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He made an englyn for me to put in a book in which I was inserting all the verses I could collect: "'Tom Evans' the lad for hunting up songs, Tom Evans to whom the best learning belongs; Betwixt his two pasteboards he verses has got, Sufficient to fill the whole country, I wot.
And there they twitched out his beard completely with the wooden tweezers; and after that they slew him altogether. And from thence they both went to Gelli Wic, in Cornwall, and took the leash made of Dillus Varvawc's beard with them, and they gave it unto Arthur's hand. Then Arthur composed this Englyn, Kai made a leash Of Dillus son of Eurei's beard. Were he alive, thy death he'd be.
"Sion Tudor," I replied. "There you are wrong," said the man in grey; "his name was not Sion Tudor but Robert Vychan, in English, Little Bob. Sion Tudor wrote an englyn on the Skerries whirlpool in the Menai; but it was Little Bob who wrote the stanza in which the future bridge over the Menai is hinted at." "You are right," said I, "you are right.
And there they twitched out his beard completely with the wooden tweezers; and after that they slew him altogether. And from thence they both went to Gelli Wic, in Cornwall, and took the leash made of Dillus Varvawc's beard with them, and they gave it into Arthur's hand. Then Arthur composed this Englyn Kai made a leash Of Dillus son of Eurei's beard. Were he alive, thy death he'd be.
What a triumph for Wales; what a triumph for bardism, if Lleiaf had ever written an englyn, or couplet, in which not a bridge for common traffic, but a railroad bridge over the Menai was hinted at, and steam travelling distinctly foretold!
Shortly afterwards, passing through Breconshire with his host, he burnt Dafydd's house a fair edifice called the Cyrnigwen, situated on a hillock near the river Honddu to the ground, and seeing one of Gam's dependents gazing mournfully on the smouldering ruins he uttered the following taunting englyn:
At present the place consists only of a few ruined walls, and probably consisted of little more two or three hundred years ago: Roger Cyffyn a Welsh bard, who flourished at the beginning of the seventeenth century, wrote an englyn upon it, of which the following is a translation: "Gone, gone are thy gates, Dinas Bran on the height!
Then looked he up to the top of the tree, and as he looked he beheld on the top of the tree an eagle, and when the eagle shook itself, there fell vermin and putrid flesh from off it, and these the sow devoured. And it seemed to him that the eagle was Llew. And he sang an Englyn: "Oak that grows between the two banks; Darkened is the sky and hill!
And then he sang an Englyn: "There is in this bag a different sort of meal, The ready combatant, when the assault is made By his fellow-warriors, prepared for battle." Thereupon came the hosts unto the house. The men of the Island of Ireland entered the house on the one side, and the men of the Island of the Mighty on the other.
Now, as sure as the couplet by Robert Lleiaf foretells that a bridge would eventually be built over the strait, by which people would pass, and traffic be carried on, so surely does the above englyn foreshadow the speed by which people would travel by steam, a speed by which distance is already all but annihilated.
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