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The plays could never have been performed - there are long speeches and theological controversies , and battalion orders of the day are given in full ; it is true that a very vivid picture of events emerges in the end , but one would ...
The plays could never have been performed - there are long speeches and theological controversies , and battalion orders of the day are given in full ; it is true that a very vivid picture of events emerges in the end , but one would ...
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The Dialogue has been chosen for inclusion here because it is the more finished of the two pieces ; Irish Eloquence seems never to have been properly revised , and the last two lines have been roughly crossed out as if an alteration was ...
The Dialogue has been chosen for inclusion here because it is the more finished of the two pieces ; Irish Eloquence seems never to have been properly revised , and the last two lines have been roughly crossed out as if an alteration was ...
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... seeps , and horses , did never want any ting in his life , nor never releave de poore shervants of God , the priests dat sherve at de altar , but spent all his rents upon meate and drink , among a company of fwores , 125 and rogues ...
... seeps , and horses , did never want any ting in his life , nor never releave de poore shervants of God , the priests dat sherve at de altar , but spent all his rents upon meate and drink , among a company of fwores , 125 and rogues ...
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Contents
THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND | 11 |
DESCRIPTION OF THE TEXTS TEXTS I Captain Thomas Stukeley 15961605 | 31 |
Sir John Oldcastle 15991600 | 33 |
Copyright | |
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appears bilingual called Captain century common consonant construction dear dialect doubt Dublin early effect England English Enter evidence expected fact final Fingallian front Gaelic give hand Hiberno-English Hudibras indicate influence instances Ireland Irish Irishman John kind King known language later Letter look Lord Manx meaning Middle never non-standard normal occurs origin palatal Patrick perhaps period phrase play possible present printed probably pronunciation reason recorded reference reflect remained replaced represent rhyme scene seems seventeenth shelf short similar sounds speak speakers speech spelling Standard Standard English stress suggest sweet taken Teague tell texts Thomas thou usage verb viii vowel words writing written xvii xviii xxiv xxvii
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| Title | Spoken English in Ireland, 1600-1740: Twenty-seven Representative Texts Volume 5 of Dolmen texts Volume 9 of Irish writings from the age of Swift |
| Author | Alan Bliss |
| Editor | Alan Bliss |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Dolmen Press, 1979 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0391011197, 9780391011199 |
| Length | 381 pages |
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