in the wooden of Affayle, with that the Englishmen of Ireland shall be destroyed by that." The prophecy that the Englishmen fully shall have the mastery a little before Doomsday is amusingly equivocal! [24] Described in O'Curry's MS. Materials, p. 375, but I do not know where the original is. [25] Quoted in O'Halloran's "History of Ireland," bk. ix. chap. 4. "Celeres vastissima Rheni / jam vada Teutonici, jam deseruere Sicambri; / Mittit ab extremo gelidos Aquilone Boemos / Albis et Arvenni cöeunt, Batavi-que frequentes, / Et quicunque colunt alta sub rupe Gehennas. / ... Certatim hi properunt diverso tramite ad urbem / Lesmoriam [Lismore] juvenis primos ubi transigit annos." _See_ also corroborative proof of the numbers of Gauls, Teutons, Swiss, and Italians visiting Lismore about the year 700 in Ussher's "Antiquities," Works, vi., p. 303. [26] Reprinted by Windisch in his "Irische Texte," Heft 1., p. 5. The first verse runs-- "Sén De don fe for don te Mac maire ron feladar! For a fhoessam dún anocht Cia tiasam, cain temadar," which is in no wise easy to translate! There are fifty-six verses not all in the same metre. Another acknowledges St. Patrick as a patron saint, it would run thus, in modernised orthography-- "Beannacht ar erlám [pátrún] Pádraig Go naomhaib Eireann uime Beannacht ar an gcáthair-se Agus ar chách bhfuil innti!" A three-quarter Latin verse runs thus-- "Regem regum rogamus / in nostris sermonibus Anacht Noe a luchtlach / diluvi temporibus." [27] _See_ p. 67. [28] _See_ "Proceedings of R. I. Academy for 1884." [29] Whose name is preserved in O'Connell's residence, "Derrynane," which is really "Derry-finan" (Doire-Fhionáin). [30] _See_ p. 140 and Ch. XIII note 12. [31] "Habebatur psalterium, cujus unicum tantum quaternionem mihi videre contigit, obelis et asteriscis diligentissime distinctum; collatione cum veritate Hebraica in superiore parte cujusque paginæ posita, et brevibus scholiis ad exteriorem marginem adjectis." (_See_ "Works," vol. vi. p. 544. Quoted by Professor G. Stokes, "Proceedings R. I. Academy," May, 1892.) CHAPTER XVII THEIR FAME AND TEACHING