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Having pulled out a canvas bag he laid it triumphantly on the table with a bang. "What is it?" said all, in a breath. Gwilym did not answer, but undoing the pink tape which tied it, he poured out on the table forty glittering sovereigns. "There!" he said, "what do you think; old Tim 'Penlau' paid me the 40 pounds he has owed me so long!" "Well, wonders will never cease!" said Ebben Owens.
Ah, that Ab Gwilym! I am much indebted to him, and it were ungrateful on my part not to devote a few lines to him and his songs in this my history.
At length an explanation ensued, and it appeared that they had all come to meet Ab Gwilym. "'Oh, the treacherous monster! cried they with one accord; 'only let him show himself and we will tear him to pieces. "'Will you? said Ab Gwilym from the oak; 'here I am; let her who has been most wanton with me make the first attack upon me!
The lovers fled to Glamorgan, where Ifor Hael, not much to his own credit, received them with open arms, probably forgetting how he had immured his OWN daughter in a convent, rather than bestow her on Ab Gwilym. Having a hunting-lodge in a forest on the banks of the lovely Taf, he allotted it to the fugitives as a residence.
Many is the book I read, especially in my native language, for I was always fond of my native language, and proud of being a Welshman. Amongst the books I read were the odes of the great Ab Gwilym, whom thou, friend, hast never heard of; no, nor any of thy countrymen, for you are an ignorant race, you Saxons, at least with respect to all that relates to Wales and Welshmen.
"Yes, yes, to be sure, and he is looking very nice always; but I didn't notice him much today." Meanwhile, in the town, Will and Gwilym had much to do; there were books to be got there was a horse to be looked at for the farm and, moreover, Will was to call upon Mr.
I was drenched to the skin, nay, through the skin, by the mist, which I verily believe was more penetrating than that described by Ab Gwilym. When I had proceeded about a mile I saw blazes down below, resembling those of furnaces, and soon after came to the foot of the hill. It was here pouring with rain, but I did not put up my umbrella, as it was impossible for me to be more drenched than I was.
Go to, Ab Gwilym, with thy pseudo-amatory odes, to Morfydd, or this or that other lady, fair or ugly; little didst thou care for any of them, Dame Nature was thy love, however thou mayest seek to disguise the truth. Yes, yes, send thy love- message to Morfydd, the fair wanton.
But I found the publishers as untractable as ever, and to this day the public has never had an opportunity of doing justice to the glowing fire of my ballad versification, and the alliterative euphony of my imitations of Ab Gwilym. I had not seen Francis Ardry since the day I had seen him taking lessons in elocution.
Blackstone kept company with Ab Gwilym—the polished English lawyer of the last century, who wrote long and prosy chapters on the rights of things—with a certain wild Welshman, who some four hundred years before that time indited immortal cowydds or odes to the wives of Cambrian chieftains—more particularly to one Morfydd, the wife of a certain hunch-backed dignitary called by the poet facetiously Bwa Bach—generally terminating with the modest request of a little private parlance beneath the greenwood bough, with no other witness than the eos, or nightingale; a request which, if the poet may be believed, rather a doubtful point, was seldom, very seldom, denied.
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