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having long recognized him. Then he bursts out rapturously ;
" Cead mille failte !
Eileen a Roon! Cead mille failte !
Eileen a Roon."
And still with more welcomes and ecstasies he greets her, and to reward his fidelity, she con-trives to elope with him that same night—the night before the intended marriage with his rival, and of course they lived happily ever after. It may be noted that the well-known motto of Irish hospitality, Cead mille failte—a a hundred thousand welcomes—was taken from this song. It is related that Handel extrava-gantly declared that he would rather have been the composer of this exquisite air than of all the music he had written. And so enchanted with it was Signor Tenducci, a distinguished singer who sang in the Italian Operas in Lon-don and Dublin, that he resolved upon studying the Irish language, and become master of it, which proves that the Signor heard the original composition.
Guisto Ferdinand Tenducci was born about 1736, and first sang in London in 1758, when he at once became the idol of the fashionable world and was invited out everywhere to private
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