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1797-] Weshurn Meeting....Poetry of Hywel, Prince of Wales. 7 
The diftribution of time was equally 
judicious. Hofpitality, though conf{pi- 
cuous, did not interfere, oftentatioutly 
or faitidioufly, with the burinefs of the 
day, which was judicioufly divided iato 
two journies, agreeably to the praétice of 
all good farmers. The bell for breakfaft. 
rang at nine ; at three for dinner, which 
was ferved up, as in days of yore. in the. 
ereat bal/ (the {pacious veftibule of Wo- 
burn-Abbey), coffee and horfes at fix; 
and fupper when darknefs had put a 
fiop to the evening’s excurfion, 
The company were moft happily mixed: 
men of fortune, and yeomanry, of dif- 
ferent dezrees, with farmers and graziers 
of the firtt claffes, from various parts of 
the kingdom. The intercourfe of fenti- 
ment, and the mutual exchange of Jnfor- 
mation, which fuch a meeting naturally 
promotes, even though merely uniting 
in converfation, is highly profitable. 
And when continuing to affociate for 
fucceflive days, and having repeatedly 
before their eyes the fubjedts of conver- 
fation, accurate ideas will necefiarily be 
brought out. Beiides, while proprietors 
are obtaining fubftantial information in 
matters that moft nearly concerns them, 
the minds of occupiers are unbending, 
and becoming fit to receive the feeds. of 
improvement, which, in their growth, 
will not fail to prove ferviceable to both. 
Moreover, the lower orders of tenant- 
ry» who were merely permitted to the 
infpeétion of thefe improvements, will 
carry home with them ideas they would 
not otherwife have poffeffed,; and, by 
converiations among themfelves, will im- 
perceptibly. lofe fome portion of their 
prejudices. Meetings of this kind are 
not only praife-worthy in a public light, 
but in the end may turn out to be of 
high advantage to the particular county 
or diftriét, as well as to the individual 
eftate, on which they are drawn toge- 
ther: and every man of large landed 
property may feem to have an intereft in 
promoting them, over and above the 
grateful refleétion of having deferved 
well of his country. Such, at leaft, are 
the ideas that the Woburn Meeting gave 
rife to in the mind of 
ONE or THE COMPANY. 

To the Editor of ibe Monthly Magazine. 
MR. EDITOR, 
i BEG leave to propofe to the readers of 
your Magazine the following Query : 
How are we to underfiand john, chap. ix. 
Ver. 2, if not as a proof that the querifts 
fuppofed a ftate of pre-exifterce? The 
words are: ‘And his difciples afked him, 
faying, mafter who did fin, this man or his 
parents, that he was born blind?’ That 
he could not be born blind as a punith- 
ment but for fins committed in a pre- 
exiftent ftate, is too obvious to be infifted 
on; and the alternative feems to lean too 
much to the doétrine of the Merempfycho- 
fis. ‘Whatever were the ideas of the dif. 
ciples on this fubjeét, their mafter, in his 
reply to their quetiién, does not deny a 
belicf in a previous ftate of beiag, but 
fimply gives a negative to both parts of 
their gueftion: ** Neither hath this man 
finned nor his parents,” &c.° 
Hackney, 1 am, fir, your's; 8c." ! 
FUN 23561797 +. CUAMOPHAGUS. 

For the Monthly Magazine: 
Tue Porrry oF Hywet ap Owain, 
(CONTINUED). 
THE SIXTH; PIECE. 
Awilyl & gant Hywel vab Owain: 
CARAVL amfer hav; amfathyr gorwyz 
Corawenus glyw ‘rag glew arglwyz3 
Gorewynawg ton; tynhegyl ebrwyz ; ; ‘ 
Gorwilgwys avall arall arwyz 5 
Gorwen vy yigwyd, ar vy yfewyz, idrais— 
Cerais ni gevais, gyvai awyx !— 
‘Ceridwen, hirwen, hwy:wan ogwyz,. 
Cyveiliw gwen wawr yn awr ecwyz 5) 
Claez wan lun, wen-lezyv, wynliw cywyz 3 
Wirth gamu biwynen, braiz na zygwyz 
Becanigen wen, wan el gogwyz 3 
Bycaa i mae hyn no dyn degmiwyz. . 
Mabinaiz, luniaiz, lawn gwezeizrwyz, 
Mabzyfg oez izi rozi yn “rwyz 3 
“Mabwraig mwy yd faig fynedigrwyz ar wen 
No tavabyl 07) fen anghymhenrwyz. 
Pedeftrig tolyz.a’m byz i eilwyz ! 
Pa hyd yth iolav ?—Sdv ‘rag dy fwyz !aw 
Adcwyvi yn anvedrez, 0 ynvydrwyz caru, 
~) INVm ceryz, Ielu by cyvaryz! 
/ 
THE TRANSLATION: 
Al verfe compofed by Hywel, the fon of Owain. 
J Love the time of fummer ; then the glad. 
ly-exulting fteed of the warrior prances before 
a gallant chief; the wave is crowned with 
foam; the limb of the a¢tive more quickly 
moves; the apple-tree has arrayed itfelf in an- 
other livery; bordered with white is my fhield, © 
on my fhoulder, prepared for violence,—I HAVE 
LOVED, with ardency of defire, the object 
which { have not obtained !— 
Creripwen, fair and tall, of flowly-languid 
gait, .her complexion vies withthe warm dawn 
in the evening hour; of a {plendid, delicate 
form, beautifully mild, and white-hued pre- 
fence ; in ftepping over a rufh, nearly falling 
seems the little tiny fair one, gentle in her air; 
fhe appears but fcarcely older than a tenth year 
infant. Young, fhapely, and full of graceful< 
nefs, it were a congenial virtue that the fhould 
freely give ; but the youthful female docs more 
embariafs 
