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land David, grave of heart, the soul of miracles, said to Non, We are come from parents of noble race in this island'. Whoso can behold the eternal sun of the seed of Essyllt, away from all tumult. He who shall win Owen's crown will raise these above the orb and bring concord to our native land- bountiful Jesus !-and the island of Brutus undivided, ever better from this hence-forth.1 The vaticinations concur in making certain statements such as references to the Feast of the Virgin, the long yellow summer' (though this is an echo of earlier pro- phecies it may well have a topical significance)2 the sailing of the fleet from Brittany, which would seem to suggest that they were used to disseminate information as to Henry's movements. When the BulJ3 comes from the far land to battle with his great ashen spear, to be an earl again in the land of Llewelyn, let the far-splitting spear shed the blood of the Saxons on the stubble. Then the Boar.4 in Harry's day, will snarl when it comes to fighting with us. When the long yellow sum- mer comes and victory comes to us and the spreading of the sails of Brittany and when the heat comes and when the fever is kindled, there are portents that victory will be given to us. When we sing together on the heights of Caergylchwr then there will be fire in Manaw and a proud progress through Angle- sey and Denbigh awaits us and flames in Rhuddlan and Rhos. Entangled will be the fight and wonderful will be its end. And the world will become happy at last to blessed Gwynedd.5 Or again the appeal here is to an individual chieftain Heavy fighting shall we see, Watkin, on a day that will come upon us. The mighty battle and the Bull with the valiant horns 1 For text see Appendix III. 2 The Battle of Bosworth was fought on 22nd August. 3 Henry Tudor. 4 Richard III. 5 Text in Hist. MSS. Com. Rept. ( Welsh MSS.), vol. I, pt. ii, pp. 408-9. The Commissioner has calendared this poem as an elegy to Prince Llewelyn, but it is clear from the contents and authorship that it belongs to this period.