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You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Brother Jonathan started up from his dream of Garn Goch and the Inquisition, to repudiate the imputation of encouragement. 'I was merely glad to find that she knew anything about the Inquisition, and had any information at all in her head; generally speaking, women know so little.
He now seized his opportunity, rapidly made himself master of Diest, Gennep, Goch and Limburg, and took by surprise the important fort of Schenck at the junction of the Waal and the Rhine. Vexed at the loss of a stronghold which guarded two of the main waterways of the land, the stadholder at once laid siege to Schenck.
At Machynlleth, in 1402, Owen Glendower, after several brilliant victories over the English, held a parliament in a house which is yet to be seen in the Eastern Street, and was formally crowned King of Wales; in his retinue was the venerable bard Iolo Goch, who, imagining that he now saw the old prophecy fulfilled, namely, that a prince of the race of Cadwaladr should rule the Britons, after emancipating them from the Saxon yoke, greeted the chieftain with an ode, to the following effect:
"Old Iolo Goch, Owen Glendower's bard, said the chieftain dwelt in a house on a light hill. "'There dwells the chief we all extol In timber house on lightsome knoll. "Is there a little river near it," said I to the cook, "a ffrwd?" "There is; it runs just under the hill." "Is there a mill upon the ffrwd?"
"There is not; that is, now but there was in the old time; a factory of woollen stands now where the mill once stood." "'A mill a rushing brook upon And pigeon tower fram'd of stone. "So says Iolo Goch," said I to myself, "in his description of Sycharth; I am on the right road."
Our attendant pointed out to us some tombs, and told us the names of certain great people whose dust they contained. "Can you tell us where Iolo Goch lies interred?" said I. "No," said she; "indeed I never heard of such a person." "He was the bard of Owen Glendower," said I, "and assisted his cause wonderfully by the fiery odes, in which he incited the Welsh to rise against the English."
'Why, you know that Caractacus commanded the Silures, or people of South Wales, against the Romans, and that they held out bravely, I have no shadow of doubt that Garn Goch was one of their strongholds. 'But what can Garn Goch have to do with Netta and Howel? Brother, I always shall say you are by the head with your antiquities. 'Well, I think you had better let them marry, I really do.
"About a week ago the Chief Magistrate at Cleves, who is an old friend of ours, motored over, and after a lot of talk, blurted out that I was to consider myself under arrest, and that an officer and a detachment of men from Goch were coming over to guard the house. The magistrate man would have told me anything I wanted to know, but he knew nothing: he simply carried out his orders.
I at once put a picture of Stonehenge, and afterwards one of Herculaneum into the box, that I had bought on purpose for his benefit. I went through the history of the Druids, and managed a touch of Garn Goch and the Welsh castles with a strong and masterly nasal, that so delighted the worthy vicar, that he actually invited me in to see his museum.
I returned to the subject of Rhys Goch and his chair, and he returned to the subject of Her Majesty's ministers, and the fine folks of London. I told him that I cared not a straw about Her Majesty's ministers and the fine folks of London, and he replied that he cared not a straw for Rhys Goch, his chair or old women's stories of any kind.
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