unclear expressions

[vanveen]

Hello,
I have a couple of questions regarding the precise meaning of some expressions I would like to ascertain I am correct about.
1. In the phrase "Don Juan will be known bye-a-bye for what it is intended - a satire on abuses of the present state of society", what does bye-a-bye exactly mean? I couldn't find it anywhere, although it doesn't prevent me from understanding the passage on the whole.
2. "if ...I am to be "snubbed so when I am in spirits", the poem will be naught etc." - here Byron is quoting something, the source doesn't matter, I don't quite get the meaning of "snubbed so when I am in spirits", could you please elucidate it for me.
many thanks

 

[Rover_KE]

1. This should be by and by, which means eventually or sometime in the future.

2. '...if I am to be ignored like this when I am drunk....' (I'm guessing about in spirits here. Others may think differently.)

Rover

 

[vanveen]

Thank you,
but I was quoting it from a book which orthography is without any doubt, are you sure bye-a-bye means bye and bye? Had I been sure it was so, I wouldn't have posted the question here.

 

[Tdol]

It could be by the bye. The original expression is not something I have seen and can't find it. When was the book printed?

 

[Rover_KE]

Thank you,
but I was quoting it from a book which orthography is without any doubt, are you sure bye-a-bye means bye and bye? Had I been sure it was so, I wouldn't have posted the question here.

Not 'bye and bye' but by and by.

by and by - WordReference.com Dictionary of English

Rover

 

[vanveen]

It could be by the bye. The original expression is not something I have seen and can't find it. When was the book printed?

The book has been printed recently, but the quote was taken from an old source

 

[vanveen]

Not 'bye and bye' but by and by.

by and by - WordReference.com Dictionary of English

Rover

yes, thank you, it was a misprint, but the original text says bye-a-bye and that was exactly the reason why I doubted whether it is the same thing as by and by, I've never come across this spelling

 

[Tdol]

That's why I asked about the date- it could be an old spelling. ;-)