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Glossaries are given in the text for each page of verses, words in order as they are used. These are gathered into one glossary at the end, with the words in alphabetical order.
From the glossary words given it is possible to spot a few mistakes in typesetting, which are shown in square brackets.

ARTICLE X

Cumberland Dialect
SPECIMENS OF The Cumberland Dialect.
(These are taken from the Poems of the ingenious and modest RELPH - an author of some estimation in those parts, and whose Pastorals, in particular, are admired by all judges for their exact delineation (after the best classic models) of the language and manners of his rustic countrymen.)

HARVEST;

  Bashful Shepherd
OR, THE BASHFUL SHEPHERD:
A Pastoral, IN THE CUMBERLAND DIALECT.
When welcome rain the weary reapers drove
Beneath the shelter of a neighbouring grove,
Robin, a love-sick swain lagg'd far behind,
Nor seem'd the weight of falling showers to mind;
A distant solitary shade he sought,
And thus disclos'd the troubles of his thought.
Ay, ay, thur drops may cuil my outside heat,
Thur callar blasts may wear the boilen sweat;
But ny het bluid, my heart aw' in a bruil,
Nor callar blasts can wear, nor drops can cuil.
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