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GRAY'S POEMS
Notes
- ↑ V. 29. Cadwallo and Urien are mentioned by Dr. Evans in his "Dissertatio de Burdis," p. 78, among those bards of whom no works remain. See account of Urien's death in Jones. Relics, i. p. 19. He is celebrated in the Triads, "as one of the three bulls of war." Taliessin dedicated to him upwards of twelve poems, and wrote an elegy on his death: he was slain by treachery in the year 560. Modred is, I suppose, the famous "Myrddin ab Morvryn," called Merlyn the Wild; a disciple of Taliessin, and bard to the Lord Gwenddolaw ab Ceidiaw. He fought under King Arthur in 542 at the battle of Camlau, and accidentally slew his own nephew. He was reckoned a truer prophet, than his predecessor the great magician Merdhin Ambrose. See a poem of his called the "Orchard" in Jones. Relics, vol. i. p. 24. I suppose Gray altered the name "euphoniæ gratia;" as I can nowhere find a bard mentioned of the name of "Modred."
- ↑ V. 30. "Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
That the rude sea grew civil at her song."Mids. N. Dream, act ii sc. 2. W. Add Milt. Comus, 86, - ↑ V. 28. In a Poem to Llewellyn, by Einion the son of Guigan, a similar epithet is given to him (p. 22), "Llewellyn is a tender-hearted prince." And in another Poem to him, by Llywarch Brydydd y Moch (p. 32): "Llewellyn, though in battle he killed with fury, though he burnt like an outrageous fire, yet was a mild prince when the mead horns were distributed." Also in an Ode to him by Llygard Gwr (p. 39), he is called Llewellyn the mild, and prosperous governor of Gwynedd." Llewellyn's 'soft Lay' is given by Jones in his Relics, vol. ii. p. 64.
Bard." Who says that he wrote eight pieces, five of which are translated by him in his interesting publication. The whole are given in Mr. Owen's translation in Mr. Southey's Madoc, vol. ii. p. 162.
