Excerpt from Welsh Poems and Ballads Its matter is only a footnote on the Celts, Gaels and Cymry, and its substance often reappears in later pages; but' other items both in the early script of a fine minus cule, and in the later bold, untidy scrawl, serve to carry on the Welsh account, with references to Pwll Cheres and goronwy Owen and the upshot of them all goes to show that Borrow, whether he was at Norwich or in London, was not only a stout celtophile, but much inclined, early and late, to be a Welsh idolater. And since the days when the monks of the Priory at Carmarthen wrote the Black Book in a noble script, I suppose no copyist ever took more pains than Borrow did in his early years in transcribing the lines of the Welsh poets, as the facsimile page given in this volume can tell. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.