...the following on the subject of the Irish mosquitoes : " They goe all naked except a mantle, which is a fit house for an outlaw — a meet bed for a rebel — and an apt cloak for a thiefe. It coucheth him strongly against the Gnats, which, in that country, doe more to...

...since, wnen he wished to disguise himself, he could either cut it off entirely, or so pull it over lus eyes as to render it very hard to recognize him. This,...outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief. First, the outlaw being for his many crimes and villanyes banished from the townes and houses...

...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. First, the outlaw being, for his many crimes and villanies, banished from the towns...

...could either cut it off entirely, or so pull it over his eyes as to render it very hard to recognise him. This, however, is nothing to the reprobation...outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief. First, the outlaw being for his many crimes and villanyes banished from the townes and houses...

...(1588-92), pp. 192-3. Spenser also gives a disparaging account of the mantle which he calls " al,t house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief." — £7ffw, p. 631. 3 The clothes of two Irish nobles who came to present themselves...

...pastoral simplicity by being seated on mantles on the ground, Irenius argues that the mantle is "a house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief." The outlaw "under it covereth himself from the wrath of heaven." The rebel "wrappeth...

...speak. 7) Edmund Spenser (c. 1596)35 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. First the outlaw being for his many crimes and villanies banished from the towns...

...planter is that they prevent easy recognition. The mantle being worn night and day by both men and women, "it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief" (51). It is easy to hide stolen goods or weapons under the mantle and, for "a bad...

...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. — First, the oudaw being, for his many crimes and villainies, banished from the...

...otherness. For example, in Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland, Irenius says that it was "a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief." Interestingly, when Eudox and Irenius debate the origins of the mantle, Irenius...