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Not unless some rich man shall get into it, stamp it down with his feet, and call out 'enough." Then Rhiannon, who sat beside Gwawl, urged him to attempt the task, by putting his two feet in the bag to stamp it down. No sooner had Gwawl done this, than the supposed beggar pushed him down inside the bag. Then drawing the mouth shut, he tied it tight over Gwawl's head.
And when he knew that the carousal after the meat had begun, he went towards the hall, and when he came into the hall, he saluted Gwawl the son of Clud, and his company, both men and women. "Heaven prosper thee," said Gwawl, "and the greeting of Heaven be unto thee." "Lord," said he, "may Heaven reward thee, I have an errand unto thee."
The charm that has been cast over all my lands must be taken off likewise. 'This shall be done also. 'But not yet will I loose the mouse till I know who she is. 'She is my wife, answered the bishop. 'And wherefore came she to me? asked Manawyddan. 'To despoil thee, replied the bishop, 'for it is I who cast the charm over thy lands, to avenge Gwawl the son of Clud my friend.
My aunts and uncles tried to make me marry against my will a chieftain named Gwawl, an auburn-haired youth, son of Clud, but, because of my love to thee, would I have no husband, and if you reject me, I will never marry any man." "As Heaven is my witness, were I to choose among all the damsels and ladies of the world, thee would I choose," cried Powell.
And it was I who threw the spell upon Pryderi to avenge Gwawl for the trick that had been played on him in the game of Badger in the Bag. And not only was I wroth, but my people likewise, and when it was known that thou wast come to dwell in the land, they besought me much to change them into mice, that they might eat thy corn.
So he rose up, and put his two feet into the bag. And Pwyll turned up the sides of the bag, so that Gwawl was over his head in it. And he shut it up quickly and slipped a knot upon the thongs, and blew his horn. And thereupon behold his household came down upon the palace. And they seized all the host that had come with Gwawl, and cast them into his own prison.
And it was I who threw the spell upon Pryderi to avenge Gwawl for the trick that had been played on him in the game of Badger in the Bag. And not only was I wroth, but my people likewise, and when it was known that thou wast come to dwell in the land, they besought me much to change them into mice, that they might eat thy corn.
The charm that has been cast over all my lands must be taken off likewise. 'This shall be done also. 'But not yet will I loose the mouse till I know who she is. 'She is my wife, answered the bishop. 'And wherefore came she to me? asked Manawyddan. 'To despoil thee, replied the bishop, 'for it is I who cast the charm over thy lands, to avenge Gwawl the son of Clud my friend.
The first and the second nights it was the men of my own house that destroyed thy two fields, but on the third night my wife and her ladies came to me and begged me to change them also into the shape of mice, that they might take part in avenging Gwawl. Therefore I changed them. Yet had she not been ill and slow of foot, thou couldst not have overtaken her.
"To despoil thee," he answered. "I am Llwyd the son of Kilcoed, and I cast the charm over the seven Cantrevs of Dyved. And it was to avenge Gwawl the son of Clud, from the friendship I had towards him, that I cast the charm.
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