[{"node":{"title":"Ferg068","Collections":"Deirdre","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1880","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, February 4, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Ferg068","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Vile' Fraudulent, Maev","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/ferg068","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/Ferg068_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffCORMAC.\nDeirdre, 'tis time that I conduct thee hence. \n\nDEIRDRE.\nSir, I am, sudden, faint. That cup of wine\nIs still untasted. Pray thee hand it me. \n\nN\nI would but kiss my nurse and say farewell.\nNow give me this refreshment. \n\nLEVARCAM.\nShe'll not thirst\nMore in this world ; now well past reach of harm. \n\nCORMAC.\nAy ; so. 'Twas poisoned. She has freed herself\nOh, wretched king, who now canst only hear\nThat all for nothing thou hast been forsworn.\nFair corpse, I'll have thee by thy husband laid.\nThou art her nurse, and thou shalt see to it. \n\nLEVARCAM.\nSir, I have heard a shout which I know well\n'Tis Fergus who approaches. Stay not here \n\nCORMAC.\nTo save a father vile and fraudulent,\nI've slain the noblest youth in all the world.\nFor him I fight no more. I fear to face\nThe grief of guileless Fergus whom I love,\nMore even than his wrath. I'll get me hence,\nAnd, in the west, will seek a guardsman's pay\nWith Maev and Ailill, till this storm be passed. \n\nFERGUS.\nWhere are my wards, my wards that I have bailed ?\nWhere are my sons who had my wards in charge ?\nTheir danger was revealed me ere I sat.\nAnd hot upon their track I'm here, to find\nConfusion, horror, blood, and treachery.\nWhere are my wards, the wards of Fergus, where ? \n","Type":"Text"}}]