J. F. Campbell Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs and familiar phrases

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An onoir nacli fhaigh thu do ghnàth
Na bi 'g a h-iarraidh aon tràth ;
An fliàilt bhruidlineach gmi 'bhi bv.an,
Mar rionnach 'an cuan a' snamh.
Beannaclid ort 's na cum an fhearg,
'S na dean cealg air duine bochd,
Na bi dian ge d' robli ort ditb,
Oir 's e Dia a bheir ni dhuit.
Thoir do cliomhairle mu seach,
Air gach neach a bhios 'n a feum ;
An rud a dhiniolas tu 'cbàch
A sbamhuil gu bràth na dean fein.
Conihairle de chomliairlean Phòil,
Na teirig 'an spàirn le d' dlieòin ;
Na dean sùgradh riutha sixd,
's trie friogli air an fhior bhrùid.
The words in Gillies altered above are here given : —
' dhiomhidis. 'biodh. ^ionnsa. ^saoghalt. ^frisealair. This
word is unknown. Gillies in a note gives ' doichiollach ' as a gloss.
' Friotalach ' means fretful. ^ sheamhaidh. ' costach. ^ See Sirach,
viii. 19. ^ Provin. for ris. i" gras. 'i saoith'reach ; in Macintosh,
'saraichte': 'sòradh,' 'grudging,' the Cuairtear version, is better in
souud and sense.
DUNCAN LOTHIAN'S PROVERBS IN VERSF.
This collection forms part of a tract of 36 pp., being the 2nd
edition, 'Edinburgh, Menzies, Lawnmarket, 1834'. It contains
1. a Dialogue in verse, ' Deasbaireachd eadar am Papa agus an
t- Athleasacha,' a Discussion between the Pope and the Reforma-
tion ; 2. 'Sean Fhocail agus Comhadan,' Proverbs and Similitudes ;
3. ' Deoch an Doruis,' The Door-Drink, already given on p. 165 ;
4. David Mackellar's Hymn to the Creator; 5. an anonymous
Hymn ; 6. the Christian on the Brink of Jordan, a Hymn by
the Rev. John Macdonald of Urquhart, afterw-ards Dr. ]\Iacdonald
of Ferintosh. The first three are by Lothian, a brief memoir of
whom forms the Preface, signed by John McLaclilan, Elder in
Fincastle. It states that Lothian, 'Donnacha Loudiun,' was a
native of Glen Lyon ; served for a time as a turner under Dugald
Buchanan at Kinloch Rannoch ; came thence to Struan ; and
finally to Fincastle, where he died about the age of 80. The first
edition of these verses was published at Edinburgh in 1V97 ; the
third at Edinburgh in 1844. McLachlan says he had great diffi-
culty in finding a copy. In Reid's Bibliotheca Celtica, p. 76, this
entry occurs — " CoiiH Chruinneachhidh Orainnigh Gaedhaelach