The Idyll 19: 19th Idyllium of Theocritus attempted in the Cumberland Dialect
Ae time as Cupy sweet tuith'd Fairy
A hive, owr ventersome wad herry;
A Bee was nettled at the wrang,
And gave his hand a dispert stang;
It stoundit sare, and sare it swell'd,
He puft and stampt and flang and yell'd;
Then way full drive to Mammy scowr't,
And held her't up, to blow't and cur't,
Wondren sae feckless-like a varment
Cud have sae fearfu' mikle harmin't.
She smurk'd—and pra'tha' says his mudder,
Is not lile Cupy seck anudder?
Just seck anudder varment's he;
A feckless-like—but fearfu' Bee—.
A hive, owr ventersome wad herry;
A Bee was nettled at the wrang,
And gave his hand a dispert stang;
It stoundit sare, and sare it swell'd,
He puft and stampt and flang and yell'd;
Then way full drive to Mammy scowr't,
And held her't up, to blow't and cur't,
Wondren sae feckless-like a varment
Cud have sae fearfu' mikle harmin't.
She smurk'd—and pra'tha' says his mudder,
Is not lile Cupy seck anudder?
Just seck anudder varment's he;
A feckless-like—but fearfu' Bee—.
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