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Title: Yr Ynys Unyg
The Lonely Island

Author: Julia de Winton

Release Date: October 20, 2007 [EBook #23090]

Language: English

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YR YNYS UNYG;

OR,

THE LONELY ISLAND:

A NARRATIVE

FOR

YOUNG PEOPLE.

"Beseech you, be merry: we have cause
Of joy: for our escape
Is much beyond our loss: our hint of woe
Is common: every day, some sailor's wife,
The masters of some merchant, and the merchant
Have just our theme of woe: but for the miracle,
I mean our preservation, few in millions
Can speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh
Our sorrow with our comfort."--_Tempest._

LONDON:
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., STATIONERS' HALL COURT;
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND CO., FARRINGDON STREET.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE: F. AND W. DODSWORTH.

1852.

Transcriber's Note:

Archaic and dialect spellings remain as printed. Punctuation has
been normalised. Significant errors have been noted at the end of
the text.

The oe ligature has been represented by [oe].

INTRODUCTION.

DEAR FRIEND,

I enclose you the manuscript of which you have so long desired
possession. You have permission to do what you like with it, on one
condition, which is, that you alter all the names, and expunge anything
like personality therein; for, as you are aware (with two exceptions)
each character mentioned in the story is now alive, and so few years
have elapsed since the events recorded took place that it would not be
at all difficult for a stranger to recognize the heroes and heroines
therein mentioned. Havi