The praise of York-shire ale wherein is enumerated several sorts of drinks : with a description of the humors of most sorts of drunckards : to which is added, a York-shire dialogue, in its pure natural dialect, as it is now commonly spoken in the North parts of York-shire : being a miscellanious discourse or hotch-potch of several country affairs, begun by a daughter and her mother, and continued by the father, son, uncle, neece, and land-lord : after which follows a scold between Nell and Bess, two York-shire women.

Title

The praise of York-shire ale wherein is enumerated several sorts of drinks : with a description of the humors of most sorts of drunckards : to which is added, a York-shire dialogue, in its pure natural dialect, as it is now commonly spoken in the North parts of York-shire : being a miscellanious discourse or hotch-potch of several country affairs, begun by a daughter and her mother, and continued by the father, son, uncle, neece, and land-lord : after which follows a scold between Nell and Bess, two York-shire women.

Author

Meriton, George, 1634-1711.

Publication

York :: Printed by J. White, for Francis Hildyard ...,

1685.

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Subject terms

English language -- Dialects -- Yorkshire.

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"The praise of York-shire ale wherein is enumerated several sorts of drinks : with a description of the humors of most sorts of drunckards : to which is added, a York-shire dialogue, in its pure natural dialect, as it is now commonly spoken in the North parts of York-shire : being a miscellanious discourse or hotch-potch of several country affairs, begun by a daughter and her mother, and continued by the father, son, uncle, neece, and land-lord : after which follows a scold between Nell and Bess, two York-shire women." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50671.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To the READER.
• Ad Momum,
• The praise of Yorkshire-Ale, wherein is Enumerated several Sorts of Drinks, with a Description of the Humours of most Sorts of Drunkards.
  • The Conclusion.
• title page
• A Yorkeshire Dialogue in its pure na∣tural Dialect, &c.
  • A Cruel Flight begins, Amel tweay former Friends.
  • The Authors Conclusion.
• An Alphabetical CLAVIS, Uunfolding the Meaning of all the York-shire Words made use of in the aforegoing DIALOGƲE.
  • A.
  • B.
  • C.
  • D.
  • E.
  • F.
  • G.
  • H.
  • I.
  • K.
  • L.
  • M.
  • N.
  • O.
  • P.
  • R.
  • S.
  • T.
  • V.
  • W.
  • Y.
• A Catalague of some Books, Sold by Francis Hildyard, Bookseller at the Signe of the Bible, in Stonegate; in York.
  • LAW BOOKS.