F.,"
and dated "Feb. 20, 1627," are both left out in the 8vo.; and it will be
seen that the anonymous authorship and date of composition in the
title-page are suppressed, for which we have substituted "found among
the papers of, and (supposed to be) writ by, the Right Honourable Henry
Viscount Faulkland."
Antony Wood, without absolutely questioning its authenticity, seems to
have regarded it as a mere ephemeral production, as brought out at a
time "when the press was open for all such books that could make any
thing against the then government, with a preface to the reader patch'd
up from very inconsiderable authors, by Sir Ja. II. as is
supposed."--_Athen. Oxom._ vol. ii. p. 565. There is not the slightest
evidence to connect the authorship either of the folio or the 8vo. with
Henry Viscount Falkland.
Your correspondent A.T. (p. 59.) will find all the information he
desires about the Rev. Thomas Leman, and the assistance he rendered to
Mr. Hatcher in his edition of _Richard of Cirencester_, in Mr. Britton's
own _Autobiography_. See pp. 7 and 8.
C.L.L.
To eat Humble Pie.
Mr. Editor,--Your correspondent, Mr. HAMMACK, having recorded Mr.
Pepys's love of "brave venison pasty," whilst asking the derivation of
the phrase, "eating humble pie," in reference to a bill of fare of
Pepys's age, I venture to submit that the _humble pie_ of that period
was indeed the pie named in the list quoted; and not only so, but that
it was made out of the "umbles" or entrails of the deer, a dish of the
second table, inferior of course to the venison pasty which smoked upon
the dais, and therefore not inexpressive of that humiliation which the
term "eating humble pie" now painfully describes.
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