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Two words here prove how Cornish was affected by the Roman occupation pobl for people, and egles for church. When Paul was burned Mousehole suffered also, and its only house that survived was the manor of the Keigwins, now the "Keigwin Arms," whose appearance quite justifies the antiquity claimed for it.
John Garrett, Vicar of St. Paul." Prince Lucien, nephew of the first Napoleon, was an eager student of philology. It may be given as a specimen of the extinct language: "Bounas heb dueth Eu poes Karens wei tha Pobl Bohodzhak Paull han Egles nei"; which has been thus rendered: "Eternal life be his whose loving care Gave Paul an almshouse and the church repair."
In the same Island also there breed hauks, but they are so blacke that they are very like to rauens, as also their partridges, and egles, which are in like sort blacke.
And than begynnen the mynstrelle to maken hire mynstralcye, in dyverse instrumentes, with alle the melodye that thei can devyse. And whan thei han don hire craft, than thei bryngen before the emperour, lyouns, libardes and other dyverse bestes; and egles and veutours, and other dyverse foules; and fissches, and serpentes; for to don him reverence.
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