KEEN

OF THE

SOUTH OF IRELAND.

OF THE

SOUTH OF IRELAND:

AS ILLUSTRATIVE OF IRISH POLITICAL AND
DOMESTIC HISTORY, MANNERS, MUSIC,

AND SUPERSTITIONS.

COLLECTED, edited,

AND CHIEFLY TRANSLATED BY

T. CROFTON CROKER.

-"But tell me (I pray you) have they any art in their compositions?
Or be they any thing witty or well savoured, as poems should be ?

"Yea truly, I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I
might understand them; and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good inven-
tion, 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."
SPENSER'S View of the State of Ireland.

LONDON.

PRINTED FOR THE PERCY SOCIETY,

BY T. RICHARDS, 100, ST. MARTIN'S LANE.

M.DCCC.XLIV.

LONDON RICHARDS, 100, ST. MARTIN'S LANE.