A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect, Том 10

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Страница 37 - Polonius. What ist, Ophelia, he hath said to you ? * Ophelia. So please you, something touching the lord Hamlet. Pol. Marry, well bethought: Tis told me he hath very oft of late Giuen priuate time to you. Hamlet, i. 3, 88. COLL. USE. I. Hast bethowt thi yet ? l8 75
Страница 11 - To see a footman kick'd, that took his pay : But when he heard th'affront the fellow gave, Knew one a man of honour, one a knave, The prudent general turn'd it to a jest, And begg'd he'd take the pains to kick the rest. Epilogue to Satires, ii., Aldine Ed., Vol. iii., p. 115.
Страница 125 - feeorin' That han to do wi' th' deil. Lane. Songs: What ails thee, my son Robin ? FEERSUNS-EEN, sb. Shrovetide. Such is Collier's spelling. The more recent form is Fasten-een. See Burns' Epistle to Lapraik:— On Fasten-een we had a rockin, To ca' the crack, and weave our stockin. COLLIER.
Страница 29 - since this last action? Do I not bate? Do I not dwindle ? Why, my skin hangs about me like an old lady's loose gown ; I am withered like an old appleJohn.
Страница 132 - And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none. Ex. xvii. 27. FOR-WHY, adv. wherefore. AS
Страница 73 - malicious Envie rode Upon a ravenous wolfe, and still did chaw Between his cankred teeth a venmous tode, That all the poison ran about his chaw ; And inwardly he chawed his own maw At neighbours welth, that made him ever sad. FQ bi, c. iv.
Страница 84 - Had we done so at first, we had droven them home With clowts about their heads. Ant. and Cleo., iv., sc. 7, 4. COLL. USE. Give him a clout, mon, an' ha' done wi' it. CLOUT, sb. a piece of cloth used for domestic purposes, as dishclout ; a patch of leather or iron. AS
Страница 69 - Hotspur. See, how this River comes me cranking in, '598. And cuts me from the best of all my land, A huge halfe Moone, a monstrous
Страница 196 - lass, holding up her rosy neb to the soup-master. Home Life of Lancashire Factory Folk, c. vii., p. 62. NEB, sb. the peak of a hat, cap, or bonnet, the edge of a cake. In Shakspere, the bill of a bird—" Go to, go to! How she holds up the neb, the bill to him !"—Winter's Tale, i. ii. 182. COLL.
Страница 49 - After he [ the chapman] had examined the horse *" round, finding him blind of one eye, he would have nothing to say to him : a fourth knew by his eye that he had the

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