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  • Croker reviewed the book in the _Quarterly_ in his accustomed strain of playful brutality, rejoiced savagely over the numerous blunders, [Footnote: The most amusing of these is the derivation of the Prince of Wales 'motto' Ich dien 'from two Welsh words,' Eich deyn, 'said to signify' This is your man! '] and credited the author with almost as many blasphemies as Lady Morgan herself.

    Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

  • Croker reviewed the book in the Quarterly in his accustomed strain of playful brutality, rejoiced savagely over the numerous blunders, [Footnote: The most amusing of these is the derivation of the Prince of Wales 'motto' Ich dien 'from two Welsh words,' Eich deyn, 'said to signify' This is your man! '] and credited the author with almost as many blasphemies as Lady Morgan herself.

    Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902

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