“I am twisted with passion – plague on all the girls of the parish! since I suffered from trysts which went amiss, and could never win a single one of them, neither gentle hopeful maid, nor little lass, nor hag, nor wife.”

—  Dafydd ap Gwilym

Plygu rhag llid yr ydwyf,
Pla ar holl ferched y plwyf!
Am na chefais, drais drawsoed,
Onaddun' yr un erioed
Na morwyn fwyn ofynaig,
Na merch fach, na gwrach, na gwraig.
"Merched Llanbadarn" (The Girls of Llanbadarn), line 1; translation from Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (ed. and trans.) A Celtic Miscellany (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1951] 1975) p. 209.

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Plygu rhag llid yr ydwyf,<br/>Pla ar holl ferched y plwyf!<br/>Am na chefais, drais drawsoed,<br/>Onaddun' yr un erioed<br/>Na morwyn fwyn ofynaig,<br/>Na merch fach, na gwrach, na gwraig.

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