MÔT Ê Y'EXLENSI FEIM - Wê, Is Mêst Grêsias Majesty, Wiliam se Vioureth, is vasaws, on, wê wêrliç belwth, eidher trw on ciewêr belers ou's Barony Forth, crawth o thiss luciç tyd a liâf niâcher y'exlensi tô miend, on mid wr yaud sprêçis onviaudiç iar wr çau ou your qualitis t'yw, vorfywc wê cunoch zej bwt "Governor", "Statesman", on ylyç. In euç on euriç fyw bith ê wi giôzen siort th'wr yain reisteth po se Representative ou's Cieng, Wiliam IV, under feis faderliç rwl wr daws yspint biôth; as avor yê trad thiss lond was your nom vor o vriound ou liberty ycint, on as ê fâ the zlauis veters brac.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY – We, the subjects of his Most Gracious Majesty, William IV, and, as we verily believe, both faithful and loyal inhabitants of the Barony of Forth, beg leave at this favourable opportunity to approach your Excellency, and in the simple dress of our old dialect to pour forth from the strength (or fulness) of our hearts, our sense (or admiration) of the qualities which characterise your name, and for which we have no words but of ‘Governor’, ‘Statesman’, etc. In each and every condition it is with joy of heart that our eyes rest upon the representative of the Sovereign, William IV, under whose paternal rule our days are spent; for before your foot pressed the soil, your name was known to us as the friend of liberty, and he who broke the fetters of the slave.
(this is mildly archaic)
Wre Feeder, the thw in siofone iart,
yhalod bio thy name.
Sciele thy ryçe cume,
on thy wille ydoun bio,
oun iordde so oun siofone.
Yw ws toodey wre deiliçe llaff,
on foryw ws wre sienes
so wey foryw hye the egein ws sien.
On ne led thw ws ountoo no temptasioun,
ac alyes ws froum ywle.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY – We, the subjects of his Most Gracious Majesty, William IV, and, as we verily believe, both faithful and loyal inhabitants of the Barony of Forth, beg leave at this favourable opportunity to approach your Excellency, and in the simple dress of our old dialect to pour forth from the strength (or fulness) of our hearts, our sense (or admiration) of the qualities which characterise your name, and for which we have no words but of ‘Governor’, ‘Statesman’, etc. In each and every condition it is with joy of heart that our eyes rest upon the representative of the Sovereign, William IV, under whose paternal rule our days are spent; for before your foot pressed the soil, your name was known to us as the friend of liberty, and he who broke the fetters of the slave.
(this is mildly archaic)
Wre Feeder, the thw in siofone iart,
yhalod bio thy name.
Sciele thy ryçe cume,
on thy wille ydoun bio,
oun iordde so oun siofone.
Yw ws toodey wre deiliçe llaff,
on foryw ws wre sienes
so wey foryw hye the egein ws sien.
On ne led thw ws ountoo no temptasioun,
ac alyes ws froum ywle.