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DIALOGUE. 159
Daire said, " I am afraid Fionn, and thou O
Queen, flower without gloom, that the two who
approach us by swimming, will be cause of melan-
choly to us."
That hero and the woman seized upon the three
and held them closely : they took them to the
golden mansion ; direful to the three was the
swimming.
" Fionn of the tricks, long have I been follow-
ing thee, close within reach of thee : now that
thou art under my dire sway thou shalt never get
out"
" Who art thou thyself O noble knight, that
thou reproachest me unjustly ? it is a disgraceful
adventure for any good hero not to play with an-
other without fraud."
Queen of Naples, through magical deception, that the sea
was coming over the walls." The Earl of Savoy ordered
him to be beheaded, saying, " I wolde not that in tyme
to come, we shulde be reproached that in so hygh an enter-
prise as we be in, wherein there be so many noble knyghtes
and squyers assembled, that we shulde do any thyuge be en-
chantment, nor that we shulde wyu om' enemyes by such
crafte."