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52 :Dyn marw̯ a allai f’árw̯ain
 * Weithian drwy eithin a drain.—D.I.D., 182.

‘A dead man might lead me now through furze and thorns.’


 * F’enaid hoen geirw̯ afonydd,
 * Fy nghaniad dy 'fárw̯nad fɥ̄́dd.—Ỻ.G., 30.

‘My beloved of the hue of the foam of rivers, my song thy dirge shall be.’ Cf. i fárw̯nad efṓ D.I.D., 184.


 * Marw̯nad ym yw awr yn d’ôl.—T.A., 14894/35.

‘It is a lament to me [to live] an hour after thee.’


 * Pwy a’th eilw̯ pe â’th wayw onn?—T.A., 14975/102.

‘Who will challenge thee if with thy ashen spear?’


 * A’ch gwaed, rhyw ywch gadw̯’r hëol.—T.A., 14965/46.

‘With your blood it is natural to you to guard the road.’


 * Murnio da, marw̯’n y diwedd.—D.Ỻ., 31.

‘Stowing away wealth, [and] dying in the end.’


 * Lle dírgel gerllaw dérw̯goed.—D.G. 321.

‘A secret place near oak-trees.’ Cf. dérw̯gist, T.A.,. 232.


 * Tro fy chwer’der yn felysdra.—Wms. 657.

‘Turn my bitterness into sweetness.’


 * Gyr chwérw̯der o garchárdai;
 * Newyn y lleidr a wna’n llai.—D.W. 112.

‘[Charity] drives bitterness from prisons; it makes less the hunger of the thief.’

1. The rule that such words as marw, delw are monosyllabic was handed down by the teachers of cynghanedd, but the bards of the 19th cent. hardly knew what to make of it. Thus R.G.D. 97 uses marw and delw, and E.F. 185 uses enw and garw as monosyllables, while at the same time rhyming them. They no more rhyme as