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I edtye vy cwaer, cwerthin egwan ; 
¥ adrawz caru can doeth i’m fran; 
I oo vy lledvryd, a’ lled ov ray 
I edryd; llywy itiw ton dylan. 
‘Liwiant oi cyvoeth a zoeth atan, 
«Liw eiry flathyr oervel ar ugeb van, =~ 
*Rag val ym cozidi yn ‘Lys Ogyrvan: 
Cweirls 01 hazaw hr azoed cynran ; 
Ethyw.a’m encidi; athwyv yn wan ! 
Weud athwyv o nwyv yn ail Garwy Hir 
Y wen a’m Wuzir yn ‘Lys Ogyrvan ! 
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TRANSLATION. 
Hywell, the fon of Owain, fang this ode. 
T love the white glittering walls, on the fide 
of the bank, clothed in freth verdancy, w where 
bafhfulnefs loves to obferve the modeft fea- 
miew’s courfe. It would be my delight, though 
J have met with no great return of love, in my 
much defixed vifit, on the fleek white fteed, to 
behold my fitter, of flippant {mile ; to talk of 
Jove, fince it is come to my lot; to reftore my 
éafe of mind; and tv renew her flighted troth 
with the nymph as fatr as the hue of the fhore- 
beating wave 
From her country, who is bright as. the cola 
drifted {now upon the lofty hill, a cenfare has 
come to us, that [ fhould be fo treated with 
difdain in tre Hali of Ogyrvan. - 
Playful, from her promife, was newborn oe 
pe dtation. ;-—lhe is gone with my foul away : 
am meade See f Am I not become, a 
love, like Garwy Hir, to the fair one, of whom 
I am debaired in the Hall of Ogyrvan ? 

To the Editor of the Monsbls NMgogaxine. 
SIR, : 
HILE fF acknowledge with grati- 
~ tude thé very great obligations we 
owe to divines and phulofophers, for the 
valuable precepts they have laid cow, to 
guard us againft thofe vices. which are 
followed by‘ ‘great calamities, and for the 
no lets important confolation they afford 
us againft fuch evils as we can neither , 
forefee ncr prevent; 1 regret much that 
they have narrowed their labours by ad- 
drefing themfelves to-mankind in gene- 
ral, This may feem av extraordinary 
e@hjection,. but tt will appear ve ary joftis- 
able, when you me r that the advice 
which is eiven to all is feldom accepted 
by any, and the . ibis individual applica- 
tation only which can. ive it efCer: 
Thefe fages sels ancient and modern times 
deferve e great praite for what they have 
@one, Bint heermg the hearts of mén in 
the hour of anxtety, for: affording con- 
{clation in the hour of diltrefs, and for 
30a 
fuggefiing a tively hops ae 7 on the 
brink of dei pair. But the re things 
in which, man, @s rae cle: is ee 
Jt is much, 
they have, in myo 
but it is not ail; and where 
union, fallen’ fhort, 
Py 
Confolation for Ideal Calamities. 
[Feb 
is in bide down no advice, no pre- 
cepts, no comfort, adapted to the cafe 
of men of fafhion, women of ton, and 
perfons of diftinétion; nor have they 
been more attentive to. the diftreffes 
which befall us as members of the cor- 
poration, as chairmen of elubs, and as 
guefts at a table. 
‘Now, fir, thefe and other diftteffes of 
~a like kind, which I fhal! enumerate, al- 
though ufually fet down among the * lit-. 
tle things’ > which are, or ought to be, 
beneath our attention, are really among 
the greateft misfortunes of life: firft, be- 
caufe they are perpetually recurring, and 
add, therefore, to the general mafs of 
unhappinels; and, fecondly, becaufe not 
one of thofe hilofophers and divines 
who have made the affli€tions ef human- 
life their ftudy, have condefcended to 
fay one word about them, or have men- 
tigued them with indifference and con- 
tempt. All this appears to me very ex- 
traordinary, and to detraét much from 
the utility of their labours. You will 
ermit me, therefore, to enter a little 
minutely j into a fubjeét which is highly 
Interefting, and for aught J] know, hither- 
to untouched. 
I believe, fir, that if we will fet about 
analyzing and decompounding our re- 
fpeétive portions of happimefs and un- 
happinefs, we fhall tind that each is made 
up of an infinite feries of ‘little things.” 
Little things, then,‘ being great to lit- 
tle men,” ought not be~ eneath the at- 
tention of thofe who affurne the chair of 
authority, direét our judgment, prefcribe 
our fentiments, and regulate our hopes 
and fears.. -Thefe ee given us admir- 
able coun! fl again exceffive grief for 
the lofs of relatives, and the lofs.of for- 
tune: put are thefe the only loffes that 
-require a healing balm ? How many are 
every night made miferable in this me- 
tropolis, by the lofs of an’ odd trick ! 
How many have their fentuuy deeply 
wounded by the death of a parrot ?- 
How many are cut tothe heart to reflect 
that the ball they mified yefterday will 
no more return; oer that the brilliant 
alemblage of perfons ef fafhicn which 
they were prevented from, joining, may 
never meet again’! Nay, with all due 
refpect to phiofophers be it (poken, is 
the mifplacing uf a cane, or a pair of 
gloves, no,misfortune ? is not the info- 
lence of a box- keeper, who refufts us 
places on the nigat the king vifits the 
theatre, a calamity, aggravated by rude-_ 
neis, and inc urable by its cen per- 
haps, the lat night.of the feafon > 
> Yegs 
