He
Was An Excellent Poet, And Displayed In His Compositions Such
Elegance Of Language, And Such A Knowledge Of Prosody, That It Was
Customary, Long After His Death, When Any Masterpiece Of Vocal Song
Or Eloquence Was Produced, To Say That It Bore The Traces Of
Lawdden's Hatchet.
At the request of Griffith ap Nicholas, a
powerful chieftain of South Wales, and a great patron of the
Muse,
he drew up a statute relating to poets and poetry, and at the great
Eisteddfodd, or poetical congress, held at Carmarthen in the year
1450, under the auspices of Griffith, which was attended by the
most celebrated bards of the north and south, he officiated as
judge, in conjunction with the chieftain, upon the compositions of
the bards who competed for the prize - a little silver chair. Not
without reason, therefore, do the inhabitants of Machynlleth
consider the residence of such a man within their walls, though at
a far by-gone period, as conferring a lustre on their town, and
Lewis Meredith has probability on his side when, in his pretty poem
on Glen Dyfi, he says:-
"Whilst fair Machynlleth decks thy quiet plain,
Conjoined with it shall Lawdden's name remain."
CHAPTER LXXX
The Old Ostler - Directions - Church of England Man - The Deep
Dingle - The Two Women - The Cutty Pipe - Waen y Bwlch - The Deaf
and Dumb - The Glazed Hat.
I ROSE on the morning of the 2nd of November intending to proceed
to the Devil's Bridge, where I proposed halting a day or two, in
order that I might have an opportunity of surveying the far-famed
scenery of that locality.
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