which to effect, the Danish language, new, and more ancient, may prove of
good advantage: which nation remained here fifty years upon agreement, and
have left many families in it, and the language of these parts had surely
been more commixed and perplex, if the fleet of _Hugo de Bones_ had not
been cast away, wherein three-score thousand souldiers, out of Britany and
Flanders, were to be wafted over, and were, by King _John's_ appointment,
to have a settled habitation in the counties of _Norfolk_ and _Suffolk_."
Tract the viii. on Languages, particularly the Saxon. Folio, 1686, page
48.



THE HORKEY.

A Provincial Ballad.


What gossips prattled in the sun,
Who talk'd him fairly down,
Up, memory! tell; 'tis Suffolk fun,
And lingo of their own.

Ah! _Judie Twitchet!_[A] though thou'rt dead,
With thee the tale begins;
For still seems thrumming in my head
The rattling of thy pins.

[Footnote A: Judie Twitchet was a real person, who lived many years with
my mother's cousin Bannock, at Honnington.]