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128 GULEESH NA GUSS DHU.
could to keep her with them for another while, but with-
out effect, and Guleesh spoke every sweet word that came
into his head, trying to get the victory over her, and to
coax her and make her stay as she was, but it was no
good for him. She determined that she would go, and
no man alive would make her change her intention.
She had not much money, but only two rings that were
on her hand, when the sheehogue carried her away, and a
gold pin that was in her hair, and golden bluckles that
were on her little shoes.
The priest took and sold them and gave her the money,
and she said that she was ready to go.
She left her blessing and farewell with the priest and
Guleesh, and departed. She was not long gone till there
came such grief and melancholy over Guleesh that he
knew he would not be long alive unless he were near
her, and he followed her.
• (The next 42 pages in the Leabhar Sgeuluiiiheachta are taken up with the
adventures of Guleesh and the princess, on their way to the court of France.
But this portion of the story is partly taken from other tales, and part is too
much altered and amphfied in the writing of it, so that I do not give it here, as
not being genuine folk-lore, which the story, except for a very little embellish-
ment, has been up to this point. The whole ends as follows, with the
restoration of the princess and her marriage with Guleesh.)
It was well, and it was not ill. They married one
another, and that was the fine wedding they had, and if
I were to be there then, I would not be here now ; but I
iieard it from a birdeen that there was neither cark nor
care, sickness nor sorrow, mishap nor misfortune on them
till the hour of their death, and that it may be the same
with me, and with us all !