LIST OF BOOKS, ETC., WRITTEN IN OR RELATING 
TO THE DIALECTS OF DEVON. 
1 fa). The Obliging Husband and Imperious Wife ; or the 
West Country Clothier undone by a Peacock, with the pleasant 
and comical Humours of honest Humphrey, his Man, in witty and 
ingenious Dialogues. 1717. l2mo. Woodcut frontispiece in 
compartments. 
A copy was offered by Mr. Lilly in 1868 for £2. 2s. 
fb). The Obliging Husband and Imperious Wife, or the 
West-country Clothier undone by a Peacock. In dialogues, one of 
which is between Mr. Wilmot, a West-country Clothier at Crediton 
in Devonshire, and a Gentlewoman of good fortune in Exeter, and 
Honest Humphrey the Clothier's Man, with the Intrigues of their 
Courtship. London, 1722. 
(c). The Honest London Spy. Part 3. The Pleasant and 
Comical Humours of Honest Humphrey, in dialogues between an 
Obliging Husband and an Imperious Wife ; between Mr. Wilmot 
a West Country Clothier at Crediton, undone by a Peacock, a Gen- 
tleman of good Fortune in Exeter, and honest Humphrey his Man, 
&c., discoursing how extravagant Wives consume their Husbands' 
Estate and bring them to ruin. 1731. Frontispiece. 
This is a specimen of the Dialect of Devon. Davidson's Bihliotheco 
Devoniensis, 
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