_Kerns and gallowglasses_, _ii_, 13. It may be enough to give simply the fact that the first of these uncouth words means light-armed and the second heavy-armed Irish troops. If the teacher likes, however, he may add a brief mention of the passage from Barnabie Riche: The _Galloglas_ succeedeth the Horseman, and hee is commonly armed with a skull,[167:1] a shirt of maile, and a _Galloglas_ axe; his service in the field is neither good against horsemen, nor able to endure an encounter of pikes, yet the Irish do make great account of them. The _Kerne_ of Ireland are next in request, the very drosse and scum of the countrey, a generation of villaines not worthy to live: these be they that live by robbing and spoiling the poor countreyman, that maketh him many times to buy bread to give unto them, though he want for himself and his poore children. These are they that are ready to run out with every rebell, and these are the very hags of hell, fit for nothing but for the gallows.—_New Irish Prognostication._ _Thane_, _ii_, 45. This word may be made interesting by its close connection with the Anglo-Saxon. _Thegan_ was originally a servant, then technically the king's servant, and so an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and one of the king's more immediate warriors. _Bellona_, _ii_, 54. The mythological allusion is of course easy to handle. _Composition_, _ii_, 59. This I would include in the list chiefly to emphasize how often a little common sense will solve what at first sight seems a difficulty of language. "Craves composition" is so easily connected with "composing difficulties" or any similar phrase that an intelligent pupil can see the point if he is only alive to the force of language.