A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES, lig 



It is thus deicribed by Churchyard,* 

 before it's demolition : 



This caftle ftands on rocke much like red bricke 

 The dykes are cut with tool through ftony cragge, 

 The towers are high, the walls are large and thick 

 The worke itfelf would (hake a fubjecYs bagge, 

 If he were bent to build the like againe : 

 It refts on mount, and lookes o'er wood and playne , 

 It hath great ftore of chambers finely wrought 

 That tymc alone to great decay hath brought. 



,It (hews within by double walles and ways, 



A deep device did firft ereft the fame ; 



It makes our world to think on elder days 



Becaufe one worke was form'd in fuch a frame* 



One tower or wall the other anfwers right 



As though at call each thing (hould pleafe the fight : 



The rocke wrought round where every tower doth ftand 



Set foorth full fine by head, by heart and hand, 



* Worthies of Wales., p. 1.18. 



VL. ii. I CHAP. 



