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The following Ode is founded on a Tradition current

in Wales, that EDWARD THE FIRST, when

he compleated the conqueft of that country, order

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

to death.

Helm, norf Hauberk's twifted mail,

Nor e'en thy virtues, Tyrant, fhall avail

To fave thy fecret foùl from nightly fears,

'From Cambria's curfe, from Cambria's tears ! '

Such were the founds, that o'er the crefted pride Of the firft Edward fcatter'd wild dismay,

As down the fteep of h Snowdon's fhaggy fide

He wound with toilfome march his long array.

Stout

f The Hauberk was a texture of iteel ringlets, or rings interwoven, forming a coat of mail, that fat close to the body, and adapted itself to every motion.

The crefted adder's pride.

Dryden's Indian Queen.

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

all

Stout Glo'fter ftood 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, speaking of the castle of Conway built by King Edward the first, says, " Ad ortum amnis Conway ad clivum "montis Erery ;" and Matthew of Westminster, (ad ann. 1283,) 66 Apud Aberconway ad pedes montis Snowdoniæ fecit erigi caftrum "forte."

i 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.

I. 2.

On a rock, whose 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

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

And with a Mafter's hand, and Prophet's fire,

Struck the deep forrows of his lyre.

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