"When Haldon hath a hat
Kenton may beware a skat."
This often quoted saying is curiously illustrated by a passage from the romance of Sir Gawaya and the Grene Knicht (Madden's Sir Gawaya, p. 77.):
"Mist muged on the mor, malt on the mountes,
Uch hille hadde a hatte, a myst-hakel huge."
In the note on this passage Sir Frederick quotes two proverbs like the Devonshire one above. They are, however, well known, and there is no lack of similar sayings.
"When Plymouth was a furzy down,
Plympton was a borough town."