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2d vol Allan Ramsay Antiq applied Bartas Battle of Otterburne beat BELG Ben Jonson Brand's Pop Brockett Burns called cattle Chauc Chaucer Cheshire clam common corn corruption Cotgrave Craven Cronycle derives Dialect doth Doug Douglas Virg drink Du Bartas dung English etymon expression Fairfax Tasso feaful fellow fire frae frequently gang Gentle Shepherd Glossary GOTH hath hence horse Idem iron Jamieson Johnson King kittle KNAA Lancashire language LEET Linn Lord loup mell Miege milk Minshew Minst Moor Nares nivver obsolete person Piers Plou Plou Poems Præt probably Quentin Durward Richmondshire Ronan's Saxon says Scotland Scottish sense Shaks Shakspeare sheep Shoe's signifies Skinner Spenser stone substantive supposed synonymous Tale TEUT thee thing thou Tim Bobbin Todd Todd's second edition Tusser verb Verstegan Vide weel WELSH Wiclif word
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Page 124 - tis not done: the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't.
Page 305 - ST. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair.
Page 241 - tis a lie, I am not ague-proof. Glo. The trick of that voice I do well remember : Is't not the king ? Lear. Ay, every inch a king : When I do stare, see, how the subject quakes.
Page 282 - If thy children will keep my covenant, and my testimonies that I shall learn them; their children also shall sit upon thy seat for evermore.
Page 224 - UPON a simmer Sunday morn, When Nature's face is fair, I walked forth to view the corn, An' snuff the caller air. The rising sun, owre Galston muirs, Wi' glorious light was glintin ; The hares were hirplin down the furs, The lav'rocks they were chantin Fu
Page 88 - Her cutty sark, o' Paisley harn, That while a lassie she had worn, In longitude tho' sorely scanty, It was her best, and she was vauntie. — Ah ! little kend thy reverend grannie, That sark she coft for her wee Nannie, Wi...
Page 294 - My ladde he is so lither, he said, He will doe nought that's meete : t And is there any man in this hall Were able him to beate ? Thou speakst proud words, sayes the king of Spaine, Thou harper, here to mee : There is a man within this halle Will beate thy ladd and thee. O let that man come downe...
Page 181 - my sight soon mayst thou be! I grantit nevir a traitor's life, And now I'll not begin wi' thee!' 'Grant me my life, my liege, my King! And a bonny gift I'll gie to thee Gude four-and-twenty ganging mills, That gang thro ' a
Page 89 - Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will burn.
Page 209 - the first money received at market, which many superstitious people will spit on, either to render it tenacious that it may remain with them, and not vanish away like a fairy gift, or else to render it propitious and lucky, that it may draw more money toit.