Taw Tavas. Be silent tongue.――To call one Tavas Tavas, Tongue Tongue, is as great a reproach as you can put upon any one. Reys yw meeras dueth ken lemmell uneth. Look twice before you leap once. Neb na gare y gwayn coll restewa. He that loves not gain loss befall him. Neb na gare y gy an gwra deveeder. He that loves not his dog will make him a choaked sheep. Non ges goon heb lagas na kei hebs scovern. There is no down without eye, nor hedge without ears. Na reys gara anvor goth ragan vor noweth. Do not leave the way old for the way new. Guel gw gwetha vel goofen. Better keep than ask.――This is spoken of a wariness and precaution concerning lending. Grova da rag, tha hannen te yn gurd. Do good, for thyself thou dost it. 4. Significancy of the Tongue. Adam gave names to the creatures, according to their natures; but the people of this land, having no better guide, have given names upon long experience had, and much observation made of the nature of things, and those do mostly appear now as to places and families. I shall adventure upon some instances: Lanceston, alias Dunhevet. Camden would fain have it to be Fanum Stephani; indeed St. Stephen’s, which is a mile off, seems to be the mother church, Lanceston the daughter church. Others would have it to be Lancelot’s Town, one of the Champion Knights of King Arthur, but that is further from truth. The Chief Justice Foster, talking with me about it, would fain have Dunhevet to be the most ancient name, from Dune a town, and Hevet above it, which there is accordingly. I told his lordship we must fetch the derivation higher, from the Cornish original (and not from the Saxon), and that is Leostofen, which is a place of large extent, or a broad end, which is properly so according to the situation thereof, at the broad end of the county, from whence it grows towards the west still narrower, like to the point of a wedge. I read in a good author, that Radulphus, brother to Alfius, Duke of Cornwall, was founder of Lanceston. I think he means the castle there, not the town.