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been given to Edward Fitzalan, Earl of 

 Arundel, and to have followed the fuo 

 ceflion of the Lords of Bromfield.* 



In 1390, Caftell Dinas Br^n was the 

 habitation of Myfanwy Vechan, a moft 

 beautiful and accomplifhed female, a de- 

 fcendant of the houfe of Tudor Tre- 

 vor. She was beloved by Howel ap Ey- 

 nion Lygliw, a celebrated bard, who ad- 

 drefled to her an ode full of fweetnefs 

 and beauty.-)- 



'Mid the gay towers on fteep Din's Branna's cone, 

 Her Hoel's bread the fair Myfanwy fires, 



Oh ! harp of Cambria, never haft thou known, 

 Notes more mellifluent floating o'er the wires, 



Than when thy bard this brighter Laura fung, 



And with his ill ftarr'd love Llangollen's echoes rung. 



Thus confecrate to love in ages flown, 

 Long ages fled, Din's Branna's ruins (hew, 



Bleak as they (land upon their fteepy cone, 

 The crown and contraft of the vale below, 



That fcreen'd by mutual rocks with pride difplays, 



Beauty's romantic pomp in every f) Ivan maze. 



* See Holt Caftle. t Pennant, I. 298. 



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