of that drink from me,” said Finn.  “That is not true,” said Diarmuid; “it is well I deserve it from you; for the time you went to the house of Dearc, son of Donnarthadh, and your chief men with you for a feast, your enemies came round the house, and gave out three great shouts against you, and threw fire and firebrands into it.  And you rose up and would have gone out, but I bade you to stop there at drinking and pleasure, for that I myself would go out and put them down.  And I went out, and put out the flames, and made three red rushes round the house, and I killed fifty in every rush, and I came in again without a wound.  And it is glad and merry and in good courage you were that night, Finn,” he said, “and if it was that night I had asked a drink of you, you would have given it; and it would be right for you to give it to me now.”  “That is not so,” said Finn; “it is badly you have earned a drink or any good thing from me; for the night you went to Teamhair with me, you took Grania away from me in the presence of all the men of Ireland, and you being my own guard over her that night.”

“Do not blame me for that, Finn,” said Diarmuid, “for what did I ever do against you, east or west, but that one thing; and you know well Grania put bonds on me, and I would not fail in my bonds for the gold of the whole world.  And you will know it is well I have earned a drink from you, if you bring to mind the night the feast was made in the House of the Quicken Tree, and how you and all your men were bound there till I heard of it, and came fighting and joyful, and loosed you with my own blood, and with the blood of the Three Kings of the Island of the Floods; and if I had asked a drink of you that night, Finn, you would not have refused it.  And I was with you in the smiting of Lon, son of Liobhan, and you are the man that should not forsake me beyond any other man.  And many is the strait has overtaken yourself and the Fianna of Ireland since I came among you, and I was ready every time to put my body and my life in danger for your sake, and you ought not to do this unkindness on me now.  And besides that,” he said, “there has many a good champion fallen through the things you yourself have done, and there is not an end of them yet; and there will soon come great misfortunes on the Fianna, and it is few of their seed will be left after them.  And it is not for yourself I am fretting, Finn,” he said, “but for Oisin and Osgar, and the rest of my dear comrades, and as for you, Oisin, you will be left lamenting after the Fianna.  And it is greatly you will feel the want of me yet, Finn,” he said; “and if the women of the Fianna knew I was lying in my wounds on this ridge, it is sorrowful their faces would be at this time.”

And Osgar said then:  “Although I am nearer in blood to you, Finn, than to Diarmuid, grandson of Duibhne, I will not let you refuse him this drink; and by my word,” he said, “if any prince in the world would do the same unkindness to Diarmuid that you have done, it is only the one of us that has the strongest hand would escape alive.  And give him a drink now without delay,” he said.