 | Blackwood William and sons - 1883 - 264 pages
...James's men shall understand What Cornish lads can do. 2. And have they fixed the where and when t And shall Trelawney die ? Here's twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why ! 3. Out spoke their captain brave and bold, A merry wight was he: " If London Tower were Michael's... | |
 | Canadian Institute - 1886 - 344 pages
...yielding place to new." It appears that there is an old couplet in Carew's Survey " By Tre, Pol and fen, You shall know the Cornish men." The well-known Cornish...the reason why." Camden has the couplet : " By Tre, Bos, Pol, Lan, Caer, and Pen, You may know the most Cornishmen." According to him those words mean... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - 1888 - 306 pages
...cry : And shall Trelawney die ? and shall Trelawney die ? There's thirty thousand underground shall know the reason why. And shall they scorn Tre, Pol, and Pen ? and shall Trelawney die ? There's thirty thousand Cornish boys will know the reason why. Trelawney he's in keep and hold ;... | |
 | 1888 - 324 pages
...cry : And shall Trelawney die ? and shall Trelawney die ? There's thirty thousand underground shall know the reason why. And shall they scorn Tre, Pol, and Pen ? and shall Trelawney die ? There's thirty thousand Cornish boys will know the reason why. Trelawney he's in keep and hold ;... | |
 | Sarah Anne Matson - 1893 - 264 pages
...the " twenty thousand Cornishmen who would know the reason why," the burden of the song being — " And shall they scorn Tre, Pol, and Pen ? And shall Trelawney die ? There's twenty thousand Cornishmen Shall know the reason why ! " His ancestor, Sir John Trelawney,... | |
 | Joseph Hocking - 1897 - 380 pages
...was the men of Altarnun who caused a great uprising, and who marched through the county singing — "'And shall they scorn Tre, Pol and Pen, And shall Trelawney die ? Then twenty thousand Cornishmen Shall know the reason why ! ' " Evidently Hugh knew all this before,... | |
 | 1901 - 160 pages
...And have they fixed the where and when ? And shall Trelawny die ? Here's twenty thousand Cornishmen Will know the reason why And shall they scorn Tre, Pol, and Pen ? And shall Trelawny die ? Here's twenty thousand Cornishmen Will know the reason why. Out spake their captain... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1901 - 452 pages
...the Western Men," which Macaulay and others quoted as historical, though only the refrain was old : "And shall Trelawney die? Here's twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why ! " • There is Sydney Dobell's " Keith of Ravelston," f which •Robert Stephen Hawker was vicar... | |
 | 1874 - 252 pages
...King James's men shall understand What Cornish men can do. And have they fixed the where and when ? And shall Trelawney die ? Here's twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why. And shall they scorn Tre, Pol, and Pen, And shall Trelawney die ? There's twenty thousand Cornish men... | |
 | Virgil - 1902 - 554 pages
...here, cf. the Greek use of Kal in such phrases as Kal TTUS ; We use ' and ' similarly in English, eg ' And shall they scorn Tre, Pol, and Pen ? And shall Trelawney die ? ' 49. praeterea] A rare use of the word, which usually means 'besides': here it clearly means 'after... | |
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James's men shall understand What Cornish men can do. And have they fixed the -where and when ? And shall Trelawney die ? Here's twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why. 
