 | Edmund Spenser - 1750 - 320 pages
...countervail the Difcommodity ; for the Inconveniences which thereby do arife, are much more many t for it is a fit Houfe for an Out-law, a meet Bed for...Firft, the Out-law, being for his many Crimes and Villanies banifhed from the Towns and Houfes of honeft Men, and wandring in wafie Places, far from... | |
 | English literature - 1780 - 746 pages
...the common drefs of the ancient 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... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Fiction in English - 1801 - 240 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, * 2 » (he sleeves ; they are as good as new, though come Holantide next,... | |
 | English literature - 1812 - 1020 pages
...discommodite; for the inconveuiencies which thereby doe arise, are much more many ; for it is a fit house for an out-law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a theife First the out-law being for -bis many •nay crijbes and villanyes banished from the townes... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1805 - 594 pages
...the commoditie doth not countervaile the difcommoditie ; for the inconveniencies which thereby doe arife, are much more many; for it is a fit houfe for...out-law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thiefe. Firft the out-law being for his many crimes and villanyes banifhed from the townes and houfes... | |
 | 1806 - 688 pages
...sultry summer, and of which the poet with some bitterness of spirit, thus speaks : " 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... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Ireland - 1806 - 322 pages
...sultry summer, and of which the poet, with some bitterness of spirit, thus speaks : " 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 cinmes and villanies, banished from the... | |
 | English literature - 1807 - 604 pages
...coat, or mantle, made of woollen, 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... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1807 - 538 pages
...coat, or mantle, made of woollen, of ftone colour.' LetSpenfer defcribe its ufes, (hen I am fafe. ' It is a fit houfe for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, und an apt cloak for a thief.' " Our readers will obferve, that the pa flagea marked with invert" td... | |
 | Sir Richard Colt Hoare - Ireland - 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... | |
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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. 
