Chapter CXIX

Published (with _The Progress of Poetry_) in 1757.

l. 5. _hauberk._ Coat of mail.

8. _Cambria._ Wales; a Latinised form of ‘Cymru.’

13-14. _Gloster._ _Mortimer._ English nobles and Lords
of the Welsh Marches.

28. _Hoel._ King of Brittany and nephew of King Arthur.
_Llewellyn._ A famous Welsh prince of the eleventh
century.

29. _Cadwallo._ King of North Wales in the seventh century.

31. _Urien._ A Welsh hero of the fifth century.

33. _Mordred._ Nephew of Arthur.

34. _Plinlimmon._ A mountain in Cardiganshire.

35. _Arvon._ ‘The shores of Carnarvonshire opposite the Isle
of Anglesea.’--Gray.

56. Edward II. was murdered in Berkeley Castle (September 21,
1327).

57. Isabella, wife of Edward II.

67. Edward, the Black Prince.

71, &c. The reign of Richard II.

83-96. The Wars of the Roses.

87. The Tower of London was said to have been begun by Julius
Cæsar.

89. _Consort._ Margaret of Anjou.
_father._ Henry V.

90. _meek usurper._ Henry VI.

93. The silver boar was the badge of Richard III.

115. Queen Elizabeth.

121. _Taliessin._ A Welsh bard of the sixth century.

126. Spenser’s _Faerie Queene_.

128. Shakespeare’s plays.

131. Milton.

133. ‘The succession of poets after Milton’s time.’--Gray.