In warlike feates th’ expertest man alive,”
and who dwelt
“Under the foot of Rauran mossy hore,”
—the Merionethshire mountain, Yr Aran, where the river Dee has its source. “Thither,” so Prince Arthur’s tale of his own history runs,—[126]
“Thither the great magician Merlin came,
As was his use, oft-times to visit me;
For he had charge my discipline to frame
And Tutors nouriture to oversee.”
It was Merlin
“which whylome did excell