Morfydd

Ab Gwilym; but she is not long with thee, for a storm comes on, and thunder shatters the rocks — Morfydd flees!

Lavengro 2004

Gwilym — the polished English lawyer of the last century, who wrote long and prosy chapters on the rights of things — with a certain wild Welshman, who some four hundred years before that time indited immortal cowydds and odes to the wives of Cambrian chieftains — more particularly to one Morfydd, the wife of a certain hunchbacked dignitary called by the poet facetiously Bwa

Lavengro 2004

And now thou art awaiting Morfydd, the wanton, the wife of the Bwa Bach; thou art awaiting her beneath the tall trees, amidst the underwood; but she comes not; no Morfydd is there.

Lavengro 2004

Quite right, Ab Gwilym; what wantest thou with Morfydd?

Lavengro 2004

Yes, yes, send thy love-message to Morfydd, the fair wanton.

Lavengro 2004

Reynard barks and disappears into his cave, which by thine own account reaches hell — and then thou ravest at the misfortune of thy bow, and the non-appearance of Morfydd, and abusest Reynard.

Lavengro 2004

It is full of abuse against the bird, with whom the poet is very angry for having with its cry frightened Morfydd back, who was coming to the wood to keep an assignation with him, but not a little of this abuse is wonderfully expressive and truthful.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

It was a regular Welsh mist, a niwl, like that in which the great poet Ab Gwilym lost his way, whilst trying to keep an assignation with his beloved Morfydd, and which he abuses in the following manner: -

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

It stood on the side of a green hill with a noble forest above it, and put me wonderfully in mind of the hunting lodge, which Ifor Hael allotted as a retreat to Ab Gwilym and Morfydd, when they fled to him from Cardigan to avoid the rage of the Bow Bach, and whose charming appearance made him say to his love: -

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

Halloo! what a glimpse of glory — but where is Morfydd the while?

Lavengro 2004