[From Mona Miscellany second series Manx Soc vol 21]

A SAYING ON COLQUITT.

" She boirey ny cruinney v’eh choud as v’eh bib."
"He was the plague of the world as long as he was alive."

This is said of Colquitt, called " Keoi " (mad Colquitt), one of the persons mentioned in the ballad of " Illiam Dhone."