Excerpt: ... Ir. righneas labhartha means 'an impediment in speech.' See Dinneen's Dictionary, s.v. 180. Three steadinesses of good womanhood: keeping a steady tongue, a steady chastity, and a steady housewifery. 181. Three strayings of bad womanhood: letting her tongue, 101 and . and her housewifery go astray. 101 Literally, 'stories.' 182. Three excellences of dress: elegance, comfort, lastingness. 183. Three that are not entitled to sick-maintenance: a man who absconds from his chief, from his family, from a poet. 184. ...
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Excerpt: ... Ir. righneas labhartha means 'an impediment in speech.' See Dinneen's Dictionary, s.v. 180. Three steadinesses of good womanhood: keeping a steady tongue, a steady chastity, and a steady housewifery. 181. Three strayings of bad womanhood: letting her tongue, 101 and . and her housewifery go astray. 101 Literally, 'stories.' 182. Three excellences of dress: elegance, comfort, lastingness. 183. Three that are not entitled to sick-maintenance: a man who absconds from his chief, from his family, from a poet. 184. Three sauces that spoil a sick-bed: ., 102 honey, salt food. 102 I believe echmuir to be the name of a plant: but I cannot find the reference. 185. Three women that are not entitled to a fine: a woman who does not care with whom she sleeps, a thievish woman, a sorceress. 186. Three things that ruin every chief: falsehood, overreaching, parricide. 103 103 Or rather 'murder of relations.' 187. Three things that characterise every chaste person: steadiness, modesty, sobriety. 188. Three things by which every angry person is known: an outburst of passion, trembling, growing pale. 189. Three things that characterise every patient person: repose, silence, blushing. 190. Three things that characterise every haughty person: pompousness, elegance, (display of) wealth. 191. Three things that tell every humble person: poverty, homeliness, servility. 192. Three signs of wisdom: patience, closeness, the gift of prophecy. 193. Three signs of folly: contention, wrangling, attachment (to everybody). 194. Three things that make a fool wise: learning, steadiness, docility. 104 104 Cf. d
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