If I did wrong in telling you a few diddle-daddies, it was because I loved you so I could not do without you.
"Weighed and Wanting"
George MacDonald
For five minutes he relapsed into the same deep silence; from which again he started up into the same abrupt utterance of-"diddle, diddle, dumpkins."
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey
And, perhaps, from Mr. Lamb's pathetic reiteration of his name, 'diddle, diddle,' you would be disposed to infer that Dumpkins had practised his diddling talents upon Mr. L. more than once?
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey