'When the wine was in him he boasted that he was in blood and power better than the best of their earls, and he would give place to none but his cousin of Kildare, because he was of his own house.

They had made a wise earl of M'Carthymore, but Shane kept as good a man as he.

Whom was he to trust?
Sussex gave him a safe-conduct and then offered him the courtesy of a handlock.

The Queen had told him herself that, though he had got a safe-conduct to come and go, the document did not say when he was to go; and, in order to get away from London, he was obliged to agree to things against his honour and profit, and he would never perform them while he lived.' That treachery drove him into war.

'My ancestors,' he said, 'were kings of Ulster; and Ulster is mine, and shall be mine.