The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-05-20 00:00:00

LITERARY EXTRACTS.

The following Song is copied from a volume mailki
" Roxburgh Ballads." The pieces are selected from
those published between the years A. D. 1560-1700.
"Tnit Donsirrearan DAHaIL, on Yonne Manor
Hiss L tetT P , CoSTAINING Hu &tame
Rzquarr TO Laza THI Altura, TO It Samna°
WHaTHEB TIN WOULD HATS HIS OE No. Conimummt
WITH His KIND Atiewolau
In Donetabire lived a young millrr by trade,
Who had courted sweet flimsy, an innocent maid;
Jut a twelvemonth or more ha had kept her in hang
She wait to him at last, that she might understand
What be meant by his fooling and serving her
" Frith's, 1.11 me,"t, oath she, "it you'll harem. or so?'
When first you same to me, how kind was you then!
You would give ins Meet kisses a !melted and ten;
Nay, and told mu that you did my beauty adore,
Yet you have not been with me th a two months or more.
Therefore, pray now resolve me before I do go,
Whether you do intend to have me or no?
Wh I come with my grist to your mill,
You would always be kissing and courting we still,
I Gould neer be at rest and at quiet for 300,
I.appeakto your conscience if this be not true.

Tl.ierefore-pray now resolve, /se, &a --
1 bought you a cravat to go to a feast,
One that cost halt-a-crown, or two shillings at lead,
And besides that, I gave you three ells of good minus.
For to make you a shut, of iny mother's own spisming,
Therefor. prithee, resole*, Ito., he.
There's Roger would have me, and calls me his dear,
fie has gut an estate of ten shilliumi a year.
Besides forty good shillings and hve in a purse,
Therefore don't spoil soy forums- and hinder me thus.
But be ples3ed to resolve. kn., It..
You told me last Easter you'd make me your bride,
Wherefore new knots and favours I btrait Aid provide,
Ent you ne'er c.me near me till now June the third;
Ey'ry honest man would be as good as his word.
But 1 prithee, resolve, Sm., &a.
You solemnly swore when Isat on your knee
That yen then had a love and a kindness for me,
And if so, what's the reason, lam not your bride?
Faith, those lingering bargains I near could abide.
Let nie now be resolved, Ito., Ito.
Tia' very well known I am now In my prime
And to have a kind husband I think it high time,
• • • • •
Pray resolve me the question before I do go
Whether you du intend to have me or no.

THE YOUNG MAN'S ANSWER.
Sweet Nancy; my promise I do not forget,
But I am net resolv'd to be msrrie'd as yet;
The devouring sword now is reigning yon see,
And if Ito the wars should ne toned from thee,
Then thy grief and sorrow will daily increase, ,
Therefore, pritlice love, Way, till a lourietting pouts.
Believe me, I swear by the powers above
Tlist I miter will leave thee for any now love,
My desire is that thou wilt patiently wait
Till the land is restored to • prosperous state.
If I live but till than, thou shalt be my sweet bride
For I love none in ell the whole stades beside.
London, May 12, 1862.
DORSET WORTHIES.—" TO judge by Fuller'. lid,
Dorset has not been fertile in ' worehies ;' bat Fuller's
lisle are not always satisfactory, to may nothing of the
repntations that have been made since his time.
Dorset. though perhaps without much enthnsiasni,
claims listtliew Prier as a raters, who, if he was not
born in London was born at Winibornit. Blantiford
• wax the birthplaite eif a much worthier man, Archbishop
,Wake, the earn* onnioter of Minium for bripging the
`4lliesin and Continental Churches into something like
uffkin. Cardinal Kelton wait burn at Bore Regis.
Stilllngljeed thee by Crinktorne ; Tbernliill, the painter
(Hogartisle fathersin-law,) at Weymouth • Sprat (If we
believe his epitaph rather than his biegraplier,) at
Bes Mister ; Henry Chet tie (a dramatist oonteinporary
with Shskspeare,)a& Blandford Si. Mary's; and Thomas
Srdenhant, at Wynford Eagle. Raleigh owned
Sherborne, and Sir Christopher Hatton lived at Carts
Castle. Wimborne St. Giles, the birth; law of the first
Exil of Shaftesbury, is now possessed by the seventh,
who Ilse kept his hietotiaal name before the mashie
during a long career of parliaineatary and platform
activity. Eastbury, a great house by Vanbrugh, user
Blandforil, was no active literary cadre in the time of
Bubb Dodington, who used to entree% there Young mid
Theupani, and Fielding and &alley ; but the house has
long since been pulled down. Fuller was a Dorset
' worthy ' himself, for he hialkl *he hiring of Broadwissor.
Boyle spent several year. atßtalbridge ; and Christopher
Pitt, who translated Lucian and Vida, and who ills up
• little interatic is Johnson's Lives between Pone and
Thompson, was the rector of Piinperne, near the banks
of the Stour."—Qaarferfa Review o. 222.
THE COUNTRY SHIJLRN TRO3I END TO ER.—" The
farm labourers took to burning ricks and breaking
machines with greet enthusiasm in 1830 and 1831; bet
one is almost Installed in saying that the nest thing
eftsr the advent of Judge Jeffrey. that gave the county
s downright shake front end to end was the arum 'e of
S. G. 0. IL was during the session of 1846 that the
House of Comuions was startled by rumours of distress
among Dorset labourers equalling the distress in Ireland.
The Tines employed a consinimioner during the
summer months to investigate the state of matters; and
his report, contained in sic letters, was foliowad by a
paper war in the columns of the tame journal respecting
the smeltery tiondition of particular parishes, in one
of which, Rymety name, an inqniry was meditated into
S. G, o.'a allegations, whirred effectually-driving him
front any one of them. All this gave the county an
unpleasant notoriety at the time, and a dad Dante, not
easily shaken off, of being ehrouitmlly behind the age.
Tilifit was hard meaner,; for, bail as things were, the
march of agricultural improvement had been, even in
1846, well begun, and it has advanced with rapidity and
steadiness ever since. Large tracts of waste lands and
sheep downs have been broken up, machinery has bees
brought into nee on all sides and thoroughly good
systems of farming have bacon; naturalised, especially
on the hill diatriete. Better cottages have been built
in many places. The price of labourers is on the whole
rising, thongh scarcely in the mime proportion. In some
of the cheep anel eursiocrowireg neighbourhoods wages
ram according to Mr. Darby, two or three shillings
higher than they did twenty, years age. On limey of
these farms lie tells ul—writlng In the 'Bath and
West of England Journal'—that the money payments
range from eight toeletreri rhillings a week, and that
the allowances' generally represent the vahns of three
and 'sixpence more in the week. A well known
agriculturist, ocieupyifig 400 arm ta West Norfolk and
I,2ooacres near Dorchester, does not hesitate to affirm
that the ' farm labourers are actually in the receipt of
higher wages in Dorset than on the fertile Wider if
Norfolk.' In sonis distriets, ea tbe other baud, wages
remain exactly where 'they Were twenty years ago; that
is to say, the I tharer still gets no more than seVaa or
eiulit shillinp in money, besides the allowance's The
truth on this head of labour payment seems to be, that
the county is in • state of transition, but of transition
only as yet. Certain districts on the bills may ehalleage
comparison anywhere, but much remeltss to be doneka
the low-Iylng districts and on the hills. Dorset id
tripartite : the three sections being/dia. permit deists ;
Way, chalk, sand • vale, down, and heath. The chalk
region is, anti is likely ho remain. the 'crack' region of
Dorset farming ; nor will It ever be fair to indigo of the
entire county by the condition of the chalk farina alone.
One word should be said before passing on *boat the
truck ayetein, or system of allowances. As long as the
labour payment I. soils up in this way firma various
mourn.* in kited, so long there will be the liability to
allure and often the OtTtahltl. Gins been well pointed
out ip the Times that the labourer is in this manner
kept lelitirely dependent upon hie waster's interims.
Whief, the fuel isenmething more than mere faros, and
the bushel of tailing wheat or' gristling' it round and
of good quality, the luau is well off; but where the fuel
has to be lINd pliIII•el), in drying the grist which has
been nerved out toe damp for th• miller —a case which
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