1824 Poem, George Dugall, ‘C-BB-T’s Origin’
Author: George Dugall
Date: 1824
Source: Poem: ‘C-BB-T’s Origin’, from The Northern Cottage and other poems; written partly in the Dialect of the North of Ireland by George Dugall (Londonderry: William McCorkell, 1824)
Comments: George Dugall (c.1790-1855) was the son of Rev. George Dugall, Presbyterian minister of Magherafelt from 1786-1810, and lived most of his life near Newtowncunningham in Donegal. He was a schoolteacher in north Donegal, and his only book of poems The Northern Cottage contains an extensive glossary of Ulster-Scots words. The vocabulary and cultural context of his poems are rich in Ulster-Scots reference.
Doc. ref. no.: USLS/TB/Poetry/1800-1899/065
C-BB-T’S ORIGIN
Misrule and Hypocrisy, lovers so true,
’Tis said made a conjugal job o’t;
Dr. Premier attended, when Miss fell in two
Of that crabbed blind urchin, W-ll C-bb-t:
His sire and his dam like two flitches of ham,
To devour he seem’d damnably hurried;
But missing the mark, he mistook in the dark,
And Religion and Order he worried.