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On a rocky eminence betwixt the two, 

 Hands an old building called Dolbadarn 

 Caftle j it confifts now of a round tower, 

 twenty- fix feet in diameter within, and 

 fome few {battered remains of the walls and 

 offices, which have once occupied the fum- 

 mit of the fleep. It is called Caflell Dol- 

 badarn, or, the caftle of Padarns meadow, 

 on account of it's having been erected on 

 the verge of a piece of ground, called Pa- 

 darn's meadow, fuppofed to have been the 

 place to which an holy recluie of that 

 name retired from the world, to enjoy here 

 meditation and folitude. 



Juft thus in woods and folitary caves 



The antient hermits liv'd, but they liv'd happy ; 



And in their quiet contemplations found 



More real comforts, than focieties 



Of men could yield, than cities could afford^ 



Or all the luftres that a court could give. 



There are feveral churches in Wales 

 dedicated to this Britifh faint. 



This 



