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"I say the greatest prydydd. If any one wishes to gainsay me let him show his face and Myn Diawl " The landlord brought the ale, placed it on the table, and then stood as if waiting for something. "I suppose you are waiting to be paid," said I; "what is your demand?" "Sixpence for this jug, and sixpence for the other," said the landlord.
We also say: Go to old Nick! and Nick or Nikkur was a surname of Woden, and also the name of a spirit which haunted fords and was in the habit of drowning passengers. Night came quickly upon me after I had passed the swearing lad. However, I was fortunate enough to reach Llan Rhyadr, without having experienced any damage or impediment from Diawl, Andras, Duse, or Nick.
He then asked me whether I thought the militia would be again called out. "Nothing more probable," said I. "And where would they be sent to?" "Perhaps to Ireland," was my answer, whereupon he started up with another Myn Diawl, expressing the greatest dread of being sent to Iwerddon.
'Were I to print it, said he, 'I should be ruined; the terrible descriptions of vice and torment would frighten the genteel part of the English public out of its wits, and I should to a certainty be prosecuted by Sir James Scarlett . . . Myn Diawl! It cannot be determined with exactness when Borrow relinquished the unequal struggle against adverse circumstances in London.
"Where is he? why, there," said he, pointing to the man in grey "the greatest prydydd in tir Fon or the whole world." "Tut, tut, hold your tongue," said the man in grey. "Hold my tongue, myn Diawl, not I I speak the truth," then filling his glass he emptied it exclaiming, "I'll not hold, my tongue. The greatest prydydd in the whole world."
"'The greatest prydydd, stuttered he of the bulged shoe 'the greatest prydydd Oh "'Tut, tut, said the man in grey. "'I speak the truth and care for no one, said he of the tattered hat. 'I say the greatest prydydd. If any one wishes to gainsay me let him show his face, and Myn Diawl The landlord brought the ale, placed it on the table, and then stood as if waiting for something.
"It's of no use speaking Welsh to them," said the boy; "Welsh isn't strong enough." "Isn't Myn Diawl tolerably strong?" said I. "Not strong enough for horses," said the boy "if I were to say Myn Diawl to my horses, or even Cas Andras, they would laugh at me." "Do the other carters," said I, "use the same English to their horses which you do to yours?"
"Then depend upon it," said I, "that it will not be long before he will either break his neck or knees or he will break your neck or crown. You are not going the right way to work." "Oh, myn Diawl!" said Jenkins, "I know better.
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