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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n'i S. X. July 7, '60. 



by the editors of the Complement was that of 

 1632 : Adam Islip, London. I feel persuaded 

 that those dictionaries that have attached to the 

 word the meaning " to fondle, dandle," &c. have 

 been guided by the authority of Cotgrave ; and 

 that he himself, or whoever first affixed that 

 meaning, was led, by some oversight, to confound 

 coqueliner Avith a remarkably similar word, dode- 

 liner., which really does mean " to fondle," &c., 

 and which is thus given in the Complement : — 



" DoDELiNER, V. a (V. lang.) Bercer, Caresser, Remuer 

 doucement. II s'emploie encore aujourd'liui dans le Ian- 

 gage familier." 



John Williams. 



Arno's Court. 



DR. PARR AND TOBACCO. 

 (2°'J S. ix. 159.) 

 The anecdotes of Dr. Parr remind me of ano- 

 ther, the entire truth of which is, I imagine, 

 somewhat questionable. It is contained in the 

 " dedication " to a little volume entitled The Social 

 Pipe, or Gentlemans Hecreation, 12mo. 1826. 

 The Doctor, it seems, was on a time invited to 

 dinner by " a gentleman, whose wife, a fine lady, 

 had an intense aversion to smoking." " After din- 

 ner the party adjourned to the drawing-room, 

 where " the Doctor began to feel certain cravings 

 for the stimulating fumes of his beloved pipe." 

 The lady of the house, on the alert, caught the 

 half whispered word, and at once interposed her 

 veto. The doctor remonstrated: "No pipe, no 

 Parr," was his well-known motto. "Why not, 

 Madame ? " said he, " I have smoked a pipe with 

 my king, and it surely can be no offence, or dis- 

 grace to a subject to permit me the like indul- 

 gence." The lady, however, Avas inexorable, on 

 which the following colloquy ensued : — 



Doctor. " Madam ! " 



Wife. " Sir ! » 



DocTOB. " Madam, you are " 



Wife. "I hope j'ou will not express any rudeness, 

 Sir." 



Doctor. (Raising his voice) "Madam, j-ou are — the 

 greatest Tobacco-stopper in all England! " 



This sally caused a loud laugh, it is said, and 

 disconcerted the fair and obese counterblaster, but 

 did not procure for the doctor his coveted luxury. 



Now is it on record that Parr did actually on 

 any occasion enjoy the honour of " taking tobac- 

 co " with the king ? He was on intimate terms 

 with that amateur of pipes and pipeing, the Duke 

 of Sussex, as the letters from his royal highness 

 to Parr, preserved by Dr. Johnstone, vouch, and 

 had doubtless smoked many a pipe in his company 

 at Kensington Palace. 



The anecdote of Sir Isaac Newton and the to- 

 bacco-stopper is still better known. See Facetice 

 Cantdbrigienses, 3rd ed. p. 394. 



This was not the only occasion, it may be ima- 



gined, on which the doctor suffered from the miso- 

 capnic prejudices of a fair hostess. He writes — 



" In 1774, I, by invitation, visited William Sumner, 

 Esq., brother of Dr. Robert Sumner, at Hatchlands. I 

 preached at the parish church of Hatchlands, and left the 



place rather suddenly, because would not permit 



me to smoke. Though often asked, I never would go 

 again. She had played the same trick to her husband's 

 brother. Dr. Sumner, in Great George Street, Westmin- 

 ster. The Doctor resisted and prevailed," &c. 



But Parr had his revenge in another way, — as 

 he tells us with much naivete : — 



" She died while I lived at Colchester, and, at the re- 

 quest of her husband, I wrote the epitaph for her, but 

 without much praise." — 3Iemoirs by Johnstone, p. 771. 



PaiT it appears, as he advanced in life, became 

 less tyrannical and exacting. I quote the follow- 

 ing from an article entitled " Parr In his latter 

 Years," In the New Monthly Magazine : — 



"After dinner he took three or four glasses of wine, 

 and then asked for his pipe, withdrawing from the table 

 to the chimney, that he miglit let the smoke pass up, 

 which I discovered to be his common custom. There he 

 began to puff away in clouds, engrossing by far the largest 

 share of the conversation, which all were contented to re- 

 sign to him." — Vol. xvi. p. 481. 



In Parr's copy of the Hymnus Tahaci of Thorlas 

 he had written " See Philips's Latin Verses on 

 Tobacco." Did he allude to the Ode to Henry 

 St. John, commencing — 



" Oh ! qui recisaj finibus Indicis 

 Benignus Herbse, das mihi divitera 

 Haurire succum, et suaveolentes 

 Sgepe tubis iterare fumos," &c. ? 



I do not know what else In Latin Philips has 

 written on the subject. The latter was so fond of 

 tobacco, that, as one of his biographers has ob- 

 served, he has managed to Introduce an eulogy 

 upon It In every one of his pieces, except Blen- 

 heim. In his Cyder, In apostrophising Experience, 

 he goes rather out of his way to introduce his 

 favourite subject: — 



" To her we owe 

 The Indian weed, unknown to ancient times, 

 Nature's choice gift, whose acrimonious fume 

 Extracts superfluous juices, and refines 

 The blood distempered, from its noxious salts ; 

 Priend to the spirits, which with vapours bland 

 It gentlj' mitigates ; companion fit 

 Of pleasantry and wine ; nor to the bards 

 Unfriendly, when they to the vocal shell 

 Warble melodious their well-laboured songs." 



Book i. line 335. 



The imitation of the same author by Isaac 

 Hawkins Browne t>'I11 be remembered — 

 " Little tube of mighty power," &c. 

 in the Canibridge Tart, and published separately, 

 8vo. 1744. 



One more anecdote from the New Monthly Ma- 

 gazine : — 



" The Doctor's pip^ were generally presents from his 

 friends. Mr. Peregrine Dealtry, in particular, used often 



