A Handbook of the Cornish Language / chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature

Transcribed from the 1904 David Nutt edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
by HENRY JENNER
member of the gorsedd of the bards of brittany fellow of the society of antiquaries
“Never credit me but I will spowt some Cornish at him. Peden bras , vidne whee bis cregas .” The Northern Lass , by Rich Brome, 1632.
LONDON DAVID NUTT, AT THE SIGN OF THE PHŒNIX 57-59 LONG ACRE mcmiv
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DHÔ ’ M GWRÊG GERNÛAK
H. L. J.
Kerra ow Holon ! Beniges re vo Gans bennath Dew an dêdh a ’th ros dhemmo , Dhô whelas gerryow gwan pan dhetha vî , Tavas dha dassow , ha dhô ’th drovya dî . En cov an dêdh splan-na es pel passyes ; En cov idn dêdh lowenek , gwin ’gan bês , War Garrak Loys en Côs , es en dan skês Askelly Myhal El , o ’gan gwithes ; En cov lîas dêdh wheg en Kernow da , Ha nŷ mar younk — na whekkah vel êr-ma Dhemmo a dhîg genev an gwella tra , Pan dhetha vî en kerh , en ol bro-na ; Dheso mî re levar dha davas teg , Flogh ow empinyon vî , dhô ’m kerra Gwrêg .
GWAS MYHAL .
Scrîfes en agan Chŷ nŷ , Dawthegves dêdh Mîs Gorefan En Bledhan agan Arledh , 1904.