We've been pursuing riddles for a while in the thread Tomhas. Here a linguistic/conceptual riddle, in the form of a marginal note found in a sixteenth century manuscript:

Co fis dam is ferr luas na maille ar in leth tís.

In modern orthography:

Go bhfios dom, is fearr luas ná moille ar an leath thíos.

Céard a bhí ar intinn ag an scríobhaí? What did the scribe have in mind?

quote:

Go bhfios dom, is fearr luas ná moille ar an leath thíos.

Here's a translation:
As far as I know, speed is better than lingering over the bottom half.

Léigh go tapa é, b'fhéidir. Ar éigean is fiú é a léamh, de réir an scríobhaithe.

Maybe he meant that the story on the lower half of the page was boring and it wasn't worthwhile spending much time on reading it.

Tá mé réasúnta cinnte gur tagairt don leath thíos den chorp atá againn anseo. Ní raibh an téacs féin i gceist aige.

The "bottom half" is a polite circumlocution, like "the nether regions".

As far as I know, speed is better than slowness on the bottom half.

I bhfocail eile: When nature calls, don't delay. When ya gotta go, ya gotta go.

The marginal notes of the scribes were frequently personal, irreverant, and entirely irrelevant to the nearby text, in this case a legal treatise, mura bhfuil dul amú orm.

Cuireann an dlí an séideadh siar (mar a thug Mac Siomóin air i In Inmhe) ormsa chomh maith.

It's too bad you don't have the rest of it with ya, a Dhennis. The lower half may be the poorer in society. Speed being better at a trial for the poor slob without a chance with the devil. Just do it - like pulling a bandaid - and send him to Hell.