...great ideal that they are so vicious. These Irish bards are for the most part of another mind, and so far from instructing young men in moral discipline,...that they themselves do more deserve to be sharply discipled. For they seldom use to choose unto themselves the doings of good men for the ornaments of...

...worthy to be had in great respect, but these Irish bards are for the most part of another mind, and so far from instructing young men in moral discipline,...for they seldom use to choose unto themselves the doing of good men for the ornaments of their poems, but whomsoever they find to be most licentious...

...that is; who also receive for the same great rewards and reputation amongst them These Irish bards are so far from instructing young men in moral discipline,...deserve to be sharply disciplined ; for they seldom used to choose unto themselves the doings of good men for the arguments of their poems, but whomsoever...

...be said, as was said by Spenser, of the Irish bards of his day :— ' They seldom' (rather, never) ' choose unto themselves the doings of good men for the arguments of their poems, but whomsoever they find to be most licentious of Hie, most bold and lawless in his doing?, most dangerous...