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Flow also from Plynlimmon high Three streams of generosity; The first, a noble stream indeed, Like rills of Mona runs with mead; The second bears from vineyards thick Wine to the feeble and the sick; The third, till time shall be no more, Mingled with gold shall silver pour." "Nice pennillion, sir, I daresay," said my guide, "provided a person could understand them.
The ale being finished, I got up and said: "I must now be off for the Devil's Bridge!" Whereupon he also arose, and offering me his hand, said: "Farewell, master; I shall never forget you. Were all the gentlefolks who come here to see the sources like you, we should indeed feel no want in these hills of such a gentleman as is spoken of in the pennillion." The sun was going down as I left the inn.
The gentleman, who is a great gentleman, fond of his bottle and hunting, takes mightily to Tom for his funny sayings and because Tom's a good hand at a glass when at table, and a good hand at a leap when in field; the lady also takes very much to Tom, because he one domm'd handsome fellow, with plenty of wit and what they call boetry for Tom, amongst other things, was no bad boet, and could treat a lady to pennillion about her face and her ancle, and the tip of her ear.
"Well," said the damsel, "now I remember, there is a person of that name in L-, and he also keeps a house which he calls the Arms, but it is only a public-house." "But," said I, "is he not a prydydd, an illustrious poet; does he not write pennillion which everybody admires?" "Well," said the damsel, "I believe he does write things which he calls pennillions, but everybody laughs at them."
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