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... Captain , sir , suft and fair ; gar away , there be gewd men in the Company . Aies Captain , for aies have more Scutch Lice , then thou ΙΟ hast English creepers , or He Brittish Goats about him . 15 20 25 Hig . What then ? my Lice are ...
... Captain , sir , suft and fair ; gar away , there be gewd men in the Company . Aies Captain , for aies have more Scutch Lice , then thou ΙΟ hast English creepers , or He Brittish Goats about him . 15 20 25 Hig . What then ? my Lice are ...
Page 105
... Captain , by all te green Sheese in the Moon . Brun shall be Captain for Caradock , if her would not give place to Brun , her heart were as hard as Flint - shire . Ter . Brun sall be te besht in te company , if tere were a tousand ...
... Captain , by all te green Sheese in the Moon . Brun shall be Captain for Caradock , if her would not give place to Brun , her heart were as hard as Flint - shire . Ter . Brun sall be te besht in te company , if tere were a tousand ...
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... captain they call him , to stop the ship while I did die and say my prayers : So , my dear , there was a great noise ... Captain ? -the unmannerly fellow ! And what brought you to London , Captain ? 100 Capt . Fait , my dear jewel , the ...
... captain they call him , to stop the ship while I did die and say my prayers : So , my dear , there was a great noise ... Captain ? -the unmannerly fellow ! And what brought you to London , Captain ? 100 Capt . Fait , my dear jewel , the ...
Contents
THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND II | 11 |
DESCRIPTION OF THE TEXTS | 31 |
TEXTS | 76 |
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Aphorismical Discovery aund back vowel bilingual speakers Bog-Witticisms Brogue Captain consonant dear Joy Dermot Derry dialect diphthong Dobson doubt Dublin Dundalk England evidence final Fingall Fingallian front vowels haue Hiberno Hiberno-English Honest Whore idiom instances Ireland Irish Hudibras Irish language Irish Masque Irish neutral Irish words King loanwords long vowel maake Manx Gaelic meaning Munster Irish Nees non-standard spellings noun oaths occurs origin palatal palatal consonant Patrick phonemes phrase play postponed stress printed probably pronoun pronunciation Purgatorium Hibernicum rapparees reference reflect represent rhyme scene Scottish Scottish Gaelic secondary language seems seventeenth century sh-spellings shelf Shoul Sir John Oldcastle speech Stage Irish Standard English Stukeley Teague tell texts Thomas Thomas Stukeley thou Ubique XII Ulster unvoicing usage verb viii Welsh Embassador write construction xvii xviii xxiii xxiv xxvi xxvii