CUCHULAIN.
Back! back! Put up your swords! Put up your swords!
There’s none alive that shall accept a challenge
I have refused. Laegaire, put up your sword!
YOUNG MAN.
No, let them come. If they’ve a mind for it,
I’ll try it out with any two together.
CUCHULAIN.
That’s spoken as I’d have spoken it at your age.
But you are in my house. Whatever man