A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End: Comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of West CornwallParis, John Ayrton
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A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End: Comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of West Cornwall
Paris, John Ayrton
Cornwall (England : County) -- Guidebooks
(Fuss) [a low cant word] a tumult, a bustle. Swift.
(Un) Aunt--a title usually given to an elderly woman.
(Vean) [Cornish for little] Cheel Vean--little Child.
(Tarving) [a cant word] struggling, convulsions, _Tarvings_.
(Fang) [Saxon] to gripe, receive, &c. Shakespear.
(Maze-gerry Pattick) a mad brutish or frolicsome fool.
(Midjans and Jouds) shreds and tatters.
(Noans) [Nonce] on purpose.
(Clom Buzza) a coarse earthen pot.
(Scoans) the pavement. (Showl) a shovel. (Steeve) stave.
(Scat) to give a blow, to break. (Chacks) cheeks.
(Murely) almost. (Baal'd) mischievously beaten.
(Bazzom) of a blue or purple colour.
(Muggety Pye) a pye made of sheeps guts, parsley and cream, pepper
and salt. (Clunk) swallow. (Croom) crumb.
(Mashes) a great many, number, &c.
(Mabjers) Mab Hens--young fowls two-thirds grown.
(Pillas) [Pilez--Cornish] the _avena nuda_ or naked oats of Ray;
bald, bare or naked oats without husks.
(Hoggan) Hogan in Cornish British signifies a Hawthorn berry; also
any thing mean or vile; but here it means a Pork pasty; and now
indeed a Tinner's Pasty is called a _Hoggan_.
(Arrea) Arria [vulg. for Ria] O strange.
(Gaert) great, "gaert mawr o Fuss," great root of Furze.
(Haestis) hastily. (Yevil) a Dung fork with three prongs.
(Passon) Parson. (Coose) course or way of him.
(Neyne weeks)--as though they had been married but nine weeks,
whereas in the third line, she is addressed by Un Mally as 'long
wetha Cheeld vean.' This will be readily explained by noticing
a custom very prevalent among the lower ranks of the county, as
will appear by the following anecdote. A friend of mine who was
one year an officer in one of the mining parishes, told me that
of fifty-five couples married during that year, it was _manifest_
by the appearance of fifty of the ladies, that they ought to have
been married several moons before. A young man, to the honor of the
county be it said, (even if the practice be to its disparagement)
needs no compulsion to marry his lass when in this condition.
(Nackin) Handkerchief. (Preen) Penryn. (Pooted) kicked.
(Fangings) gettings or wages. (Viestes) Fists.
CARN BREH,[147]
AN ODE HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED,
By Dr. WALCOT,
BETTER KNOWN BY THE POETICAL APPELLATION OF
PETER PINDAR.[148]
While nature slumbers in the shade,
And Cynthia, cloth'd in paly light,
Walks her lone way, the mount I tread,
Majestic mid the gloom of night.
With reverence to the lofty hill I bow,
Where Wisdom, Virtue, taught their founts to flow.
Wan, on yon rocks' aspiring steep
Behold a Druid form, forlorn!
I see the white rob'd phantom weep--
I hear to heaven his wild harp mourn.
The temples open'd to the vulgar eye;
And Oaks departed, wake his inmost sigh.
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