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Fayne was he therefore to shew his
mishap, and by gestures to craue ayd in earnest of the Gentlewomen,
whom hee had aforetime often scared in sport.
Of all maner vermine, Cornish houses are most pestred with Rats, a
brood very hurtfull for deuouring of meat, clothes, and writings by
day; and alike cumbersome through their crying and ratling, while
they daunce their gallop gallyards in the roofe at night.
Strangers, at their first comming into the West parts, doe complayne
that they are visited with the slowe sixe-legged walkers, and yet the
cleanely home-borne finde no such annoyance. It may proceed from
some lurking naturall effect of the Climate; as wee read, that the
trauailers who passe the Equinoctiall, doe there lose this manlike
hunting vermine, and vpon their returne recouer them againe.
The other beastes which Cornwall breedeth, serue either for Venerie,
or meate, or necessary vses. Beastes of Venery persecuted for their
case, or dammage feasance, are Marternes, Squirrels, Foxes, Badgers,
and Otters.


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