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_Poetical Works_ (1832). Bodryddan is near Rhuddlan, in Flintshire.

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_Works, with a Memoir_ (Wm. Blackwood & Sons, 1839). As to the first,--

l. 2. _Hirlas._ From ‘hir,’ long, and ‘glas,’ blue or azure.

14. Eryri is the Welsh name for the Snowdon Mountains.

As to the second,--

Prince Madog, a natural son of Llywelyn, was the leader of the Welsh Rebellion (1294-1295), occasioned by the levying of taxes by Edward I. to pay for his projected expedition to Gascony.

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