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In some subsequent editions the words are: "I lay my head close to it with a snuff-box in my hand, and I feague it away. I' faith." I am indebted to Dr. Murray for this reference, which he kindly furnished me with from the materials collected for his great English Dictionary.
Got Cadell's letter about the Chronicle. Buckingham's Rehearsal. The expression "To Feague" does not occur in the first edition, where the passage stands thus: "Phys. When a knotty point comes, I lay my head close to it, with a pipe of tobacco in my mouth and then whew it away. I' faith. "Bayes. I do just so, i' gad, always." Act II. Sc. 4.
"Upon the departure of Portius, Sempronius makes but one soliloquy, and immediately in comes Syphax, and then the two politicians are at it immediately. They lay their heads together, with their snuff-boxes in their hands, as Mr. Bayes has it, and feague it away. But, in the midst of that wise scene, Syphax seems to give a seasonable caution to Sempronius:
Just as I had drawn in my chair, fitted a new "Bramah" on the stick, and was preparing to feague it away, I had a call from the son of an old friend, Mr. Waldie of Henderland. As he left me, enter young Whytbank and Mr. Auriol Hay of the Lyon Office, and we had a long armorial chat together, which lasted for some time then the library was to be looked at, etc.
If I think, why, I shall weep and that's nonsense; and I have no friend now none to receive my tediousness for half-an-hour of the gloaming. Let me be grateful I have good news from Abbotsford. June 5. Though this be Monday, I am not able to feague it away, as Bayes says.
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