| Cluinti itgi notguidiu | is mo chridiu deroil dúir |
| a Mic mo De cianomrodba | is bec mo thorba dondúir |
(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 shnádud cach ambi | ria ndula m' chri, a Ri slán, |
| ic do guide dam cen dichil, | an rimm a Rí 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.