{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/fab/fab128.htm","path":"neu/celt/fab/fab128.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/fab/fab128.htm","text":"I. MAENWYN, when I was of thy age,\n My garment should not be trodden under foot,\n My land should not be ploughed without blood.\nII. Maenwyn, when I was opposed to thee,\n With youth attendant on me,\n The foe would not break my boundary.\nIII. Maenwyn, while I was in pursuit of thee,\n Following my youth,\n The foe loved not the fury of my resentment.\nIV. Maenwyn, while I was young and plump,\n Addicted to fierce slaughter,\n I would perform the acts of a man, though I was but a youth.\nV. Maenwyn, take thy aim discreetly;\n There is need of advice on him who is in error:\n Let Maelgwn provide another mayor.\nVI. My choice is a portion, with its sheath on it,\n And sharp-pointed as a thorn;\n It is not labour lost for me to whet a stone.\nVII. A present was bestowed on me from the vale\n Of Mewyrniawn, concealed in a bucket,\n A sharp iron projecting from the hand.\nVIII. Blessed be the solitary hag,\n That said from the door of her cell,\n \"Maenwyn, do not deliver up thy knife.\"","title":"Four Ancient Books of Wales: X. Poems Attributed to Llywa...","type":"page"}