24,2 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES'. 



and iis a ciifciple to have been in prepa- 

 ration by tbe fludy of nature, for the 

 higher and more important offices of 

 Bard and Druid. 



Mr. Mafon, in his tragedy of Carac- 

 tacus, has recognized all thefe orders 

 where having fpoken of tire Arch Druid, 

 he fays, 



His brotherhood, 

 P<jiTefs the neighbouring cliffs, 



On the kit 

 Retide the fage.* fk'll'd in nature's lore: 



Vender gfots, 



Arc tenanted by hards, v ho nightly thence 

 Rob'd in their flowing velts of innocent white, 

 Dcfcfr. \ with harps that glitter to the moon, 

 Hymning immortal it rains. 



The Druids and Bards were the divines 

 the legiflators,* and phyficians of the 

 ancient Britons; they compofed hymns 

 for the ufe of the temples, and accompa- 



* They arr fuppofedto have b?en t the firit frarners ofla'.vs 

 in Briiain. The firlt wrirren laws are faid to have Ix en 

 thofe of Dyvnwal Moclmud, King of Britain, 440 years be- 

 i^, called the Motl.isuuan Laws. 



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