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Rh And he himself a most mischievous man.

[He turns to go, and then returns again.

Promise a house with grass and tillage land, An annual payment, jewels and silken ware, Or anything but that old right of the poets.

[He goes into palace.

. The King did wrong to abrogate our right; But Seanchan, who talks of dying for it, Talks foolishly. Look at us, Seanchan; Waken out of your dream and look at us, Who have ridden under the moon and all the day, Until the moon has all but come again, That we might be beside you.

[half turning round, leaning on his elbow, and speaking as if in a dream].
 * I was but now

In Almhuin, in a great high-raftered house, With Finn and Osgar. Odours of roast flesh Rose round me, and I saw the roasting spits; And then the dream was broken, and I saw Grania dividing salmon by a stream.

. Hunger has made you dream of roasting flesh; And though I all but weep to think of it, The hunger of the crane, that starves himself At the full moon because he is afraid Of his own shadow and the glittering water, Seems to me little more fantastical Than this of yours.