102 A TOUR HOUND NORTH WALES. 



The beftdefcription of Denbigh Caf- 

 tie, in it's )Nttient Hate, is in the una- 

 dorned lines of Churchyard.* 



A flrength of ftate ten tymes as ftrong as fair, 

 Yet faire and fine with double walls full thicke 

 Like Terrace trim to take the open air, 

 Made of freeftone and not of burned bricke : 

 No building there, but fuch as man might fay, 

 The worke thereof would laft till Judgment Day. 



The feate fo fure, not fubjeft to a hill, 

 Nor yet to myne, nor force of cannon blaft : 

 Within that houfe may people walke at will 

 And ftand full fafe till danger all be paft : 

 If cannon roai'd, or bark'd againft the wall, 

 Friends there may fay, a figge for enemies all; 

 Five men within may keep out numbers greate 

 (In furious fort that {hall approach that feate. 

 And as this feate the caftle ftrongly {lands 

 Paft winning fure with engine, fword, or hands; 

 So lookes it o'er the country farre or neere, 

 And fhineslike torch and lanterne of the meere. 



At the eaft end of the town of Den- 

 bigh flood once a houfe of Carmelite, or 

 White Friars, dedicated to St. Mary, 

 and founded, according to forne, by 

 John Salifbury, whb died 1289; but, 

 according to others, by John de Suni- 



* Worthies of Wales, p. 1 24. 



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