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... Letter , Teague . Teague . No , no , ' tis no Matter ; I have a very clean 20 Letter in my Pocket which will do very well , upon my Shoul , [ going ] and save Time , yes Faith will it . Inis . Ha , ha ; no , no , Teague , that won't do ...
... Letter , Teague . Teague . No , no , ' tis no Matter ; I have a very clean 20 Letter in my Pocket which will do very well , upon my Shoul , [ going ] and save Time , yes Faith will it . Inis . Ha , ha ; no , no , Teague , that won't do ...
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... Letter . [ Exeunt . Teague . Arra , ' pon my Shoul , I have forgot this plaguy Priest's Name — Yes Faith have I 30 Bom , Bom , Bom , who to ask for now - Who the Devil shall this Letter now ? Father By St. Patrick I don't know Arra ...
... Letter . [ Exeunt . Teague . Arra , ' pon my Shoul , I have forgot this plaguy Priest's Name — Yes Faith have I 30 Bom , Bom , Bom , who to ask for now - Who the Devil shall this Letter now ? Father By St. Patrick I don't know Arra ...
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... Letter . [ throws it down ] Pox upon me , if I don't wish the Devil had you both , yes Faith do I ; for poor Teague loses his Moidore now , and Mrs. Inis will never send me of ... Letter . ] Letter 5 ΙΟ 15 20 XXIII . John Durant Breval , 153.
... Letter . [ throws it down ] Pox upon me , if I don't wish the Devil had you both , yes Faith do I ; for poor Teague loses his Moidore now , and Mrs. Inis will never send me of ... Letter . ] Letter 5 ΙΟ 15 20 XXIII . John Durant Breval , 153.
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THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND II | 11 |
DESCRIPTION OF THE TEXTS | 31 |
TEXTS | 76 |
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Aphorismical Discovery back vowel bilingual speaker Bog-Witticisms Brave Irishman Brogue Captain consonant dear Joy Dermot Derry dialects diphthong Dobson doubt Dublin ejaculation England evidence final Fingall Fingallian front vowels haue 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 medial Middle English 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 Standard English Stukeley Teague Teigue tell texts Thomas Thomas Stukeley thou Trooparr Ubique XII Ulster unvoicing usage verb viii Welsh Embassador write construction xvii xviii xxii xxiii xxiv xxvi xxvii