Front matter
Reading edition
Transcribed from the [1862] John Pryse, Llanidloes edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
SOME SPECIMENS OF THE POETRY OF THE ANCIENT WELSH BARDS.
Translated into English,
WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES ON THE HISTORICAL PASSAGES, AND A SHORT ACCOUNT OF MEN AND PLACES MENTIONED BY THE BARDS.
BY THE REV. EVAN EVANS, (IEUAN PRYDYDD HIR.)
“Vos quoque, qui fortes animas belloque peremptas Laudibus in longum, Vates, dimittitis ævum, Plurima securi fudistis carmina Bardi.”
Lucanus.
—“Si quid mea carmina possunt Aonio statuam sublimes vertice Bardos, Bardos Pieridum cultores atque canentis Phœbi delicias, quibus est data cura perennis Dicere nobilium clarissima facta virorum, Aureaque excelsam famam super astra locare.”
Lelandus in Assertione Arturii.
REPRINTED FROM DODSLEY’S EDITION OF 1764.
published by john pryse, llanidloes, montgomery; and sold by all booksellers.