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- Magh Line I am to-night,
my bare breast knows it;
I know too the plain
wherein dwelt my mate Congal.- Once upon a time Congal Claon and I
were here in the plain together;
as we were going to plenteous Druim Lurgain,
we made converse for a while.- Said I to the king—
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—
I am fain to depart
too little do I deem my recompense.- I got from him as a gift
thrice fifty bridled steeds,
thrice fifty strong swords,
fifty foreigners and fifty handmaidens.- I got from him the brown steed,
the best that sped over meadow and sward;
I got his golden tunic
and his girdle of chequered silk.- What plain is a match for Magh Line,
unless it be the plain that is in Meath,
or Magh Femin of many crosses,
or the plain that is in Airgeadros?- Or Magh Feadha, or Magh Luirg,
or Magh Aei with beauty of rank,
or Magh Life, or Magh Li,
or the plaini that is in Murthemne?
- Of all that I have ever seen
both north and south and west,
I have not yet beheld
the peer of this plain.