ing is known to me about this wonder.

108. Three oratories of Ireland: the oratory of Birr, the oratory of
Clonenagh, the oratory of Leighlin.

109. Three maidens that bring hatred upon misfortune: talking, laziness,
insincerity.

110. Three maidens that bring love to good fortune: silence, diligence,
sincerity.

111. Three silences that are better than speech: silence during
instruction, silence during music, silence during preaching.

112. Three speeches that are better than silence: inciting a king to
battle, spreading knowledge (?),[75] praise after reward.[76]

[75] _Sreth immais_, which I have tentatively translated by 'spreading
knowledge,' is used as a technical term in poetry for connecting all the
words of a verse-line by alliteration, as e.g. _slatt_, _sacc_, _socc_,
_simend_, _saland_. See Ir. Texte iii., p. 30.

[76] _Cf._ LL. 344_a_: Carpre asks Cormac what are the sweetest things
he has heard, and Cormac answers: 'A shout of triumph after victory,
praise after reward, the invitation of a fair woman to her pillow.'

113. Three impossible demands: go! though you cannot go, bring what you
have not got, do what you cannot do.

114. Three idiots that are in a bad guest-house: the chronic cough of an
old hag, a brainless tartar of a girl, a hobgoblin of a gillie.

115. The three chief sins: avarice, gluttony, lust.

116. Trede neimthigedar crossan: rige oile, rige theighe, rige bronn.

117. Trede neimthigedar cirmaire: coimrith fri coin hi[c] cosnum chnama,
adarc reithi do dirgud dia anail cen tenid, dichetal for ochtraig co
rathochra a mbi ina ichtur for a uachtar do cho[.n]gna [et] cnamaib [et]
adarcaib.

[Note 117: _om._ BMHLec dirge N otrach N corotochra N a mbid na
hichtar N huachtar N congnaim N]

118. Trede nemthigedar saer: dluthud cen fomus, cen fescred, lud
luadrinna, beimm fo chommus.

[Note 118: _om._ BMHLec tri ara neimit_er_ N dluthugud N feiscre N
ludh luaithreand N]

119. Trede neimthigedar liaig: digallrae, diainme, comchissi ce_n_
ainchiss.

[Note 119: _om._ BMHLec ara neimit_er_ liagh N coimcisin gin ainces N]

120. Trede neimthigedar gobainn: bir Neithin, fulacht na Morrigna,
inneoin in Dagda.

[Note 120: _om._ BMHLec ara neimit_er_ gobaind N bir ndechin N]

121. Trede neimthigedar cerdai: fige ronn, caer comraic, plett for faebur.

[Note 121: _om._ BMHLec cerd N flet N]

122. Trede neimthigedar cruitire: golltraige, gentraige, suantraige.

[Note