785, Grose, 'Class. Diet. Vulg. Tongue,' s.v. ' Betty Martin,' " That's my eye betty martin."
1819, Moore, ' Tom Crib's Mem. Congress,' 2, " All my eye, Betty."
1811, Poole, ' Hamlet Travestied,' I. i., " As for black clothes, that's all my eye and Tommy."
I shall feel much obliged for an explana- tion of the origin of the phrases in which " Betty Martin " and " Tommy " figure.
Was the 1782 quotation the original
phrase in full, or was it an attempt to
" elbow ' ' Betty out of the way ? ' ' Tommy ' '
would seem to have cropped up unexpectedly.
J. F. BENSE.
Arnhem, the Netherlands.
[For another variant see 8 S. xi. 146, 512 ; xii. 298.]
" PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT."
The 'N.E.D.' gives 1884 for this rather vulgar phrase. It is certainly much earlier. The Richmond (Va.) Enquirer, 7 Feb., 1860, p. 1/3, has: "Let the Tribune put all this in its pipe and smoke it." The expression is undoubtedly English. Can some reader of ' N. & Q.' produce an earlier instance ? RICHARD H. THORNTON.
36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.
MACAULAY ON THE WAR OP THE SPANISH SUCCESSION. In this essay allusion is made to
1. The Lord Keeper who, in 1593, ad- dressed Parliament on the power of Spain (p. 12, Blackie's edition).
2. "An honest Englishman" who, in a memorial to Queen Mary, describes the dan- gerous nature of Spaniards (p. 16).
3. A poem or play in which Calderon celebrates Aranjuez (p. 35).
4. A " German captive who, when the irons which he had worn for years were knocked off, fell prostrate on the floor of his prison" (p. 40).
5. " An ingenious Tory " who " lately " discovered a parallel between Archbishops Williams and Vernon (p. 85).
Can any of your learned readers enlighten one remote from reference libraries about the names of the above ? SOLUS.
RICHARD CROMWELL : " WHEN DICK THE FOURTH," &c. In a copy which I bought recently of ' The Generall Historie of the Turkes,' by Richard Knolles, 3rd ed., 1621, are the following lines, written in faded ink on a blank page :
When Dick the fourth began to raigne
Hey down down a downe He was a pretty smugg fac'd swaine
Downe, downe adowne. His Father he a Brewer was
His mother, a milkmaid woll to passe His Uncle a Plowjogginge Asse
hey downe, downe a downe Hey downe, downe, downe, downe, doxy. I am very doubtful about my reading of "milkmaid woll to passe " and " Plow- jogginge Asse."
Are these lines in print in any book ? Whoever wrote them in the old book to which I refer would appear to have set some
