Download or read book Montgomeryshire Worthies (Classic Reprint) written by Richard Williams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Montgomeryshire Worthies Huw Arwystli was a poor despised cripple, and sometimes for want of lodging was accustomed to turn aside into the church at Llandinam, in Montgomeryshire, to sleep when he came that way on his travels. And it chanced that he came that way one May eve and slept there that night, and while he was in deep slumber he in his sleep saw one coming to him and putting something into his head, and, next morning when he awoke, it happened that a maiden came by who had been gathering may and bearing an armful of may, and She said to those who were with her in passing by the u indow under which Huw was lying these words, Not one of you will give any may to this cripple I will give him some, ' and She tossed to him through the window a branch of fresh gathered may, and he thanked her in verse, who had never before composed or known how to compose a Single stanza; and the song that he sang to her follows thus in this Englyn. And from this time he began to compose poetry, and made many masterly odes, and was in favom'with the gentry of Wales during the rest of his life, and what he saw entering his head was the poetic faculty which God gave him, and which excelled any that existed in the age in which he lived. 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.