GrWYNN AND PuETON — The Monastery of TallagM. 129 



fobithin ioncl forcetail 7 ind crosfigeild 

 iri biad cowd neocli nodjMlen. [NoKge- 

 \)ad maXhi iar ceilebr«(i^ . . . anigi (?) is 

 awn gabtais figill dogen • • • ]' lond 

 sailm aumaigi deulai is iri biaid i 

 curp lai dwsgnidsom 7 gaibid a salmu 

 aurnaigti iarum 00 celebrad Gaibti 

 seom t/'fl teora biadi 7 mngnificat la each 

 nai -post palmos biad cecb caocad. Achd 

 ni maolruoin iwjargu asrubart fr*ssim 

 on. A.srubartsai- fri maolruain. Ko- 

 cualai olsessem is hi iigil7 fogni la 

 duiblitir. Na tri.l. inda sesam 7 slech- 

 dai» hi forciund ceoh sailm 



§ 6. Nieowesbed bandai oormmai hi 

 tamlaobdai i mbetbu maolruoiw oid a 

 muindtsrsom indtan noteigdis nacA leth 

 aili nicowibdis bandai cormmai i tir 

 cualand cia bitb ara tecmaiwged doib 

 Ifocbomaii'leictea iwimargu doib indtan 

 noteigdis i oein cena liistis^ (.i. ebtais) 

 hisudiu. Nicodoes mir feolai dawo 



hi tamlaohdai inda bethusom mad 



OSS no muo allaid. no . . . [34»] oigid 

 ananobid and de feol. DoUuid iaru?;* 

 duiblitir doohum maolruoin do urail 

 fair combed tuaslucud do muindtir ar 

 na tri soldomnaib. cenibed iarum na 

 riam IS Bed asbert maolruoin. cene 

 cowmesarsa olseseom 7 cene eownoither 

 mo thininasa isin purtsa. nitfowibthar 

 lind dermait de and. Maith ol duiblitw' 

 ibthi mo muindtersa 7 biad ind nim 

 laad muindti^siu. l^ach oen ol maol- 

 ruoin co»tuasfe fr«msai. accus f orcomedar 

 mo riaguil de muindtir nipa hecen tone 

 bratha dia nglanad no hadall messai 



the Psalms that he performs his vigil, 

 (in order to keep the order of the Psalms, 

 because of the instruction) and the cross- 

 vigil is performed with the Beati, 

 5 together with the part [of the Psalms] 



which follows The evening 



Psalms of prayer he performs in the 

 middle of the day, with the Beati, and 

 afterwards he recites hisPsalms of prayer 



10 at the office. He recites, however, three 

 Beati, and a Magnificat with each of 

 them, after the Psalms, a Beati to each 

 fifty. It was not, however, Maelruain 

 that had told him to do this. He had 

 said to Maelruain: "I have heard," 

 said he, " this is the vigil Dublitir 

 practises : the three fifties standing, 

 and a genuflection at the end of every 

 Psalm." 



16 § 6. Not a drop of beer was drunk in 

 Tallaght in Maelruain's lifetime. When 

 his monks used to go anywhere else, 

 they used not to drink a drop of beer in 

 Tir Cualann, whomsoever they might 



20 happen to meet. However, when they 

 went a long distance, in that case they 

 were allowed to drink. Not a morsel 

 of meat was eaten in Tallaght in his 

 lifetime [unless] it were a deer or a 



25 wild swine. What meat there was [at 

 Tallaght used to be consumed by] the 

 guests. 



Then Dublitir came to Maelruain to 

 urge him to grant his monks relaxation 



30 on the three chief feasts, even if it were 

 not allowed after nor before those days. 

 Maelruain replied : "As long as I shall 

 give rules," said he, " and as long as 

 my injunctions are obsei'ved in this 



36 place, the liquor that causes forgetful- 

 ness of God shall not be drunk here." 

 "Well," said Dublitii', "my monks 



' The words in brackets are teritten in top margin ^ Head asrubartsoni ' Head ce nolflstis 



