[{"node":{"title":"Ferg053","Collections":"Deirdre","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1880","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, February 4, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Ferg053","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Fear, Rents, Estates","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/ferg053","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/Ferg053_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffBUINO.\nA something haughty that they find in me,\n\u2014 Or, as I fancy, fancy that they find, \u2014\nNot unbeseeming in the eldest born\nOf him who once wore crown of all we see,\nLed some at first to call me by that name,\nWhich now, by oft repeating, clings to me. \n\nDEIRDRE.\nConor's young Cormac and thyself, methinks,\nAre of an age, and, haply, by and by.\nFor that same crown may be competitors. \n\nBUINO.\nSmall were my fear, were there but I and he. \n\nDEIRDRE.\nWhy hold him, pry thee, in that light esteem ? \n\nBUINO.\nBecause, too nice, and over-scrupulous,\nHe weighs his actions in a tedious scale,\nNor strikes when favouring fortune gives the ball. \n\nDEIRDRE.\nAnd thou ? \u2014 \n\nBUINO.\nI've won already from his sire\nPromise half-ratified of rents and lands\nWill make me higher in estate than he.\n'Twas not by letting fair occasion slip\nI won that promise, let me promise thee. \n\nDEIRDRE.\nHow called, the promised principality ? \n\nBUINO.\nDalwhinny 'twill be, when the land is mine, \n\nDEIRDRE.\nBut, ere the gift's complete, behoves thee snatch\nSome fresh occasion to commend thyself ? \n\nBUINO.\nWhich doubtless yet will come. \n\nDEIRDRE.\nTurn here thy eye?\nAnd tell me, Buino, of thy courtesy,\nWhat do they under yonder aged tree,\nItself a grove, a leafy temple-court ? \n","Type":"Text"}}]