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a Druid, lived abont a century earlier.
Of the Scottish MerKn,
or Merlin the wild, ve bare a curioos account furnislied bjr
Pinkarton (vol. 2, page 275—276) in a qaotaticn from Geofrey
of Monmouth :
Dux Venedatornm Feridums BeJIa gerebat
Contra Gueonolouni, Scotias qai regoa rejebat.-—
Venerat Meriinus ad bellnm cum Feridnro,
Kex qnoqiie Cambrsrnm Rodarcits,
licce victori venit ebvins alter ab aala
Rodarchi Regis Cambroram, qui Ganiedam
Duxerat uxorem, formosa conjuge felix ;
Itlerliui soror ista fuit
Aferriqne jubet vestcs, Volncrc! «jnc, CancsqBe,
Quadrupedesqfie cite?, aDnrm, geaimmtfue mirantes,
Poct)Ia qu!e scolpsit GaietaudHS in ncbe sigeni.
Singula pr^eteadit Vati Rodarcbus et offcct,
Corruet urbs Acelud, &c.
i. c. " Feridiurus g^eneial of the Yencdati, made war on Gueno.
lens king of the Scots.
Merlin had accompanied Feridurns to
the war, as also Rodaichus king of the Cambri. Lo there
comes another from the hall of Rodarchus king of the Cambii,
tomeettbeceDqueror, who had married Ganieda, and was happy
ia a. beautiful wife. She was tli£ sister of Merlin. And Ro.
darchus orders garments, hawks, hounds, swift steeds, gold,
shiniGg gems, and goblets wiuch Guielandas had carved in the
city Sigeni, to be brought, and. presents and oJTers them one bj
one to the prophet. The city Alcluid shall fall," &c.
We thus see that Merlia the wild (Meriinus Sylvestris) was
no mean person. His sister Ganieda w.as nobly married, and
he himself for his vaticinatioa, which was a prominent part of the
Df iridical office, received a present whkh might have suited
em^peror.
It were an easy matter to trace Druids even down to
the present day under thfi different denominations of warlocks^
magicians, inchaniers, charmers, fortune tellers, jugglers, &c.
But this is unnecessary, as it must occur to every intelligent
person, that Dcuidlsm, though it bais changed its name, is not
extinct, but ia more or k»9 practised in every district, aod almoKt
an