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Many changes may happen during the year.
Woe is the mother of a fon, when Beltein falls on
Thurfday.
Warm is the breath of the mother.
A dog barks well when his beily is full.
Better to have fnow in May than to want rain.
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As fwiftas an arrow from a bow.
As if the fire had been on your fkin.
If I live I may have a fon-,
I may get a man though not fo ready;
Since my mother will bear no more children.
My brother is my choice, (a)
If a hundred priefts could be found without avarice*
A hundred taylors without pride,
A hundred (hoe makers who could not equivocate,
A hundred weavers who could not ileal,
A hundred fmiths who could not drink,
And a hundred old women who never gofnpped,
They would crown the king without a blow.
Xike Offian who furvived the Fingalian heroes, (b)
Neither fearch for the battle nor fliun it when it
comes, (c)
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His hands fell to his fide.
He is now on the way of truth.
The goodwife of the houfe has two fidjs.
Fingal king of Morven. — For further accounts, fee Mr.
Macpherfon's translation of Offian's poems, Mr. Smith's
Gaelic Antiquities, Encyclop. Brit, under the article Offian.
See alfo defcription of his grave in Gillies's Day's Journey
to the Highlands.
(c) Ftngaly book 3d.