 | 1780 - 746 pages
...Irilh. Spenfer was much offended with this garment. " It is (fays he) 'a fit houfe for an out-law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief. — For a bad hufwife it is no lefle convenient ; for fome of them that be wandering women, called... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1801 - 240 pages
...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, * 2 » (he sleeves ; they are as good as new, though come Holantide next, I've had it these seven years... | |
 | 1812 - 1020 pages
...and villanyes banished from the townes and houses of honest men, and wandering in waste places, lar from danger of law, maketh his mantle his house, and under it eorereth himselfe from the wrath «£ heaven, from the oH'ence of the earth, and from the sight of... | |
 | Sir Charles Sedley - 1807 - 606 pages
...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 of " honest men, and wandering in waste places, far... | |
 | Sir Richard Colt Hoare - 1807 - 474 pages
...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... | |
 | 1807 - 604 pages
...of fton* colour.' Let Spenfer defcribe its ufes, then I am fafe. ' It is a fit houfe for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief.' " Our readers will obferve, that the paflages marked with inverted commas are extracted from Sir John... | |
 | Edward Du Bois - 1807 - 162 pages
...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
...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 - 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... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1810 - 238 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
