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Animating, harmonious bard ^ Deftroyer of councils '. 

 PuiiTant, all vidlorious ! 



Subduer of fierce legions. Ruin to the renowned. 

 In anger impetuous. Admired by mighty monarchs. 

 Chief of heavy tributes. Of all-perfuafive eloqvience.. 

 Bold and intrepid warrior. Unbiafled legiflator ^. 



Goll, of martial pride. Strong in body, great in arms. 

 Courteous and polite to the legions. Fierce and powerful in adlion.. 

 Shield of great luflre. Flower of unfading beauty ^ 

 Rapid as the mountain flood is the force of your ftrong arm. 



A fea over rivulets. Sullen in the duel. 

 Great in the uproar of battle. Tower of flrong defence. 

 Billow over fwelling feas. Goll, terrible in the fhouts. 

 Lover of conftant defolation. Son to the great Morna^ 



Patron 



to the military chiefs. Goll was an able legiHator ; fo was his antagonift Cumhal ; 

 and Fion, fon to the latter, wrote a treatife on the laws. All thefe duties were 

 pointed out in a work wrote fome time after by the renowned Cormac, grandfon to 

 the monarch Con, yet extant, called Advice to a King.. 



* It was not enough, by the Irifli code of laws, that the military fliould be tall,, 

 well-made, aftive and ftrong, but their countenances muft be fuch as to command. 

 love and refpeft. The prince and the common foldier muft be equally unble- 

 mifhed ; and it ftands on record that Cormac himfelf refigned the crown on having 

 loft an eye. 



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