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Tho' fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing,^{[N 1]}
 They mock the air with idle state.^{[N 2]}
Helm, nor hauberk's^{[N 3]} twisted mail,
Nor e'en thy virtues, Tyrant, shall avail
 To save thy secret soul from nightly fears,^{[N 4]}
 From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears!"
Such were the sounds that o'er the crested pride^{[N 5]}
 Of the first Edward scatter'd wild dismay, 10
As down the steep of Snowdon's shaggy side^{[N 6]}

^{[N 7]}Notes

1. V. 3. "Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky,
   V. 3. And fan our people cold." Macbeth, act i. sc. 2.
2. V. 4. "Mocking the air with colours idly spread."
   King John, act v. sc. 1. Gray.
3. V. 5. The hauberk was a texture of steel ringlets, or rings interwoven, forming a coat of mail that sat close to the body, and adapted itself to every motion. Gray.
   "With helm and hauberk,"
   Rob. of Gloucester, vol. i. p. 297.
   
   

   "Hauberks and helms are hew'd with many a wound,"

   Dryden. Pal. and Arcite, lib. iii. v. 1879. Fairfax in his Trans. of Tasso, has joined these words in many places: As canto vii. 38: "Now at his helm, now at his hawberk bright," See also p. 193, 199, 299, edition 1624, folio.
4. V. 7. "Within her secret mind," v. Dryden. En. iv. Rogers.
5. V. 9."The crested adder's pride."
   Dryden. Indian Queen. Gray.
6. V. 11. Snowdon was a name given by the Saxons to that mountainous tract which the Welsh themselves call Craigian-eryri: it included all the highlands of Caernarvonshire and Merionethshire, as far east as the river Conway. R. Hygden, speaking of the castle of Conway, built by King Edward the First, says, "Ad ortum amnis Conway ad clivum montis Erery," and Matthew of Westminster, (ad ann. 1283) "Apud Aberconway ad pedes montis Snowdoniæ fecit crigi castrum forte." Gray.
   The epithet "shaggy," applied to "Snowdon's side," is highly appropriate, as Leland says that great woods clothed
7. V. 2. "Confusion waits." K. John, IV. sc. ult. Rogers.