| Constantia Maxwell - 1923 - 408 pages
...(1588-92), pp. 192-3. Spenser also gives a disparaging account of the mantle which he calls " al,t house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief." — £7ffw, p. 631. 3 The clothes of two Irish nobles who came to present themselves to the Lord Deputy... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 1122 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 villanyes banished from the townes... | |
| Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - 1993 - 358 pages
...pastoral simplicity by being seated on mantles on the ground, Irenius argues that the mantle is "a house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief." The outlaw "under it covereth himself from the wrath of heaven." The rebel "wrappeth his self round... | |
| Andrew Hadfield, John McVeagh - 1994 - 356 pages
...Spenser (c. 1596)35 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 honest... | |
| Leeds Barroll - 1998 - 440 pages
...example, in Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland, Irenius says that it was "a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief." Interestingly, when Eudox and Irenius debate the origins of the mantle, Irenius maintains that Africans... | |
| James Olney - 1998 - 456 pages
...to which figures in Beckett put their greatcoats — some of them not far removed from "a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief" — to realize that memories associated with the greatcoat were for Beckett collective in a cultural... | |
| Thomas Scanlan - 1999 - 268 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 villainies banished from the towns and houses of honest... | |
| Peter Hulme, Tim Youngs - 2002 - 360 pages
...of goodnes and civilitie'. Thus the Irish traditional means of clothing, the mantle, is 'a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a theife' - that is, it empowers the Irish against the English and thus must be forbidden.'5... | |
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