MUSICAL AND POETICAL RELICS

OF THE

WELSH BARDS:

PRESERVED BY TRADITION, AND AUTHENTIC MANUSCRIPTS,

FROM REMOTE ANTIQUITY;

NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.

TO THE TUNES ARE ADDED

Variations for the Harp, Harpsichord original: "Harpfichord"; an early keyboard instrument where strings are plucked rather than struck, Violin, or Flute.

WITH A CHOICE COLLECTION OF THE

PENNILLION A traditional Welsh form of singing "epigrammatic stanzas" (short, witty poems) to the accompaniment of the harp, EPIGRAMMATIC STANZAS,

OR,

NATIVE PASTORAL SONNETS OF WALES,

WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS.

LIKEWISE A

HISTORY OF THE BARDS

FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME:

AND AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR

Music, Poetry, and Musical Instruments,

WITH A

DELINEATION OF THE LATTER.

DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION,

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES,

By EDWARD JONES.

of Henblas, Llandderfel, Merionethshire.

Through the dales strike the Harp, until the thrill is in the hill; from a tuned string, send an hour of joy to Eryri! original Welsh: "Trwy'r dolydd taro'r Delyn, / Oni bo'r iâs yn y bryn; / O gywair dant, a gyr di / Awr orhoen i Eryri!" Eryri is the Welsh name for Snowdonia.

Gr. Owen. Goronwy Owen (1723–1769), one of the most celebrated Welsh poets of the 18th century.

LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, AND TO BE HAD FROM HIM, AT NO. 9, PRINCES STREET,

HANOVER SQUARE.

LIKEWISE MAY BE HAD A BOOK OF ITALIAN SONGS, WITH ACCOMPANIMENTS FOR THE HARP, OR HARPSICHORD; AND

A BOOK OF SONATAS, ETC. COMPOSED BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

1784.