Dialecte

Dorset dialect poetry. Three pamphlets of poems by ‘Two Darset Maids’: one titled ‘Ye Olde Dorset Fayre’ and two different titled ‘Wole Darset Vayre’.

Best.-Nr. 24777 — ‘Ye Olde Dorset Fayre’ 22 and 23 August 1923; H. D. Warwick printer Weymouth. The two titled ‘Wole Darset Vayre’ 24 and 25 August 1927 and 21 22 and 23 August 1929. The first printed by Warwick and the second by W. J. Squibb of Weymouth. Three scarce items: no other copy traced. The three pamphlets are uniform in design each consisting of 4pp 12mo stapled into card wraps with title and date beneath the Borough crest. Presumably produced for distribution at the annual town fair. The text of each poem covers all four pages. The first two are in good condition lightly aged; the last is in fair condition slightly ruckled and spotted. ONE: ‘Ye Olde Dorset Fayre’. At the Royal Palm Court Weymouth 22 and 23 August 1923. Poem ‘By Two Darset Maids’ beginning: ‘Come in me vriends and look around / We got all zarts to zell:’. TWO: ‘Wole Darset Vayre’. At Sidney Hall Weymouth 24 and 25 August 1927. Poem titled ‘A Liddle bit more o’ it’ ‘By the zame Two Darset Maids.’ Beginning: ‘Yer we be agen me vriends / At another wole Darset Vayre;’. THREE: ‘Wole Darset Varye’. At New Hall and Schools Baptist Chapel Weymouth 21 22 and 23 August 1929. ‘Arthur Nicholls’ lightly stamped in red at head of cover. Poem titled ‘The Vinish o’ it’ by ‘Zame Maids as avore.’ Beginning: ‘You ’ad the beginnin’ o’ this yer rhyme / Nigh on zix year ago;’ See image. ‘Ye Olde Dorset Fayre’, 22 and 23 August 1923; H. D. Warwick, printer, Weymouth. The two titled ‘Wole Darset Vayre’, 24 paperback