*** The parents of the young man, and his brothers and sisters, desire that all gifts of the above nature due to them, be returned to the young man on the above day, and will be thankful for all favors granted.—Also, the young woman’s parents and her brothers and sisters, desire that all gifts of the above nature due to them, be returned to the young woman on the above day, and will be thankful for all favors granted. {62} The large three-legged iron pot used for cooking. {77} Pronounced Coom dee. {129} Dio is in Wales, the diminutive or familiar of David. {134} This simple rustic song is a translation from a popular ballad by John Jones of Glangors, generally sung to the tune of “Will you come to the bower?” {136a} Strawberries strung or beaded on long grass. {136b} Ewes are milked in Wales, for which purpose they are driven from the hills and mountain in sheep-pens: their butter is also used for many purposes. {138} Hob y deri dando signifies “away my herd to the oaken grove.” Mr. Parry, for whose Welsh Melodies the modern words were written, remarks, “There is something very quaint and characteristic in this ancient air, and it is popular in Wales.” {152a} Pennill signifies stanza. The original, of which the above is a translation, runs thus— Gwych yw y dyffryn, y gwenith, a’r yd, Mwyn dir a maenol, ac aml le clyd, Llinos ac eos, ac adar a gân; Ni cheir yn y mynydd ond mawnen a thân. {152b} A Triban may be defined a lyric epigram; it is common in Welsh literature. {172} In the original— “Nid twyll twyllo twyllwr; Nid brâd bradychu bradwr; Nid lladrad mi wn yn dda, Lladratta ar ladratwr.” {208} Signifying “_The Poem of Affliction_.” The original Welsh poem, in recitative measure, of which the above is rather a condensed paraphrase than a translation, is in no ancient MS in the possession of the late Mr. Jenkins of Llwyn-y-groes, Cardiganshire; and published in both Meyrick’s “Cardigan,” and “Hynafion Cymreig.” {214} Between these two rivers, before they unite, is an angular slip of lowland, being the last of Cardiganshire; Dinas, and all the interesting heights here described, are in Carmarthenshire; while the boundary of Breconshire is about half a mile off. The reader who is a Welshman, will hence recognize the etymology of Ystrad Fîn, which signifies, The vale of the boundary. {245a} Drayton’s poetry is so constructed, that to read it with any harmony, there should be a pause in the middle of every line, when the sense will permit. {245b} Eisteddvod. {245c} The Welsh epigramic stanza. {245d} Cowydd, or Poem. {245e} Awdl, or Ode.