that it is peopled with 12.
dwellings, and 13. cuckolds: for as the dwellings are more then
doubled, so (I hope) the cuckolds are lesse then singled.
Howsoeuer, many wayfarers make themselues glee, by putting the
Inhabitants in minde of this priuiledge; who againe, especially the
women (like the Campellians in the North, and the London Bargers)
forslow not to baigne them (vnlesse they plead their heels the faster)
with a worse perfume, then Iugurth found fault with in the dungeon,
where the Romanes buried him aliue, to attend his languishing and
miserable death.
Vpon Sheuiock abbutteth S. Germanes, the greatest parish in Cornwall,
if you ioyne to the store of people, the quantity and quality of
the soyle, wherethrough it affoordeth commodious dwellings to sundry
ancient Gentlemen, and wealthy Farmours; amongst which first sort,
I may not (without withdrawing my testimony due to vertue) omit
M. George Keckwitch of Catch-French, a house so named (by likelyhood)
for some former memorable, though now forgotten accident, whose
continuall, large, and inquisitiue liberality to the poore, did in
the late deare yeres, extraordinarily extend it selfe to an inuiting
emulation, but beyond the apprehensiue imitation of any other in
the shire.
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