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there is noe poverty but is defcended of nobilitie, nor noe nobilitie 

 but is defcended of beggerie. 



When Adam delv'd and Eve fpan, 



Who was then a gentleman ? 



Then came the churle and gathered good, 



And thence arofe the gentle blood. 



Yet a great temporall bleffing it is, and a greate heart's "eafe to 

 a man to find that he is well defcended, and a great griefe it is 

 for upftarts and gentlemen of the firft head? to looke backe into 

 their defcents being bafe, in fuch fort, as 1 have known many fuch 

 hate gentlemen in their hearts, for noe other caufe, but that they 

 were gentlemen. The conditional promife by God to David was, 

 " that if his children would keepe his laws, he mould not want 

 " a man of his loynes to fit on his feat for evermore." Whereby 

 he had two things promifed him, propagation of his feed, and 

 eminence of continuance in the world. The Recabites, for their 

 obedience to their father's commandment, not to drinke wine, 

 have the like promife of God q . 



During the time the Earle of Pembroke's armie lay in Snow- 

 don, Jevan ap Robert was faigne to leave his owne houfe, and 

 lodge at night in the rocke called Ogo fiien, {landing at Meillio- 

 nen, in the parifh of Beddcelert, and continued all the next day 

 with the Lancaftrians. His friends and followers Ikirted the 

 armie, and ikirmifhed with them in the ftrait and rough paffage 

 of Nantwhynen r , untill at laft he was fent for by the Earle 



p A metaphor from deer, a young buck of the fecond year is called a 

 buck of the firft head. P. 

 i See Jeremiah, ch. xxxv. 



* Nantwhynen lies within a fmall diftance of Bedd-celert. The rough 

 and ftrait paffage, mentioned by the author, foon opens into a moft 

 pi&urefque valley. 



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