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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 Tre, Pol and Pen, 

 You shall know the Cornish men." 



The well-known Cornish rhyme is merely an expansion of that 



couplet : 



" 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 



WiU 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 treahh, Gaelic treuhh, 

 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, lorn, bare. 



Trekavwr, gobhar, a goat. 



Trelase, glas, grey. 



Tremeal, mil, meala, honey. 



Has (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 Ross, Rosscor, Rossmore. It enters 

 into such Cornish words as 



Roscarnon, cam, a heap or mound. 



Roskear, ciar, dusky. 



