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Snell, bitter, biting
Snift'rin, sniffling
Sour-milk, butter-milk
Sonsy, lucky, generous
Sowdgers, soldiers

Sowpy, soft, spongy,
watery

Souse, to plunge or im

merge Spak, spoke Splet, split

Spot, a place of service Spunky, sparkling Spuin, spoon

Starken, to tighten

Steyle, stile

Steeks, shuts

Strack, struck

Stule, stole

Stuil, stool

Stown, stolen

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Stuid, stood

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Tease, to importune, to

pester

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about rudely

To't, to the

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V

Varra, very

Varmen, or varment,

vermin

Toozel, to ruffle, to pull Vap'rin, vapouring

W

Wad, would

Toddle, to walk unstably

as children

Top, or topper, of a good quality To-mworn, to-morrow Trail, slow, lazy Trippet, a small piece of wood obtusely pointed with which rustics amuse themselves

Trimmel, tremble

Trouncin, beating

Trig, tight

Trinkums, useless finery

Tudder, the other

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Tui, too

Tuik, took

Tuith-wark, tooth-ache

Waur, worse

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Waw, wall

Weage, wage Wee, diminutive

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Wi', or wid, with
Windy, noisy

Winnings, money won
Worchet, orchard
Worton, Orton, name of
a village
Wots, oats
Wrang, wrong
Wull, will

Wullin, willing

Wully, or Wulliam,
William

Wunnet, (contrac.) will

not

Wun, to dwell

Whitten, Whitehaven

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INDEX TO THE FIRST LINES.

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A Bachelor's life of all lives is the best

Ae day as Cupid, sweet tooth'd fairy.

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Ae night in dark December, when wintry blasts blew high 89

A fig for all your treaties

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A floweret blooms in Lamplugh Dale.

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Again maun absence chill my soul

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Alike in temper and in life

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All female charms, I own my fair

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A month, sweet little-ones, is past

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And auld Robin Forbes has gien tem a dance.

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At Wigton fair last, sec a show o' feine lasses

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A weel, guid hearers! are ye a' come ben!

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Come, friend, sheer off with your fine slack jaw
Come, Gwordie lad, unyoke the yad.
Come here ye witches wild and wanton

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Come join us, brave countrymen, now is the time
Come listen, I'll tell the' a stwory

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Auld Marget in the fauld she sits

Aye, aye, I's feeble grown

Ay, lad! sec a murry-neet we've hed at Bleckell

Ay, Wulliam! neist Monday's Elizabeth's burthday. 365
A' you that smudge at merry teales .

Be still my heart, and let this moving sight
But hark! what sounds of mingl'd joy and woe

Come, Pandora, come away.

Come, Deavie, I'll tell thee a secret

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Come listen to my jovial song.

Come, mortals, enliven the hour that is lent.

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Come, neighbours, awhile leave your labours and care
Come, Nichol, and gie us thy cracks

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Come sit thy ways down an' give us thy crack

Deuce tek the clock! click-clackin sae

Did you hear that old man as he sat by the mound?.
D'ye ken John Peel with his coat so gray?

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Fast the patt'ring hail was fa'ing

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Foul fa' the breast first Treason bred in!

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Gin living worth could win my heart.

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Git oot wid the', Jwohnny, thou's no'but a fash
Go, idle boy, I quit thy power

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Had my daddie left me gear enough
Hail! sweet solace of my care.
Handsome, tall, and clever

Here lies-good reason that he should
Here's a letter from Robin, father

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Hout, Wully, lad! cock up thy head.

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How blest the maid whose blythesome heart.

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How lang I've fasted and 'tis hardly four

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How oft by the lamp of the pale waning moon

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How sweet to the heart is the thought of to-morrow. 111

I am of a temper fixed as a decree

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I heard a thousand blended notes

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I kest off my clogs, hung t' kelt cwoat on a pin
I lives in a neat little cottage.

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If you ax me where I come frae, I say the fell-seyde.
I'll hae a new coatie when Willie comes hame

I'm Tibby Fowler o' the glen.

In the dream of the moment I call'd for the bowl
In Carleile dwelt king Arthur.

In Cumberland there dwells a maid .

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