_Printers_, _Angel
Court_, _Skinner Street_, _London_." The signatures are A (8 leaves), B
to U (18 sheets, each 12 leaves), plus X (10 leaves). The last leaf of
Sig. H is a blank. The volume was issued without any Half-title.

Issued (in _December_, 1862) in dark green cloth boards, with white paper
back-label, lettered "_Wild Wales_. / _By_ / _George Borrow_. / _Vol. I_
[Vol. ii, &c.]." The leaves measure 7.625 x 4.875 inches. The published
price was 30_s._; 1,000 copies were printed.

A Second Edition of _Wild Wales_ was issued in 1865, a Third Edition in
1888, and a Fourth Edition in 1896. The book has since been included in
divers series of non-copyright works.

The following Poems made their first appearance in the pages of _Wild
Wales_:

VOL. I

PAGE

CHESTER ALE. [_Chester ale_, _Chester ale_! _I could 18
ne'er get it down_]

Another, widely different, version of these lines exist
in manuscript. It reads as follows:

_On the Ale of Chester_.

_Of Chester the ale has but sorry renown_,
'_Tis made of ground-ivy_, _of dust_, _and of
bran_;
'_Tis as thick as a river belough a hugh town_,
'_Tis not lap for a dog_, _far less drink for a
man_.

SAXONS AND BRITONS. [_A serpent which coils_] 48

Previously printed in _The Quarterly Review_, _January_
1861, p. 42.

TRANSLATION OF A WELSH ENGLYN UPON DINAS BRAN. [_Gone_, 61
_gone are thy gates_, _Dinas Bran on the height_!]

LINES FOUND ON THE TOMB OF MADOC. [_Here after sailing 105
far I Madoc lie_]

THE LASSIES OF COUNTY MERION. [_Full fair the gleisiad 153
in the flood_]

This was one stanza only, the fifth, of the complete poem
_The Cookoo's Song in Merion_, which Borrow translated
some years later, and which was first printed in
_Ermeline_, 1913, pp. 21-23. The text of the two
versions of this stanza differ considerably.

STANZA ON THE STONE OF JANE WILLIAMS. [_Though thou art 161
gone to dwelling cold_]

THE MIST. [_O ho_! _thou villain mist_, _O ho_!] 173

Although Borrow translated the whole poem, he omitted 24
lines (the 14 opening and 10 closing lines) when printing
it in _Wild Wales_. Here are the missing lines, which I
give from the original Manuscript