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258 have taken no mean part in it: he boasts to the following effect:

"I am not a man not to sing: I have sung since I was little; I sang in the battle of Goᵭeu of the foliage, In front of Britain's gwledig. I pierced in their midst the chargers Of the fleets of . . . . I pierced the beast of the great gem, Which had a hundred heads, And a formidable batallion Under the root of its tongue. Another batallion there is In the back of its head. A gaping black toad There is with a hundred claws. A crested snake of many colours— A hundred souls by reason of sin Are tormented in its flesh. I have been in the fort of Nevenhyr Where hurried grass and trees; There men of arts made music, There men of battle made haste. A resurrection for the Brythons Was made by Gwydion: They had called on Neivon, On Christ from . . . . To the end He might rescue them, The Supreme who had made them. To them the Lord responded Both in words and in the elements: 'Fashion kingly trees Into hosts under his lead, And frustrate Peblic Of the ignoble fight hand to hand.' "

The reference to a person called Peblic is obscure to me; but besides the expedient of converting a forest, with