 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1902 - 420 pages
...linen dyed with saffron, and mantles. These mantles greatly roused Spenser's ire. "It is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief. When it raineth it is his pent-house, when it bloweth it is his tent, when it freezeth... | |
 | Thomas Mathews - 1903 - 220 pages
...and, during an engagement, held their mantles. This garment Spencer characterises as " a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief." The Kernes, he says, drew a cross on the ground with their swords before a battle ; and the clans marched... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1903 - 416 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 villanies, banished from the as I never put my arms... | |
 | Cork Historical and Archaeological Society - 1904 - 326 pages
...most probably as it presented no very distinct features, since the famous Irish mantle — "fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief " — had just then been abandoned.^ An original copy of the tour is now exceedingly scarce, and so... | |
 | William Cunningham - 1907 - 662 pages
...of every kind. The chief article of their attire was a mantle or plaid, which served as a "fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief ' ." The fends of different septs rendered the country a constant scene of civil war, and gave excuse... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1908 - 992 pages
...which the same poet regards that favourite part of the Irish dress, the mantle. ' It is a fit house with care, The eager huntsman knew his bound, And cloke for a thief. First, the outlaw being for his many crimes and villanyes banished from the townes... | |
 | 1910 - 354 pages
...definite form the objection to the garb. Advocating its abolition, he declares it is " a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief." That seems pretty rough on " the antient dress," as he calls it, but he proves his case fairly well,... | |
 | 1912 - 572 pages
...on the subject of the Irish mosquitoes : " They 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... | |
 | Leland Ossian Howard - 1912 - 584 pages
...on the subject of the Irish mosquitoes : " They 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... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1917 - 376 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 villanies, banished from the towns and houses of 3... | |
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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. 
