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The Book of Clanranald (Author: Unknown)

section 20

[Welcome to Allan, Chief, 1686–1715]

    1. Failte dar n-Ailín rígh na Raghnallach
      ad chím gur faghlamach a ghlain fhein ghormlannach
      e nach obadh sa fhein FhionnGhalla céim nach iomrallach san
      chogadh chomhlannach cuirfed anegar rann go robhladhach
      sgo morrdhalac gan cham don Dregan Domnallach.
    2. Nior bferr mur chenn fedhna an Flath Osgar
      no ar mhemna ar sgathgasgan re tenn109; nach tugasdh
      iomchruidh sgiath re chach san chathchosgar
      ar ttriath da nathbrosdadh ar ath ga nuchmosgladh
      sdo niodh ar léirg chúain san chith feasgar
      frithfhreasdal ar a féirg do sduaigh gan sruth
      fhosgadh ge magh lán a long gan lathbhasgad
      re athasgnamh na tton go tragh gan tothosnadh

Niall mc Domhnuill Mic Muiredhaigh cecinit110

The Divills was brawling when / Burnet Dessended / Transported with joy they left / of contening / But o my Dr Saram / how goes things above / Doth George hate the Toryes and Whiggks only love with a fa la a / Were your highness impropriated / in person to reign / You coud not more bravely our party / maintain / But how doth good Robert? / O perfectly well / A [...] whigg / you had nere in hell wt. a fa la & / Hugh Peter is making / a Sneaker within / for Luther, Buchannan, Jo. Knox, and Calvin / bur ore ye have tipled a brass of punch bowls / yile swear you never / Drank wt. Dishonester souls, with a fa / This night wile caruse / putt ane end to all pain / goe Cromwell you dog / King William unchaine / and tell him at length / yt. Sarams come down / who just left his Mitre / as he left his Crown, with a fa la la / They lived as they dyed / in our Service all spent / they only come hear / who never repents. Lett the heralds aloud, our victory tell / lett George live for ever amen cryed all hell.


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