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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
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