Came o’er from Pencarrow, not fearing a wet coat,
To have some diversion, with Arscott of Tetcot,” etc.
“Trelawny” was for many years supposed to be a genuine old Cornish ballad, and as such was accepted and admired by several well-known literary men; but it was written by the late Rev. R. Hawker, Vicar of Morwenstowe; only the lines—
“And shall Trelawny die?
Here’s twenty thousand Cornishmen,
Will know the reason why!”—
being ancient.
John Dory.
As it fell on a holy day,