The antecedent of "Hell is where the English are the chefs"?

[Dan Goncharoff]

I think you can go further. In James Howard's 1666 play, "The English
Monsieur", there is the line: "an English Cook's shop is Hell".

DanG

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> Daniel Defoe's "The Great Law of Subordination Consider'd [etc. etc.]
> In Ten Familiar Letters" (1724) begins Letter I with:
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> Dear Brother,
> It was formerly said of _England_, by way of Proverb, That it was the
> _Hell of Horses, the Purgatory of Servants and the Paradise of_ Women ... .
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> In _Religious and Didactic Writings of Daniel Defoe_, Vol. 6: _The
> Poor  Man's Plea (1698) / The Great Law of Subordination Consider'd
> (1724)_, ed. J. A. Downie (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2007), p. 43.
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> See also p. 199, note 4.
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