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Stories and folk-lore of West Cornwall. Third Series

Note 2 — CORNISH DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO OLD MEN.

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This was nearly the language of our learned countryman, Mr. Moyle, in “A charge to the Grand Jury at Liskeard, April, 1706.” “If France (says he) prevails in this war, we shall be dragooned into idolatry, slavery, and wooden shoes.”—See Moyle’s works, vol. 1, p. 163. ↑

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