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"No man goes into the woman's assembly;
 * No woman into the assembly of the men;
 * No abduction here is heard of;
 * Nor repudiation of husbands, or of wives.

"Whoever transgresses the Law of the Kings,
 * Which Benen so accurately and permanently wrote,
 * Cannot be spared upon family composition,
 * But he must die for his transgression.

"Here follow his great privileges,—
 * The rights and enjoyments of the fair.
 * Trumpets, harps, wide-mouthed horns,
 * Cusighs, timpanists, without fail;
 * Poets and groups of agile jugglers."

The poem goes on to enumerate the features of the great fair; the reading of poems, histories, etymologies, precepts; the annals of feasts and fairs; "The History of the Hill of Mighty Teamar" (Tara); the story of the noblest women; of courts, enchantments, conquests, kings; the