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THE

DIALECT OF CRAVEN,

IN THE

West-Riding of the County of York,

WITH

A COPIOUS GLOSSARY,

ILLUSTRATED BY AUTHORITIES FROM ANCIENT
ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH WRITERS,

AND EXEMPLIFIED BY

TWO FAMILIAR DIALOGUES.

BY THE REV. WILLIAM CARR, B. D.
Late Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

THE SECOND EDITION, MUCH ENLARGED.

"What a fearful girt gauvison mun he be, at frames to larn'th talk of
another country, afoar he parfitly knaws his awn."

ANON.

O little booke, thou art so unconning,
How darst thou put thyself in prees for drede?
It is wonder that thou wexest not rede!
Sith that thou wort full lite, who shall behold
Thy rude langage, full boistously unfold?

CHAUCER.

LONDON:

WILLIAM CROFTS, 19, CHANCERY LANE.

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