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ATODIAD III.
(Pigion o lythyrau Goronwy, i esbonio ambell gyfeiriad.)

CERYDD CYWYDD Y FARN.
[At Richard Morris, Walton, Gor. 9, 1753.]

SUPPOSING what they allege to be true in the main, that llusg and sain are oftener to be met with than any other cynghanedd, I am not able to comprehend how that comes to be a fault. Had any one taken it into his head to carry on such a piece of criticism on one of his eclogues in Pope's days, he would have had an honourable place in the Dunciad" for it. You might have told Mr. Wynn how very little I know of those little niceties as yet, and then perhaps he would have been less severe. I had no other guide but uncultivated nature, no critic but my own ear, no rule or scale but my own fingers' ends, until you, out of mere pity were pleased to give me some useful hints.


JOHN OWEN, PLAS YN NGHEIDIO.

"Bu yd i'w plith a bwyd i'w plant,—eu rhaid
Hyd oni ail—gaid yn y weilgi." II. 68.

[At Richard Morris, Walton, Ion. 24, 1754]

YN y blynyddoedd tostion hynny, pan oedd yr ymborth cyn brinned a chyn ddruted hyd nad oedd yn gorfod ar lawer werthu eu gwelyau o danynt í brynnu lluniaeth, a phawb a feddai yd yn ymryson am y drutaf a'r caletaf, yr oedd y pryd hynny galon John Owen yn agored cystal