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 He wound with toilsome march his long array.^{[N 1]}
Stout Glo'ster^{[N 2]} stood aghast in speechless trance:
"To arms!" cried Mortimer,^{[N 3]} and couch'd his quiv'ring lance.

I. 2.
 On a rock, whose haughty brow^{[N 4]} 15
Frowns o'er cold Conway's foaming flood,^{[N 5]}
 Robed in the sable garb of woe,^{[N 6]}
With haggard eyes the poet stood;
(Loose his beard, and hoary hair^{[N 7]}

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Notes

the different parts of the mountain in his time: see Itin. v. 45. Dyer. Ruins of Rome, p. 137:

"as Britannia's oaks
On Merlin's mount, or Snowdon's rugged sides,
Stand in the clouds."


Lycidas, 54,"Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high," v. Par. L. vi. 645. "By the shaggy tops," &c. Todd's note.
1. V. 12. "In long array," Dryden. E. xi. Rogers.
2. V. 13. Gilbert de Clare, surnamed the Red, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, son-in-law to King Edward. Gray.
3. V. 14. Edmond de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore. Gray. They both were Lord Marchers, whose lands lay on the borders of Wales, and probably accompanied the king in this expedition. Gray.
   "Hastam quassatque trementem,"
   Virg. Æn. xii. 94. Luke.
   
   
4. V. 15. Hom. Il. Y. ver. 151: GREEK HERE. And Mosch. Id. ii. 48: GREEK HERE Ap. Rhod. i. ver. 178. St. Luke, iv. 29, And Virg. Georg. i. 108: "Ecce supercilio clivosi tramitis." W. "A huge aspiring rock, whose surly brow," Daniel. Civ. Wars, p. 58.
5. V. 16. "Above the foamy flood," v. Dyer. R. of Rome. Luke.
6. V. 17. "Perpetuo mœrore, et nigra veste senescant," Juvenal. Sat. x. 245. W. Also Propert. Eleg. 1V. vii, 28: "Atrum quis lacrymis incaluisse togam." Senec. II. Fur. 94, "aterque luctus sequitur."
7. V. 19. The image was taken from a well-known picture of Raphael, representing the Supreme Being in the vision