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mortally. The dying youth then acknawledgc.d Mmfelf his fon,
and that he fell ia obedience to die injun6lions of his mother.
It appears, however, from the poem, that jvhen CuchulHn left
her thofe injundibns, he was far from expedling that his fon
fliould have put them in force upon his arrival in Ireland. On
the contrary, it appears the efFed; of jealoufy in the lady, and of
revenge, hoping that Cuchullin (now advanced in' years) might
himfelf fall in the conflicfl: ; for, though a gallant and moft in-
trepid knight, yet ovir hiftory proves that he was by no means
conftant in his attachments to the fair.
As to the numbers of knights engaged and vanquiflied by
Conloch, previous to his conflid with Cuchullin, it is all poetic
fidion, to raife the characters of the two heroes. Even Conall-
Cearnach, Mafler of the Ulfler Knights, is made to fiibmit to
Conloch, who then -falls the greater vidim to the glory of his
own father. ' j •-,
CONLOCH