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are the changes which time has effected in the palace of Arthur, that 
is is no longer like the residence of 
“‘that Arthur who 
Shot through the lists at Camlet, and charged 
Before the eyes of ladies and of Kings. 
The old order changeth, yielding place to new.” 
It appears that there is an old couplet in Carew’s Survey 
[“[By “Dre, For and: ‘Pen, 
You shall know the Cornish men.” 
The well-known Cornish rhyme is merely an expansion of that 
couplet : 4 
** And shall Trelawney die ? 
Here’s twenty thousand Cornish boys 
Will know the reason why ? 
And shall they scorn Tre, Pol and Pen, 
And shall Trelawney die ? 
Here’s twenty thousand Cornish men 
Will know the reason why.” 
Camden has the couplet : 
** By Tre, Ros, Pol, Lan, Caer, and Pen, 
You may know the most Cornishmen.” 
According to him those words mean respectively a town, a heath, a 
pool, a church, a castle, or city, and a foreland or promontory. 
Tre, trev, a home or dwelling place; Irish treabh, Gaelic treubh, 
a tribe or family. The word in question does not enter to any 
extent at least into the Topography of Scotland and Ireland ; though 
it enters very largely into the Topography of Cornwall, e. g. : 
Trebean, beagan, a small number. 
Tredhu, dubh, black. 
Tredryne, droigheann, thorn. 
Treglome, lom, bare. 
Trekavwr, gobhar, a goat. 
Trelase, glas, grey. 
Tremeal, mil, meala, honey. 
Ros (Cornish, a heath, mountain, Gaelic, a promontory), occurs in 
Scotland in such names as Rosdu, Roseneath, Roslin, Ross, Kinross ; 
and in Ireland in such names as Foss, Rosscor, Rossmore. 
into such Cornish words as 
Roscarnon, carn, a heap or mound. 
Roskear, ciar, dusky. 
It enters 
