"Naw, my wife's gone eawt; hoo'll not be mony minutes.

"Eh, naw," replied the young woman," it's mony a year sin' we had a bakin' o' fleawr, isn't it, Ruth?"

The old woman who was baking turned round and said, "Ay; an' it'll be mony another afore we han one aw deawt."

He's had thoose hens mony a year; an' they rooten abeawt th' heawse just th' same as greadley Christians.

Hoo writes to her scholars here, once a week; an' hoo wants 'em to write back to her, as mony on 'em as con do.

There's so mony 'fancies' an' things i' these days; it makes my job good to nought at o' for sich like chaps as me.

Aw've had a bit o' weighvin' i'th heawse mony a day, but aw've th' rheumatic so bad

Aw consider sick wark as that's noan reetan' so mony folk clemmin' as there is i' Wigan."

Auld Reikiel thou'rt the canty hole, A bield for mony a caldrife soul, What snugly at thine ingle loll, Baith warm and couth, While round they gar the bicker roll To weet their mouth.

For there I lost my father dear, My father dear, and brethren three. 'Their winding-sheet the bluidy clay, Their graves are growing green to see: And by them lies the dearest lad That ever blest a woman's e'e! 'Now wae to thee, thou cruel lord, A bluidy man I trow thou be; For mony a heart thou hast made sair That ne'er did wrang to thine or thee!'

Here are we met, three merry boys, Three merry boys, I trow, are we; And mony a night we've merry been,

And mony mae we hope to be!

Monie, mony, many.

An excellent Noddy: A cockscomb incony, but that he wants mony To give legem pone.

I suspect this pestiferous Je vous prie hathe putt some slovenly tricke or other to cheate my mayster boathe of his ware and mony.

What art thou, a shrimpe, a dogg fish or a poore Jhon? Clowne.[120] I am one that watcht the tyde to know what thou hast caught, and have mony in my pockett to by thy draught.

And I am one thou seest that have only an empty wett nett, but not so much as the tale of a spratte at thys tyme to sell for love of mony.

The earlier passage runs as follows:'The Players heere', writes Locke in London on August 14th, 1619, 'were bringing of Barnevelt vpon the stage, and had bestowed a great deale of mony to prepare all things for the purpose, but at th'instant were prohibited by my Lo: of London' (Domestic State Papers, James I., vol.

There was Willimoteswick, And Hard-riding Dick, An' Hughie o' Hawdon, an' Will o' the Wa' I canno' tell a', I canno' tell a' And mony a mair that the de'il may knaw.

Weel may the keel row That my laddie's in "O who is like my Johnnie, Sae leish, sae blithe, sae bonnie; He's foremost 'mang the mony Keel lads o' coaly Tyne He'll set and row sae tightly,

The moon was clear, the day drew near, The speres in flinders flew, And mony a gallant Englishman Ere day the Scotsmen slew.

Aw was young and lusty, Aw was fair and clear; Aw was young and lusty Mony a lang year.

As to being hangit, why, that's a matter that happens to mony a deacent man, and it's but a spurl or tway, and a gaspin gurble, an' ae stour heave, and a's ower; ye're dead ere a body's weel certified that the board's awa' from behind youand the night-cap's a great blessing, baith to you and the company.

We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine; But we've wandered mony a weary foot Sin auld lang syne.

"Wharfor bore I himwharfor toiled and wrought for him for sae mony years, since the time he sat on my knee smiling in my face, as if he said, I will comfort you when you are old, and will be your stay and support?