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Is é mo shámud re mnái

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Is é mo shámud re mnái or Advice to lovers is a poem by the Middle Irish era poet, Scandlán Mór.

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The text

  • Is é mo shámud re mnái
  • amal bís cámull hi ceó,
  • cen co hana lim is cet,
  • cet lim cid marb, cet cid beó.
  • Cett lim cía rabur 'na gnáis,
  • cet lim cía hanur dia héis,
  • is ed rofácabad do mnái,
  • is cet cía thái, cet cía théis.

    • Translation

  • The way to get on with a girl
  • is to drift like a man in a mist,
  • happy enough to be caught,
  • happy to be dismissed.
  • Glad to be out of her way,
  • glad to rejoin her in bed,
  • equally grieved or gay
  • to learn she's living or dead.

    • References

    Is é mo shámud re mnái Wikipedia
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