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How fleek the melodious deer, and in what 
plenty found ! 
I achieved, by the pufh of a fpear, an ex- 
alted deed, between the chief of Powys and 
happy Gwyzex 3 and, upon the pale-hued ele- 
ment of ever-ftruggling motion, may £ accom- 
plith a liberation from exile! I will not take 
breath until my party comes: a dream declares 
it, and God wills it fo to be, fair foam-crowned 
avave foraying over the grave *. 
Fair foam-crowned wave, impetueus in thy 
courfe, like in colour to the hoar when it accu- 
amulates, I Jove the fea-coaf in Afeirionyz, 
where I have had a white arm for a pillow ; 
I love the nightingale upon the privet-brake 
in Cymmer Dexzur,ea celebrated vale, Lord of 
heaven and earth, the glory of the blef, 
though fo far it is from Cer? to Caerhiwelyz, I 
mounted the yellow feed, and from Merlenyz 
reached the land of Reged ' between the nicht 
and day! Before I am inthe grave, may I 
enjoy a new bieffing from the land of Tegynzy/ 
of faireft afpect.—-Since I am a love-wight, 
one inured to wander, may God dire my 
fate! fair foam-crowned wave of impetuous 
courfe 
I will implore the divine Supreme, the Won- 
derful in fubjugaticg to his will, as king, to 
create an excelling mute, for a fong of praife 
to the women, fuchias Versi fung, who have 
claimed my bardic lore fo long, who are fo 
tardy in difpenfing grace. The moft eminent 
of all in the weft I name, from the gates of 
Cheffer to the port of Vfgewin : the firft is the 
eee who will be the fubje& of . univerfal 
psaife,. Gevenliant, whofe complexion 1s like 
the fummer’s day. The fecond is another of 
high ftate, far from my embrace, adorned ¥ Bo 
golden necklace, fair Cweirey!, from whom n 
token nor confisence have I cotained, nor ee 
any of tay ace 3 though I I might be flain by 
two- edged blades,, the, whoie, foter- barber 
was aking, fhould be By theme. And next 
fer the haadlome Guledws, the young and 
modeft virgin, the idol of the muintude—TI 
jitter the fecet figh; 1 will worthip her with 
the yellow bloffoms of the furze. Soon may | 
gee my vigour rouced to combat, and in my 
ha a my oo bright Leucu. my companion, 
jaughing, and whoie hufband laughs not, i 
anxiety. °Great anxiety opprefies me, mak 
ame fad, and longing, alas! is habitual for fair 
We#, for her who is like the apple-tree pioahen, 
and for Perwevr, the centre of my ¢efire; for 
Generys, the chaite, who grants not a imile for 
me—muay continence not overcome her! for 
Hurnyz, W oe e fame will Jaf till the day of 
doom; for Hecsis, who claims my choiceft 
eu'ozy. Ona memorable day I had a nymph; 
Z had a fecond—more be their praife! I hada 

* his paflage cannot be well underftood, 
ut by funpofing it to allude to the departure bf 
his brother, ado out of Wales, at the time 
when he is faid to have difcovered land far in 
he great fea of the weft, which fubfequent 
fads | point out to have been Americas 

Mr. 7 aylor upon Happinefs. 
[Sept. 
third, and a fourth, with profperity; I hada 
fifth of thofe with a fkin white and delicate s 
I had a fixth bright and fair, avoiding not the 
temptation, above the white walls did the a reft 
me; I had-a feventh, and this was fatiety of 
love ; I had eight, in recompence fora | ttle 
of the praife which I fung :—but the tceth 
-muft opportunely bar the tongue. 
The above, Mr. Editor, concludes 
what is preferved of the poetry of Hywe/ 
ab Owaiz. His co: in pofizions have ro 
great deal of intrinfic merit te recom- 
SSS’ 
mend them to notice; but Il was induced 
“to tranflate the whole, to fatisfy your 
correfpondent B. fuppofing, at the fame 
time, that they might prove acceptable 
to many of your curious readers, more 
as a delineation of the manners of a 
prince, paflmg through a fhort life of 
ferocious warfare, than as a favourable 
{pecimen of the. Welth poetry of the 
twelfth century. I remain, y your's, &c. 
“MEreion, 
ee Ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AS your correfpondent, SInBORON, 
freely confefles that his habits are 
unfctentijic, it clearly follows, that, with 
fuch habits, he will not be able to 
underftand a Sete nije account of happi- _ 
ace 
nefs. Indeed, fo far from havin 
quired fcientitic habits, his letter plainly 
fhows, that he has not yet fled from the 
ob{cure informations of fdenfes or, in 
Homeric language, that he is ftill a cap- 
tive in the magic bowers of Circé. This 
is evident trom the following affertions: 
“« Happinefs, as’ well-as pleafure, being 
a genctral term, is expreflive of no zdea.” 
And again, “ nance furely arifes from 
a ferics of individual /exfations.” Till 
Mercury, therefore, that is, réafon, frecs 
him froin his dire captivity, it is abfurd 
to expect that abe will underftand what 
happinefs is, or, which is 
felicity. 
Hoping, however, 
liberate himfeif from his 
that he will foon 
difgraceful 
‘ 
fill more ~ 
important, te any portion of irre 
bondage, and after having, in like man-— 
ner, fled from the detaining charms of 
Calypfo, or the phantafy, arrive at the 
poe of Alcinous, or, Seientific ENTRY S 
and thus, at length, regain the empire of ~ 
foul, and become united with-his long- 
loft Penelope, that is, legtsmate philofophy; 
entertaining thefe hopes, I fhall reply to 3 
the following parts of his letter : 
«* T cannot comprehend (fays he} how — 
the nature or being of a thing confilts — 
in that part of the thing which is moft 
excellent :— 

