ysprydd

Updated: June 9, 2025

Morning hymn Much alone John Bunyan Beholden to nobody Sixty-five Sober greeting Early Sabbaths Finny brood The porch No fortune-telling The master's niece Doing good Two or three things Groans and voices Pechod Ysprydd Glan. I slept soundly during that night, partly owing to the influence of the opiate.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

I did not understand all she said she spoke in her native language, and I was some way apart; she appeared to endeavour to console her husband, but he seemed to refuse all comfort, and, with many groans, repeated "Pechod Ysprydd Glan O pechod Ysprydd Glan!" I felt I had no right to pry into their afflictions, and retired. Now, "pechod Ysprydd Glan," interpreted, is the sin against the Holy Ghost.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

"The old pain, the old pain," said he; "I was talking with this young man, and he would fain know what brought me here, he would fain hear my tale, Winifred my sin: O pechod Ysprydd Glan! O pechod Ysprydd Glan!" and the poor man fell into a more fearful agony than before.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

He made no answer; whereupon, laying her hand gently on his shoulder, she said, in the peculiar soft and tender tone which I had heard her use on a former occasion, ‘Take comfort, Peter; what has happened now to afflict thee?’ Peter removed his hand from his face. ‘The old pain, the old pain,’ said he; ‘I was talking with this young man, and he would fain know what brought me here, he would fain hear my tale, Winifred—my sin: O pechod Ysprydd Glan!

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest