The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Bind 4

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Side 91 - And truth is this to me, and that to thee ; And truth or clothed or naked let it be. Rain, sun, and rain ! and the free blossom blows ; Sun, rain, and sun ! and where is he who knows ? From the great deep to the great deep he goes...
Side 48 - A grave for March, a grave for Gwythur, A grave for Gwgawn of the ruddy Sword, Not wise (the thought) a grave for Arthur.
Side 64 - I advise them to be silent concerning the kings of the Britons since they have not that book written in the British tongue, which Walter, archdeacon of Oxford, brought out of Britain, and which being a true history published in honour of those princes, I have thus taken care to translate.
Side 80 - The knights in it that were famous for feats of chivalry, wore their clothes and arms all of the same colour and fashion : and the women also no less celebrated for their wit, wore all the same kind of apparel; and esteemed none worthy of their love, but such as had given a proof of their valour in three several battles. Thus was the valour of the men an encouragement for the women's chastity, and the love of the women a spur to the soldier's bravery.
Side 41 - In the northern district of Britain, beyond the Humber, and on the borders of Yorkshire, the inhabitants make use of the same kind of symphonious harmony, but with less.
Side 60 - Britones soient jurgari cum Francis pro rege « Arturo, idem vir coepit rixari cum uno ex famulis nostris, « nomine Haganello, qui erat ex familia domni Guidonis, . « Landunensis archidiaconi, dicens adhuc Arturum vivere. « Unde non parvo tumultu exorto, cum armis ecclesiam « irruunt plurimi, et, nisi praefatus Algardus clericus obsti« tisset paene usque ad sanguinis effusionem ventum fuisset.
Side 100 - Vols. xiii, xiv, xv, and xvi. 10s. 6rf. per volume. [Vols. i and iii are out of print.] The History of the Cymmrodorion. Out of print. A Dictionary in Englyshe and Welshe, by Wyllyam Salesbury (1547). Facsimile, black letter. 4 parts, 2.?.
Side 64 - Education," on the supposition that it does not teach us definitely how to advance our manufactures, or to improve our lands, or to better our civil economy ; or again, if it does not at once make this man a lawyer, that an engineer, and that a surgeon ; or at least if it does not lead to discoveries in chemistry, astronomy, geology, magnetism, and science of every kind.
Side 65 - In their musical concerts they do not sing in unison like the inhabitants of other countries, but in many different parts; so that in a company of singers, which one very frequently meets with in Wales, you will hear as many different parts and voices as there are performers, who all at length unite, with organic melody, in one consonance and the soft sweetness of B flat.
Side 34 - These trees supporting the roof -tree are called gavaels, forks, or columns, and they form the nave of the tribal house. Then, at some distance back from these rows of columns or forks, low walls of stakes and wattle shut in the aisles of the house, and over all is the roof of branches and rough thatch, while at the aisles behind the pillars are placed beds of rushes, called gwely (lecti), on which the inmates sleep.

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