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ma beith feil sruith. Manip illocthiu 

 choir condesar int suiri figli. Ce att 

 maitlier hi fi'acl chach dogni nech iiida 

 cliubaeiiil iarum 'S'\con choir etir laisim 

 do nach cleriucA Tiiaslucud neich 

 roortissetar sruithi 



§ 16. Ihxmoracht maoldith>7«'i do 

 luaolruoin d«« imbad lor oaooai do gabail 

 ma thecmais«rf fo?'cetal indarrad. Asru- 

 hart maolruoi?8 nibu moo dan lais 

 arrobui isind tsaltir nuli. IS hi \m- 

 murao foropir caich lindi indsin. Fer 

 xmmurgu indorsa na serre 7 na susti 7 na 

 fo^'chae 7 ind claid. issi foropair caich 

 diob na tri oaoca. Ni theid do meis ol 

 sesem nech. diob co roglea do a foropoir 

 iudhf sin 



§ 17. ISsef? rochualai maolruoin la 

 sruthi di dergu ind ti'ri is diultach 

 patt?-«ic ind niw 7 inda hirsi indi eriwd 

 nach oen deraich a tir acht is' airthiur 

 inda iaithur 7 asa tuaisciiirt inda 

 deisc^rt. 



§ 18. Ni fil ni dogne dune dar cend 

 indti adbail nad cobair do etw- figill 

 7 abstanit 7 gabail necnairci 7 almsante 

 7 bendacAioe m««oi Bliadai?J Ian dawo 

 do moedoc a muiwdtw' uli for u&ciu 7 

 bar^OT ar tuaslucud anmie brandaib 

 maio, echach f j'lii pro mortuis parentibiw 

 debent poenitere. 7 cetera. 



if it should be a day outside Lent, or 

 if it be the feast of a saint [during 

 Lent], and if it be not in order to shirk 

 due obsei'vanco that the exemption is 

 5 sought. Although the performance of 

 the vigil in public be remitted, the 

 person concerned has to perform it in 

 his own cubicle afterwards. He does 

 not hold it right for any cleric to excuse 

 any duty which his seniors have imposed. 



§ 16. Maeldithruib asked Maelruain 

 ■whether it were enough to recite fifty 

 psalms, if there chanced to be instruc- 



10 tion along with them ? Maelruain 

 replied that he considered the whole 

 contents of the Psalter not too much 

 of a tasls. " This, indeed, is what we 

 consider to be the additional labour of 



15 each man. There is, indeed, at this 

 moment [among usj a man for the sickle, 

 for the flail, for the measuring-rod, and 

 for the ditch ; but the additional labour 

 of each of them is the Three Fifties. 

 None of them," said he, " goes to table 

 till that man's special business be 

 finished." 



§ 17. This Maelruain heard the elders 

 say of the desertion of the land : " Any 

 20 one who deserts his country, except to 

 go from the east to the west, and from 

 the north to the south, is a denier of 

 Patrick in Heaven and of the Faith in 

 Erin." 



§ 18. There is nothing that a man 

 25 does on behalf of one that dies that 

 does not help him, whether it be vigil 

 or abstinence, or reciting intercessory 

 prayers or almsgiving, or frequent bene- 

 diction. Moedoc and all his monks 

 30 were a full year on bread and water to 

 obtain the release of the soul of 



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