Besides these food rents (from the Mensal lands), Maguire had about 240 beeves yearly paid unto him out of the seven baronies, and about his castle at Enniskillen he had about a half ballybetagh, which he manured (tilled) […]

[T]he three of us will set forth from this fortress of mighty stone and like troubadours of old we will go a-minstreling from village to village!

the tremorings of desire

an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies