 | Sir Richard Colt Hoare - 1807 - 474 pages
...cloathing : for according to the account given of it by our English poet SPENSER, " it was a fit house for an out-law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief. * In drawing the parallel between the Irishman and the Welshman, I allude only to the lower class of... | |
 | Sir Charles Sedley - 1807 - 606 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 crimes and vil" lanies, banished from the towns and houses... | |
 | Edward Du Bois - 1807 - 162 pages
...made of woollen, of stone colour." Let Spenser describe its uses, then I am safe. " It is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief.'3 33 MEMS. FOR CAP. III. HISTORY of Dublin. Look for it where it's to be found (in no other... | |
 | Edward Du Bois - 1808 - 302 pages
...made of woollen, of stone colour." Let Spenser describe its uses, then I am safe. *' It is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief." MEM& MEMS. FOR CAP. III. .-HISTORY of Dublin. Look for it where it's to be found (in no other place)... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 620 pages
...of the aiii'irnt Irish. Speiner wo« much offended with this garment. " It is (say« he) a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief. — for a bad huswife it is no léese convenient ; for tome of them that be wandering women, railed... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1810 - 238 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, B 2 " the sleeves ; they are as good as new, though come Holantide next, I've had it... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 618 pages
...Irish. Spenser was much offended with this garment. •' It is (says he) a fit house for an onilaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief. — For a had huswife it is no lease convenient ; for some of them that be wandering women, called... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1813 - 444 pages
...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 thiefe. First, the outlaw being for his many crimes and villanyes banished from the townes... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1813 - 468 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 thiefe. First, the outlaw being for his many crimes and villanyes banished from the townes... | |
 | Stephen Barlow - 1814 - 504 pages
...admitting the necessity of it, he proceeds to shew its inconveniences. " It is," says he, " 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 villanies banished from the towns... | |
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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. 
