transcribed _Duchan Gwyddelyn_, o waith Iolo.
Marwnad Mad. ap Gr. Mailor, 1236, by Ein. Wan, Mar. Tywysog Llew. ap Gr.
by Gwgon, Mar. Ow. Goch; a gant Bleddyn Fardd; Cyw. merch da, o waith G.
O.; Cyw. da i ofyn Cledd, o waith G. O.; Mar. Lleucu Llwyd, o waith I.
Ll. G. M. H. Mar. Ll. G. M. H., o waith Iolo.

There is at Llannerch a little old rag, consisting of about 20 pages
accurately written, out of which I have transcribed a curious ode if not
two. It begins thus: _Nid wyf ddihynwyf hoen_. _Kreirwy hoywdec am
hudawdd mal Garwy_. After eight Englyns, there is a blank, without the
author's name, and below that begins either another ode of the same
person's, or a remainder of the foregoing, beginning thus: _Mireinwawr
drefawr dra vo brad ymddwyn_, and subscribed Howel ap Eignion ai cant i
Vevanwy vechan o Gastell Dinas Bran. After the last stanza is written
_Mireinwawr drefawr_, with a dash, which makes me suppose they are two
poems, though on the same subject; because it is common to conclude an
ode with a repetition of the first stanza.--Quere, Whether the first of
these is not the same with your Awdl Myfanwy? I cannot recollect, but I
think it is longer than yours; it ends thus:

Lliw eiry cynnar pen Aran--
Lloer bryd lwys fryd o lys Vran.

I lately borrowed a quarto, fairly written by a man of learning and great
knowledge in antiquities, but ignorant of the Welsh prosody, for which
reason it is not very correct. There are many of D. G. in it, Owdl Fair,
by I. R. I. Ll. of Gogerddan; one quarter of which is Latin. I have seen
the same in another book given to D. N---, Mawl Edw. 3 ryw bryd gwedi
Aerfa Cressi, o waith Iolo.--That battle was fought in the year
1346.--Edw IIId. died 1377.--This is demonstration that Iolo ought to
have been placed much higher in chronology than the year 1400; and by his
own testimony we find he was a mere _Cleirirach_ before the commencement
of the 15th century, though he lived about ten years after. This, though
in Iolo's usual style, I think the most ancient Cywydd I ever saw,
excepting one of D. Ddu, _Digam gwnaeth Duw oi gymwyd_; and even this is,
by some, fathered upon Iolo. _Mar._ _Tywysog Llewelyn_--Gwaith Bleddyn
Fardd--Iolo Goch was of the family of the Pantons, of Coed Panton, and
Plas Panton, in the parish of Llan Nefydd, Denbighshire. The Latin
version in Saphics of Taliesin's ode _Ef a wnaeth Panton_, and some good
_Cywydds_ of Iolo's, that I never saw