[{"node":{"title":"Ferg038","Collections":"Deirdre","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1880","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, February 4, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Ferg038","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Cuchullin, Nessa, Conor","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/ferg038","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/Ferg038_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\nNAISI.\nRenowned Cuchullin never would sit by\nAnd see thee wronged. Were Conall Carnach there,\nOr his own step-sire, Fergus, son of Roy,\nNo man should do my Deirdre injury. \n\nDEIRDRE.\nCuchullin do I trust, and Conall too ;\nBut Fergus gave his kingdom for a toy. \n\nNAISI.\nFor love of Nessa laid he kingship down.\nA lovelier Nessa, for the love of me.\nSpurned the same crown when it was offered to her. \n\nDEIRDRE.\nNessa now dead, he haunts the drinking-hall,\nMore than is seemly in a nobleman. \n\nNAISI.\nHall or hill-side, would we were with him now! \n\nDEIRDRE.\nHere we are safe ; keep to our shelter here.\nHere we have both been blest, and yet may be.\nForgetting Conor, and beyond his reach \n\nNAISI.\nMy loving, loyal brothers, too ; they left\nHome, pleasure, and renown, to follow me\nIn this elopement. I must think of them.\nAre they to waste their bloom of manly youth\nHere in this desert, without hope to wive ? \n\nDEIRDRE.\nThey ask but to partake their brother's lot ;\nHappy if he be happy. Me indeed\nThey love as a true sister. Never yet\nHave I beheld on either gentle face \n","Type":"Text"}}]