When day has broken, I’ll forget the rest,

And say that there is kingly stuff in him.

[Turns to fetch spear and shield, and then sees that CONCHUBAR has gone.

DEIRDRE.

He came to spy upon us, not to fight.

NAISI.

A prudent hunter, therefore, but no king.

He’d find if what has fallen in the pit

Were worth the hunting, but has come too near,

And I turn hunter. You’re not man, but beast.