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About the women and tender children 
Of the lively tribe of Benjamin, 
And about the slaughter that was brought 
Upon the people of Jabes Galaad.* 
Fol. 13, lower margin: 
a. Mace mm cagainc Tuignecha. 
Line moice hi cup molecthinnig pea. Rob cfnnaip O1a pon 
anmamn Maelippa. Pp. 
‘Mac-intagart of Tuighnetha.’f 
‘The writing of my tutor is at the beginning of this page. May 
God be gentle to the soul of Maelissa.’? Pater. 
Fol. 34 b, lower margin : 
a. 3. pe.—Nepztip Gpecthae snim slice 
Ingen peccach 00 Philip 
Sa lip a cend nin bacamn 
Oo chunms cenn me Sachaip. 
‘ The grand-daughter of Aretas,{ of the cunning deed, 
The sinful daughter of Philip, 
In the court her power was not despicable, 
It was she that craved the head of Zacharias’ son.’ 
Fol. 36, lower margin : 
Potuth. c.—€cena mcliuct comaple 
Fir nfpc saine sun 
Omun fiaoac pon bith ce 
Sechc oana Oe oun. 
* These lines refer to the events recorded in Judges, caps. xix.—xxi. 
+ Now Tynan, a parish in the diocese and county of Armagh. The name 
occurs in the Calendar of the O’Clerys, at the 29th of August, in connexion 
with St.Winnoe: Umbdic Tulgneata. ** Vulgo Tuighnean, sed rectius Teagh- 
neatha appellata.”—Colgan, Trias Thaum., pp. 34, n. 69; 183, n. 222. 
t{ Herod Antipas’ first wife was daughter of Aretas, King of Petrza; but 
she fled from her husband’s court as soon as Herodias, with Salome, obtained 
the ascendency there. Jerom (in Matt. xiv.) falls into the same error with 
the writer of the above poem, in making Herodias daughter of Aretas instead 
of Aristobulus. 
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