Devon dialect, Peter Pindar

[BobK]

Thank you, Bob.

You seem to understand the stanza differently from me. Throughout the poem much is said about how people wanted to see the king and the queen, and how it drove them crazy. I thought the staring and the whispering must have been done by those people, not by the queen!

Who would be the two hes?

And I thought I would be able to understand the whole poem if I thought long enough...

Sorry - typo - the first one's 'she' (corrected now).

I think you're right about the staring and whispering.

b

[susiedqq]

There are on-line dictionaries, like

Lancashire Dialect Glossary F

that might assist you, plus John Wright's vocabulary.

Just Google his name and some helpful links will come up.

[5jj]

I have revised my guess about the last two lines from:

Zo pleased to zee her love vor'n zuch— .......[They were] so pleased to see her love for him such (=so strong)

To watch'n leek a cat. .............................. (how sweet) to watch him like a cat [looks at its master]

To: .[They were] so pleased to see her love for him such (as to cause her) to watch him like a cat [looks at its master]

[birdeen's call]

Thank you all very much!

Do you have any idea what fath could mean?

[5jj]

Do you have any idea what fath could mean?

The footnote says that fath and soul is 'a small oath'. I am guessing that fath is faith as in i' faith.