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I’ve brote a few eggs for the missus, and I shall tak’ that can o’ powder back wi’ me, and then set down and go on makkin soom new coy-nets.”

From Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp by Fenn, George Manville

Then off he zet, an' come so quick 'S a lamplighter, an' brote The little ladder in vrom rick, To clear the chimney's droat.

From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by Barnes, William