 | 1832 - 428 pages
...was on fire. The poet Spenser says, the Irish " goe all naked except a mantle, which is a fit house for an outlaw — a meet bed for a rebel — and an apt cloak for a thiefe. It coucheth him strongly against the gnats, which, in that country, doe more to annoy the naked... | |
 | James Robinson Planché - 1834 - 410 pages
...Spenser strongly recommending the abolition of " the antient dress." The mantle he calls " a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief." He speaks of the hood " as a house against all weathers ;" and remarks that while... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 450 pages
...discommodity: for the inconveniences which thereby do arise are much more many ; for it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief. First, the outlaw, being for his many Crimea and villanies banished from the towns and houses of honest... | |
 | 1837 - 366 pages
...although in some sort poetical, is not favourable to its moral character. " It is a fit house," says he, " for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief. First, the outlaw being for his many crimes antl villanyes banished from the townes and houses of honest... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1837 - 360 pages
...although in some sort poetical, is not favourable to its moral character. " It is a fit house," says he, " for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief. First, the outlaw being for his many crimes and villanyes banished from the townes and houses of honest... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 560 pages
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 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 450 pages
...discommodity; for the inconveniences whieh thereby do arise, are much more many; for it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief. First, the outlaw being for his many crimes and villainies banished from the towns and houses of honest... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 444 pages
...discommodity; for the inconveniences wh1ch thereby do arise, are much more many ; for it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a th1ef. First, the outlaw being for his many crimes and villainies banished from the towns and houses... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...which the same poet regards that favourite part of the Irish dress, the mantle. " It is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief. First, the outlaw being for his many crimes and villanycs banished from the townes... | |
 | Charles Henry Knox - 1842 - 968 pages
...lineal descendant and direct representative of the ancient " mantle, serving many times as a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief," as it is described by a gentleman who wrote a book towards the close of the seventeenth century, shewing... | |
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Iren. Because the commodity doth not countervail the discommodity; for the inconveniences which thereby do arise are much more many; for it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief. 
