This translation of the famous Welsh poem, _Morfa Rhuddlan_ (_i.e._, ‘Red Marsh’) is in the metre of the original. Published (September, 1894) in _Wales_, a monthly magazine. By permission of the editor of _Wales_ and the author’s representatives. Three stanzas (2, 5, and 6) are omitted. Morfa Rhuddlan, on the banks of the Clwyd in Flintshire, was the scene of many battles between Britons and Saxons. In the battle described in the poem (A.D. 795), the Britons under Caradoc were defeated and their leader slain. Those who escaped the sword were driven into the river. The original poem is said to have been composed by Caradoc’s bard immediately after the battle. CXXVI-CXXVII _Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century_, First Series (Bangor: Jarvis & Foster, 1896). By permission of author and publishers. As to the first,--Idris (=Cader Idris), Berwin, and Plynlimmon (l. 8, &c.) are mountains in Wales. As to the second,--Cymru (l. 1)=Wales. III.--SCOTLAND CXXVIII _The Tea-Table Miscellany: a Collection of Choice Songs_ (Edinburgh, 4 vols., 1724-7). CXXIX This ‘matchless wail’ (as Scott called it) was written in 1756. For some time it was thought to be a genuine relic of the past. Burns was one of the first to insist that it was a modern composition. The ‘Forest’ is, of course, Ettrick Forest, that romantic district comprising most of Selkirkshire and the neighbouring parts of Peebles and Edinburgh shires. A few straggling thorns and solitary birches are the sole remaining traces of this ‘fein foreste,’ once the favourite hunting-ground of the Scottish kings. _bandsters._ Binders of sheaves. _bogle._ ‘Hide and seek.’ _buchts._ Pen in which ewes are enclosed at milking-time. _daffin’._ Making merry. _dool._ Sorrow. _dowie._ Doleful. _fleechin’._ Coaxing. _gabbin’._ Talking pertly. _har’st._ Harvest. _ilk, ilka._ Every. _liltin’._ Singing. _loanin’._ Lane. _laighlin._ Milking pail. _lyart._ Hoary-headed. _mair._ More. _runkled._ Wrinkled. _swankies._ Lively young fellows. _wae._ Sad. _wede._ Weeded. CXXX Written on the Marquess of Huntley’s departure for Holland, with the English forces, under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby, in 1799. CXXXI-CXXXIV The first is number 259 in vol. iii. of Johnson’s _Musical Museum_ (1790), signed ‘Z.’ ‘The first half stanza of this song is old--the rest is mine.’--Author’s note in interleaved copy. The second was written in 1793, and first published in the _Morning Chronicle_ (May, 1794). The old air, _Hey, tuttie, taitie_, to which Burns ‘fitted’ this poem, is said to have been Bruce’s marching tune at Bannockburn. The third appeared in the _Edinburgh Courant_ (May 4, 1795), and in the _Dumfries Journal_ (May 5, 1795), and is number 546 in vol. ii. of Johnson’s _Musical Museum_ (1803).