Jim and Nell: A Dramatic Poem in the Dialect of North DevonPrivate Circulation, 1867 - 56 pages |
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Jim and Nell: A Dramatic Poem in the Dialect of North Devon William Frederick Rock No preview available - 2015 |
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a-cum a-do agen auver Avore bam-bye Ban't Bartin blid Bloggy Blunk broodle buoys Busk chap Cheesewring Chucky cloam Clum Cowal Creem creudling Crick d'ye Dairous Dame Devonshire dith dithn't doant droo Drow E've Eart farm instrument Fegs Flump Fustle Gaffer Gammer gie tha Giles Gracey gude Guenever gurt gwain Hackle hedge Hulder Jim's Jimmy jist Kautch laist latch Latten Lawks leet leetle lick limbers loive luve Maister mak'th muve naist naybors Nelly niver nort ott's ould Paise peart person Pixy plaise plough pron purty salting tub shord Skeerings Suant swankum tha day tha maid thee Thee'st thick thing thort Thurl to-day to-do toad Tweeny Twid Twily Urchy Vang Vell voaks Voord vore vrom vrom Varmer vull Whop wood pigeon wull Yer's Zarch zeed zich zoon
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Page 17 - Nell ? Ott's matter, Gracey b'ant hur well Nan ? is our Nell apurt ?" " Tha frump o't Varmer, as may zay, Hur layv'th us all, 'e zee to-day, An
Page 4 - Giles, git zum stroyl out o' tha shippen, And carr et down to tha bee-lippen; Tha bee-butts be all bare : An' whare tha busks an' barras be, Tie a bullbagger to tha tree, I zeed tha ackmals thare.' 6
Page 39 - The chief object of the foregoing story is to interweave every provincial word known to the Author ; and he has kept this object in view so closely that few verses have been added during the progress of the tale without the introduction of at least three or -four new words. This may have, in many instances, interfered with the poetical interest of the tale, but will, it is presumed, increase its local value. The Author is not aware of any composition formed on a similar plan, and he must reiterate...
Page 4 - Lord, dame, doant agg an' argy zo, Bin 'e wur aprilled hours ago, 'E've creusled vur tha day; I niver zeed !e zo vore-wained, Avore tha cock-leart all wur clained, Zo, ott's tha use vor zay.
Page 26 - Droo iv'ry hole an' drang; If ha lov'th jakes 1, why let un beckon Hagegy Bess ; wi' zich, I reckon, Ha now delight' th2 vor mang. 90 'Had 'e bin always iteming, A flittering, coltree, giglot thing, 'A might 'a flinked 'e vrom en ; The tilty, twily, preckett toad, 'A striv'th vor stample 'e abroad ; Soce...
Page 29 - ... it, Tha bell won't always doll ; . Et auffen wulv'th wi' merrier noise. (Honey ! we've got two purty buoys, Peart-an'-parcel of our soull)' 100 ' Ees, bit jist now voaks lie in swars, Guns niver blast in ould Death's wars, Ha zoon vill'th up es stroll : Tha cockered cheeld, tha doylish chun, Bushed or unbushed, if Death jet'th one, Ha must obey es call. 101 ' Zum buckle vor a lang time wi' en, An
Page 5 - em : Well, Gaffer Voord, how be? And Gammer too ! Dame, how d'ye doo ? And scrimmit Joe, an' lanky Loo, We'm2 cruel glad vor zee. 9 ' An' leetle Bob ! tha daps o's veather, (Hoi, wull, us did count on un, reather:) Yer, Bobby, yer's tha crickett ; Tha chield's a-vroared, tha conkerbells Be hangin' to un — Yett theesel, Bob — Yen thick auther thicket.
Page 42 - Cawsey, s. causeway. Cess, s. recess, corn placed in the barn in a small mow before thrashing.
Page 3 - We've hailed tha neck, torned pegs ta arish, We'm gwain ta zee up haff tha parish, Fegs, they'll be yer azoon ; Ott a gurt busker toad thee art ! I thort thee'st got et all by heart, Where have 'e clapped tha epune ? a 2 " Jan, clare tha 'cess in t'other houze, Vrom they old kex, an...
Page 34 - Tha crime o' the country go'th that Jan Hath bin too gurt wi' drooling Nan — Hur's vaaling all abroad.' 121 'Hur dith sem slagged. Tha trapes mus' go, Jan's wraxling ginged tha wildego ; Yer 'sa brave briss an' herridge! Tha diddlecum toads. I thort I glimpsed Jan slinge to tha rebeck i' the dimpse — Ott must et be — a marri'ge ? ' 122 'Niver min' they. Yer's Will an