a fyno, ni buasai'n henafiaid byth yn dyfeisio'r fath chwedl heb na lliw na llun, &c." I can't forbear smiling (I beg pardon for being so rude,) if we have no better proof of our Trojan extraction than the bare veracity of our ancestors, I fear we may drop the argument, for I'm afraid, if we say our forefathers neither could or would fib upon occasion, we may be reckon'd very great fibbers ourselves.. Yet I can't see what they could propose to themselves by inventing such a thumper, unless it were to ingratiate themselves with the Romans by laying claim to the same common ancestors, and indeed that was temptation enough of conscience. But admitting the story of Brutus to be true, and allowing Geoffrey of Monnmouth all the authority of authenticity he can desire and every other advantage, but infallibility, and I care not much if he had that too, yet it were absurd and even ridiculous to imagine the main bulk of one nation to be his descendants. What would you say were I to affirm that the good people of England were all descended from William the Conquerer, or that they are all Hanoverians because his present Majesty is one? Brutus was hero (and was king, if you please) but still he and I are nothing akin.
Oedd, oedd, yr hen Dr. Davies o Fallwyd yn deall yr iaith Gymraeg yn bur dda, heb law llaweroedd o ieithoedd eraill. Ac nid eisiau deall a wnaeth iddo adael allan o'i Eirlyfr gymmaint o eiriau ; ond brys a blys ei weled wedi dyfod i ben cyn ei farw. Mae'n ddigon er peri i galon o gallestr wylo'n hidl ddagrau wrth weled fal yr oedd yr hen gorff druan yn cwyno yn ei Ragymadrodd rhag byrred yw hoedl dŷn! ac yn mynegi pa sawl cynnyg a roesai lawer o wyr dysgedig ar wneuthur Geirlyfr Cymraeg, ond fod Duw wedi tori edau'r einioes cyn i'r un o honynt, oddigerth un, gael amser i gwblhau ei waith. Ac yntef ei hun yn ennyd fawr o oedran, gwell oedd ganddo yrru ei lyfr i'r byd heb ei gwbl orphen, na'i adael megys erthyl ar ei ol, yn nwylaw rhyw rai, agatfydd, na adawsent byth iddo weled goleu haul. A diamau mai diolchgar y dylem oll fod iddo, a mi yn anad neb, oblegid efe a ddysgodd i mi fy Nghymraeg, neu o'r lleiaf, a'm cadwodd rhag ei cholli yn nhir estron genedl.
