[{"node":{"title":"Ferg061","Collections":"Deirdre","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1880","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, February 4, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Ferg061","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Royson, Cormac, Father","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/ferg061","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/Ferg061_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffLEVARCAM.\nMy sweet, my darling, I am here again\nHe means us ill. I've seen and spoke with him.\nHe sat at table with his judges by.\nAnd made this question with them, whether we\nNot rendering ourselves before the full o' the moon,\nHis promise made to Fergus Royson, held ?\nThe judges differed. Half of them affirmed\nHis promise was, in that, conditional,\nAnd, the condition failing, it held not.\nThe other half as stiffly did maintain\nThe point of time was nothing to the point,\nAnd that, though Fergus might be late a day.\nThe pardon granted us did yet hold good.\nWith these young Cormac, sitting by, agreed.\nAnd, to confirm his argument, did swear\nThat, saving still the duty of a son\nDefending father, were his sire assailed,\nHe never would raise weapon 'gainst poor guests\nDrawn in to jeopardy of life and limb\nBy plotted covin and duplicity.\nWhereat \u2014 what I had never seen before \u2014\nConor, who, ever, was as temperate\nAs his brave step-sire jovial, swallowed down\nTwo mighty cups of wine ; and, spying me,\nHe called me up, and, there before them all,\nDemanded many things concerning thee,\nAnd did thy beauty live upon thee still ?\n\" No,\" said I ; \" she is wrinkled, lean, and old,\nAnd nothing like the Deirdre that she was \"\n\u2014 The Gods forgive me for the loving lie !\nBut while I spoke, one entering cried, \" 'Tis false !\nThere lives not beauty on the earth's expanse\n","Type":"Text"}}]