[{"node":{"title":"Ferg049","Collections":"Deirdre","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1880","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, February 4, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Ferg049","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Childhood, Eman, Brethren","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/ferg049","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/Ferg049_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\nFERGUS.\nMount, daughter Deirdre. Fill the cup again,\nAnd fair farewells and healths to all of you. \n\nBARACH.\nFergus, thou wilt not pass a brother's door ?\nWe wait thee at Dunseverick. Let thy wards\nTake the protection of thy own good sons.\nThey'll see them safe. To that end Buino Borb\nIs this same morning from Emania come,\nAnd here finds Ulan by a lucky chance\nJourneying thither with his company.\nThy honor shall not suffer in their hands. \n\nDEIRDRE.\nFergus, thou'rt pledged to us. Say nay to him. \n\nBARACH.\nHe shall not say me nay. My board is spread ;\nThe choicest Brethren of the Branch are there,\nAnd much would marvel should his place be void.\nHis sons are well-sufficient in his room.\nWhat though ye journeyed to the Branch alone,\nNone dare molest you, such a sheltering shield\nIs the pledged word of Fergus ; and they know,\nFrom post to post, 'tis on his guarantee\nAnd pass-word that ye travel ; since the king\nOn his assurances has pardoned you. \n\nDEIRDRE.\nFergus, I put thee under bond and vow,\nPledged but to-day, that thou desert us not. \n\nBARACH.\nFergus, I put thee under bond and vow.\nPledged when we made thee Brother of the Branch,\nThou pass not further till thou sup with me. \n\nFERGUS.\nI pray thee, Barach, to forbear thy suit. \n\nBARACH.\nNo : neither will I that forbear, nor bear\nThis public scorn that Deirdre puts on me. \n\nFERGUS.\nNaisi, what answer wouldst thou I should make .''\nI cannot halve myself : but these, my sons,\nAre part of me and will not shame the rest.\nThey cannot fill my place at Barach's board,\nBut, at your side for convoy, well they can. \n\nNAISI.\nWhere vow conflicts with vow, first-vow'd, prevails,\nTherefore, though Barach's be a churlish choice.\nMade against woman and way-faring men,\nI judge him best entitled. Sup with him.\nBuino, I have not known thee until now,\nBut deem thy father's son must needs be true,\nCourteous, and valiant. Ulan I have known\nSince childhood, and in saying that, say all\nThat commendation vouches in a man.\nWhat then, young nobles, are ye ready, say,\nTo be our convoy in your father's room,\nFrom hence to Eman gate, and thenceforward\nTill Fergus do rejoin us .'' \n\nBUINO AND ILLAN.\nReady, sir. \n\nNAISI.\nI ask no oaths. I read in eyes of both\nBright honor's pledge ; and so commit myself\nMy wife, my brethren, and my serving train\nInto your keeping. Mount, and let us ride. \n\nFERGUS\nSons, play the part of men, and show me well\nIn your presentment of me at the court.\nThou, Buino, have my spear : and, Illan, thou \n","Type":"Text"}}]