Fágadh maol é dá dheasca agus chuir sé ceathrúna chuig an Athair Seosamh Mac Cairteáin agus Tomás de Barra agus d'iarr iasacht peiriúice orthu ('Is níor mhór dhom seana-wig sealad mar scáth dom' phlaosc'; 'Do gheallais dom bán-wig álainn d'oirfeadh dom' chluais, / Ó scaipeadh chun fáin gan fagháil gach ribe dhem' ghruaig').
In his other poems we realise incidentally how circumscribed his life had become: we find him thanking one neighbour for the gift of a wig, and another for a pair of spectacles; and a wether having been stolen from him, he thought it fit to make a long poem of it, cursing, with fine vigour, the robber to a high gallows and a windy day.' Tuairim 1739 ceapadh é ina chléireach nó ina bháille, b'fhéidir, sa chúirt i nGleann Maghair agus scríobh sé dán ag fáiltiú roimh Ardsirriam Chontae Chorcaí, John Colthurst.
WYSIWYG agus WYSIWYM Is ann do pharaidím ar a nglaotar What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG; /wizi:wig'/) i gcúrsaí na ríomhaireachta.