 ... 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
 | George Lillie Craik - 1864 - 170 pages
...27. Description of the Irish Mantle, from Spenser's i" new of the State of Ireland :"—about 1595. It is a fit house for an out-law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thiefe. First, the out-law, being for his many crimes and villanyes banished from the townes... | |
 | 1848 - 638 pages
...girdle ; and over all the ample frieze cloak, of which Spencer speaks so angrily — " The Irish mantle, a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, an apt cloak for a thief. * * The outlaw being, for his many •rimes and villanies, banished from... | |
 | John Johnston Kelso - Ireland - 1865 - 92 pages
...Continent. But the idea i« purely visionary. The use of the mantle — " fit house for an outlaw, meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief" — was introduced into Ireland, according to Spencer, by the " Northern nations." In the raw, cold... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1867 - 694 pages
...p. 182. sary in a colder clime. But it had been abused, for " the " inconveniences which thereby doe arise are much more many : " for it is a fit house for an outlawe, a meet bed for a rebel, " and an apt cloke for a theife." There are copious explanations given... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1868 - 418 pages
...p. 182. sary in a colder clime. But it had been abused, for " the " inconveniences which thereby doe arise are much more many : " for it is a fit house for an outlawe, a meet bed for a rebel, " and an apt cloke for a theife." There are copious explanations given... | |
 | Abraham Hume - Great Britain - 1869 - 126 pages
...epifemur. «r sary -in a colder clime. But it had been abused, for " the " inconveniences which thereby doe arise are much more many : " for it is a fit house for an outlawe, a meet bed for a rebel, " and an apt cloke for a theife." There are copious explanations given... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1874 - 556 pages
...as we learn from Spenser's description, "the ancient dress " was still worn. The mantle was still " a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief." The long matted locks, called glibbes, were still used for a disguise. The men were etili close hooded,... | |
 | James Robinson Planché - Clothing and dress - 1879 - 528 pages
...it is clear, continued to be worn in defiance of the above enactments. " The mantle," he remarks, " is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief." He speaks of the hood as " a house against all weathers," and observes that while... | |
 | CHARLOTTE M. YONGE - 1878 - 666 pages
...long shirts of linen dyed with saffron, and mantles. These mantles greatly roused Spenser's ire. ' It is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief. When it raineth it is his pent-house, when it bloweth it is his tent, when it freezeth... | |
 | 1878 - 644 pages
...long shirts of linen dyed with saffron, and mantles. These mantles greatly roused Spenser's ire. ' It is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief. When it raineth it is his pent-house, when it bloweth it is his tent, when it freezeth... | |
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