194. Three things that make a fool wise: learning, steadiness, docility.[104]

[104] Cf. dán ecna dogni ríg do bocht, dogni gáeth do báeth, &c., LL. 346a35.

[195.] Three things that make a wise man foolish: quarrelling, anger, drunkenness.

[196.] Three things that show every good man: a special gift,[105] valour, piety.

[105] Such as art, poetry, &c.

[197.] Three things that show a bad man: bitterness, hatred, cowardice.

[198.] Three things that set waifs a-wandering: persecution, loss, poverty.


199. Trí slabrada hi cumregar clóine: cotach, ríagail, rechtge.