Ceilid serc ainmi ocus olc.

(hides * love * blemishes * and * ill)

Love conceals blemishes and bad character. Love is blind.

A proverb from the poem “Diambad messe bad rí réil”. The Modern Irish version is “Folaíonn grá gráin.” A 16th century poem, quoted in “A Miscellany” (p. 22) gives as a proverb “Ní breitheamh comhthrom an grádh” (Love is not an impartial judge).

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