Hand-sewn notebook containing several items of poetry.
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Part of Iolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
A hand-sewn notebook containing the following items of poetry: (a) 'Ralph and Emeline, a Rural Epithalamium', beginning, 'Whilst on rosy pinion born ...'; (b) Various epitaphs and epigrams;. (C) 'Ode, on the Birth day of Sir Robert Lynch Blosse Bart. Feb. 25th 1805, completing the 21st year of his age', beginning, 'Long has the sycophantic Muse ...', by Edward Williams; (d) 'Epistolary Ode to Mr Edmund Gill a Brother Bard (written during the (alas) short reign of french Liberty', beginning, 'No pensioned Bard, thro' life resign'd ...'. Incomplete; (e) 'Verses to be affix'd to a New Edition of these Odes [Southey's] in a remotely future world' beginning, 'Thus Britain's Homer tuned his deathless lay ...'. (cf. Iolo A. Williams MS 120/51).