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... sent against Brian MacArt , in their return homeward at the end of March 1603 : " Three children ( whereof the eldest was not above ten years old ) , all eating and gnawing with their teeth the entrails of their dead . mother , upon ...
... sent against Brian MacArt , in their return homeward at the end of March 1603 : " Three children ( whereof the eldest was not above ten years old ) , all eating and gnawing with their teeth the entrails of their dead . mother , upon ...
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... sent to Merchant Taylors ' School immediately , or almost immediately , after its foundation in 1561 , with Dr. Mulcaster for its head - master . Spenser was at school there in 1568 ; and in the next year , when he was leaving for ...
... sent to Merchant Taylors ' School immediately , or almost immediately , after its foundation in 1561 , with Dr. Mulcaster for its head - master . Spenser was at school there in 1568 ; and in the next year , when he was leaving for ...
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... sent abroad in 1577 , had ambitions of his own at Cambridge — he was aiming at the post of Public Orator - and did not go ; but he brought his friend Spenser from the north into the service of Leicester , and Spenser seems to have been sent ...
... sent abroad in 1577 , had ambitions of his own at Cambridge — he was aiming at the post of Public Orator - and did not go ; but he brought his friend Spenser from the north into the service of Leicester , and Spenser seems to have been sent ...
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... sent them , but one John Martines di Ricaldi , Governor for the King at Bilboa . The other avouched that they were all sent by the Pope for the defence of the Catholica Fide . I answered , I marvelled that men of that account as some of ...
... sent them , but one John Martines di Ricaldi , Governor for the King at Bilboa . The other avouched that they were all sent by the Pope for the defence of the Catholica Fide . I answered , I marvelled that men of that account as some of ...
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... sent straight certain gentlemen in to see their weapons and armours laid down , and to guard the munition and victual then left from spoil . Then I put in certain bands , who straight fell to execution . There were six hundred slain ...
... sent straight certain gentlemen in to see their weapons and armours laid down , and to guard the munition and victual then left from spoil . Then I put in certain bands , who straight fell to execution . There were six hundred slain ...
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Page 233 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 73 - For the wood is his house against all weathers, and his mantle is his couch to sleep in. Therein he...
Page 12 - ... they could find them; yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page 113 - 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; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them; yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves...
Page 27 - If aught can teach us aught, affliction's looks (Making us pry into ourselves so near) Teach us to know ourselves beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were.
Page 73 - ... 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 bankside till they may conveniently do their errand...
Page 176 - Cambrensis, who lived and wrote in that time, albeit there have been since that time so many English colonies planted in Ireland as that, if the people were numbered at this day by the poll, such as are descended of English race would be found more in number than the ancient natives.
Page 73 - 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 73 - ... they will, either against the government there by their combinations, or against private men, whom they malign, by stealing their goods, or murdering themselves : for there they think themselves half exempted from law and obedience, and having once tasted freedom, do, like a steer that hath been long out of his yoke, grudge and repine ever after, to come under rule again.
Page 46 - And sure it is yet a most beautiful and sweet country as any is under heaven, being stored throughout with many goodly rivers, replenished with all sorts of fish most abundantly, sprinkled with many very...