LAVARCHAM -- moved. -- It isn't I'll be
well pleased and I far away from you. Isn't
it a hard thing you're doing, but who can help
it? Birds go mating in the spring of the year,
and ewes at the leaves falling, but a young
girl must have her lover in all the courses of
the sun and moon.
DEIRDRE. Will you go to Emain in the
morning?


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LAVARCHAM. I will not. I'll go to
Brandon in the south; and in the course of a
piece, maybe, I'll be sailing back and forward
on the seas to be looking on your face and the
little ways you have that none can equal.

[Naisi comes back with Ainnle and Ardan
and Old Woman.

DEIRDRE -- taking Naisi's hand. -- My
two brothers, I am going with Naisi to Alban
and the north to face the troubles are foretold.
Will you take word to Conchubor in Emain?
AINNLE. We will go with you.
ARDAN. We will be your servants and
your huntsmen, Deirdre.
DEIRDRE. It isn't one brother only of