[{"node":{"title":"Ferg022","Collections":"Conary","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1880","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Saturday, March 12, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Ferg022","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Anguish, Death, Outlaws","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/ferg022","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/Ferg022_2.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffHis heart misgives him, not because he fears\nTo match himself in manly feat of arms\nWith any champion, but because he fears\nTo do an impious act, as I too fear.\" \n\n\" I own it true,\" said Ferragon, \" my heart\nIs full of anguish and remorseful love\nTowards him, my sovereign, who did never wrong.\nSave in not meting justice to the full,\nAgainst these violators of his law.\nWho now repay his clemency with death.\" \n\n\" Call it not clemency,\" said Fergobar :\n\" He drove us naked from ancestral homes\nTo herd with outlaws and with desperate men.\" \n\n\" Outlaws we are ; and so far desperate,\"\nSaid Ingcel, \" that we mean to sack this house,\nAnd for the very reason that he says,\nBecause the richest jewels, both of men\nAnd gold, the land affords, are gathered there.\"\nThen Lomna from his mantle took the brooch,\nAnd said, \" Oh Ingcel, this and whatso else\nOf other plunder fallen to my share\nLies in the ships, I offer Take it all.\nBut leave this house unsack'd.\" \n\nSaid Ferragon,\n\" Take also all my share ; but spare the king.\"\nBut Ingcel roughly pushed the brooch away,\nAnd said, \" Have done. The onset shall be given.\"\n\" The onset shall be given, unless the earth\nOpen and swallow us ! \" said Fergobar. \n","Type":"Text"}}]