Thus King Bres sought to save his life by promising that the kine of Ireland would always be in milk, then that the men of Ireland would reap every quarter, and finally by revealing the lucky days for ploughing, sowing, and reaping.
Like other wonderful children, Bres grew twice as quickly as any other child until he was seven.
Bres having exacted a tribute of the milk of all hornless dun cows, the cows of Ireland were passed through fire and smeared with ashes--a myth based perhaps on the Beltane fire ritual.
Bres swore by sun, moon, sea, and land, to fulfil the engagement imposed on him by Lug.
Inconsistently, the conquering Tuatha Dé Danann in the interval, whileBres is their king, must pay tribute imposed by the Fomorians.
In person, Bres was handsome like the Danaans; in character he was Fomorian altogether.
So we see Bres of that dual lineage: with magic from his Danaan mother, and blackness from his Fomorian father: the Atlanteans, inheriting mind from the Manasaputra, but turning their divine inheritance to the uses of chaos and night.
It went toBres son of Elatha; whose mother was Danaan, but whose unknown father was of the Fomoroh.
I should say that it is Bres himself, rather than the Fomorians as a whole, who stands symbol just now for the Atlantean sorcerers.
But at the end of the seven years, Bres had to retire in favour of Nuada.
He knew that Bres would have to abdicate whenever Nuada's arm came to be healed, and he conjectured truly that he would not resign the sovereignty without a struggle.
Nuada could make no more head against him than Bres had done when king; and the country still groaned under the oppression of the Fomorians and longed for a champion and redeemer.
This quatrain of Corpry's was repeated with delight among the people, and Bres had to lay down his sovranty.
Bres proposed to the Firbolg that the two races should divide Ireland equally between them, and join to defend it against all comers for the future.
They wer the membres of christe / and therfor they might not become the mẽbres of an Idoll.
And after a while they put their shields away, and it was what Sreng said, that he had raised his in dread of the thin, sharp spears Bres had in his hand.
And it is the message Bres sent to the Firbolgs, that if they would give up one half of Ireland, his people would be content to take it in peace; but if they would not give up that much, there should be a battle.
And when they were milked it was the bog stuff that was squeezed out; and Bres took a drink of it thinking it to be milk, and he was not the better of it for a long time.
Then when the Tuatha de Danaan saw Nuada as well as he was before, they gathered together to Teamhair, where Bres was, and they bade him give up the kingship, for he had held it long enough.
And they went then together to the hill where she was the time she saw the silver vessel coming, and down to the strand, and she and Bres and his people set out for the country of the Fomor.
And Bres said: "Nothing drove me out but my own injustice and my own hardness; I took away their treasures from the people, and their jewels, and their food itself.
The men of Ireland are daring enough to offer battle to us," said Bres to Indech, son of De Domnann.
And they called him to it then, and told him he should eat his fill, the way the Fomor would not be reproached for want of hospitality the way Bres was.
So then Bres and the Druids set out for their own country.
THE REIGN OF BRES But if Nuada won the battle, he lost his own arm in it, that was struck off by Sreng; and by that loss there came troubles and vexation on his people.
Then Bres said: "If you spare me, the men of Ireland will reap a harvest of corn every quarter.
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