<span style='font-family:Verdana'><span style='font-size:12px'>According to Andrew Breeeze (<a href="http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/content/54/4/367.extract">http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/content/54/4/367.extract</a>)<br />
"The phrase, reading <em><text xmlns="">ud rocashaas</text></em><text xmlns="">, occurs in Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, MS lat. 3363; it appears above the adjective </text><em><text xmlns="">perosa</text></em><text xmlns=""> ‘loathing’ in </text><em><text xmlns="">De Consolatione Philosophiae</text></em><text xmlns=""> by Boethius. In the passage, beginning metrum 1 of book IV, Philosophy tells Boethius, ‘For I have swift feathers, which fly up to the height of heaven. When quick Thought clothes herself in them, with loathing she despises the lands below </text><text xmlns="">(</text><em> <text xmlns="">Terras perosa despicit</text></em><text xmlns="">),</text> rises above the vast encircling atmosphere, and sees the clouds behind her back ….’ "<br />
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The phrase is late ninth century, and an annotation to an Anglo-Saxon translation.</p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 12px">From: Craig Weatherhill</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 12px">Sent: 06/24/11 01:06 AM</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 12px">Subject: [Spellyans] earliest cornish words</span></span></p>
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Question: where can you find the earliest written Cornish words?
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