<> Deirdre Linen Hall Library 1880 Linen Hall Library Thursday, February 4, 2016 TIFF Ferg038 Manuscript Cuchullin, Nessa, Conor English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/ferg038 Linen Hall Library Linen Hall Library Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Ferg038_0.jpg LHL Archive  NAISI. Renowned Cuchullin never would sit by And see thee wronged. Were Conall Carnach there, Or his own step-sire, Fergus, son of Roy, No man should do my Deirdre injury. DEIRDRE. Cuchullin do I trust, and Conall too ; But Fergus gave his kingdom for a toy. NAISI. For love of Nessa laid he kingship down. A lovelier Nessa, for the love of me. Spurned the same crown when it was offered to her. DEIRDRE. Nessa now dead, he haunts the drinking-hall, More than is seemly in a nobleman. NAISI. Hall or hill-side, would we were with him now! DEIRDRE. Here we are safe ; keep to our shelter here. Here we have both been blest, and yet may be. Forgetting Conor, and beyond his reach NAISI. My loving, loyal brothers, too ; they left Home, pleasure, and renown, to follow me In this elopement. I must think of them. Are they to waste their bloom of manly youth Here in this desert, without hope to wive ? DEIRDRE. They ask but to partake their brother's lot ; Happy if he be happy. Me indeed They love as a true sister. Never yet Have I beheld on either gentle face Text