The Knights – A Farce in 2 Acts by Foote (1793)

Har. How did you divert yourself ?

Tim. Oh, we ha’ pastimes enow there :—we ha? bull-baiting, and cock-fighting, and fishing, and hunting, and hurling, and wrestling.

Har. The two last are sports for which that country is very remarkable in those, 1 presume, you are very expert. 8

Tim, Nan! What?

Har. 1 say you are à good wrestler. A

Tim. Oh, yes sure, I can wrestle well enow:

Har. we don’t wrestle after your fashion; we ha’ no tripping, fath and sole! we go all upon close hugs, or the flying mare. Will you try a fall, Master? I won’t hurt you, fath and sole.

Har. We had as good not venture though. But have you left in Cornwall nothing that you regret the loss of more than hurling and wrestling:

Tim. Nan! What?

Har, No favourite she?

Tim. Arra, I coupled Favourite and Jowler together, and sure they tugg’d it all the way up. Part with Favourite! no, I thank you for nothing, You must know I nurs’d Favourite myself: uncle’s huntsman was going to Mill-pond to drown all Music’s puppies, so I saved she. But fath, I’Il tell you a comical story; at Lanston, they both broke loose, and eat a whole loin-a’-veal, and a leg of bee

A Fictional Play with short mention of Cornish vs Devon style. pp. 17. in The Knights, A Farce in 2 Acts, by Samuel Foote. 1793. Available on Archive.org.