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have fome idea of their conflruction, I 

 have inferted, from Jones's Mufical and 

 Poetical Relics of the Welfh Bards,* 

 tran flations of five of them. Thefe have 

 the fame number of lines and feet as the 

 original ; and the fenfe is preferved, as 

 near as the limits of the metre would 

 allow. The two firfl lines do not feem 

 to have much connection with the laft ; 

 however, there appears to have been no 

 fmall degree of art employed in their 

 compofition. In the firft lines, the 

 Druid defcribes, either actions that are 

 familiar to every one,, or the appearance 

 of vifible objects: he then concludes, 

 with a precept of morality, or a prover- 

 bial fentence; and, by annexing to it 

 undoubted f aft, artfully implies, and en- 

 gages the mind to receive the truth of 

 the moral maxim, as equally clear and 

 well-eftablifhed as the identity of 

 rial objects. 



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