Published (with The Progress of Poetry) in 1757.
l. 5. hauberk. Coat of mail.
8. Cambria. Wales; a Latinised form of ‘Cymru.’
13–14. Gloster. Mortimer. English nobles and Lords of the Welsh Marches.
28. Hoel. King of Brittany and nephew of King Arthur.
Llewellyn. A famous Welsh prince of the eleventh century.
29. Cadwallo. King of North Wales in the seventh century.
31. Urien. A Welsh hero of the fifth century.
33. Mordred. Nephew of Arthur.
34. Plinlimmon. A mountain in Cardiganshire.
35. Arvon. ‘The shores of Carnarvonshire opposite the Isle of Anglesea.’—Gray.
56. Edward II. was murdered in Berkeley Castle (September 21, 1327).
57. Isabella, wife of Edward II.
67. Edward, the Black Prince.
71, &c. The reign of Richard II.
83–96. The Wars of the Roses.
87. The Tower of London was said to have been begun by Julius Cæsar.
89. Consort. Margaret of Anjou.
father. Henry V.
90. meek usurper. Henry VI.
93. The silver boar was the badge of Richard III.
115. Queen Elizabeth.
121. Taliessin. A Welsh bard of the sixth century.
126. Spenser’s Faerie Queene.
128. Shakespeare’s plays.
131. Milton.
133. ‘The succession of poets after Milton’s time.’—Gray.
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Poetical Works (1832). Bodryddan is near Rhuddlan, in Flintshire.
[CXXI]–[CXXII]
Works, with a Memoir (Wm. Blackwood & Sons, 1839). As to the first,—
l. 2. Hirlas. From ‘hir,’ long, and ‘glas,’ blue or azure.
14. Eryri is the Welsh name for the Snowdon Mountains.
As to the second,—
Prince Madog, a natural son of Llywelyn, was the leader of the Welsh Rebellion (1294–1295), occasioned by the levying of taxes by Edward I. to pay for his projected expedition to Gascony.