4. After this: He had married another lady, not having heard from his Sophia for seven long years.
[L].
"This affecting legend is given ... precisely as I have frequently heard it sung on Saturday nights, outside a house of general refreshment (familiarly termed a wine-vaults) at Battle-bridge. The singer is a young gentleman who can scarcely have numbered nineteen summers.... I have taken down the words from his own mouth at different periods, and have been careful to preserve his pronunciation." [Attributed to Charles Dickens.] As there is no reason for indicating pronunciation here, in this more than in other cases, the phonetic spelling is replaced by common orthography. Forms of speech have, however, been preserved, excepting two, with regard to which I may have been too nice.
13. his-self.
52, 92. guv.
[M].
103. in for wi (?): wi in 53.
122, 462. bend. Possibly, however, understood to be bend == leather, instead of ben == bane, bone.
134, 474. on thought.
[N]. a.