ry and prosperity
following the accession of the Tudors (7), through Elizabeth's reign
(8): and concludes with a vision of the poetry of Shakespeare and
Milton.

140 159 l. 13 _Glo'ster_: Gilbert de Clare, son-in-law to Edward.
_Mortimer_, one of the Lords Marchers of Wales.

141 159 _High-born Hoel, soft Llewellyn_ (l. 15); the _Dissertatio de
Bardis_ of Evans names the first as son to the King Owain Gwynedd:
Llewelyn, last King of North Wales, was murdered 1282. L. 16
_Cadwallo_: Cadwallon (died 631) and Urien Rheged (early kings of
Gwynedd and Cumbria respectively) are mentioned by Evans (p. 78) as
bards none of whose poetry is extant. L. 20 _Modred_: Evans supplies
no _data_ for this name, which Gray (it has been supposed) uses for
Merlin (Myrddin Wyllt), held prophet as well as poet.--The Italicized
lines mark where the Bard's song is joined by that of his predecessors
departed. L. 22 _Arvon_: the shores of Carnarvonshire opposite
Anglesey. Whether intentionally or through ignorance of the real
dates, Gray here seems to represent the _Bard_ as speaking of these
poets, all of earlier days, Llewelyn excepted, as his own
contemporaries at the close of the thirteenth century.

Gray, whose penetrating and powerful genius rendered him in many ways
an initiator in advance of his age, is probably the first of our poets
who made some acquaintance with the rich and admirable poetry in which
Wales from the Sixth Century has been fertile,--before and since his
time so barbarously neglected, not in England only. Hence it has been
thought worth while here to enter into a little detail upon his Cymric
allusions.

142 -- l. 5 _She-wolf_: Isabel of France, adulterous Queen of Edward
II.--L. 35 _Towers of Julius_: the Tower of London, built in part,
according to tradition, by Julius Caesar.

143 -- l. 2 _bristled boar_: the badge of Richard III. L. 7 _Half of
thy heart_: Queen Eleanor died soon after the conquest of Wales. L. 18
_Arthur_: Henry VII named his eldest son thus, in deference to native
feeling and story.

144 161 The Highlanders called the battle of Culloden, Drumossie.

145 162 _lilting_, singing blithely: _loaning_, broad lane: _bughts_,
pens: _scorning_, rallying: _dowie_, dreary: _daffin'_ and _gabbin'_,
joking and chatting: _leglin_, milkpail: _shearing_, reaping:
_bandsters_, sheaf-binders: _lyart_, grizzled: _runkled_, wrinkled:
_fleeching_, coaxing: _gloaming_, twilight: _bogle_, ghost: _dool_,
sorrow.