...graves; they did eate the dead carrions, happy where they could finde them, yea, and one another soone after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared...they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithall [. . .].' Canny suggests that the English or Anglo-Irish in Ireland were...
... and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time... 
