254. Trí indchoisc ordain do duine: .i. sodelb, sáire, sulbaire.
[Note 254: a tri ina coisceadh ordan M suirbire H]
255. Trí gúala doná fess fudomain: gúala flatha, gúala ecalse, gúala nemid filed.
256. Trí féich nach dlegar faill: féich thíre, duilgine achaid, argius aiste.
[Note 256: nat eple faill M aichid M argui_us_ H]
250. Three prohibitions of food: to eat it without giving thanks, to eat it before its proper time, to eat it after a guest.
251. Four elements[124] of wisdom: patience, docility, sobriety, well-spokenness; for every patient person is wise, and every docile person is a sage, every sober person is generous, every well-spoken person is tractable.
252. Four elements[124] of folly: silliness, bias, wrangling, foulmouthedness.
253. Three tabus of a chief: an ale-house without story-telling, a troop without a herald, a great company without wolfhounds.[125]
[125] This triad has been wrongly read (fais_cre_ instead of fais_n_e_is_) and rendered by O'Grady in his Catalogue of Ir. mss. in the British Museum, p. 91.
254. Three indications of dignity in a person: a fine figure, a free bearing, eloquence.
255. Three coffers whose depth is not known: the coffer of a chieftain, of the Church,[126] of a privileged poet.
[126] "Die Kirche hat einen guten Magen," Goethe, Faust.
256. Three debts which must not be neglected:[127] debts of land, payment of a field, instruction (?) of poetry.
1. Gloss in H. 1. 15: oir gurab innte do bhí suidhe príomhaigh Éirenn.
2. .i. ordaighecht nó ord uaisle nó airechas .i. arduaislighecht tre adhluicedh na ríogh inte [et] na naoimh.
4. .i. serc Éirenn ó annsacht cháich uirre tre Muire na nGaodhal .i. Brighid.
5. .i. naomthacht tre naomaibh, nó foghluim sruth .i. saoi-raith.
11. .i. tre cáich innte nó tre n-iomad taisi innte.
13. .i. eircille ar grádhuibh dar ndóigh fa tuarasdul giolla foic[h]le, nó tuarastail.
15. .i. ealadhna mór ann [et] senchaoi [.f]esa na sen.
16. .i. a n-iomat breithemhuin, nó cúirt, nó sgol féinechuis ann.
18. .i. aoibnes nó conách nó er tír fo sliocht Éireann.
20. .i. tre leigen Temhrach. This refers to the curse pronounced by Ruadan, the founder of Lorrha, against King Diarmait and Tara.
22. .i. cairedh inte. St. Feichin, the founder of Fore, was famous for the austerity of his devotion. 'He used to set his wretched rib against the hard cell without raiment,' says Cuimmine in his poem on the Saints of Ireland (_Zeitschr._, I., p. 63).