 ... a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief...  Works - Page 75by Maria Edgeworth - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Spenser - 1750 - 320 pages
...Difcommodity ; for the Inconveniences which thereby do arife, are much more many t for it is a fit Houfe for an Out-law, a meet Bed for a Rebel, and an apt Cloke for a Thief. Firft, the Out-law, being for his many Crimes and Villanies banifhed from the Towns... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - Ireland - 1763 - 310 pages
...Difcommodity ; for the Inconveniences which thereby do arife, are much more many : for it is a fit Houfe for an Out-law, a meet Bed for a Rebel, and an apt Cloke for a Thief. Firft, the Out-law, being for his many Crimes and Vilknies banifted from the Towns... | |
 | English literature - 1780 - 746 pages
...drefs of the ancient Irilh. Spenfer was much offended with this garment. " It is (fays he) 'a fit houfe for an out-law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief. — For a bad hufwife it is no lefle convenient ; for fome of them that be wandering women, called... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Fiction in English - 1801 - 240 pages
...bedding, and clothing, " Iren. Because the commodity doth not coun^ " tervail tl»e discommodity ; for the inconveniences " which thereby do arise, are...for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief— First, * 2 » (he sleeves ; they are as good as new, though come Holantide next, I've had it these seven years... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Ireland - 1801 - 244 pages
...the commodity doth not coun". tervail the discommodity; for the inconveniences " which there ty *> arise, are much more many ; " for it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed f for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief—First, 1 2 " the sleeves" ; they are as good as new,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1804 - 242 pages
...tervail the discommodity ; for the inconveniences " which thereby do arise, are much more many j •'•" for it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed "...for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief— First, B 2 " the sleeves; they are as good as new, though come Holantide next, I've had it these seven years... | |
 | English literature - 1812 - 1020 pages
...Because the commodité doth not countervail the discommodite; for the inconveuiencies which thereby doe arise, are much more many ; for it is a fit house for an out-law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a theife First the out-law being for -bis many •nay crijbes and villanyes banished from... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1805 - 594 pages
...difcommoditie ; for the inconveniencies which thereby doe arife, are much more many; for it is a fit houfe for an out-law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thiefe. Firft the out-law being for his many crimes and villanyes banifhed from the townes... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Ireland - 1806 - 322 pages
...winter and the sultry summer, and of which the poet, with some bitterness of spirit, thus speaks : " It is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed, " for...for a thief : first, the outlaw " being for his many cinmes and villanies, banished from the «' towns and houses of honest men, and wandering in waste... | |
 | Sir Charles Sedley - 1807 - 606 pages
...housing, bedding, and cloathing. " Iren. Because the commodity doth not coun" tervail the discommodity; for the inconveniences " which thereby do arise, are...First, " the outlaw being, for his many crimes and vil" lanies, banished from the towns and houses of " honest men, and wandering in waste places, far... | |
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