A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 121 



Which is the refidence of a farmer. 

 Three rows of groined arches, on fingle 

 round pillars, fupport the dormitory, now 

 a loft, approached by fteps from without. 

 The floors are here fo thick, from their 

 being arched underneath, that when the 

 doors are ihut, and the men are threfh- 

 ing the corn in the room over the 

 kitchen, they cannot be heard below, 

 part of a chimney, in one of the bed- 

 chambers, is a relic of a fepulchral mo- 

 nument. 



The ornaments to the pillars and 

 arches are of free-done, and many parts 

 of them are perfectly frefh and beauti- 

 ful. The area of the church is over- 

 grown with tall afli-trees, which hide 

 fome parts of the ruin, but add much to 

 It's pi6lurefque beauty, 



I doe love thefe auncient ruynes, 

 We never tread upon them but we fet 

 One foote upon fome reverend hiftory; 

 And queliionlefs here in this open court 



(Which 



