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employ no or no in negative sentences, it has occasionally been edited
to ná ; likewise the scribal aspiration of d in dhamh, dhuit, etc., has
occasionally been dropped in the printed text.
An address to a herring at the beginning of Lent.
Source. 23 I 4, p. 41. There is a second version, incomplete,
ibid. p. 115. Apart from spelling, this second version is identical with
the first, as far as it goes.
n MS. Readings. 3 uaimse. 7 a labhras. 10 cutnann. 14 is om.
fjy^^ ' I 15 may be corrupt , due to having been accidentally taken over from
'rr- ^ ^ 19- 25 Cia. 34 comhohdh. 35 tiacht.
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On seeing the figures of a mug, a cup, and a tobacco-pipe engraved
on the tombstone of one Maolra (Maolmhuire).
Sources. 23 I 4, p. 43 (" J "). 23 I 23, p. 109 (" K "). Nat,
Lib. xviii, p. 36 (" N ").
In K the poem is headed air Mhaolradh Burc. In N the title is
Maol Muire Ua Raighle ró chann. J makes it clear that Milis (as it
calls him in 1. 3), i.e. Miles, is dead, for it has fuair Milis has as a title,
and at the end it adds the comment : Mr eirighe Milis shoin.
MS. Readings. As a rule only the departures from the text of J,
the oldest MS., are recorded, i Mug cupán N; Mug dram cupa J;
/5 iomdha copdn K. 3 Maoilra N ; Maolradh K ; Milis J. 4 sgithamh
J ; sgiste N ; sgistadh K. 5 M misde Horn ar an mug K ; /5 coma liom
fein arsan Mug N ; Ni fada liotn fein a colladh (ar an mug) J. 6 ma
bhion se gan éirigh a chaoidhche K (and N) ; sgan e mhusgailt a choidhche
J. 7 25 minic a dfaig 6 K ; sminic dfagbhuidh se J ; dfhaca se N. 10 gur]
cm. J. II do loisgeadh] losgadh J ; losga N ; losg K. gach am] arm
gach am ] ; go minic KN. 13 Eisdighe J ; Bigidh mur ttost K ; Bigidh
ar sost N. 15 eireabhuigh J.
My excuse for including this rather trifling piece is the paucity of
light or humorous poems in our MSS. The poem, which is a late one,
probably belongs to South Ulster or one of the adjoining Leinster
counties. The rime leabaidh : colladh (11. 2, 4) is to be noted. The
former is spelled liobaidh in a folk-tale from South Monaghan in Lloyd's
' Sgéalaidhe Óirghiall,' p. 18 ; cf. also GJ. 67, p. 109 b, where liubaidh
is given as the Antrim form of the word.