" "What good is the house to me?" "Can't you hear me out?

"Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord," writes the Deuteronomist; "and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might.

Ray gives it as a Suffolk word, and the 'hear, hear' of Lowestoft boatmen of to-day is probably a disguised 'yare, yare'.

I try, Heaven knows how I try, but all the C.O. hears is a sound as of two cabbages being slapped together.

This work, which was translated into English and printed by Caxton in 1483, although little heard of now, was for several centuries a household word in Christendom.