McGrath, "I be wrong" or "I be ready" are examples of ebonic language heard from inner city Black children. In a few city schools, pupils at first may be taught conventional English along with an acceptance of ebonic language, but I had quite forgotten that these phrases may appear in some English regional dialects (as well). I be forgetful.
Bobert, Robert Graves did a good job of putting Chaucer's Canterbury Tales into modern English. The traditionalists hate it.