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‘note of my figh. 
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dale. Ah? friend, go from Aeron brightly 
fair, with a clear note; ftop thou not, nor 
goflip; fear not becaufe of little Hunch- 
back *. A complaint of impeachment 
Serving ill-nature! My country and its 
bleflings are a prifon to me !—Soon thou 
wouldett ftrip the bufh when thou art bu- 
fied in feattering leaves: no one will 
quettion thee, none will {top thee, nor ar- 
rayed hoft, nor deputed hand, nor the 
blue blade, nor flood, nor rain: :inadvert- 
ently thou wilt nt he hindered by a 
mother’s fon: fire will not burn thee; thou 
wilt not be weakened by deceit.; drown 
thou wilt not, through lack of any warn- 
ing ; thou wilt not get entangled, tor thou 
art without an angle; the iwift fteed is 
not wanted under thee, nor bridge over 
the ftream, nor boat; no catchpole will 
arreft thee, nor the power of aclan, in thy 
day of triumph, thou that winnoweft the 
feathered tops of trees. No eye can ken 
thee on thy vaft naked couch; a thoufand 
Shall hear thee, neft of the pouring rain: 
thou art God’s bounty along the earth, 
thou roaring and irritating breaker of the 
top of the oak, thou fhouter, in the morn 
of day, on high; thou watter of the heap 
of chaff, gruif of voice! Thou comeft a 
tempeft on a calm of the fea; a fickle 
youth on the fand bank water: an elo- 
quent and enticing thief art thou ; the fcat- 
tererand heaper, of the fallenleaves. Thou 
privileged impeller the wafter of the hill, 
‘thou ruthlefs lord of the firmament, that 
fiyeft oyer the whole bofom of the brine to 
the extremities of the world! Storm of 
the hill be above to night! 
Wretched am I, that I fhould have 
placed my affection on Morvid, a gentle 
and fplendid maid! A’ nymph who 
made me a captive!—Run on high to- 
wards her father’s houfe; ‘knock the door, 
and caufe it to be opened, before the day 
appears, to receive my meffage; and find 
a way to her, if that can be, and utter the 
Thou that comeft from 
the far-extending figns, fay thus to my 
fincere and generous one—‘¢ Whilft in the 
woarid I remain, I fhail bea faithful lover : 
and woe is to my face without her, if true 
that fhe is not unfaithful!’ Go high! 
* Literally, the Litrle Bow, the common 
epithet, which the poet gave to his fortunate 
competitor for fair Morvid; his real name was 
Rys Gwgan, who wasa captain in the Eng- 
kith army at the celebrated battle of Cre//y. 
The works of David ab Gwilym were 
printed about ten years ago, in one o€tavo vo- 
lume of about 600 pages. This bard compofed 
147 poems to his miftrefs, one of which is above 
tranflated; but fhe was married to captain 
Gwgan, through the influence of her relations, 
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thou fhalt fee the fair one. Go ‘low! 
choofe a courfe, thou running element! 
Go to the yellow-haired Morvid.—Prof- 
perous be thy return !—Farewell thou 
triendly gale! 
ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
aS AR (fays an eminent writer) is 
fo bad a.thing, that nothing 
but a mixture of religion cin make it 
worfe.”” This, however, by no »means 
appears to be the general opinion, and the 
union of the military and religious cha- 
racter is one of the moft popular ideas -of 
the time. Indeed it could f{carcely be 
otherwife, when we are engaged in a war, 
one great object of which is the fupport of 
religion of every {pecies againft atheifm 
‘and impiety; and when we have the hap- 
pinefs to be connected with allies fo dif- 
tinguifhed for religious zeal. It is pecu- 
liarly edifying to be informed of the ex- 
emplary regularity obferved by that hu- 
mane and civilized body, the Ruffian fol- 
diery, in the performance of their devotions. 
This, indeed, isnot to be wondered at, fince | 
the very robbers of that nation are equally 
punétilious in this refpect. We are told 
by a writer of credit, thata famous leader 
of banditti, whofe thirft for human blood 
was fuch, that he was accuftomed to tie 
his captives to a tree, and open their 
breaits while alive, in order that he might 
drink the vital fluid frefh and warm on 
eing afked by his-confeffor, as he was led 
to execution, whether he had -duely ob- 
ferved the fafts and feftivals of the church? 
was affronted with the queftion, and in 
his turn afked the prieft whether he did 
not take him for a chriftian? Under the 
late conicientious emprefs Catherine, the 
Ruffian court-manifeltces were remark- 
able beyond any in Europe for folemn 
appeals to the Deity; and it is to be 
prefumed that her fucceflor has not de- 
generated in this point. The accounts 
that have been publifhed of the devo- 
tional f{pirit of the celebrated conqueror 
of If{maei and Praga, cannot fail of giving 
high delight to thofe who regard him as 
the deftined reftorer of monarchy and ca- 
tholicifm in France. As there is always 
fomething interefting in the parallels be- 
tween great men in different periods, L 
fhall beg leave to lay before your readers 
the fketch given by Brantome of an illuf- 
trious commander of his time, alfo a dif- 
tinguifhed chief ina catholic league, the 
con{table of France, Anne de Mont- 
morenci. . 
** Every morning (fays the hiftorian) 
4A2 whether 
