‘O grandson of Conn, Cormac,’ said Carpre, ‘who is the worst guarantor?’ ‘Not hard to tell,’ said Cormac. ‘ A black-mouthed guarantor of small honour, who sells his cheek and his knee and his hand and his breast and his heart and the honour of his children and of his race and his valour.’
- 5] His amends are barren,
his honour-price is hollow,
his character is changeable (?),
his ... is short,
his protection is narrow,
10] his arm is not smaller than his dignity,
his figure is a pattern of mockery in the sight of all men,
he is a hang-head butt of ridicule wherever he go or be.