Wanderings through North Wales.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY.

Passe where you please on plaine or mountain wilde;

And beare yourself in sweete and civill sorte,

Ấnd you shall sure be haulst with man and childe,

Who will salute with gentle comely port

The passers by: on braves they stand not so,
Without good speeche to let a traveller go :
They thinke it dette and dutie frank and free,
In towne or fielde to yeeld you cap and knee,
Worthiness of Wales.

OLD associations, and the pleasure derived from excursions in the principality in earlier days, and under brighter skies, were not without their influence in directing the Wanderer's steps on his return from other and distant scenes. Ties of early friendship, warm greeting and hospitality, with pleasant companionship, gave additional zest to the charm of rambling through a beautiful country, combining so many features to interest the imagination and to allure the

eye.

The old British birth-place of elf and fairy lore, famed alike for triumphs of the sword and prizes of the lyre-to how many recollections did it give rise, as the Wanderer of many years looked back to those 'white days so indelibly marked in memory's tablets'

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