"Yet nob'dy pities mo, or thinks I'm ailin' owt at all; T' poor slave mun tug an' tew wi't wark, Wolivver shoo can crawl.

We're baskin' i' sunshine, at one toime o'th day, At other toimes ceawerin' i'th dark; We're sometoimes as hearty an' busy as owt, At other toimes ill, an' beawt wark.

" It was neither of these versions, however, that so moved the heart of gallant Sidney, but a much older one, beginning "The Perse owt off Northomberlande And a vow to God made he, That he wold hunt in the mountayns Off Chyviat within days iii.

That this is the fact is beyond all doubt, for Margaret Paston, writing to Sir John, says, "Ry't w'chipful hwsbond, I recomawnd to zw and prey zw to gete some crosse bowis and wydses (windlasses to strain cross-bows,) and quarrels (arrows with square heads) for zr howsis her ben low, yat yer may non man schet owt wt no long bowe."

Domingo was at his last carde incownterd flush, as the standers by saw, and tolde the day after; but seeing the king so mery, would not for a reste at primero, put him owt of that pleasawnt conceyt, and put up his cardes quietly, yielding it lost.

Tak' your chance if it comesye'll no be losin' owt ye've got the noo if ye fail.

'There's no letters, mum,' she said, seeing Phoebe at the parlour window'and I doan't think this has owt to do here.'