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aiai, ay, ay!... stutterer Demosthenes

-gob full of pebbles outshouting seas

words only of mi `art aches and... Mine's broken 4

.you barbarian, T.W.' He was nicely spoken

'Can`t have our glorious heritage done to death'

.I played the Drunken Porter in Macbeth

Tony Harrison

The Queen's English

,Last meal together, Leeds, the Queen's Hotel

.That grandish pile of swank in City Square

(Too posh for me! He said (though he dressed well

!If you weren't wi'me now ah'd nivver dare

I knew that he'd decided that he'd die

,Not by the way he lingered in the bar

,Nor by that look he gave me with one good eye

,Nor the firmer handshake and the gruff ta-ra

But when we browsed the station bookstall sales

-- He picked up Poems from the Yorkshire Dales

ere tek this un wi'yer to New York'

.to remind yer 'ow us gaffers used to talk

!It's up your street in't it? Ah'll buy yer that

-- The broken lines go through me speeding South

...As t'Doctor stopped to oppen woodland yat

and

..wi'skill they putten wuds reet i'his mouth

"the broken lines go through me speeding south"

As t'Doctor stopped to oppen woodland yat / and / Wi'skill they

putten wuds reet i'his mouth

The broken lines go through me speeding east