 | Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart - Ireland - 2001 - 232 pages
...water-cresses or shamrocks, then they flocked as to a feast for a time, yet not able long to continue therewithal; that in short space there were none almost...and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly made void of man or beast; yet sure in all that war, there perished not many by the sword, but all... | |
 | Melissa Fegan - History - 2002 - 294 pages
...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithall; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentifull countrey suddainely left voyde of man and beast . . .7 The careful use of a vocabulary of... | |
 | Michael O'Clery - History - 2003 - 398 pages
...watercresses 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...plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." Spenser the poet was in Munster many years, and the last time he was there was in the year 1597, so... | |
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... 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... 
