1-23 THE DIALEOT OF Also in 'Thomas Indiae' (Towneley Mytteries, p. 284) we fiud a similar use of the word : 'From ded to lyf at set stevyn rasid me throughe thi paustee,* t. e. raised me by thy power from death to life at set time. And again in ver. 53 of Robin Hood and Gay of Oisbome :
- When little John heard his master speak
Well knew he it was his 8teven : " Now shall I be loosed," quoth little John,
- With Christ his might in heaven." *
In all these passages steven evidently means timet or appointed time. Stag, a boys' game, played thus : — One boy ajipointed for the purpose issues forth and tries to * tig ' another, previously saying this ' nominy,' or the first two lines :
- Stag, stag arony
Ma* dog's bony. Them *at Aw catch
- ill ha* to go wi* me.'
When one boy is * tigged * (or * tug ') the two issue forth hand in hand, and when more, all hand in hand. The other players have the privi- lege of breaking the chain, and if they succeed the parties forming it are liable to be ridden back to the den. At Lepton, when the game was publicly played, the boundaries were * Billy Loin end, Penny Haas end, and T* horsin step.' So played in 1810, and is still. Stake, or Steak (pronounced stake ; gh stalk), to fasten a door. See Willie and May Margaret :
- O, he's gane round and round about,
And tirled at the pin. But doors were sleek d and windows barr'd, And nane t6 let him in.' Stale, past tense of to steal. Stall'd, tired ; wearied j satiated. Stang, a pain. Stang, a kind of pole or perch. Sfan.g is the Danish for a pole.] Cows and geese have stauga to prevent them passing through hedgesw There is a custom here called * riding the slangy especially when there is anything wrong between man and wife. The party * riding the Btang * is not the guilty party, but one of the mob who takes the lead in the matter. The * nominy ' runs thus :
- With a ran, with a ran.
With a ran dan dan, Sound of a horn, and a owd tin can ; Owd Mally — has paid her good man.' (Here the cans are beaten and the horns blown, and silence being obtained)
