I notice the interpolation in several cases of a couple of lines involving 40 days and 40 nights. My guess is that these lines are borrowed from a venerable rhyme which I have only ever heard done with a broad Yorkshire accent, as follows:

And God said unto Ahab "Go forth into t'desert." And Ahab went forth into t'desert. And whilst in t'desert, flaxen-haired maiden come unto Ahab and said "Wilt thou tarry with me here ?" And Ahab said "Yea, I will." And it came to pass that he tarried for forty days and forty nights. And on t'forty-first day, flaxen-haired maiden come unto Ahab and said "Lo, I am great with child. What steps wilt thou take ?" and Ahab said "Bloody great big ones !" and buggered off into t'desert.