I consider that this represents the dialect of the neighbourhood of London, not on the strength of its being put in the mouth of a man of Tottenham, but from other and independent circumstances.

Not so, however, with the provincialisms of another of Ben Jonson's plays, the Sad Shepherd:—

—— shew your sell

Tu all the sheepards, bauldly; gaing amang hem.

Be mickle in their eye, frequent and fugeand.

And, gif they ask ye of Eiarine,

Or of these claithes; say that I ga' hem ye,

And say no more. I ha' that wark in hand,

That web upon the luime, sall gar em thinke.

Act II. Scene 3.