XIX
MONGAN'S FRENZY
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"You are not the Hag of the Mill any longer," said Mongan, "you are Ivell of the Shining Cheeks, daughter of the King of Munster."
He touched the dog too, and it became a little silky lapdog that could nestle in your palm. Then he changed the old mare into a brisk piebald palfrey. Then he changed himself so that he became the living image of Ae, the son of the King of Connaught, who had just been married to Ivell of the Shining Cheeks, and then he changed mac an Dáv into the likeness of Ae's attendant, and then they all set off towards the fortress, singing the song that begins:
My wife is nicer than any one's wife.
Any one's wife, any one's wife.
My wife is nicer than any one's wife.
Which nobody can deny.
