"Goo little Reed!
Aforn tha vawk, an vor me plead:
Thy wild nawtes, mAc-be, thAc ool hire
Zooner than zActer vrom a lAcre.
ZAc that thy Maester's pleas'd ta blaw 'em,
An haups in time thAc'll come ta knaw 'em
An nif za be thAc'll please ta hear,
A'll gee zum moor another year."--_The Farewell._


THE Dialect of the West of England

PARTICULARLY SOMERSETSHIRE;

WITH A GLOSSARY OF WORDS NOW IN USE THERE; ALSO WITH POEMS AND
OTHER PIECES EXEMPLIFYING THE DIALECT.

BY JAMES JENNINGS,

HONORARY SECRETARY OF THE METROPOLITAN LITERARY INSTITUTION,
LONDON.

BASED ON THE _SECOND EDITION,_

THE WHOLE REVISED, CORRECTED, AND ENLARGED, WITH TWO DISSERTATIONS
ON THE ANGLO-SAXON PRONOUNS, AND OTHER PIECES,

BY JAMES KNIGHT JENNINGS, M.A.,

Late Scholar and Librarian, Queens' College, Cambridge; Vicar of