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96 LECTURE III.
innsaighi an d-Tighearna neamhda a ^fiafri
eachd de cinas do ghebhadh se an flaith-
eamhnas neamhda agus cor bi fregradh tug
se CO cumar air : Madh ail led arse criosd
feine dul cum na beathadh sutbain coim-
hid na h-aitbinte eadbon na deicb n-aitheanta
d-fhag mise aig Maise M'Amra agus air da
cblaraibh agus ta cuid dib diultadacb agus cuid
eile dib daigneacbdacb/' &c. (" It is read in the
nineteenth chapter of Matthew that a young
man came to our blessed Lord, asking how he
might attain to the holy heaven, and that the
reply he wisely gave him was, if thou desirest,
said Christ himself, to enter upon eternal life,
keep the commandments, even the ten com-
mandments which I gave to Moses, son of
Amram, and on two tables : and some of these
are prohibitory, and some mandatory," &c). The
treatise is very full, and indicates, in many
places, a considerable acquaintance with Scrip-
ture, and a correct apprehension of the charac-
teristics of a sound morality. There are two
pieces of poetr}^ in the MS., by a well-known
Irish poet, Gillabride M'Conmhidhe, or Gilbert
Conway, one of these beginning, " Deasgadh
gach uilc an t-uabhar, trid tainic an ceud shiagh-
adh," &c. " The chief of evils is pride, through
which came the first ruin," &c. This piece, and