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"Witless and devoid of sense art thou," answered Laeg, "for who but an idiot would think of sweet sleep and agreeable repose in a hostile territory, much more in full view of those who look out from a foeman's dun, and that dun, Dun-Mic-Nectan?" "Do as I bid thee," said Cuculain. "For one day, if for no other, thou shalt obey my commands."
The men of Tara saw it, and the men of Tlatga, and of Tailteen, and of Ben-Eadar, and they consulted their prophets and wizards as to what this portent might mean, for it was not a little smoke that the burning of Dun-Mic-Nectan sent forth that day. "The golden gates of sleep unbar When strength and beauty met together Kindle their image like a star In a sea of glassy weather."
Cuculain answered, "I swear by my gods that Dun-Mic-Nectan is the only dun in all Meath which shall hear my warlike challenge this day. Descend the hill now, for verily thither shalt thou fare, and that whether thou art willing or unwilling." Now, for the first time, his valour and his destructive wrath were kindled in the soul of Dethcaen's nursling.
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