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The following Ode is founded on a Tradition cur

rent in Wales, that Edward the Firft, when he

completed the conqueft of that country, ordered

all the Bards, that fell into his hands, to be put to

death.

• Helm, nor

*Hauberk's twisted mail,

'Nor even thy virtues, Tyrant, shall avail

To fave thy fecret foul from nightly fears,

• From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears!'

Such were the founds, that o'er the † crested pride
Of the first Edward scatter'd wild dismay,

As down the steep of ‡ Snowdon's fhaggy fide

He wound, with toilfome march, his long array.

Stout

* The Hauberk was a texture of steel ringlets, or links interwo ven, forming a coat of mail, that fat close to the body, and adapt. ed itself to all its motions.

† The crested adder's pride.

Dryden's Indian Queen

Snowdon was a name given by the Saxons to that mountainous tract, which the Welsh themselves call Craigian-eryri: it included

all

Stout Glo'fter stood aghaft in fpeechlefs trance:

To arms! cried † Mortimer, and couch'd his quiv'ring lance.

all the highlands of Caernarvonshire and Merionethshire, as far east as the river Conway. R. Hygden, fpeaking of the caftle of Conway built there by King Edward the First, says, " Ad ortum amnis Con66 way ad clivum montis Erery;" and Matthew of Westminster, (ad ann. 1283), "Apud Aberconway ad pedes montis Snowdonia "fecit erigi caftrum forte."

Gilbert de Clare, furnamed the Red, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, fon-in-law to King Edward.

+ Edmond de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore.

They both were Lords-Marchers, whofe lands lay on the borders of Wales, and probably accompanied the King in this expedition.

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On a rock, whofe haughty brow

Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood,

Rob'd in the fable garb of woe,

With haggard eyes the Poet ftood;

(* Loose his beard, and hoary hair

+ Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air);

And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire,

Struck the deep forrows of his lyre.

*The image was taken from a well-known picture of Raphaël, representing the Supreme Being in the vision of Ezekiel. There are two of these paintings, (both believed original), one at Florence, the other at Paris.

Shone, like a meteor, ftreaming to the wind.

Milton's Paradife Loft.

• Hark,