A Miscellany of Poems consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, by the late Reverend Josiah Relph ... With a Preface and a Glossary |
The 8th Ode of Book I. of Horace
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The 8th Ode of Book I. of Horace
imitated in the Cumberland Manner and Dialect.
I
It's wrang indeed now, Jenny, white,To spoil a lad sae rare;
The gams 'at yence were his delyte,
Peer Jacky minds nae mair.
II
Nae mair he cracks the leave o'th' green,The cliverest far abuin;
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Aw sunday efter-nuin.
III
Nae mair i'th' nights thro' woods he leads,To treace the wand'rin brock;
But sits i'th' nuik and nought else heeds,
But Jenny and her rock.
IV
Thus Harculus, 'at (ballats say)Made parlish monsters stoop,
Flang his great mikle club away,
And tuik a spinnel up.
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