His name sounds Cornish," I asked.

appointed William Cornish (died 1523) to be Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal.

Cornish was a capable dramatist, as well as a musician and a poet; and he, unlike the author of Everyman, wrote plays simply to amuse the court and its guests.

Cornish and John Heywood (1497?1580?), a court dramatist of much versatility, incorporated in the Interlude many of the elements of the five-act drama.

Wallace thinks that the best Interludes, such as The Four P's and The Pardoner and the Frere, were written by Cornish, although they are usually ascribed to Heywood.

Cornish had unusual ability as a deviser of masques and plays.

Cornish had Wind appear "in blue with drops of silver"; Rain, "in black with silver honeysuckles"; Winter, "in russet with flakes of silver snow"; Summer, "in green with gold stars"; and Spring, "in green with gold primroses."

In 1522 Cornish wrote and presented before Henry VIII.

Among his books on simple Cornish life may be mentioned The Delectable Duchy (1893).

For not only was he a head and shoulders taller than the tallest of Cornish men, but his strength and fierceness were great in the same degree that he was big of frame.

their apparel was coarse, they went bare legged, their dwelling was correspondent; but since enclosure, they live decently, and have money to spend (fol. 23); when their fields were common, their wool was coarse, Cornish hair; but since enclosure, it is almost as good as Cotswol, and their soil much mended.

But I wish sometimes I could be of use, Mrs. Mellot: but what can a fellow do?" "I thought there was an Irish tenantry to be looked after, my lord, and a Cornish tenantry too.

Boilers, general description of: the wagon boiler, the Cornish boiler; the marine flue boiler; the marine tubular boiler; locomotive boilersee Locomotives.

The book is made up of three groups, studies of Spain, of London and of certain coasts, chiefly Cornish.

The old man, like many of the puddlers and feeders of the mills, was Welsh,had spent half of his life in the Cornish tin-mines.

You may pick the Welsh emigrants, Cornish miners, out of the throng passing the windows, any day.

" The vicar laughed a little laugh as he said this, but it was a laugh, Joshua's mother said, that seemed to mean the same thing as a "scat" our Cornish word for a blowonly the boy didn't seem to see it.

The other Celtic languages which have existed within the last one hundred years are the Gaelic of the north of Scotland, the Breton of western France, and the Cornish of the southwestern corner of England.

Those who are descended from the Celts are marked Celtic even though today they have given up their Celtic language, as have the Cornish in England and the inhabitants of Spain, France, eastern Belgium, and the greater part of Ireland.

A book written by a Cornish miner, whose life passes in subterranean monotony, sparing none of the petty and ever-recurring details that make up his routined existence, would, if set down in the baldest language, be a valuable contribution to literature.

Atlantic ordeal, the story of Mary Cornish.

(See also Lee, Charles; 23Jun70; R487580) Cornish tales.

But there are some faults that permeate and soak through a man's whole character, as in the Cornish squab pie, where an excellent pasty of bacon, potatoes, and other agreeable commodities is penetrated throughout with the oily flavour of a young cormorant which is popped in at the top just before the pie is baked.

To adapt a Cornish description of something quite different, "when it's bad, it's execrable; and when it's good, it's only middlin'."

245-9 Cooking utensils, great value of, 222 lists of, 223-7 Cooper, Joseph, 72-3 Copley, Esther, 164 Copper, art of tinning, 217 Cornish pasty, 185 Coryat, Thomas, 222 Court, the ancient, 231 Cows, 8-9 Crab-apple sauce, 215 Creams, 123-4 Cromwell, Oliver, 73-5 his favourite dishes, ibid.