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The Poetical Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. M.P.

Note 12 — BOOK XII.

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—Page 439, stanza cxciv.

Thy dauntless blood through Gwynedd's chiefs shall roll.

This prediction refers to the marriage of the daughter of Griffith ap Llewellyn (Prince of Gwynedd, or North Wales, whose name and fate are not unfamiliar to those who have read the romance of "Harold, the last of the Saxon Kings") with Fleance. From that marriage descended the Stuarts, and indeed the reigning family of Great Britain.

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