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Title: The Sleeping Bard
or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell

Author: Ellis Wynne

Release Date: February 20, 2007 [eBook #20634]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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Transcribed from the 1860 John Murray edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Birmingham Library, England, for the
generous provision of the material from which this transcription was
made. http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/libraries.bcc.

THE SLEEPING BARD;
OR
Visions of the World, Death, and Hell,
BY
ELIS WYN.

TRANSLATED FROM THE CAMBRIAN BRITISH
BY
GEORGE BORROW,

AUTHOR OF
"THE BIBLE IN SPAIN," "THE GYPSIES OF SPAIN," ETC.

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1860.

Preface.

The Sleeping Bard was originally written in the Welsh language, and was
published about the year 1720. The author of it, Elis Wyn, was a
clergyman of the Cambro Anglican Church, and a native of Denbighshire, in
which county he passed the greater part of his life, at a place called Y
las Ynys. Besides the Sleeping Bard, he wrote and published a book in
Welsh, consisting of advice to Christian Professors. The above scanty
details comprise all that is known of Elis Wyn. Both his works have
enjoyed, and still enjoy, considerable popularity in Wales.

The Sleeping Bard, though a highly remarkable, is not exactly entitled to
the appellation of an original work. There are in the Spanish language
certain pieces by Francisco Quevedo, called "Visions or Discourses;" the
principal ones being "The Vision of the Carcases, the Sties of Pluto, and
the Inside of the World Disclosed; The Visit of the Gayeties, and the
Intermeddler, the Duenna and the Informer." With all these the Visions
of Elis Wyn have more or less connection. The idea of the Vision of the
World, was clearly taken from the Interior of the World Disclosed; the
idea of the Vision of Death, from the Vision of the Carcases; that of the
Vision of Hell, from the Sties of Pluto; whilst many chara