Dialogues, Poems, Songs, and Ballads
Dialogues, Poems, Songs, and Ballads

Author: Ann Coward Wheeler

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 9781230162669

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ...raider some beggar-lass follow, mey sel' If Nan were worth millions she'd ne'er be mey breyde. Just think what a huzzy, when talkin' she'll sweer, Ay glory in nonsense, an' laugh leyke a fuil--For I've known the bonny yen monie a year--What sweerin' an' leein' she'd neame i% the schuil. If owre this weyl county we daily cud gang, Yen seldom cud lass meet wheadis what Nan wad, She glories in weyldness what ay may show wrang; If some mud just hear they'd think she was mad. There's Job i' the lonnin, an' Tom i' the hill, An' Dick i' the corner, and Sam i the green, An' Raff i' the yell-house, an Jack i' the mill, An' Wull i' the wood, that's now lost beath his een, They're kissin' an' codlin' an' laughin' wi' Nan, Then russlin' an' fratchin' an' feghtin', sec wark--She'd raider be wi' them than a decen' young man--When it's stormy they'll saunter for hours after dark. The best man amang us oft gives her adveyce--Shaff! he mud as weel talk for hours to the muin, Or gi'e a reeght lesson to the weyl rats an' meyce; Tho' rich, young, an' bonny, nae gud she's yet duin, Now daily oft drinkin', the thurd teyme wi' bairn, Sae what mun her thowts be when deeth gi'es a caw. When young lads an' lasses true gudness wad larn, The joys o' leyfe they'll share what fuils never know. GUD-NATURET WILL. OHAFF, Nell, thou ne'er nwotishes nin but girt Jwohnny, His money, an' houses, riches, yacres, or lan'; I've yen that's as peer but as guid, aye, as onie, Nae udder wi' thousands sal e'er buy my han'. The lad I leyke best, nobbet last month he sowt me; He leeves owre the watter atop o' yen hill; His gudness, his sense, an' his modesty bowt me: --For ever I'll leyke him, peer gud-naturet Will. He's silent when monie are bwoastin' ov greatness; He meyns nowt ov...

Dialogues, Poems, Songs, and Ballads
Dialogues, Poems, Songs, and Ballads

Author: John Russell Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-19

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9781331752301

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Excerpt from Dialogues, Poems, Songs, and Ballads: By Various Writers, in the Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects, Now First Collected; With a Copious Glossary of Words Peculiar to Those Coutries Perhaps no other two counties in England can boast of having so many pieces, both in prose and verse, illustrative of the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and written in their own dialect, as the counties of Westmoreland and Cumberland. Many of those pieces are not only interesting to the general reader, on account of the graphic sketches which they contain of popular manners, or the simple expression of natural feelings and sentiments, but are also valuable to the philologist, from the numerous examples that they afford of words and modes of expression, which are either obsolete in the general language of England, or which appear to have been peculiar to those two counties from time immemorial. To present the public, in a collected form, with some of the most interesting of those pieces, both as regards provincial manners, and the use of peculiar words and phrases, has been the object of the publisher of the present volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.