Note 4-4 — Footnotes.

4"That is enough now," spake Loch; "I am smitten by that.4 5For thine honour's sake5 6and on the truth of thy valour and skill in arms,6 grant me a boon now, O Cuchulain," said Loch. "What boon askest thou?" "'Tis no boon of quarter nor a prayer of cowardice that I make of thee," said Loch. "But fall back a step from me 7and permit me to rise,7 that it be on my face to the east I fall and not on my back to the west toward the warriors of Erin, to the end that no man of them shall say, 8if I fall on my back,8 it was in retreat or in flight I was before thee, for fallen I have by the Gae Bulga!" "That will I do," answered Cuchulain, "for 'tis a 9true9 warrior's prayer that thou makest."