are daily becoming less conspicuous. The reason seems to be, that in poor countries the price of mere manual labour is usually lower, and that of ingenuity often much higher, than among their richer neighbours. The Cornish and Welsh labourers, therefore, have a constant inducement to emigrate in search of a more plentiful subsistence; while English miners and mechanics are tempted, by the hope of higher wages, to settle in Wales and Cornwall. A similar transfer and circulation of inhabitants has taken place in our English provinces by the natural operation of the towns, whose constantly decreasing population is supplied from the country, while a certain number of small traders and artisans are driven into the villages, where the profits of their trade or ingenuity are free from the danger of competition. By such a process, all peculiarities of dialect must be ultimately, though slowly and imperceptibly, extinguished. Now, it is evident that the unreserved communication between the Scots and English, during the twelfth century, could not fail of greatly increasing among the former the catalogue of their artificial wants; and that this must augment their vocabulary by a large importation of foreign words. And if, to all the articles of luxury, parade, and magnificence, multiplied as they were by the variations of fashion, we add the terms of chicane, and and hunting, for all of which our islanders were indebted to Norman ingenuity, we may, perhaps, find sufficient grounds to believe that language very nearly, if not perfectly identical with the English, was likely to be formed in the southern provinces of Scotland before the termination of the twelfth century. war, ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE SPECIMENS. A FACE that should content me wondrous well. Wyatt, ii. 39. A man may live thrice Nestor's life. Norton, ii. 114. A neighbour mine not long ago there was. Sidney, ii. 223. A silly shepherd woo'd, but wist not. Anon., iii. 383. A time there was, and divers there be yet. Anon., iii. 134. A vale there is, enwrapt with dreadful shades. Southwell, ii. 174. A woman's face is full of wiles. Ah me. Wither, iii. 91. flame. Lord Brook, ii. 232. All ye that grieve to think my death so near. Watson, ii. 274. Am I despis'd because you say. Herrick, iii. 287. Amarantha, sweet and fair. Amongst the myrtles as I walk'd. And though for her sake I'm crost. Wither, iii. 87. And would you see my mistress' face. Campion, iii. 17. Anger in hasty words or blows. Waller, iii. 174. Another scorns the home-spun thread of rhymes. Hall, ii. 347. April is past! then do not shed. Kinaston, iii. 247. As Cupid took his bow and bolt. Anon., iii. 322. As it fell upon a day. Barnfeild, ii. 316. As poor Aurelia sat alone. Veel, iii. 373. As then the sky was calm and fair. Peacham, ii. 372. Ask me no more where Jove bestows. Carew, iii. 152. Ask me why I send you here. Carew, iii. 147. At liberty I sit, and see. Anon., ii. 83. Away, fond thing! tempt me no more. Cokain, iii. 199. Away with these self-loving lads. Lord Brook, ii. 230. Beauties, have ye seen this toy. Jonson, ii. 350. Beauty clear and fair. Beau mont and Fletcher, iii. 58. Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew. Daniel, ii. 281. Because I breathe not love to every one. Sidney, ii. 220. Before my face the picture hangs. Southwell, ii. 171. Being your slave, what should I do, but tend. Shakspeare, ii. 312. Beware, fair maid, of mighty courtiers' oaths. Sylvester, ii. 292. Blame not my lute, though it do sound. John Hall, ii. Ï01. Blessings as rich and fragrant crown your heads. Vaughan, iii. 308. Blow, blow thou winter-wind. Shakspeare, ii. 303. But let the Kentish lad that lately taught. G. Fletcher, iii. 49. Captain, or colonel, or knight in arms. Milton, iii. 203. Chaste, lovely Laura 'gan disclose. Cotton, iii. 340. Chloris, farewell! I now must go. Waller, iii. 172. Choose the darkest part o' th' grove. Dryden, iii. 344. Cloris, I cannot say your eyes. Sedley, iii. 359. Come and let us live, my dear. Crashaw, iii. 205. Come away, come away, death. Shakspeare, ii. 309. Come, Chloris, hie we to the bower. Anon., iii. 378. Come, come, dear Night! Love's mart of kisses. Chapman, ii. 257. Come, little infant! love me now. Marvell, iii. 273. Come, live with me, and be my dear. Raleigh, ii. 193. Come, live with me, and be my love. Marlowe, ii. 289. Come, my Celia, let us prove. Jonson, ii. 348. Come, O come, I brook no stay. 192. Cruel you be, who can say nay. Cupid, I scorn to beg the art. Cupid once was weary grown. Anon., iii. 378. Daphnis must from Chloe part. Marvell, iii. 270. Dear, do not your fair beauty wrong. May, iii. 123. Dear! I to thee this diamond commend. Sir John Harrington, ii. 276. Dear quirister, who from those shadows sends. Drummond, iii. 97. Did you behold that glorious star, my dear. Prestwich, iii. 304. Disdain me not without desert. Distil not poison in mine ears. Do 'way your physic, I faint no Drink to me only with thine eyes. Jonson, ii. 349. Early, cheerful, mounting lark. Davis, ii. 331. E'en such is time; which takes in trust. Raleigh, ii. 192. Faint amorist! what, dost thou Fame, honour, beauty, state, trains, blood, and birth. Digby, iii. 163. Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever. Wyatt, ii. 39. Fear no more the heat o' th' sun. Shakspeare, ii. 310. Fierce tyrant, Death, who in thy wrath didst take. Earl of Sterline, iii. 29. Fine young folly, though you were. Habington, iii. 185. From Tuscane came my lady's worthy race. Earl of Surrey, ii. 45. Fuscus is free, and hath the world at will. Davis, ii. 331. Gaze not on thy beauty's pride. Carew, iii. 148. Get you gone-you will undo me. Sedley, iii. 361. Give me a heart, where no impure. Habington, iii. 190. Give place, ye lovers, here before. Earl of Surrey, ii. 49. Give place, you ladies, and be gone. Anon., ii. 86. Go, and catch a falling star. Donne, ii. 343. Go, lovely Rose. Waller, iii. 176. Go, soul, the body's guest. Sylvester, ii. 294. Good huswife provides, ere a sickness do come. Tusser, ii. 123. Good-morrow to the day so fair. Great Captain Medon wears a Hail, thou fairest of all creatures. Wither, iii. 80. Happy is that state of his. Brathwait, iii. 96. Happy, oh happy he who, not affecting. Anon., iii. 132. VOL. III. Having interr'd her infant birth. Lord Herbert of Cherbury, iii. 35. He first deceas'd; she for a little He whose active thoughts dis- Hears not my Phillis, how the Here, Calia, for thy sake I part. Waller, iii. 178. Here's to thee, Dick!-this whining love despise. Cowley, iii. 258. Honest lover whosoever. Suckling, iii. 224. How eager are our vain pursuits. Veel, iii. 372. How happy a thing were a wedding. Flatman, iii. 355. How uneasy is his life. Cotton, iii. 339. How we dally out our days. I ask not one in whom all beau- ill fortune. Constable, ii. 269. I cannot eat but little meat. Still, ii. 159. I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair. Anon., iii. 324. I felt my heart, and found a flame. Lluellyn, iii. 342. I find it true that some have said. Willoby, ii. 335. I in these flowery meads would be. Walton, iii. 117. I laugh sometimes with little lust. Gascoigne, ii. 147. I loath that I did love. Lord Vaux, ii. 73. D d I love thee, Cornwall, and will ever. Freeman, iii. 104. I made a posy, while the day ran by. Herbert, iii. 115. I muse and marvel in my mind. Scot, ii. 106. I must alledge, and thou canst tell. Gascoigne, ii. 150. I must not grieve my love, whose eyes would read. Daniel, ii. 282. I never stoop'd so low as they. Donne, ii. 345. I never yet could see that face. Cowley, iii. 263. I once may see when years shall wreak my wrong. Daniel, ii. 280. I pray thee leave, love me no more. Drayton, ii. 301. I prithee leave this peevish fashion. Brome, iii. 276. I read how Salmacis, sometime, with sight. Turbervile, ii. 153. I see there is no sort. Anon., ii. 89. I tell thee, Dick, where I have been. Suckling, iii. 228. I walk'd along a stream, for pureness rare. Marlowe, ii. 290. I weigh not Fortune's frown or smile. Sylvester, ii. 293. I, with whose colours Myra drest her head. Lord Brook, ii. 229. I'll tell you whence the rose did first grow red. Anon., iii. 315. If all the world and love were young. Raleigh, ii. 188. If banish'd sleep, and watchful care. Turbervile, ii. 152. If ever Sorrow spoke from soul that loves. Constable, ii. 268. If marriage life yields such content. Brathwait, iii. 94. If mine eyes do e'er declare. Cowley, iii. 261. If the quick spirits in your eye. Carew, iii. 145. If this be love, to draw a weary breath. Daniel, ii. 279. If thou like her flowing tresses. Prestwich, iii. 305. If truth may take no trusty hold. John Hall, ii. 102. In a grove most rich of shade. Sidney, ii. 215. In Bowdoun, on black_monunday. Clapperton, ii. 109. In court to serve decked with fresh array. Wyatt, ii. 38. In going to my naked bed, as one that would have slept. Edwards, ii. 118. In hope a king doth go to war. Anon., iii. 130. In the merry month of May. Breton, ii. 243. In Thetis' lap while Titan took his rest. Watson, ii. 271. In thy fair breast, and once fair soul. Howard, iii. 281. In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. Watson, ii. 272. In working well, if travel you sustain. Grimoald, ii. 59. Insulting beauty, you mis-spend. Earl of Rochester, iii. 375. Invest my head with fragrant rose. Heath, iii. 296. It chanc'd of late a shepherd's swain. Davison, iii. 13. Know, Celia, since thou art so proud. Carew, iii. 150. Know then, my brethren, hea ven is clear. Quarles, iii. 113. Ladies, fly from Love's smooth tale. Carew, iii. 153. Laid in my quiet bed to rest. Gifford, ii. 180. Let those complain that feel Love's cruelty. Beaumont and Fletcher, iii. 58. Like as the culver, on the bared bough. Spenser, ii. 201. Like as the damask rose you see. Wastell, ii. 319. 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