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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 : 



.1. TTlac m cagaipc Cuisnecha. 



Line moice hi cup molechinnig yea. Rob cfnnaip Dia pop 

 amnain THaelippa. 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 : 



.1. 5. pe. — "Nepmp Qpechae 5mm glicc 

 Ingen peccach Oo pbilip 

 8a lip a ceno nip bacaip 

 Do chunnig cenn mic £achaip. 



' The grand-daughter of Aretas, J 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 : 



pocuch. c. — 6ccna incliucc comaple 

 pip nfpc gaipe gup 

 Omun piaOac pop bich ce 

 Sechc Oana t)e Oun. 



* These lines refer to the events recorded in Judges, caps, xix.-xxi. 



t 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 StWinnoc : Uinbic Cuigneaca. " Vulgo Tuighnean, sedrectius Teagh- 

 neatha appellata." — Colgan, Trias Thaum., pp. 34, n. 69 ; 183, n. 222. 



% Herod Antipas' first wife was daughter of Aretas, King of Petreea; 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. 



