in the Courtship of Ferb
You have feasted the Badb, the pale one,
amidst the weapons; sufficient your boldness.
The young men of Connaught with beauty
are men in a heavy state of sorrow.
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Ferb.
O Donnell, son of dear Duban!
O hawk of dangerous valour!
since you are dauntless for the sake of a deed
of fame,
your foster-brother has been killed.
Donnell.
Though Mani the warrior is fallen,
yet he surpassed all his contemporaries
in skill, in valour, in glory,
in honour, and clemency.
Ferb.
This is not the deed of a hero that you do
sighs, crying of woe, and laments!
Since Mani will not return after that
it were better to go valiantly against his foes.
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