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upon him, being, it was popularly held, out of pro- 

 portion to his offence, turned local condemnation into 

 general pity. He himself bewailed his hard fate, as 

 was natural, in soft flowing Welsh, composing in 

 prison a lament, which Mr. Spurrell has preserved in 

 part, and in which occur these lines : 



' Instead of liberty long captivity 

 Is added to my grief. 



I shaU be sent from my country, 



From my father's house, notwithstanding tender 



bringing up, 

 To the midst of the black hordes, 

 Over the sea from my fair confines.' 



The Lady Godiva took ' the tax away, and built 

 herself an everlasting name ' ; but the luckless Dai y 

 Cantwr, who took away a toll, had for his reward 

 twenty years' transportation, and so far from being a 

 principal figure in a triumphal progress, he became, 

 in quite another sense, Drych i /yd icyf i fod — a 

 spectacle to the world. 



