Chief of the bards of the west,
Shall loosen Elphin
Out of a golden fetter."
[And then Taliesin sang a song of the Yellow Plague,[24] which was afterwards to come up out of the marsh]:—
"Be silent, then, ye unlucky rhyming bards,
For you cannot judge between truth and falsehood.
If you be primary bards formed by heaven,
Tell your king what his fate will be.
It is I who am a diviner and a leading bard,
And will tell your king what will befall him.