SHON CATTI***


Transcribed from the 1828 John Cox edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org





                                   THE
                         ADVENTURES AND VAGARIES
                                    OF
                             TWM SHÔN CATTI,


                              DESCRIPTIVE OF

                              LIFE IN WALES:

                         Interspersed with Poems.

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                       BY T. J. LLEWELYN PRICHARD.

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   Mae llevain mawr a gwaeddi
   Yn Ystrad Fîn eleni
   A cherrig nadd yn toddi ’n blwm
   Rhag ovn Twm Shôn Catti.

   In Ystrad Fîn this year, appalling
   The tumult loud, the weeping, wailing,
      That thrills with fear and pity;
   The lightning scathes the mountain’s head,
   The massy stones dissolve like lead,
   All nature shudders at the tread
      And shout of Twm Shôn Catti.

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                               ABERYSTWYTH:
                   PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY JOHN COX.

                                   1828

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CHAP. I.


The popularity of Twm Shôn Catti’s name in Wales.  The resemblance of his
character to that of Robin Hood and others.  An exposition of the
spurious account of our hero in the “INNKEEPER’S ALBUM,” and in the drama
founded thereon.  The honor of his birth claimed by different towns.  A
true account of his birth and parentage.

THE preface to the once popular farce of “