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Sad ts Ihy lot, lo me; 0 Compamou .' Hotc sad is your state; .Xo liijht tii tltis tcorld ts clear lo Ihee; Yott caitnot eren dtscern the darkness.

Tlmii hast fursaken fnr herecy The fiod of llraren "'"' his faith; \ll Ihe eril has befallen to yoit lndeed; perltttps yott cannot know,

If yott could see ns others see T/te liyhl, of trhiclt yott sland in need, You troiild Ihen discorer your darknest, Yott troutd iinderslaud your state.

Tlie hrighl pitrily nf in/ellect \\'ns ftrst tilmded <*f its otrn- pawer. It is snd thiit t/nit dtd nnt meel in time .1 physictan irltn Ititd the pntrer tn cttre you elc.

Kol. I3I>. sqq. F i ag me nt iim carmtnts titalty uralis.

Tltese rerses are from Ihe ..Teagask flitlha" by Teiye Mac Brodie. This poem irhich is M iiiniiijtirti/inn Ode mldiessed lu Dotiaiiyh OKrien 4 "i Earl of Thnmond, iiheii chosen a 1 'rince of Itis .Yalian (ut the reign nf Klisubeth) is printed in Ihe Trmnmetitnt of tlte Uaelic Snciely nf Dubhii. piiblished in 1808, tcltere an English and f.atin translalton may be found. The rerses citeil in Tab. VIII, are Ihe 14. 15. 16 aitd 17. The enlirc poem cnnstsls nf 220 terses. See Trunsactinns nf lberno Cellic Sncielg. — Teige Mac Hrodie, Ihe Authni, began Ihe famoiis poelical si/uabble knuirn bg lrislt Sc/talars as „The Caulenltnii uf Ihe Bttrds".

Kol. 17a. sqq. Cnllecla ex historia Hiberniae.

Inci|>. One tlay lltal ODonnell (Ihnt is Red llugh, son of Rough Neill, son of Tnrloiigh uf tht W tne) tcas wilk Ihe Chiefs of his penp/e and of his Coun/ry feasling aitd coaraiising nl Fnx furd. l\'hen they had been merrily drinking ane of Ihe spnke wt/h a Intid und dtsltiicl totce, and said. „0 Otd is lltere lico aitd Itren/y from hence tu the Sea ufGt eece mure hai inunioiis than Ihe ttcu aml lit enly iclto are Itere in mirlh mm4mn lllllllt

Kol. Wa — o2a. Skeul Fianeechtha nr an Irith tale of llte Fians.

II %itint: A nob/e generous, tibttnilant buni/uet that Fmii Mac Ciimhul (FiaMl) IM Trentnur nf Beeshne uf gare al Ihe 1 'ulace of Teainor of Ihe rttshes. The Chiefs and iiohilily of the Fians came tn splendur lo pui take of it ctc.

Onac in fronlc liliri laguntor, clar. Crofton Crokcr ita interprclatur: To llte Header. PrMtd at the Abbey of Ihe liish Frinrs tu Lottvatn. MDL .V.V.Y.

Death ts a merciless Jttdge,

A destroyer tltat sireeps tet riftcally,

The fear of tcrelched, miserable Ihousands,

A sitre-conteiidtiig Elder.

Kol. 2a— llli et 121). inacripta sunt nomina pnvscssoruni: Daniel Driscoll. _

Coruelius ODnscoll. — Jo Schtller 1695

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