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"Break not with me thy vow not to combat, Break not thy bond—break not friendship, Break not thy pledged word.

"Unto fifty champions has Findabar been proffered, — By me they have been sent to their graves."

And he urges Ferdiad by all the dear old ties between them not to enter on the combat:—

"We were heart-companions, We were comrades in assemblies, We were fellows of the same bed, Where we used to sleep the deep sleep. To hard battles,