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The instructions of King Cormac Mac Airt: Tecosca Cormaic (Author: Unknown)

paragraph 8

‘O grandson of Conn, Cormac,’ said Carpre, ‘what were your deeds when you were a young man?’ ‘Not hard to tell,’ said Cormac. ‘

1. I would slay a boar, I would follow a track when I was alone,
   5] I would march against a troop of five when I was one of five,
   I was ready to slay and wreck when I was one of ten,
   I was ready for a raid when I was one of twenty,
   I was ready to give battle when I was one of a hundred —