Brewer's: Dyot Street

Bloomsbury Square, London; now called George Street, St. Giles. Made familiar by a well-known song in Bombastes Furioso:

My lodging is in heather lane, A parlour that's next to the sky ...

Rhodes.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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