“I have no sentence at this time,” replied Faolan.
They played again, and she won.
“Now put your sentence on me,” said the youth.
“You will think it soon enough when you hear it. You are not to eat two meals off the same table, nor sleep two nights on the same bed, till you bring me the tallow of the three oxen on Sliav Sein [Mountain of Happiness].”
When he heard this sentence, he went off, threw himself face downward on his bed, and remained there without eating or drinking till the Fenians came back from the hunt. Fin and Dyeermud, not seeing Faolan when they came, went in search of him.
“Have you found Faolan?” asked Dyeermud of Fin, when he met him soon after.
“I have not,” answered Fin.
Dyeermud then went to see if he could find Faolan in bed. As the door of his chamber was fastened, and no one gave answer, Dyeermud forced it, and found Faolan on his face in the bed. After they had greeted each other, Faolan told of the trouble that was on him.
“I gave you warning against Grainne,” said Dyeermud; “but did you win any game of her?”