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We stopped none for dinner, but at baggin-time* we getten a good meal at a public-house, an' fed th' babby as well as we could, but that were but poorly. We got a crust too for it to suck chambermaid put us up to that. That night, whether we were tired or whatten, I don't know, but it were dree work, and th' poor little wench had slept out her sleep, and began th' cry as wore my heart out again.
Says Jennings, says he "'We should na ha' set out so like gentlefolk a top o' the coach yesterday. *Baggin-time; time of the evening meal. Dree; long and tedious. Anglo-Saxon, "dreogan," to suffer, to endure. "'Nay, lad! We should ha' had more to walk if we had na ridden, and I'm sure both you and I'se* weary o' tramping. *"I have not been, nor IS, nor never schal." Wickliffe's Apology, p.
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