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Book IIL F I N G A L. 195
Let OJfian to his Father's Side be near,
Let Gaul his dreadful Fauchion wave in Air ;
395 The twanging Bow let eager Fergus bend,
And FillaHj fwift thro' Heav'n the Jav'lin fend.
Beneath the moon-broad Shield let each advance.
And like a Meteor dart the fiery Lance.
Ourfelf to Vidory fhall fhow the Way,
400 And rufh the foremoft on yon thick Array.
O'er dying Ranks to Fame my Path purfue,
And emulate the Adions you fhall view.
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V. 395. The twanging Bow let eager Fergus hend.] This Fergus, ac-
cording to fome Traditions, was the Anceftor of Fergus, the Son of Ere
or Jrcath, commonly called Fergus the Second in the Scotch Hiftories.
The Beginning of the Reign of Fergus over the Scots is placed, by the
mod approved Annals oi Scotland, in the fourth Year of the fifth Age; a
full Century after the Death of Ojfian. The Genealogy of his Family is
recorded thus by the Highland Senachies : Fergus Mac-Areatb, Mac-
Cbongael, Mac-Fergus, Mac-Fion-Gael na huai ; i. e. Fergus the Son of
Jrcath, the Son of Congal, the Son of Fergus, the Son of Fingal the
Vidorious.
C c 2 V. 403.