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The place where Brute is said to haue first
landed, was Totnes in Cornwall, and therefore this wrastling likely
to haue chaunced there, sooner then elsewhere. The Prouince bestowed
on Corineus for this exployt, was Cornwall. It may then be presumed,
that he receiued in reward the place where hee made proofe of his
worth, and whose prince (for so with others I take Gogmagog to have
beene) hee had conquered, euen as Cyrus recompenced Zopirus with the
Citie Babylon [Herodotus], which his policie had recouered. Againe,
the actiuitie of Deuon and Cornishmen, in this facultie of wrastling,
beyond those of other Shires, dooth seeme to deriue them a speciall
pedigree, from that graund wrastler [3] Corineus. Moreouer, vpon the
Hawe at Plymmouth, there is cut out in the ground, the pourtrayture
of two men, the one bigger, the other lesser, with Clubbes in their
hands, (whom they terme Gog-Magog) and (as I haue learned) it is
renewed by order of the Townesmen, when cause requireth, which should
inferre the same to bee a monument of some moment.


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