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then received the status of a sow. [1]A hare also had no legal worth fixed on it, because during one month it is male and the other female. [2]The worth of a stallion is a horse which can cover, with a mare before him and another behind him. [3]The worth of a herd boar is another boar which can procreate, with a sow before him and another behind him. [4]The worth of a bull of a trevgordd is another bull which can leap, with a cow before him and another behind him. [5]A wolf and a fox and various others which do nothing save mischief and on which no legal worth is fixed ; it is free to all to slay them. [6]The worth of every animal whose flesh is eaten, except the swine, is two-thirds on the life and one-third on the body. [7]The teithi of a man are that he should be able to have connexion with a woman, and that he should be sound in all his limbs. [8]The teithi of a woman are that the sign of puberty should have appeared in her, and that she should be sound in all her limbs. [9]The teithi of violence are a cry, a horn, and a complaint.

[10]The origin of bees is from paradise and because of the sin of man they came thence ; and God conferred his grace on them, and therefore the mass cannot be sung without

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