Maedb’s Seduction
Tell the man that I am as he knows me to be
And he can know as he desires all he desires of me
Realise of my thighs he of them well is known
I desire for myself for a while his Brown Bull to own
Send the word by the birds, give the word by hand
As a queen, as a woman, by my word I stand
Call him hither to be mine, and his bull for my herd
His bull know my grass, his hands the truth of my word
As a man, of his word, let each other be full
This I give as I live for the loan of his bull.
