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What is roguer than a womankind? What is roguer than a womankind oh? Fair an' gandelow steel. |
Then the Devil fly from the step straight into hell an' have chain round his waist until now.
Jack Mantora me no choose none.
NOTES.
Snake is pronounced with an indefinite short vowel between the s and n, senake.
burn-pan hat, the tall hat of civilized towns. The pan is the usual cylindrical tin vessel used for cooking. When blackened by fire it is a burn-pan or burnt pan. It is pronounced like French bonne.
Gandelow, scotran. The meaning of these words is lost.
roguer. This word is doubtful. Sometimes it sounds like rowgard, at others like rowgod. It may mean "more roguish." The boy who gave me this story often quotes this line from a hymn:
"To break the bonds of cantling sin."