[{"node":{"title":"Ferg021","Collections":"Conary","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1880","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Saturday, March 12, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Ferg021","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Plunder, Port, Grieve","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/ferg021","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/Ferg021_2.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffElsewhere,\" said Ferragon ; \" not here nor now.\nWe gave thee licence, and we grant it still.\nTo take a plunder : look around and choose\nWhat trading port, what dealers' burgh ye will,\nWe give it, and will help you to the gain.\"\n\" We gave thee licence,\" Lomna said, \u2014 \" and I\nGrieve that we gave it, yea, or took the like, \u2014\nTo take a plunder ; but we gave thee not\nLicence to take the life, the soul itself\nOf our whole nation, as you now would do\nFor, slay our reverend sages of the law,\nSlay him who puts the law they teach in act ; \n\nSlay our sweet poets, and our sacred bards,\nWho keep the continuity of time\nBy fame perpetual of renowned deeds ;\nSlay our experienced captains who prepare\nThe youth for martial manhood, and the charge\nOf public freedom, as befits a state\nSelf-governed, self-sufficing, self-contained ;\nSlay all that minister our loftier life,\nNow by this evil chance assembled here,\nYou leave us but the carcass of a state,\nA rabble ripe to rot, and yield the land\nTo foreign masters and perpetual shame.\" \n\nSaid Ingcel, \" This night's plunder is my own,\nAnd paid for. I shall take it here and now.\nI heed not Lomna's airy rhetoric ;\nBut this I say, and mark it, Ferragon :\nLet him who would turn craven, if he will,\nTake up his stone and go : and take withal\nContempt of valiant men.\" \n\nSaid Lomna Druth,\n\" He is no craven, Ingcel ; nor am I. \n","Type":"Text"}}]