Ancient Irish Histories: The Works of Spencer, Campion, Hanmer, and Marleburrough, Volume 1Reprinted at the Hibernia Press, 1809 - Ireland |
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abuses afterwards alwayes amongst ancient appeareth Baron better Bishop Brittaine brought called Captaine Castle Church Citty Connaght Corke Councell countrey customes dayly Desmond Divelin doth Dublin Duke Duke of Clarence Earle of Desmond Earle of Kildare Edward enemy England English escheated Eudox evill farre Fitz Gerald garrisons Gaules generall Governour graunt hath heere Henry himselfe honour Iames Iland inconvenience indeede inhabited Iohn Ireland Iren Irenæus Irish John Kilkenny King King of Leinster Knight land lawes Leinster Limericke Lord Deputy Lord Iustice Majesty meanes Mounster nations never noble Oneale Picts Princes principall Queene raigne realme rebells reformation Richard Scots Scythians seemeth selfe shee shew SIR JAMES WARE sonne souldiers souldiours Spaniards spoyle surely sword therein thereof thereunto things thinke Thomas TODD townes Tredagh tryall unto victualls Vlster vvas vvere vvhich vvhom VVilliam vvith warre Waterford William yeeld
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Page 166 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 87 - When it raineth, it is his pent-house ; when it bloweth, it is his tent ; when it freezeth, it is his tabernacle. In summer he can wear it loose ; in winter he can wrap it close ; at all times he can use it, never heavy, never cumbersome.
Page 121 - ... whomsoever they find to be most licentious of life, most bold and lawless in his doings, most dangerous and desperate in all parts of disobedience and rebellious disposition, him they set up and glorify in their rhymes, him they praise to the people, and to young men make an example to follow.
Page 82 - Of the which there is one use, amongst them, to keepe their cattle, and to live themselves the most part of the yeare in boolies, pasturing upon the mountaine, and waste wilde places , and removing still to fresh land, as they have depastured the former.
Page 123 - ... cabin under his mantle, but used commonly to keep others waking to defend their lives; and did light his candle at the flames of their houses to lead him in...
Page 167 - ... as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and, if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal ; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page 254 - ... to be found, only to draw the people unto the Church of Rome: whereas some of our idle ministers, having a way for credit and estimation thereby opened unto them, and having the livings of the country...
Page 107 - Mounster, which is the sweetest soyle of Ireland, and some in Leinster and Ulster, are degenerate, yea, and some of them have quite shaken off their English names, and put on Irish that they might be altogether Irish.
Page 88 - ... handsomely in his way, and when he goeth abroad in the night in free-booting, it is his best and surest friend ; for lying, as they often do, two or three nights together abroad to watch for their booty, with that they can prettily shroud themselves under a bush or a bankside till they may conveniently do their errand...
Page 124 - Yea, truly, I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them ; and surely they were favoured of sweet wit, and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them...