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The Destruction of Dind Ríg (Author: [unknown])

paragraph 25

On the morrow he went to play against the lads in the meadow.9 His fosterer saw him. He plies a one-stemmed thorn on Labraid's back and head. ‘Apparently’, saith he, ‘the murder thou hast (to do) is a murder by a boy! Ill for thee, my lad, to invite the king of Erin with thirty kings, and not to be in their presence, meeting their desire.’