Nine specimens of English dialects 32, no. 1

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Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Forms with Samuel Pegge's Two collections of Derbicisms [Publications. no. 78] vol.XXXII of the society's Publications. Each specimen followed by glossary I. The York minster screen, by George Newton Brown; in the dialect of the North Riding of Yorkshire; 1833.--II. Jim an' Nell, by William Frederick Rock; a dramatic poem in the dialect of North Devon; 1867.--III. John Noakes and Mary Styles, by Charles Clark; in the dialect of Essex; 1839.--IV. A Yorkshire dialogue in Yorkshire dialect; from an old broadside: 1673.--V. A Norfolk dialogue, by the Rev. Joshua Larwood; in the dialect of central Norfolk; 1800.--VI. A Lonsdale dialogue, by William Seward; in the dialect of Burton-in-Lonsdale; 1801.--VII. A day in the Haaf, by Samuel Hibbert; in the dialect of Shetland; 1882.--VIII. A wooing song of a yeoman of Kents sonne: from ʻMelismataʼ, by T. Ravenscroft; 1611.--IX. A Yorkshire dialogue in its pure natural dialect, by George Meriton; 1684. A collection of proverbs, by Francis Brokesby
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