part 5

Captain Seely, who was not loyal to James, asked: "Are there any Spaniards alive, or are their friends abandoning them?"

"I am one of their friends, O corpulent person," said Thomas Haughey, and above him in the trench this worthy person gave him a drink.

Ross MacQuinn knocked his brother beloved Mark from Cork; it is certain you would laugh if you saw his legs up.                              55

Then Dicky Martin said, a man who was not surpassed in strength: "I give fame, honour, glory to the potato for strength and hospitality."

He said to the son of his uncle: "You fat bum-king from Fingal, will you stand for your country or dare you venture a fall?"

Then his brother and another churl you would not consider big, put a broom leaf into his mouth as if he were a baby on the mound.

Valiant Conn Ó Connor gave Manus from the Soft Stream a blow so that he fell into a cowardly faint, as if he had been cut to the bones.

Eoin MacSlevin gave a blow of a spike to the churl, and he soon uttered yells and fled swiftly at a trot.                         60

Quinn from Clondalkin came merrily (half drunk) on his nag; Geoffrey hit Quinn, and sent him tumbling to the ground.

"Come along," said Bowman sternly as a Turk, and he flung him with his rump up on the granary without delay.

Reidy of Dunboyne came on a fresh horse giving the challenge of the mountain; he was soon tumbled.

Richard Keating came on a steed with ease, until big Timothy Quillan broke the bones of his back on stones.

Séamus Cummins, the cart-man from Howth, said: "I will catch the people of the province who have denied the potato root."       65