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'If e'er my fingers touch'd the lyre, In satire fierce, in pleasure gay; Shall not my THRALIA'S smiles inspire? Shall Sam refuse the sportive lay? My dearest Lady! view your slave, Behold him as your very Scrub; Eager to write, as authour grave, Or govern well, the brewing-tub. To rich felicity thus raised, My bosom glows with amorous fire; Porter no longer shall be praised, 'Tis I MYSELF am Thrale's Entire' |
[1179] See ante, ii. 44.
[1180] 'Higledy piggledy,—Conglomeration and confusion.
'Hodge-podge,—A culinary mixture of heterogeneous ingredients: applied metaphorically to all discordant combinations.
'Tit for Tat,—Adequate retaliation.
'Shilly Shally,—Hesitation and irresolution.
'Fee! fau! fum!—Gigantic intonations.
Rigmarole,-Discourse, incoherent and rhapsodical.
'Crincum-crancum,—Lines of irregularity and involution.
'Dingdong—Tintinabulary chimes, used metaphorically to signify dispatch and vehemence.' BOSWELL. In all the editions that I have examined the sentence in the text beginning with 'annexed,' and ending with 'concatenation,' is printed as if it were Boswell's. It is a quotation from vol. ii. p. 93 of Colman's book. For Scrub, see ante, iii. 70, note 2.