'Hear from the grave, great Taliessin, <note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom">Taliessin, Chief of the Bards, flourished in the VIth Century. His works are still preserved, and his memory held in high veneration among his Countrymen. [His <emph>Book</emph> exists in only a thirteenth-century version and many of the poems in it may not be by Taliessin.] </note> hear;