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Trenestatha, Good night.
Fatlugan a why: How do you?
Da durdalathawhy: Wel I thanke you.
Betha why Iawanneck: Be you mery.
Benetugana: Farewell.
A sister, they call Whoore:
a whoore, whorra:
a priest, coggaz:
a partridge, grigear:
a Mare, cazock.
Relauta: by my troth.
Warrasay: by my fayth.
Molla tuenda laaz, ten thousand mischiefs in thy guts.
Mille vengeance warna thy, a thousand vengeances take thee.
Pedn ioll, deuils head:
Pedn brauze, great head:
pedn mowzack, stinking head:
and so in Infinitum.
Which termes, notwithstanding thogh they witnes their spite on the
one side, yet retayne they as great a proofe of their deuotion on the
other: for the Lords Prayer, the Apostles Creed, and the ten
commaundements, haue beene used in Cornish beyond all remembrance.
But the principall loue and knowledge of this language, liued in
Doctor Kennall the Ciuilian, and with him lyeth buryed: for the
English speach doth still encroche vpon it, and hath driuen the same
into the vttermost skirts of the shire.


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