Home Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine - Edwin Waugh
But they had been compelled to weave it, though
" 'Stransportashun's not as ill
As weyvin rotten Su'.'
The song concludes with the emphatic execration,
" 'To hell wi' o' Surat!'"
--Note in "Lancashire Lyrics," vol. ii., edited by John Harland,
Esq., F.S.A.
{5} These beautiful lines, by the veteran Samuel Bamford, of
Harperhey, near Manchester, author of "Passages in the Life of a
Radical," &c., are copied from the new and complete edition of his
poems, entitled "Homely Rhymes, Poems, and Reminiscences," published
by Alexander Ireland & Co., Examiner and Times Office, Pall Mall,
Manchester. Price 3s. 6d., with a portrait of the author.