THE

VOCABULARY

OF

EAST ANGLIA;

AN ATTEMPT TO RECORD

THE VULGAR TONGUE OF THE TWIN SISTER COUNTIES,

NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK,

AS IT EXISTED

In the last Twenty Years of the Eighteenth Century,

AND STILL EXISTS;

WITH PROOF OF ITS ANTIQUITY FROM ETYMOLOGY AND AUTHORITY,

Antiquam exquirite matrem.-VIRGIL.

BY THE LATE REV. ROBERT FORBY,

RECTOR OF FINCHAM, NORfolk.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

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