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wall of London; but as Harry has already told us that it was built by King Lud, he does not now mention the circumstance again. The intelligent reader will ask if there is any backbone of truth in all this Welsh tradition. I venture to think there is very little, 1f any. One London worthy may be identified with [Lles of Harrys pages. I feel as if I could believe in King Lucius, if there was a single line of contemporary evidence about him, more easily than I can in Lud or Belin, or Coel ‘ godebog,’ or even Elen. His legend may be found, like a fly in amber, embedded in one of Thackeray’s
