Too much talkativeness in a man Brings his good sense into disrepute; Because a man by a superfluity of words Only detracts from the force of truth.
#ni troimede an loċ an eala# #ni troimede an t'eaċ a srian# #ni troimede an ċaora a holann# #'sni troimede an ċolann ciall#
The lake is not incumbered by the swan, The steed is not incumbered by its bridle, The sheep is not incumbered by its wool, Nor is the body incumbered by good sense.
#milis glor gaċ fir# #ag a mbiḋ cuid agus spreiḋ# #Searḃ glor an te ḃios loinin# #bunoscionn do laḃrann se#
Sweet is the voice of every man Who possesses means and affluence; But harsh is the voice of the indigent man; His language seems topsy-turvy.
#naċ buaiḋearṫa ḃid na daoine ar uireasbaiḋ loin# #'san uaiġ da lionaḋ dioḃ go memic san lo# #ni luaiṫe ton ċill an fioṫal fuiriḋṫe dereoil# #na an luaiṫḟear groiḋe no an naoiṫean lemiḃ ḃig oig#
How much do people sorrow for their want of possessions, And the grave meanwhile filled with them often in the day! Not sooner to the cemetery goes the emaciated invalid Than the robust and brave man, or the now-born infant.
The following account of an extraordinary criminal trial which took place in Hertfordshire in the year 1628, we have extracted from _Reilly's Dublin News Letter_ of the 16th of August 1740. It was published for the first time in London in the preceding year (1739) by Dr Rawlinson, who had discovered it among the papers of the eminent lawyer, Sir John Maynard, formerly one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of England.
"The case, or rather history of a case, that happened in the county of Hertford, I thought good to report here, though it happened in the fourth year of King Charles the First, that the memory of it may not be lost by miscarriage of my papers, or otherwise. I wrote the evidence that was given, which I and others did hear; and I wrote it exactly according to what was deposed at the trial, at the bar of the King's Bench, namely,
Johan Norkott, wife of Arthur Norkott, being murdered, the question was, How she came by her death? The coroner's inquest on view of the body, and depositions of Mary Norkott, John Okeman, and Agnes his wife, inclined to find Johan Norkott _felo de se_; for they informed the coroner and jury that she was found dead in her bed, the knife sticking in the floor, and her throat cut: That the night before she went to bed with her child, her husband being absent, and that no other person after such time as she was gone to bed came into the house, the examinants lying in the outer room, and they must needs have seen or known if any stranger had come in. Whereupon the jury gave up to the coroner their verdict, that she was _felo de se_; but afterwards, upon rumour among the neighbourhood, and their observation of divers circumstances, which manifested that she did not, nor, according to those circumstances, could possibly murder herself, thereupon the jury, whose verdict was not yet drawn into form by the coroner, desired the coroner that the body, which was buried, might be taken up out of the grave, which the coroner assented to; and thirty days after her death, she was taken up in the presence of the jury and a great number of the people: whereupon the jury changed their verdict. The persons being tried at Hertford assizes, were acquitted; but so much against the evidence, that Judge Hervey let fall his opinion that it were better an appeal were brought, than so foul a murder escape unpunished. And Pascha 4 Car., they were tried on the appeal, which was brought by the young child, against his father, grandmother, and aunt, and her husband Okeman. And because the evidence was so strange, I took exact and particular notice, and it was as follows:--
