If he sits down before Galway, which may well be defended, let us make a push for Dublin, which is altogether defenceless." [104] Saint Ruth might, perhaps, have thought this advice good, if his judgment had not been biassed by his passions.

But he was smarting from the pain of a humiliating defeat.

In sight of his tent, the English had passed a rapid river, and had stormed a strong town.

He could not but feel that, though others might have been to blame, he was not himself blameless.

He had, to say the least, taken things too easily.