...devastation was unleashed in Ireland, its grim results described by Spenser: from woods and glens people came Creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs...bear them. They looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat of the dead carrsons ... In short space...

...retchedness. as any stony heart would have rued the same. 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 anatomies of death. they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves. they did eat of the dead carrions....

...centuries later haunted Seamus Heaney into poetry: 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 anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat of the dead carrions,...

...and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them. They looked anatomies of death, they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat of the dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea and one another soon after in so much that...

...before the time of execution." In Ireland Edmund Spenser observed zombies among the defeated Irish, who "looked like anatomies of death; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves."29 Newgate's black dog led Hutton and many others to that acme of the regime of terror, the...

...these results from a famine during the war in Munster: "Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands for their legs...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...

...as that any stoney heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came, creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs...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...

...docks, and all things they could rend above ground'. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs...bear them; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat of the dead carrions, happy they, if they...

...rued, the same. Ont of every corner of the woods and glynns they came, creeping forth upon their bands, 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...

...great part of Munster was systematically laid waste, causing a famine in which thirty thousand died, 'creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them' to eat the dead animals, and even human corpses.24 So drastic a series of atrocities worried even Lord...