Note 36 — Chapter XVII · THE PRINTED LITERATURE OF THE SCOTTISH GAEL
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“This was no work to commend him to the powers that were, and he appears to have been cast into prison, for, in a touching note at page 64 of the last edition of his Grammar, he asks his readers’ pardon for confounding an example of the imperative with the potential mood, which he was caused to do ‘by the great bother of the brawling company that is round about me in this prison.’ What became of him ultimately I do not know.”—Dr. Douglas Hyde, Literary History of Ireland, pp. 599, 600.