Upholding Ullad; when the four provinces
Have gathered with the ravens over them.
But I'd need no avenger. You and I
Would scatter them like water from a dish.
YOUNG MAN.
We'll stand by one another from this out
Here is the ring.
CUCHULLAIN.
No, turn and turn about
But my turn is first, because I am the older.
Cliodna embroidered these bird wings, but Fand
Made all these little golden eyes with the hairs
That she had stolen out of Aengus' beard,
And therefore none that has this cloak about him
Is crossed in love. The heavy inlaid brooch
That Buan hammered has a merit too.
(He begins spreading the cloak out on a bench showing it to the Young Man. Suddenly Concobar beats with his silver rod on a pillar beside his chair. All turn towards him.)
CONCOBAR.
(in a loud voice) No more of that, I will not have this friendship
Cuchullain is my man and I forbid it;
He shall not go unfought for I myself—
CUCHULLAIN.
(seizing Concobar) You shall not stir High King, I'll
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