The Temporal gouernment of Cornwall, shooteth out also into two
branches, Martiall, and Ciuill.
For martiall affaires, master Camden noteth out of Iohannes
Sarisburiensis, that the Cornish mens valiancy purchased them such
reputation amongst our ancestours, as they (together with those of
Deuon and Wiltshire) were wont to be entrusted, for the Subsidiary
Cohort, or band of supply. An honour equall to the Romanes Triarii,
and the shoot-anker of the battell. With which concurreth the
ancient, if not authenticall testimony of Michael Cornubiensis,
who had good reason to knowe the same, being that Countryman,
and more to report it: his verses, for which I haue also beene
beholding to M. Camden, are these:
——Rex Arcturus nos primos Cornubienses
Bellum facturus vocat, vt puta Caesaris enses
Nobis non alijs, reliquis, dat primitus ictum
Per quem pax lisque, nobis sit vtrumq; relictum
Quid nos deterret, si firmiter in pede stemus,
Fraus ni nos superet, nihil est quod non superemus.
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