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Conall

And he called for his debt and his right,

And said that the land was disgraced because of us two from that night
If we did not pay him his debt.

Laegaire

What is there to be said

When a man with a right to get it has come to ask for your head?

Conall

If you had been been sitting there you had been silent like us.

Laegaire

He said that in twelve months more he would come again to this house

And ask his debt again. Twelve months are up to-day.