[{"node":{"title":"Ferg013","Collections":"Conary","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1880","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Saturday, March 12, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Ferg013","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Ferragon, Alba, Conor","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/ferg013","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Ferg013_2.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffExaggerate, to shake my settled soul\nFrom that which is my right. Say on : what next ? \" \n\n\" A bench of three : thick-hair'd, and equal-long\nThe hair on poll and brow. Black cloaks they wore,\nBlack their sword-sheaths, their hafted lances black ;\nFair men, withal, themselves, and ruddy-brown.\"\n\" Who these, oh Ferragon ? \"\n\" I know not, I,\nUnless, it may be, these be of the Picts\nExiled from Alba, who in Conor's house\nHave shelter ; and, if these indeed be they.\nThree better out of Alba never came\nOr sturdier to withstand the brunt of blows.\" \n\n\" Blows they shall have,\" said Ingcel ; \" and their\nhome,\nRid of their presence well, shall not again\nHave need to doom them to a new exile.\nWhat further sawest thou ? \" \n\n\" On the bench beside\nI saw three slender, three face-shaven men.\nRobed in red mantles and with caps of red.\nNo swords had they, nor bore they spear or shield,\nBut each man on his knee a bagpipe held\nWith jewelled chanter flashing as he moved,\nAnd mouth-piece ready to supply the wind.\"\n\" What pipers these ? \" \n\n\" These pipers of a truth\nIf so it be that I mistake them not,\nAppear not often in men's halls of glee :\nMen of the Sidhs they are ; and I have heard \n","Type":"Text"}}]