 | C. M. O'Keeffe - 1870 - 328 páginas
...It is the very garment which Spenser inveighs against with such amusing vehemence, as a "fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief. First, the outlaw being, for his many crimes and villanies, banished from the towns and houses of honest... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 562 páginas
...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 still close hooded,... | |
 | James Robinson Planché - 1879 - 528 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1878 - 644 páginas
...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... | |
 | CHARLOTTE M. YONGE - 1878 - 666 páginas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 1882 - 872 páginas
...writing from Kilcoleman, urges the abolition of the ancient dress. The mantle he terms "a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief." Spenser might be i good poet, but if we judge from this paragraph of his penned... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1884 - 286 páginas
...The usual dress was a long cloak or mantle, which he characterises as "a fit 119 THE GL1BBE. house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief." It served to hide plunder, to conceal a sgian or a pistol, to keep off gnats in summer, and in a fight,... | |
 | Mathew Wilson - 1884 - 294 páginas
...Ireland." — Spencer teas, besides being a writer in prose, the great poet of his age. It is a fit house for an out-law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thiefe. First, the outlaw, being for his many crimes and villanyes banished from the townes... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 424 páginas
...political tractate* of a finished and important hind in English. THE IRISH MANTLE. IT is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief. First the outlaw being for his many crimes and villanies banished from the towns... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 páginas
...polilical tractates of a finished and important hind in English. THE IRISH MANTLE. IT is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief. First the outlaw being for his many crimes and villanies banished from the towns... | |
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Iren. Because the commodity doth not countervail the discommodity; for the inconveniences which thereby do arise are much more many; for it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief. 
