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and of each other 's prowess and the prowess of the insurgents , and sometimes of the smith and his strange and unusual invitation . `` Say no word and do no thing , '' said Concobar , `` at which even a very angry and suspicious man might take offence , for as to our host and his artificers , their ways are not like ours , or their thoughts like our thoughts , and they are a great and formidable people . '' The Red Branch did not relish that speech , for they thought that under the measureless canopy of the sky there were no people great or formidable but themselves . `` How he fell From heaven , they fabled , thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements ; from morn To noon , from noon to dewy eve , A Summer 's day , he fell ; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith like a falling star , On Lemnos . '' MILTON . When Culain saw far away the tall figures of the Ultonians against the sunset , and the flashing of their weapons and armour , he cried out with a loud voice to his people to stop working and slack the furnaces and make themselves ready to receive the Red Branch ; and he bade the household thralls prepare the supper , roast , boiled and stewed , which he had previously ordered . Then he himself and his journeymen and apprentices stripped themselves , and in huge keeves of water filled by their slaves they washed from them the smoke and sweat of their labour and put on clean clothes .