Note 12 — Chapter XXXVIII
Reading edition
See Hardiman's "Irish Minstrelsy," vol. ii. p. 102. But it may not have been the same O'Gneev or O'Gnive, who laments Teig Dall, or if it was, he must have been a very old man, seeing he accompanied Shane O'Neill to London in 1562. His poem on the "Stepping-down of the Gael" has been spiritedly translated by Sir Samuel Ferguson, beginning—
"My heart is in woe, And my soul is in trouble, For the mighty are low, And abased are the noble."
But the metre is the favourite and dignified Deibhidh.