Ni horta laeg rianaes daim ar cach sen as tressiu achach, ni horta uan na horc maith ni coilte cr ... [31] a blath (A calf is not slaughtered till it is of ox's age, 'tis the ploughing (?) of every old one which waxes stronger: a lamb or a good pigling is not slaughtered, the (saffron?) is not plucked till its flower.) Buain guirt riasiu bas abbuig is m ... cacaid, a Ri rind? is e in longud riana thrath blath do choll in tan bas find (To reap a field before it is ripe, is it a right (thing), O King of stars? It is eating before the time to violate a flower while it is white.) Fuiniud immedon laa ni hord baa rian ... matan in aidche, in dedoil ria na medon cia mo col (Sunset in midday, no order of profit before...; morning in night, twilight before its noon, though it be greatest wrong.) Cluinti itgi notguidiu is mo chridiu deroil duir a Mic mo De cianomrodba is bec mo thorba donduir (Hear Thou the prayer I pray Thee in the depth of my wretched hard heart, O Son of my God, although Thou cuttest me off, small is my profitableness ... ) Duitsi a Mic motholtu cen cope sentu dom churp, cenambera cen taithlech no co bia maith fe[in] fort (To Thee, O Son, ... (?), that without my body becoming aged, I be not taken without reason till I shall myself be good in Thy sight.) Is fort shnadud cach ambi ria ndula m' chri, a Ri slan, ic do guide dam cen dichil, an rimm a Ri richid ran (On Thy protection is every one whereso he is; before departure of my body, O Perfect King, I am praying Thee without negligence, stay for me, O King of glorious heaven.) LIV. THE PANEGYRICS (LA, VG) There is little that need be said about these paragraphs, which are of conventional type. There are two references in VG which may, however, be noted. The first is to the relics left in the hollow elm, of which we have already heard at the beginning of these annotations: here said to have been deposited by Benen (the pupil of Patrick, and his successor in Armagh) and by Cumlach (the leper of Saint Patrick). The second is an allusion, on which I am unable to throw any light, to some evidently well-known story of a certain Peca and his blind pupil. THE METRICAL PANEGYRIC IN LB This is a patchwork of extracts from different sources. 1. Fifteen-syllable lines, with caesura at eighth syllable; every line ending in a trisyllabic word, rhyming (not always) with a word preceding the caesura. A dissyllable or trisyllable precedes the caesura. Rhythm of Tennyson's _Locksley Hall_, proceeding by stress only, independent of vowel-quantity or hiatus. In line seven, 'Keranus' must be pronounced in four syllables, Kiaranus. Refers to the wizard's prophecy, incident II. 2. Four lines, in _Locksley Hall_ rhythm, with a dissyllabic rhyme running through the quatrain. Relates incident IX.