Patrick.  “Old man in your foolishness that I cannot put any bounds to, your dog or your hound will not be let in with you to the court of the King of Power.”

Oisin.  “If I had acquaintance with God, and my hound to be at hand, I would make whoever gave food to myself give a share to my hound as well.

“One strong champion that was with the Fianna of Ireland would be better than the Lord of Piety, and than you yourself, Patrick.”

Patrick.  “O Oisin of the sharp blades, it is mad words you are saying.  God is better for one day than the whole of the Fianna of Ireland.”

Oisin.  “Though I am now without sway and my life is spent to the end, do not put abuse, Patrick, on the great men of the sons of Baiscne.

“If I had Conan with me, the man that used to be running down the Fianna, it is he would break your head within among your clerks and your priests.”

Patrick.  “It is a silly thing, old man, to be talking always of the Fianna; remember your end is come, and take the Son of God to help you.”

Oisin.  “I used to sleep out on the mountain under the grey dew; I was never used to go to bed without food, while there was a deer on the hill beyond.”

Patrick.  “You are astray at the end of your life between the straight way and the crooked.  Keep out from the crooked path of pains, and the angels of God will come beneath your head.”

Oisin.  “If myself and open-handed Fergus and Diarmuid were together now on this spot, we would go in every path we ever went in, and ask no leave of the priests.”

Patrick.  “Leave off, Oisin; do not be speaking against the priests that are telling the word of God in every place.  Unless you leave off your daring talk, it is great pain you will have in the end.”

Oisin.  “When myself and the leader of the Fianna were looking for a boar in a valley, it was worse to me not to see it than all your clerks to be without their heads.”

Patrick.  “It is pitiful seeing you without sense; that is worse to you than your blindness; if you were to get sight within you, it is great your desire would be for Heaven.”

Oisin.  “It is little good it would be to me to be sitting in that city, without Caoilte, without Osgar, without my father being with me.

“The leap of the buck would be better to me, or the sight of badgers between two valleys, than all your mouth is promising me, and all the delights I could get in Heaven.”

Patrick.  “Your thoughts are foolish, they will come to nothing; your pleasure and your mirth are gone.  Unless you will take my advice to-night, you will not get leave on this side or that.”

Oisin.  “If myself and the Fianna were on the top of a hill to-day drawing our spear-heads, we would have our choice of being here or there in spite of books and priests and bells.”