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of his loins, and the mother of the chil- 
dren shall dwell thereon, dill partition | 
made; then let not the woman who bore, ~ 
nor the damsels who are to bring forth,. 
be forgotten; are not all the race born 
of woman? 
“« Sons of Eri, honour and respect thy 
father. 
“ Love, honour, and respect, and ten- 
derly cherish all the days of thy life the 
mother who bore, and suckled, and 
reared thee up. Let thy hands minister 
unto her in all her necessities ; let, thy 
eye never Jook-upon thy mother but in 
thanks and gentleness. 
*« Sons of Eri, 
* Let the strength of thy arms pro- 
tect the weakness of the daughters of 
the land. 
“ “What if Eri lay under the rules of 
Tainistact, as aforetime?”’ 
nd it was so. 
And Erimionn said, 
“« What if words be set down as laws 
of. the Gaal in Eri, according to. your 
will now. expressed ?”” 
‘And all said, “‘ Yea.” 
And the chief secretary of Eri read 
aloud, 
“ © man, shed not the blood of thy 
kind maliciously. 
“ Take not thou aught belonging to 
another, coverily. 
“ Let not thy lips speak falsely to the 
injury of another, 
‘“ Have mercy on every living being ; 
be merciful. 
* Do thou unto others as you would 
wish: others would do unto thee. This 
is just and proper. 
“© Shall one kill another treacherously, 
let him: be dragged’ on the ground and 
O'Connor's Chronicles of Eri. 
cast beneath ie surface of the earth 
without memorial 
“4e Shall one. take privately the pro- 
perty of another, let him pay Erie twice 
the value of the thing taken, and set 
apart. Is he not able.to pay, hath he 
Gikedniled from the land of s dwelling, 
let the family pay, but let the transgres- 
sor bear his own shame. 
“Shall one have spoken falsely of 
another, let the false one suffer in the 
like manner as he designed against the 
other, and let the Jike he obesterskiny all 
cases for ever. 
“ Let not. the Gaal of Sciot lof, Lber 
go forth-of Eri to trouble,another Jand, 
and if another race shall :enter:the land 
of the children of They, ‘to’ oppress them 
without eause, let the warriors. be! of one 
mind, and as one arm to drive them into 
the sca, or give them graves in Eri, un- 
less they become subjected, | 
“ Lei the custom of ‘Tainistact abide.” 
And it was right and good. . 
And. the assembly te forth, “and the 
doors of the. high chamber, were closed. 
And Eocaid suffered.notany,one, to 
depart whilst Baal abided-in cui. aking 
Fluicim. 
The song and the harp; nab aah, 
and tales of other times, and sports 
ceased not. 
And after one moon all took their’ ‘de- 
parture from Tobrad, save Ardriy he 
dwelleth thereon. 
*.* We have been enabled, with the con- 
sent of Mr.O’Connor, to give placeto the 
fac-simile of the Laws, as given in the 
work itself ; and we trust ats) value. will 
justify the expence, and gratify ourrea- 
ders. 
END OF THE FIFTY-THIRD VOLUME, 
PLATE +Facssimipeior THE Laws or Erttoiface page 646. 
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