 | Elia Wilkinson Peattie - 1903 - 252 pages
...King James' men shall understand What Cornish lads 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! Out spake their Captain brave and bold, A merry wight was he; "If London Tower were Michael's hold,... | |
 | Mary Jane Taber - 1904 - 452 pages
...James II. It was of this bishop that the ballad was written: " And have they fixed the where and when ? And shall Trelawney die? Here's twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why! Out spake their captain brave and bold, A merry wight was he: ' If London Tower were Michael's hold,... | |
 | 1904 - 1136 pages
...who palmed off as a genuine ballad his " The Song of the Western Men " with its ringing refrain. " And shall they scorn Tre, Pol, and Pen ; and shall Trelawney die? Then twenty thousand Cornishmen will know the reason why." This, the great Macaulay pronounced to be... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - 1905 - 546 pages
...Scott and Macaulay are said to have been deceived by it at first : whereas except for the refrain, — And shall Trelawney die ? Here's twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why — which is an old local saying dating from the trial of the seven bishops in 1688, the whole was... | |
 | Emilie Kip Baker - 1915 - 232 pages
...King James's men shall understand What Cornish lads 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 ! Out spake their captain brave and bold, A merry wight was he ; "If London Tower were Michael's hold,... | |
 | Leon Kellner - 1921 - 414 pages
...Verse im Lande Arthurs entstanden, vom keltischen, mittel1 And have they fixed the where and when, And shall Trelawney die? Here's twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why. Macaulay beging die Unvorsichtigkeit, sich diese Ballade als altes Volkslied aufschwatzen zu lassen.... | |
 | John Charles Ryle - 1925 - 56 pages
...Trelawney die ? Then twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why. Chorus. And shall they scoru Tre, Pol, and Pen ? And shall Trelawney die ? Here's...twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why. Even the miners took up the song and sung it with a variation — Then thirty thousand underground... | |
 | Andrew King, John Plunkett - 2004 - 608 pages
...lips of the people, when their favourite Knight was in durance vile, made the country-side ring with ' And shall they scorn Tre, Pol, and Pen, And shall...twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why." There have been Ballads and Songs in every age of every civilised country, which gave utterance, not... | |
 | 1869 - 366 pages
...praised it under the impre sion of it being the genuine utterance of the bold Cornishmen, who said, — "And shall Trelawney die ? Here's twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why ! " r The Handbook of Heraldiy. By JOHN E. CUSSANS. London : John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, pp. 348,... | |
 | 1923 - 556 pages
...an original composition. In the poet'sown words : — With the exception of the choral lines : — And shall Trelawney die? Here's twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why ! -the whole of this song was composed by me in the year 1825. I wrote it under a stairhorned oak in... | |
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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. 
