Dialect of Craven, in the Westriding of the County of York: With a Copious Glossary, Illus. by Authorities from Ancient English & Scottish Writers, & Exemplified by Two Familiar Dialogues, Volume 2

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Crofts, 1828 - 359 pages
 

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Page 329 - Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.
Page 93 - It fell that, in that ladye's castle, The King was boun to bed ; And up and spake the popinjay, That flew abune his head. EARL RICHARD. / " Leave aff your douking on the day, " And douk upon the night; And where that sackless knight lies slain, . The candles will burn bright...
Page 215 - I'm sae happy, I shall have delight, To hear their little plaints, and keep .them right. Wow ! Jenny, can there greater pleasure be, Than see sic wee tots toolying at your knee ; When a...
Page 235 - But Hannah went not up ; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and there abide for ever.
Page 90 - No Tynedale knight had ever such might, But his heart-blood was spilt." — " In my plume is seen the holly green, With the leaves of the rowan-tree ; 2 And my casque of sand, by a mermaid's hand, Was formed beneath the sea.
Page 345 - I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh. . . . Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: for that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord.
Page 141 - When first the Year, I heard the Cuckoo sing, And call with welcome Note the budding Spring, I straightway set a running with such Haste, Deb'rah, that won the Smock, scarce ran so fast. 'Till spent for lack of Breath, quite weary grown, Upon a rising Bank I sat adown...
Page 115 - Offer themselves to thy election. Either the wars might still supply thy wants, Or service of some virtuous gentleman, Or honest labour; nay, what can I name, But would become thee better than to beg : But men of thy condition feed on sloth, As doth the beetle on the dung she breeds in; Not caring how the metal of your minds Is eaten with the rust of idleness.
Page 190 - And soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and hill, and cliff, were seen ; Each with warlike tidings fraught ; Each from each the signal caught ; Each after each they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleamed on many a dusky tarn, Haunted by the lonely earn ; On many a cairn's grey pyramid, Where urns of mighty chiefs lie hid...
Page 102 - faire une ecole" is rendered "to be pegged." Peascod Wooing:. — Grose tells us that a " scalding of peas is a custom in the North of boiling the common grey peas in the shell, and eating them with butter and salt, first shelling them. A bean, shell and all, is put into one of the pea-pods : whoever gets this bean is to be first married.

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