Iohn Romane, a short clownish grub, would beare the whole carkase of
an Oxe, and yet neuer tugged with him, like that so famous Milo,
when hee was a Calfe.
For activity, one Kiltor, committed to Launceston Gayle for the last
Cornish commotion, laying there in the castle-greene vpon his back,
threw a stone of some pounds wayght, ouer that Towres top, which
leadeth into the parke.
For health, 80. & 90. yeres age, is ordinary in euery place, and in
most persons, accompanied with an able vse of the body & his sences.
One Polzew, lately liuing, reached vnto 130, a kinsman of his,
to 112. one Beauchamp to 106. yea Brawne the begger, a Cornishman by
wandring (for I cannot say, by inhabitance) though Irish by birth,
out-scoreth a hundred winters, by I wote not how many reuolutions.
And in the parish where God hath seated my poore dwelling, I remember
the decease of foure, within 14. weekes space, whose yeres added
together, made vp the summe of 340.
Now to the degrees of their seuerall callings, wherein as I will poast
ouer the Dukes to another place, so for Noblemen, I may deliuer in a
word, that Cornwall at this present enioyeth the residence of none
at al.
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