nasai er dim ei gyfri'n Gymro. Pa ddelw bynnag ni wnaeth yr hen Ddeon mor llawer o gamwri ag ef. He did but expose and ridicule the infantine style for fear it should get in vogue as the taste of the age, and that we should have Iliads written in it; which is no more than I would have done, had I lived in D. ap Iemwnt's time, or in Gytun Gwrecsam's pan gaethiwodd y Braidd Gyffwrdd ac y dychymygawdd Orchest y Beirdd. I own with you that the Distressed Mother', my favourite tragedy, etc., are in esteem to this day, and that deservedly, and I will venture further to say that they will continue so while the English language is esteemed; but as to the preference given him to Pope by Mr. Addison, I can by no means agree with you; that being altogether a genteel sneer and satire upon his Pastorals. Can you read his commendations of Mr Ph***'s pastorals, where he quotes a passage with a How agreeable to nature, etc.!' without discovering the sneer? For my part, when I compare the passage commended with the 'commendation, methinks I see before my eyes the wry face and the grin. And, if he had pleased, he might have said as much of Pope's; for, in truth, I could heartily wish that neither of them had ever attempted to write Pastorals; their genius being much better adapted to greater things. They should have left Pastorals to "gentle Gay", who notwithstanding all his fustian, as it is called, is the only Englishman that deserves the name of a pastoral poet.
When you say, "Dyweded Camden a fynno, ni buasai'n hynafiaid byth yn dyfeisio y fath chwedl
