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Begin began Bite bit Break broke (Chaucer) Choose chose Drive driv, druv, dreft, past. part, drove (Shakspere) ^ See Dictionary. * Riz and rose are used for the literary raised, the verbs rise and raise being confused, if indeed raise can be said to be used at all. We say " the master he riz me a shillun yes'd'y ; " " the price was rose last Sad-d'y." Wiclif (Matt. xvii. 8) has " forsoothe thei, rysynge her up eiSen, sawen no man, no but Jhesus aloon." A good local example is a gardener's remar...k concerning a row of peas — " I kep' a risin' them wires, cos they shouldn't hu't 'em." ESSEX DIALECT GRAMMAR 49 Eat eati FaU fell (this also serves for the tran- sitive use " to fall a tree ") Forget forgot Give' give, gin, gon; gie, past tense only Ride rode (Shakspere) Shake shook (Shakspere) Speak* spoke (Chaucer) Stave stove* Steal stole (Chaucer) Swear swore Take' took (Chaucer and Shakspere) Tear tore Tread (treed) trod Wake woke Wear wore Wrap (wrop) wrop (also wrapped) Write writ, wrote (Shakspere) Good examples of these identical preterites and participles are seen in the common expression " that's been took good care of," and in Father William's* highly picturesque remark " What ye give me wasn't only wittles what ye'd eat all ye could off of." III.
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