Here comes the Briton: let him be so entertained amongst ye, as suits with
gentlemen of your knowing, to a stranger of his quality. I beseech ye all, be
better known to this gentleman, whom I commend to you as a noble friend of
mine. How worthy he is, I will leave to appear hereafter.

Cymbeline, Act I. Scene 5.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR A. K. NEWMAN AND CO.

1829.

REGINALD TREVOR.

CHAP. I.

As monumental bronze, unchang'd his look;
A soul that pity touch'd, but never shook.
Train'd, from his tree-rock'd cradle to his bier,
The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook,
Impassive, fearing but the shame of fear,
A stoic of the hills -a man without a tear.

Gertrude of Wyoming.

WHILE affairs were thus situated in Merionethshire, the mountain recesses of Snowdon and Beddgelert were resounding to the war-cry of insurrection. A small, but well-united band of loyalists, had risen, under the direction of an VOL. II. B extraordinary

extraordinary man, named Einion Edwards; and by bold and skilful measures, had driven the soldiers from the mountains, and possessed themselves of all the hamlets and passes south of Bangor and Caernarvon. As yet, they were too weak to attack the garrison of Caernarvon Castle; but they contrived to harass their opponents with unremitting energy and effect.

Einion Edwards, at the commencement of the civil wars, was a landed proprietor of some extent, at the foot of the mountain Glyden Vawr, near Llanberis, in Caernarvonshire; and he was one of the first to sacrifice his property to the cause of the king. He had always been of a gloomy and contemplative disposition; but his feelings were quick and ardent; and it was probably their condemning influencé, which so often shrouded his spirit in reflection and melancholy. The ill success of the royalists had greatly augmented this morose71 .. ness,

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