English conquest of Ireland : A.D. 1166-1185 : mainly from the 'Expugnatio hibernica' of Giraldus Cambrensis : part I, the text / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

CHAPTER VII.

Macmorgh, on his halue, be-held his men̛, and saw ham̛ sor̛ amayed: with wordes that he myght, he conforted ham̛ on this maner: "Men of leynester, which, sothfast trowth & stidfaste kynd in al aduentures, vs hath felawes I-maked̛,

without any partyng, a-rer̛ we our̛ hertes, styfly vs-self to defend. The maistre of wreth and of Coueytise, that with streynth wold vs brynge vnderfoot, and ows ayeyn drẏue out of lond, other̛, that wors is, in the same lond̛, vs tynken vndo: that god shild̛! loo, her̛ is I-com̛ vpon our̛ hed̛, of his mẏcℏ gaderẏnge of folke prowt & hauteẏn. be ye well vndrestond, þat nat trogℏ gret tale of men ne trogh greth streynth, both drogℏ [Fol. 5a.] right and trowth that man̛ hath with hym, battailles doth ouercom̛. We haue for vs, ayeyn̛ har̛ pryd, mekenes; ayayns har vnrẏght, right and̛ trouth; ayeyn har̛ boldenesse and ouer-truste, mekenesse and maner. Thay fighten for coueytise, for to get good; and̛ we, for to flee harme. with al this we bene in strong̛ place and̛ wel I-warned̛. The mor̛ that her̛ commeth, the more encombrement we shall do hame, by lityll folk ham to ouercom̛, so that we be of on hert, and stifly withstond̛.'