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" ... 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... "
Some traditionall memorialls on the reign of Queene Elizabeth [by Francis ... - Page 116
by Walter Scott - 1811
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Complete Works of Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser - 1893 - 998 pages
...to scrape out of tbeyr graves ; and yf they founde a plotte of w'ater-creuses or sham-rokes, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal!; that in sborte space there were uone allmost left, and a most populous and plentifull...
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Essays

William Butler Yeats - Essays - 1918 - 556 pages
...spared not to scrape out of theyr graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrokes, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal!; that in short space there were none allmost left, and a most populous and plentifull...
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Spenser

Emile Legouis - 1926 - 164 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves; and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 249

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1927 - 454 pages
...not to scrape out of theyr graves ; and yf they founde a plot of water-cresses or sham-rokes, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithall ; that in shorte space there were none allmost left, and a most populous and plentif ull countrey suddaynly made...
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Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review, Volume 9

1881 - 1092 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks there, they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue these withal ; that in short space there were none almost left. Then, a hundred and forty years later,...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 55

Nineteenth century - 1904 - 1074 pages
...scrape out of their graves : and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they thronged as to a feast for the time : yet not able long to continue there withal : that in a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful...
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English Literature and Irish Politics

Matthew Arnold - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 508 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves; and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks there, they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue these withal; that in short space there were none almost left." 35 Then, a hundred and forty years...
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The life and times of Daniel O'Connell. Cameron & Ferguson ed

Thomas Clarke Luby - Catholic emancipation - 1880 - 560 pages
...this hard restraint, they would quickly consume themselves and devour one another." Again : '•Ina short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful! countrey suddainly left voyde of man and beast." The soldiers supplemented the exterminating...
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Early Modern Ireland, 1534-1691

Theodore William Moody, Francis X. Martin, Francis John Byrne - History - 1991 - 870 pages
...traitor.3 In such circumstances, the ultimate destruction of which Spenser is the classic chronicler — 'in short space there were none almost left and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast'4 — was inevitable, and it was inevitable too...
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Strangers to that Land: British Perceptions of Ireland from the Reformation ...

Andrew Hadfield, John McVeagh - History - 1994 - 356 pages
...spared not to scrape out their graves, and if they found a plot of water cress or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal, that in short space there were none almost left and a most populous and plentiful country...
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