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GUTO'R GLYN AND OSWESTRY. The following poem by Guto'r Glyn (1433—1469), the famous domestic bard of Valle Crucis, Llangollen, which has never previously appeared in print, is kindly supplied by Prof. T. Gwynn Jones, Aberystwyth, to the Border Counties Advertizer, together with a free literal translation, and by the courtesy of the Proprietors of that Journal, we are permitted to print it in this issue of the" Montgomery Collections." For this courtesy we tender our best thanks. CYWYDD CANMOL I GROESOSWALLT. Yn ieuanc, bum flaeneuwr,- weithian, tuag oedran gwr, natur i hen,-yno trig- ddwyn oes mewn tref ddinesig.1 A garo ffysigwriaeth- i gylla hen, drwg yw llaeth; iachach i gleiriach o gler ei botes, a'i ddysgl bewter; cael gwres trefi dinesig, caru '>r cann a'r cwrw a'r cig; a phrendai y dyffryndir, a'i parai 'n iach, fal pren ir. Am hynny, 'r wyf i'm hannedd yn y man caf win a medd; dinas hael im Dean sydd, daionusaf o'r dinesydd; Y Castell, a'r fantell fain, a'r dref oreu hyd Rufain; Croesoswallt, cares Iesu, caer fawr i'r cwncwerwyr fu, Llundain gwlad Owain,2 a'i dir, llawndai gwin a pherllandir; 1 "Tref ddinesig," literally "a Corporate Town." 2 "LIundain gwlad Owain," the London of the Land of Owain," i.e., of Powys, the land par excellence of Owen Cyfeiliog, Owen Glyndwr and Owen de Galles.