Endnotes + 

A highly Rabelaisian phrase is omitted. ↩ + 

Translated from the Welsh verses quoted in the notebook. ↩ + 

The following translation of these verses appeared in Poems from the Old Bards, by Taliesin, Bristol, 1812: + 

“In Soar’s sweet valley, where the sound + 

Of holy anthems once was heard + 

From many a saint, the hills prolong + 

Only the music of the bird. + 

In Soar’s sweet valley, where the brook + 

With many a ripple flows along, + 

Delicious prospects meet the eye, + 

The ear is charmed with Phil’mel’s song. + 

In Soar’s sweet valley once a Maid, + 

Despising worldly prospects gay, + 

Resigned her note in earthly choirs + 

Which now in Heaven must sound alway. + 

In Soar’s sweet valley David preached; + 

His Gospel accents so beguiled + 

The savage Britons, that they turned + 

Their fiercest cries to music mild. + 

In Soar’s sweet valley Cybi taught + 

To haughty Prince the Holy Law, + 

The way to Heaven he showed, and then + 

The subject tribes inspired with awe. + 

In Soar’s sweet valley still the song + 

Of Phil’mel sounds and checks alarms. + 

But when shall I once more renew + 

Those heavenly hours in Gladys’ arms?” + 

“Taliesin” was the pseudonym of an amiable clergyman, the Reverend Owen Thomas, for many years curate of Llantrisant. He died in 1820, at the great age of eighty-four. His original poetry in Welsh was reputed as far superior to his translations, and he made a very valuable and curious collection of “Cymric Antiquities,” which remains in manuscript in the keeping of his descendants. ↩ + 

A diamond. ↩ + 