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8. Patrick. O Offian''! long fleep has taken hold of thee, 

 rife to hear the pfalms. Thy flrength and thy valour are gone, 

 nor art thou longer able to ftand the fury of the day of battle. 



9. OssiAN. If I have loft my flrength and my valour, and 

 none of Fingal's heroes furvive, I will pay little refped to thy 

 clerkfhip, nor care I to liften to thy finging. 



10. Patrick. Suchfweet fongs as mine thou never heardft 'till 

 this night fince the beginning of the world ; thou aged and un- 

 wife old man, who often haft arranged thy valiant troops upon 

 the mountain. 



11. OssiAN. Often have I arranged the valiant troops upon 

 the mountain, O Patrick of evil defigns ; but it is wrong in you 

 to difpraife my appearance, which once was not defpifed. 



15. Fin had twelve hounds'; we let them loofe in the vallies 

 of Smail ; and fweeter to my ears was the cry of the hounds, 

 than the ringing of thy bells, O clerk. 



17. Patrick. Since it was the height of thy happinefs to 

 liften to the hounds, and to marfhal thy troops every day, and 

 not to offer up thy prayers to God, Fin and his heroes are for 

 this bound in captivity. 



18. OssiAN. It is hard to believe thy tale, O clerk of the 

 white book, that Fin, or one fo generous, fhould be in captivity 

 with God or man. 



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