8 COENISH PROVERBS AND RHYMES. 



It is hoped that this will be a sufficient apology for the following 

 pages, and that their contents may one day occupy a more appro- 

 priate position in the pages of some of those interested in the 

 preservation of a Language once so generally spoken, and now so 

 long extinct ; and who will be more able than myself to judge of 

 their respective merits. 



Throughout this Paper I have been careful to adhere strictly to 

 the MS. of Dr. Borlase ; giving [in brackets] his notes, where they 

 occur, and omitting all those portions which, to my certain knowledge, 

 have been published before ; so that, as far as I am able, I may keep 

 within the bounds of my subject, namely, the unpublished Proverbs 

 and Rhymes found in the MS. of Dr. Borlase. It is not impossible, 

 however, that these very same MSS. have been previously published, 

 by some Author hitherto unknown to me ; and if this be the case, 

 I can only express a hope that the merits of the productions them- 

 selves may excuse the inadvertence of the writer. 



Since writing the above, Mr. Norris, author of the Cornish Drama, 

 has kindly undertaken to correct my MS., which he has done in the 

 shape of some valuable Notes, which I purpose to insert at the foot 

 of each page where they occur. Prom him I learn that some five or 

 six of the Proverbs are already contained in Pryce and Lhuyd ; but 

 as Mr. Norris has kindly extended his notes to these also, and has 

 in one or two instances corrected the faults occasioned by the 

 ignorance of Pryce, I hope they will not be considered altogether out 

 of place in this Paper. 



All the Notes, therefore, with exception of the last four, are 

 those which I have received from Mr. Norris. 



PROYEEBS, 



found in the MSS. of Dr Borlase, fromScawen, Lhuyd, Gwavas, and 

 Ustick ; those of Tonkin omitted, for which see Pryce's Grammar. 



From Me. SCAWEN'S MSS. 



1. — Pohyll abell hew Castilly. People from far inhabit Castles. 



[Alluding to the Danes, who had so many Castles in Cornwall.] 



