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Whereupon he also arose, and offering me his hand, said: “Farewell, master; I shall never forget you: were all the gentlefolks who come here to see the sources like you, we should indeed feel no want in these hills of such a gentleman as is spoken of in the pennillion.”

They were horrible times—times in which there were monks and friars and p. 511graven images, which people kissed and worshipped and sang pennillion to. 

In his youth he was much addicted to poetry, and a great many pennillion of his composition, chiefly on his p. 527own thievish exploits, are yet recited by the inhabitants of certain districts of the Shires of Brecon, Carmarthen, and Cardigan.

Had you lived at that time you would have seen people down on their knees before stocks and stones, worshipping them, kissing them and repeating pennillion to them.

“Well,” said the damsel, “I believe he does write things which he calls pennillion, but everybody laughs at them.”