May they have murreins raigne to keep the gentlemen at home unbound in easie freeze!

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The point is that we should stay together, whatever happens.

To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.