...severely, and perhaps truly, describes in his " State of Ireland," and whose poems, he tells us, " were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural...comeliness unto them ; the which it is great pity to see abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which, with good usage, would serve to dorn and beautify...

...translated unto me, that I might understand them ; and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness to them." point, and shining steadily from its proper focus, threw out those inextinguishable sparks...

...tel's us, " were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which have good grart-s and comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to see ahused to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which, with good usage, would serve to adorn and beautify...

...they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which gave good grace and comliness unto them ; the which, it is great pity to see so...usage, would serve to adorn and beautify virtue." Such is the language in which our great poet speaks of his contemporary brethren in Ireland ; such,...

...and surely they savoured of sweet wit and goodly invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty...of their natural device, which gave good grace and comliness unto them ; the which, it is great pity to see so abused, to the gracing of wickedness and...

...and surely they savoured of sweet wit and goodly invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty...of their natural device, which gave good grace and comliness unto them; the which, it is great pity to see so abused, to the gracing of wickedness and...

...Spenser speaks of their productions at this period as being of the most licentious description, though " sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural...device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them." In the bloody scenes of that period, the Bards frequently flung themselves into the midst of the Irish...

...severely, and perhaps, truly, describes in his State of Ireland, and whose' poems, he tells us, "Were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural...comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to see abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which, with good usage, would serve to adorn and beautify...

...severely, and, perhaps, truly, describes in his State of Ireland, and whose poems, he tells us, " were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural...comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to see abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which, with good usage, would serve to adorn and beautify...

...; and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty...device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them." My intention was to submit to the English reader a series of songs, which would have told the history...