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Page 64
... 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 have thought that ...
... 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 have thought that ...
Page 136
... 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 , and knaves , and sheats ...
... 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 , and knaves , and sheats ...
Page 155
... never deliver him , that's cer- tain , for he hates our Cloth heartily . You must therefore go to the House , do you mark me ? Enquire for the Knave under the plausible Colour of being his Countryman , as you know how to be sure , he's ...
... never deliver him , that's cer- tain , for he hates our Cloth heartily . You must therefore go to the House , do you mark me ? Enquire for the Knave under the plausible Colour of being his Countryman , as you know how to be sure , he's ...
Contents
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