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[Editor's note: _Title: See Introduction_ p.
[Editor's note: _Title: See Introduction_ p.
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The goddes, who kenned the actyons of the wyghte,
To leggen[49] the sadde happe of twayne so fayre,
Houton[50] dyd make the mountaine bie theire mighte.
Forth from Sabryna ran a ryverre cleere,
Roarynge and rolleynge on yn course bysmare[51]; 95
From female Vyncente shotte a ridge of stones,
Eche syde the ryver rysynge heavenwere;
Sabrynas floode was helde ynne Elstryds bones.
So are theie cleped; gentle and the hynde
Can telle, that Severnes streeme bie Vyncentes rocke's ywrynde[52]. 100
The bawsyn[53] gyaunt, hee who dyd them slee,
To telle Gendolyne quycklie was ysped[54];
Whanne, as he strod alonge the shakeynge lee,
The roddie levynne[55] glesterrd on hys headde:
Into hys hearte the azure vapoures spreade; 105
He wrythde arounde yn drearie dernie[56] payne;
Whanne from his lyfe-bloode the rodde lemes[57] were fed,
He felle an hepe of ashes on the playne:
Stylle does hys ashes shoote ynto the lyghte,
A wondrous mountayne hie, and Snowdon ys ytte hyghte. 110
FINIS.
[Footnote 1: I will endeavour to get the remainder of these poems. ]
[Footnote 2: unseemly, disagreeable. ]
[Footnote 3: wrapped. ]
[Footnote 4: rays. ]
[Footnote 5: hidden, secret. ]
[Footnote 6: broke, rent. ]
[Footnote 7: small pieces. ]
[Footnote 8: pulled, rent. ]
[Footnote 9: vapours, meteors. ]
[Footnote 10: emblaunched.
]
[Editor's note: _Title: See Introduction_ p. xli]
[Footnote 11: Ridges, rising waves. ]
[Footnotes 12, 13: unknown tremour. ]
[Footnote 14: fastened, chained, congealed. ]
[Footnote 15: boundeth. ]
[Footnote 16: swelling. ]
[Footnote 17: armed. ]
[Footnote 18: companions. ]
[Footnote 19: livid. ]
[Footnote 20: a confused noise. ]
[Footnote 21: Anointed. ]
[Footnote 22: enlightened. ]
[Footnote 23: alloyed. ]
[Footnote 24: savage barbarity. ]
[Footnote 25: mystic. ]
[Footnote 26: polished.
The goddes, who kenned the actyons of the wyghte,
To leggen[49] the sadde happe of twayne so fayre,
Houton[50] dyd make the mountaine bie theire mighte.
Forth from Sabryna ran a ryverre cleere,
Roarynge and rolleynge on yn course bysmare[51]; 95
From female Vyncente shotte a ridge of stones,
Eche syde the ryver rysynge heavenwere;
Sabrynas floode was helde ynne Elstryds bones.
So are theie cleped; gentle and the hynde
Can telle, that Severnes streeme bie Vyncentes rocke's ywrynde[52]. 100
The bawsyn[53] gyaunt, hee who dyd them slee,
To telle Gendolyne quycklie was ysped[54];
Whanne, as he strod alonge the shakeynge lee,
The roddie levynne[55] glesterrd on hys headde:
Into hys hearte the azure vapoures spreade; 105
He wrythde arounde yn drearie dernie[56] payne;
Whanne from his lyfe-bloode the rodde lemes[57] were fed,
He felle an hepe of ashes on the playne:
Stylle does hys ashes shoote ynto the lyghte,
A wondrous mountayne hie, and Snowdon ys ytte hyghte. 110
FINIS.
[Footnote 1: I will endeavour to get the remainder of these poems. ]
[Footnote 2: unseemly, disagreeable. ]
[Footnote 3: wrapped. ]
[Footnote 4: rays. ]
[Footnote 5: hidden, secret. ]
[Footnote 6: broke, rent. ]
[Footnote 7: small pieces. ]
[Footnote 8: pulled, rent. ]
[Footnote 9: vapours, meteors. ]
[Footnote 10: emblaunched.
]
[Editor's note: _Title: See Introduction_ p. xli]
[Footnote 11: Ridges, rising waves. ]
[Footnotes 12, 13: unknown tremour. ]
[Footnote 14: fastened, chained, congealed. ]
[Footnote 15: boundeth. ]
[Footnote 16: swelling. ]
[Footnote 17: armed. ]
[Footnote 18: companions. ]
[Footnote 19: livid. ]
[Footnote 20: a confused noise. ]
[Footnote 21: Anointed. ]
[Footnote 22: enlightened. ]
[Footnote 23: alloyed. ]
[Footnote 24: savage barbarity. ]
[Footnote 25: mystic. ]
[Footnote 26: polished.
