THE

DIALECT OF CRAVEN,

WITH A

COPIOUS GLOSSARY.

ILLUSTRATED BY AUTHORITIES FROM ANCIENT

ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH WRITERS,

AND EXEMPLIFIED BY

TWO FAMILIAR DIALOGUES.

BY A NATIVE OF CRAVEN.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

THE SECOND EDITION, MUCH ENLARGED.

“What a feaful girt ga uyison mun he be, at frames to larn'th'talk of
another country, afoar he parfitly knaws his awn.”

ANON.
O little booke, thou art so unconning,
How darst thou put thyself in prees for drede?
It is wonder that thou wexest not rede!
Sith that thou wort full lite, who shall behold
Thy rude langage, full boistously unfold?

CHAUCER.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR WM. CROFTS, 59, CAREY-STREET,

LINCOLN'S INN;
AND ROBINSON AND HERNAMAN, LEEDS.

1828.

TO THE

REV. H. J. TODD, M.A., F.S. A. & M.R.S.L.

CHAPLAIN TO HIS MAJESTY,

And Rector of Settrington, County of York.

REV. SIR,

Though a humble gleaner in the field of Philology, in which you have exerted yourself with so much energy and success, I feel anxious to dedicate the Craven Dialect to you, who having been long engaged in similar pursuits, are so fully competent to appreciate its merits, if it possesses any, and, I trust, candid enough to criticise with forbearance its numerous defects.

Gratified by your approval of the first, I have only to hope that I may not lose your good opinion in the second edition of this work.

I am,

Rev. Sir,

Your respectful and obliged Servant,

THE AUTHOR.

March 31, 1828.