THE

DIALECT OF CRAVEN,

WITH A

COPIOUS GLOSSARY.

I

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,

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

O little booke, thou art so unconning,

ANON.

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:

PRINTED FOR WM. CROFTS, 59, CAREY-STREET,

LINCOLN'S INN;

AND ROBINSON AND HERNAMAN, LEEDS.

1828.

LIBRARY OF

DR. EWALD FLÜGEL

217175

TO THE

REV. H. J. TODD, M.A., F.S.A. & M.R.S. L.

CHAPLAIN TO HIS MAJESTY,

And Rector of Settrington, County of York.

REV. SIR,

Though a humble gleaner in the field of Philology, in which you have exerted yourself with so much energy and success, I feel anxious to dedicate the Craven Dialect to you, who having been long engaged in similar pursuits, are so fully competent to appreciate its merits, if it possesses any, and, I trust, candid enough to criticise with forbearance its numerous defects.

Gratified by your approval of the first, I have only to hope that I may not lose your good opinion in the second edition of this work.

I am,
Rev. Sir,

Your respectful and obliged Servant,

March 31, 1828.

THE AUTHOR.