ludh luaithreand N]
119. Trede neimthigedar liaig: digallrae, diainme, comchissi ce_n_
ainchiss.
[Note 119: _om._ BMHLec ara neimit_er_ liagh N coimcisin gin ainces N]
120. Trede neimthigedar gobainn: bir Neithin, fulacht na Morrigna,
inneoin in Dagda.
[Note 120: _om._ BMHLec ara neimit_er_ gobaind N bir ndechin N]
121. Trede neimthigedar cerdai: fige ronn, caer comraic, plett for faebur.
[Note 121: _om._ BMHLec cerd N flet N]
122. Trede neimthigedar cruitire: golltraige, gentraige, suantraige.
[Note 122-123: _om._ BMHLec]
123. Trede neimthigedar filid: immas forosna, teinm laeda, dichetal di
chennaib.
124. Da migairm mithocaid: commaidem do chetguine, do ben la fer n-aile.
[Note 124: atte da ni igairm (!) do neoch .i. maidem a
c_het_guine [et] a bean do beith fri fer n-aill BM mitocaid N a cedgona
N a ben la fer n-aile N]
125. Teora airi[se]na iarnduba: comar, cocless, clemnas.
[Note 125: tri hairnadmand BMN iardubha M coicless LM coicle M]
126. Tri bainne cetmuintire: bainne fola, bainne der, bainne aillse.
[Note 126: banda NBM]
127. Tri coiri bite in cach duini: coire erma, coire goriath, coire
aiged.
[Note 127: core B duini L duine B goiriat N aitiu N notead B
notheadh M]
116. Three things that constitute a buffoon: blowing out his cheek,
blowing out his satchel, blowing out his belly.
117. Three things that constitute a comb-maker: racing a hound in
contending for a bone; straightening a ram's horn by his breath, without
fire; chanting upon a dunghill so that all antlers and bones and horns
that are below come to the top.
118. Three things that constitute a carpenter: joining together without
calculating (?), without warping (?); agility with the compass; a
well-measured stroke.
119. Three things that constitute a physician: a complete cure, leaving
no blemish behind, a painless examination.
120. Three things that constitute a blacksmith: Nethin's spit, the
cooking-hearth of the Morrigan, the Dagda's anvil.[77]
[77] For a description and pictures of these appliances, see YBL., p.
419_a_, and Egerton, 1782, fo. 46_a_.
121. Three things that constitute an artificer: weaving chains, a mosaic
ball,[78] an edge upon a blade.
[78] O'Curry, Manners and Customs, ii., p. 253, thought that a _caer
comraic_ was 'a ball of convergent ribs or lines,' perhaps such a bead
or ball of mosaic glass as is depicted in Joyce's _Social History of
Ancient Ireland_, vol. ii., p. 32, fig. 171. _A caer comraic_ of eight
different colours is mentioned in LB. 108_b_ 20.
122. Three things that constitute a harper: a tune to make you cry, a
tune to make you laugh, a tune to put you to sleep.[79]
[79] _Cf._ H. 3. 18, p. 87: treide nemtighther cruit; goltraiges,
gentraiges, suantraiges.
123. Three things that constitute a poet: 'knowledge that illumines,'
'_teinm laeda_,'[80] improvisation.
[80] The names of various kinds of incantations. See Cormac's Glossary
and Ancient Laws, s.v.
124. Two ominous cries of ill-luck: boasting of your first slaughter,
and of your wife being with another man.
125. Three things betokening trouble: holding a plough-land in common,
performing feats together, alliance in marriage.
126. Three drops of a wedded woman: a drop of blood, a tear-drop, a drop
of sweat.
127. Three caldrons that are in every fort: the caldron of running, the
caldron _goriath_,[81] the caldron of guests.
[81] Quite obscure to me. There is a heavily glossed poem in H. 3. 18,
beginning _Coire goriath_. In H. 2. 15, p. 117^b, after the colophon to
Duil Laithne (Goid.,^2 p. 79), there are some further glosses, among
which I find: goiriath .i. gardhamh in gach iath, erma .i. uasal-iompu
no iar-iompa. But _erma_ seems the genitive of _erim_, 'a course.'
128. Tri comartha lathraig bendachtan: clocc, salm, senad.
[Note 128: lathrach bennachtan H bendacht L senad NBMH ocsenad L]
129. Tri comartha lathraig mallachtan: tromm, tradna, nenaid.
[Note 129: mallachtan HM neanad B neanntoch M tradnai BM tradna H]
130. Teora muimmecha taide: caill, coim, adaig.
[Note 130: tri muime BM tri buime gaiti H coill HM]
131. Teora ranna sluinte fri caintocad: trumma, toicthiu, talchaire.
[Note 131: sloindti caintocaid N toicte N]
132. Teora ranna sluinte dotcaid: tlas, aes, airbire.
[Note 132: dotcaid N tlass ois oirbire N]
133. Di derb[.s]iair: tlas [et] truaige.
[Note 133: siair L tlas [et] trousca N truaighe BMH]
134. Da derbrathair: tocad [et] brugaide.
[Note 134: brathair M toice [et] blailaige N togud B tacad H]
135. Tri fuidb dotcadaig: rathaiges, etargaire, fiadnaise. Dotoing dia
fiadnaisi, iccaid dia rathaiges, doberar beimm n-etaigaire ina chinn.
[Note 135: foidb dothcadaigh M toindid a fiadnaisi BM iccaid a
rathaigecht beiridh builleadha etargaire ina cind BM.]
136. Tri sethraeha goa: bess, doig, toimtiu.
[Note 136: toimdi L]
137. Tri brathair uamain: sta! sit! coiste!
[Note 137: braitri N omain BM ist sta [et] coisde BM sta sit coist N]
138. Tri mairb fortgellat for biu: med, airmed, forrach.
[Note 138: forgellait H for fiu BM meid armeid BM forach H]
139. Tri brothcain ratha: rothicc, rosiacht, rotochtaig.
[Note 139: brothcain ratha N raithi L rodicc rosiacht roto_n_cai N]
140. Tri dubthrebtha: tuga co fuatchai, imme co for[.n]gaire, tirad co
n-aurgorad.
[Note 140: doidbtrebtai tugai co fodaib imed co forrngaire N tuighe
go foidibh M co foitib Lec tiriudh M]
141. Tri hiarnduba: fer tochmairc, fer gaite meirle, fer hic aisneis.
[Note 141: fear fochairc Lec fer aisneisi N]
142. Tri maic beres drus do lonnus: tuilfeth, fidchell, dulsaine.
[Note 142: lundus N tulfeith N dullsaine L]
143. Tri maic beres feile do ainmnit: gruss, russ, rucca.
[Note 143: ainmned N grus rus rucad N]
144. Tri maic beres neoit do deinmnait: crith, dochell, grith.
[Note 144: deinmnet N grith crith doicell N]
145. Tri huar fichte: tipra, muir, nuae corma.
[Note 145: huara N]
146. Tri fuammann moaigthe: fuam bo mblecht, fuam cerdchae, fuam
aratbair.
[Note 146: fuamandu moaigti N moigthi L fuaim bo mblicht N]
128. Three tokens of a blessed site: a bell, psalm-singing, a synod (of
elders).
129. Three tokens of a cursed site: elder, a corncrake, nettles.[82]
[82] See my edition of _Cain Adamnain_, p. 13, note 3, and p. 38.
130. Three nurses of theft: a wood, a cloak, night.
131. Three qualities[83] that bespeak good fortune: self-importance,
..., self-will.
[83] Literally, 'parts.'
132. Three qualities[84] that bespeak misfortune: weariness, (premature)
old age, reproachfulness.
[84] Literally, 'heaviness, weight.'
133. Two sisters: weariness and wretchedness.
134. Two brothers: prosperity and husbandry.
135. Three unlucky...:[85] guaranteeing, mediating, witnessing. The
witness has to swear to his evidence, the guarantor has to pay for his
security, the mediator gets a blow on his head.[86]
[85] The usual meanings of _fodb_, 'accoutrement, equipment, arms,' do
not seem to suit here.
[86] Literally, 'the blow of mediation is dealt on his head.'
136. Three false sisters: 'perhaps,' 'may be,' 'I dare say.'
137. Three timid brothers: 'hush!' 'stop!' 'listen!'
138. Three dead things that give evidence on live things: a pair of
scales, a bushel, a measuring-rod.
139. Three pottages of guaranteeing....[87]
[87] Obscure and probably corrupt. Cf. Sec. 219.
140. Three black husbandries: thatching with stolen things,[88] putting
up a fence with a proclamation of trespass, kiln-drying with scorching.
[88] 'with sods,' NML, perperam.
141. Three after-sorrows: a wooer's, a thief's, a tale-bearer's.
142. Three sons whom folly bears to anger: frowning, ... ,[89] mockery
(?).
[89] _fidchell_, the well-known game, gives no sense here.
143. Three sons whom generosity bears to patience: ... , blushing,
shame.
144. Three sons whom churlishness bears to impatience: trembling,
niggardliness, vociferation.
145. Three cold things that seethe: a well, the sea, new ale.
146. Three sounds of increase: the lowing of a cow in milk, the din of a
smithy, the swish of a plough.
147. Tri hana antreinn: tipra i sleib, tene a liic, ana la fer calad.
[Note 147: luc MSS. anai la fear calaid N]
148. Tri aithgine in domuin: bru mna, uth bo, ness gobann.
[Note 148: haitgine N aithgeinit L corathgen B coratgen M bru birite
BM meas(!) BMLec]
149. Tri diubarta forsna iada dilse: tinnscra mna, imthomailt lanamna,
iarraid maicc.
[Note 149: hiad N imtomailt N iarr_aid_ menicc(!) L]
150. Tri cuir tintaiter do reir britheman: cor mna [et] micc [et]
bothaich.
[Note 150: tinntaigter N]
151. Tri nata[t] tualaing sainchuir: mac beo-athar, ben aurnadma, doer
flatha.
[Note 151: nad N]
152. Tri maic nad rannat orbai: mac muini [et] aurlai [et] ingine fo
thrilis.
[Note 152: erlai N]
153. Tri ai nad eplet faill: ai dochuind, [et] dochraite, [et] anfis.
[Note 153: dochainn N docraite N]
154. Tri fuile na dlegat frecor: fuil catha, [et] eoit, [et] etargaire.
[Note 154: nad N etargaire N]
155. Tri fuchachta nad increnat slabrai: a gabail ar ecin, a sleith tri
mescai, a turtugud do rig.
[Note 155: fuichechta N slaibri N]
156. Tri na dlegat turbaidi: athchor maic, aicdi cherdai, giallaigecht.
[Note 156: nad dlegait turbaid N aige cerda N]
157. Tri aithne na dlegat taisec: aithne n-ecuind, [et] ardneimid [et]
aithne fuirmeda.
[Note 157: haitne nad dlegait taisec N ecoind N fuirmidai L]
158. Tri mairb direnaiter beoaib: aball, coll, fidnemed.
[Note 158: dorenatar beo N]
159. Tri[ar] na ditoing na fortongar: ben, angar, amlabar.
[Note 159: dotoing na fortoing_er_ L amlobar N]
160. Tri na dlegat athchommus: mac [et] a athair, ben [et] a ceile, doer
[et] a thigerna.
[Note 160: na dlegait N]
161. Tri nat fuigletar cia beith ar a ngaes: fer adgair [et] adgairther
[et] focrenar fri breith.
[Note 161: nat fuigletar cia beit N fer adgair [et] adgair (sic)
[et] adgairter [et] rocrenar N]
162. Tri fors na tuit aititiu 'na re: bas, anfis, anfaitches.
[Note 162: anfuichc_h_es L anbaitces N]
147. Three wealths in barren places: a well in a mountain, fire out of a
stone, wealth in the possession of a hard man.
148. Three renovators of the world: the womb of woman, a cow's udder, a
smith's moulding-block.
149. Three concealments upon which forfeiture does not close: a wife's
dowry, the food of a married couple, a boy's foster-fee.
150. Three contracts that are reversed by the decision of a judge: the
contracts of a woman, of a son, of a cottar.
151. Three that are incapable of special contracts[90]: a son whose
father is alive, a betrothed woman, the serf of a chief.
[90] Or, 'of contracts on their own behalf.'
152. Three sons that do not share inheritance: a son begotten in a
brake,[91] the son of a slave, the son of a girl still wearing tresses.
[91] Cf. the expression _meirdrech muine_, 'a bush-strumpet,' Laws v.
176, 4.
153. Three causes that do not die with neglect: the causes of an
imbecile, and of oppression, and of ignorance.
154. Three bloodsheds that need not be impugned: the bloodshed of
battle, of jealousy, of mediating.
155. Three cohabitations[92] that do not pay a marriage-portion: taking
her by force, outraging her without her knowledge through drunkenness,
her being violated by a king.
[92] _fuchacht_, or _fuichecht_, usually means 'cuckoldry,' a meaning
which does not seem to suit here.
156. Three that are not entitled to exemption: restoring a son, the
tools of an artificer, hostageship.
157. Three deposits that need not be returned: the deposits of an
imbecile,[93] and of a high dignitary, and a fixed deposit.[94]
[93] _i.e._ a deposit made by an imbecile. _Cf._ Plato, Republic: "But
surely you would never give back to a mad friend a sword which he had
lent you?"
[94] But in the Heptads (Laws v. 196, 3) _aithne fuirmida_, there
rendered by 'a deposited charge,' is enumerated as one of those to be
restored even if there are no bonds to that effect.
158. Three dead ones that are paid for with living things: an
apple-tree, a hazle-bush, a sacred grove.[95]
[95] there is nothing in the laws to explain this.
159. Three that neither swear nor are sworn: a woman, a son who does not
support his father, a dumb person.
160. Three that are not entitled to renunciation of authority: a son and
his father, a wife and her husband, a serf and his lord.
161. Three who do not adjudicate though they are possessed of wisdom: a
man who sues, a man who is being sued, a man who is bribed to give
judgment.
162. Three on whom acknowledgment does not fall in its time: death,
ignorance, carelessness.
163. Tri foimrimme na dlegad dire: homan, robud, toxal.
[Note 163: foimrime N foimrenn L na dlegaid N robad N]
164. Tri duilgine conrannat gniaid: duilgine coiri, duilgine muilinn,
duilgine tige.
[Note 164: duilcinne N conrenad gnia N]
165. Tri noill dona dlegar frithnoill: noill mna fri huaitni, noill fir
mairb, noill dithir.
[Note 165: naill nad dlegad fritnaill luige mna N luide N luige
ditire N]
166. Tri grada coillte tuath ina ngoi: goi rig, goi [.s]enchada, goi
bretheman.
[Note 166-220: _om._ HBMLec inango N go N]
167. Tri soir dogniat doeru dib fein: tigerna renas a deiss, rigan teite
co haithech, mac filed leces a cheird.
[Note 167: daoir dib fein N des N deissi L teid N treiges a cerd N]
168. Tri ruip conberat duinechinaid: cu araig, reithe lonn, ech
daintech.
[Note 168: araid N reithid N daindtech N]
169. Tri ruip ara tiagat cinta: cu foilm[n]ech, sleg caille, slissen
chomneibi.
170. Tri imuserenat: saill, imm, iarn, fechemnas toisc leimmid eicsi.
[Note 170: imus crenait saill N sall L iaronn N feitemnus toisc
leine im eiccsi N]
171. Tri comartha aragella i tig britheman: ecna, aisneis, intlecht.
[Note 171: comardda L aragellat a tig bretheman N taig L aisnesen
intliuchtach L]
172. Tri dlegat aurfocrai: ael coire, fidba cen [.s]eim, ord cen dimosc.
[Note 172: dlegait urfograe N fidbaigh can tseim ord gan dimosc N
dinsem L]
173. Tri doruis gua: tacra fergach, fotha n-utmall n-eolais, aisneis cen
chuimni.
[Note 173: fothad utmall N eolus aisena oca_n_ coimni N]
174. Tri doruis a n-aichnither fir: frecra n-ainmnetach, ai fossad, soud
fri fiadnu.
[Note 174: an aithnit_er_ fiorinne N freaccra n-ainmnedach N ainmeta
L ai fosaid sodad N]
175. Tri buada airechta: brithem cen fuasnad, etirchert cen ecnach, coma
cen diupairt.
[Note 175: fuasna L]
176. Tri tonna cen gaissi: tacra calad, breth cen eolas, airecht labar.
[Note 176: ton_n_a gaisi N donnadgaissi L tonna gan gaoise H. 1. 11
brethem N]
177. Tri buada insci: fosta, gais, gairde.
[Note 177: buadad innsce N gois N]
178. Tri cumtaig gaisse: immed n-eolais, lin fassach, dagaigni do
airbirt.
[Note 178: lion fasaid N]
163. Three usucaptions that are not entitled to a fine: fear, warning,
asportation.
164. Three wages that labourers share: the wages of a caldron,[96] the
wages of a mill, the wages of a house.
[96] _i.e._ of making a caldron, &c.
165. Three oaths that do not require fulfilment[97]: the oath of a woman
in birth-pangs, the oath of a dead man, the oath of a landless man.
[97] Literally, 'a counter-oath, a second oath.'
166. Three ranks that ruin tribes in their falsehood: the falsehood of a
king, of a historian, of a judge.
167. Three free ones that make slaves of themselves: a lord who sells
his land, a queen who goes to a boor, a poet's son who abandons his
(father's) craft.
168. Three brutes whose trespasses count as human crimes: a chained
hound, a ferocious ram, a biting horse.
169. Three brutish things that atone for crimes: a leashed hound, a
spike in a wood, a lath....[98]
[98] _comneibi_ is a [Greek: hapax legomenon] to me.
170. Three things that ... salt-meat, butter, iron....[99]
171. Three signs that ... [99] in a judge's house: wisdom, information,
intellect.
172. Three things that should be proclaimed: the flesh-fork of a
caldron, a bill-hook without a rivet, a sledge-hammer without....[99]
[99] Obscure and probably corrupt.
173. Three doors of falsehood: an angry pleading, a shifting foundation
of knowledge, giving information without memory.
174. Three doors through which truth is recognised: a patient answer, a
firm pleading, appealing to witnesses.
175. Three glories of a gathering: a judge without perturbation, a
decision without reviling, terms (agreed upon) without fraud.
176. Three waves without wisdom: hard pleading, judgment without
knowledge, a talkative gathering.
177. Three glories of speech: steadiness, wisdom, brevity.
178. Three ornaments of wisdom: abundance of knowledge, a number of
precedents, to employ a good counsel.
179. Tri miscena indsci: rigne, dluithe, dulbaire.
[Note 179: miscne indsce N raighni L]
180. Tri fostai dagbanais: fosta thengad [et] gensa [et] airnb_ern_tais.
[Note 180: fosta N fostadh tengad N airb_er_tais N]
181. Tri foindil drochbanais: foindil scel [et] ataid [et] airberntais.
[Note 181: _om._ N]
182. Tri buada etaig: maisse, clithcha, suthaine.
[Note 182: buadhad N cliche N]
183. Tri na dlegat othras: fer aslui flaith [et] fini [et] fili.
[Note 183: nad d_leg_ait dire fer doslaig flaith [et] file [et] fine
N feili L]
184. Tri tharsuinn archuillet othras: echmuir, mil, saillti.
[Note 184: tharsunn L tarsuind aircaillti othiais N]
185. Tri mna na dlegat diri: ben lasma cuma cipe las fai, ben gatach,
ben aupthach.
[Note 185: nat d_leg_ait N cia las f(a)oi N optach N]
186. Tri dofortat cach flaith: gou, forsnaidm, fingal.
[Note 186: dofortad gach fl_ath_a N]
187. Tri tuarascbait cach ngenmnaide: fosta, feile, sobraide.
[Note 187: tuarascb_al_a genmnaid fostad N]
188. Tri ara n-aichnider cach fergach: ir, crith, imbanad.
[Note 188: tri aichnider L aranaithnent_ur_ N hir L]
189. Tri thuarascbait cach n-ainmnetach: samtha, tua, imderead.
[Note 189: tuarascbalai gach nainmnedaigh samtad N tuai L]
19O. Tri thuarascbait cach n-uallach: morthu, maisse, maine.
[Note 190: tuaruscbalai cach ndubalcai mortha N]
191. Tri forindet cach n-umal: bochtatu, dinnime, humalloit.
[Note 191: forinded N bochtai N]
192. Tri airdi gaisse: ainmne, faiscsiu, fathaige.
[Note 192: hairdhe N faicsi fathaidhi N]
193. Tri airdi druisse: bag, imresain, condailbe.
[Note 193: _om._ N]
194. Trede immifoilnge gais do baeth: ecna, fosta, sochoisce.
[Note 194: imfuilnge N]
195. Trede immifoilnge bais do gaeth: fuasnad, ferg, mesca.
[Note 195: imfailnge baoth N]
196. Trede faillsiges cach ndag[.f]eras: dan, gaisced, cresine.
[Note 196: cach degfer_us_ N cresenai N]
197. Trede faillsigedar cach ndroch[.f]eras: serba, miscais, midlachas.
[Note 197: faillsigh_us_ cach drochferus N]
198. Tri fogluaiset foenledchu: ingreim, dolud, dommatu.
[Note 198: fainnelca N dolai N]
179. Three hateful things in speech: stiffness,[100] obscurity, a bad
delivery.
[100] In Mod. Ir. _righneas labhartha_ means 'an impediment in speech.'
See Dinneen's Dictionary, s.v.
180. Three steadinesses of good womanhood: keeping a steady tongue, a
steady chastity, and a steady housewifery.
181. Three strayings of bad womanhood: letting her tongue,[101] and ...
and her housewifery go astray.
[101] Literally, 'stories.'
182. Three excellences of dress: elegance, comfort, lastingness.
183. Three that are not entitled to sick-maintenance: a man who absconds
from his chief, from his family, from a poet.
184. Three sauces that spoil a sick-bed: ...,[102] honey, salt food.
[102] I believe _echmuir_ to be the name of a plant: but I cannot find
the reference.
185. Three women that are not entitled to a fine: a woman who does not
care with whom she sleeps, a thievish woman, a sorceress.
186. Three things that ruin every chief: falsehood, overreaching,
parricide.[103]
[103] Or rather 'murder of relations.'
187. Three things that characterise every chaste person: steadiness,
modesty, sobriety.
188. Three things by which every angry person is known: an outburst of
passion, trembling, growing pale.
189. Three things that characterise every patient person: repose,
silence, blushing.
190. Three things that characterise every haughty person: pompousness,
elegance, (display of) wealth.
191. Three things that tell every humble person: poverty, homeliness,
servility.
192. Three signs of wisdom: patience, closeness, the gift of prophecy.
193. Three signs of folly: contention, wrangling, attachment (to
everybody).
194. Three things that make a fool wise: learning, steadiness,
docility.[104]
[104] _Cf._ dan ecna dogni rig do bocht, dogni gaeth do baeth, &c., LL.
346^a35.
195. Three things that make a wise man foolish: quarrelling, anger,
drunkenness.
196. Three things that show every good man: a special gift,[105] valour,
piety.
[105] Such as art, poetry, &c.
197. Three things that show a bad man: bitterness, hatred, cowardice.
198. Three things that set waifs a-wandering: persecution, loss,
poverty.
199. Tri slabrada hi cumregar cloine: cotach, riagail, rechtge.
[Note 199: racht N]
200. Tri all frisa timargar bescna: mainister, flaith, fine.
[Note 200: tri frisa N mineistir N flatha N]
201. Tri caindle forosnat cach ndorcha: fir, aicned, ecna.
202. Trede neimthigedar rig: fonaidm ruirech, feis Temrach, roimse inna
[.f]laith.
[Note 202: tri aran_em_it_er_ ri N]
203. Tri glais foriadat ruine: naire, tua, dochta.
[Note 203: ruini L]
204. Tri heochracha aroslicet imraitiu: mescca, tairisiu, serc.
[Note 204: oslaice imraite N]
205. Tri orbai rannaiter fiad chomarbaib: orba druith [et] orba
dasachtaig [et] orba sin.
[Note 205: rannait fia comarbaoibh (_sic_) N]
206. Tri seithir oited: tol, ailde, feile.
[Note 206: aide toil N]
207. Tri seithir sentad: cnet, genas, eitche.
208. Tri seithir sognaise: feidle, soithnges, cuinnmine.
[Note 208: feili soingtes connamno N soithgnes L]
209. Tri seithir dognaise: luinne, cetludche, tairismige.
[Note 209: cetluithche N]
210. Tri seithir sotcaid: sognas, sochell, suarcus.
[Note 210: sottch N sothchaidh L sognais L]
211. Tri seithir sochlatad: leire, trebaire, rathmaire.
212. Tri seithir dochlatad: laxa, dibe, prapchaillte.
[Note 212: doclata N]
213. Tri seithir ferge: ecnach, augra, doithnges.
[Note 213: doingteas N]
214. Tri seithir deirmiten: tromdatu, espatu, utmaille.
215. Tri seithir airmiten: torbatu, airetrumma, fosta.
216. Tri banlae: luan, mairt, cetain. Mna co firu innib, bid mo a serc la
firu inda serc a fer leo-som [et] beit a mna tar eis na fer sin.
[Note 216: bandla N at mna beit tara n-eiseiu N]
217. Tri ferlae: .i. dardain, aine, domnach. Mna co firu intib, beitit na
mna sin fo digrad [et] beitit a fir dia n-eisi. Satharn im_morro_ is
laithe coitchenn. Is comlith doib. Luan saer do dul fri cach les.
[Note 217: aoine satharn _no_ domnach N innib N beidis N]
218. Tri gnima ratha: fosta, feile, lobra. Fosta i n-arus, feile, arna
ebra goe, lobra hicce .i. lecud a lomartha i n-indligud dar a
[.f]echimain.
[Note 218: om. ratha L lubrai N anarus N heibre goi N lubrai ice .i.
leacadh lomartha anindli_ged_ dar cenn feichi_man_ N]
199. Three chains by which evil propensity is bound: a covenant, a
(monastic) rule, law.
200. Three rocks to which lawful behaviour is tied: a monastery,[106] a
chieftain, the family.
[106] 'The credence-table,' N., perperam.
201. Three candles that illumine every darkness: truth, nature,
knowledge.
202. Three things that constitute a king: a contract with (other) kings,
the feast of Tara, abundance during his reign.
203. Three locks that lock up secrets: shame, silence, closeness.
204. Three keys that unlock thoughts: drunkenness, trustfulness, love.
205. Three inheritances that are divided in the presence of heirs: the
inheritance of a jester, of a madman, and of an old man.
206. Three youthful sisters: desire, beauty, generosity.
207. Three aged sisters: groaning, chastity, ugliness.
208. Three well-bred sisters: constancy, well-spokenness, kindliness.
209. Three ill-bred sisters: fierceness, lustfulness, obduracy.
210. Three sisters of good fortune: good breeding, liberality, mirth.
211. Three sisters of good repute: diligence, prudence, bountifulness.
212. Three sisters of ill repute: inertness, grudging, closefistedness.
213. Three angry sisters: blasphemy, strife, foulmouthedness.