A
Brief
CHARACTER
OF
IRELAND
.
OR
,
Some
Observations
on
that
Country
,
and
its
meaner
Inhabitants
,
the
Teagues
.
IRELAND
(
at
present
the
Land
of
Ire
,
or
Heavens
Wrath
)
hath
little
in
it
,
now
,
of
God's
Blessing
,
and
never
had
very
much
of
the
warm
Sun.
It
seems
in
the
opinion
of
some
,
to
be
part
of
the
refuse
of
the
Globe
of
the
Earth
at
the
Creation
,
and
that
when
the
rest
of
Europe
was
compleated
and
polished
,
some
of
the
scrapings
and
rubbish
was
cast
out
at
this
backdoor
,
which
being
half
dried
by
the
squinting
beams
of
Sol
,
was
in
some
measure
dough-baked
,
into
an
Island
of
what
worth
and
quality
shall
be
hereafter
described
.
If
Europe
be
compared
to
a
piece
of
fine
Cloath
,
this
must
needs
be
some
of
the
List
,
or
fagg
end
:
If
to
a
stately
Palace
,
this
is
the
Postern
:
If
to
a
humane
Figure
,
where-ever
we
place
the
Head
,
this
will
surely
hold
more
proportion
and
similitude
with
the
Tail
,
as
will
appear
upon
farther
Consideration
.
Some
formerly
have
thought
fit
to
call
it
the
See
the
Land
Voyage
at
the
End.
Watering-Pot
of
the
Planets
,
and
the
French
have
named
it
,
Le
Pott
de
Chambre
du
Diable
,
i.e.
the
Devil's
Piss-pot
,
seldom
dry
,
but
often
running
over
,
the
Rains
falling
down
so
frequently
,
as
if
the
Heavens
were
a
wounded
Eye
perpetually
weeping
over
it
,
or
the
Clouds
dropping
Spunges
,
It
pours
so
fast
and
oft
,
't
is
too
well
known
,
The
Clouds
are
there
not
troubled
with
the
Stone
.
And
then
for
the
often
Gusts
of
Wind
,
it
may
well
be
reck'ned
as
Nature's
Bellows
,
but
for
this
,
they
may
perhaps
have
reason
to
thank
the
Bantamites
,
who
sowing
so
much
Pepper
yearly
in
the
East-Indies
in
the
Bowels
of
our
Grandmother
Earth
,
it
must
needs
cause
her
to
break
Wind
backwards
in
these
Western
Parts
,
where
she
eases
her self
of
the
Collick
:
what
advantage
they
reap
by
it
I
know
not
,
but
the
old
Proverb
says
,
It
's
an
ill
Wind
blows
no
Good
.
Says
one
,
It
is
a
Frippery
for
Bankrupts
or
the
Grand
Hospital
for
such
as
are
troubled
with
a
Consumption
in
their
Estate
and
Credit
.
But
whatever
it
were
formerly
,
there
is
small
hopes
now
that
Strangers
should
be
there
cured
of
such
desperate
Diseases
,
since
the
whole
Country
may
well
pass
for
a
Map
of
general
Misery
and
Poverty
,
the
Natives
and
Inhabitants
being
most
of
them
the
lively
Portraitures
of
the
Prodigal
Lad
in
his
most
Swinish
Condition
;
so
that
it
were
no
less
difficult
now
to
get
into
an
Estate
there
(
unless
by
the
Conquering
Sword
)
than
to
get
out
of
one
of
their
deepest
Bogs
,
when
one
is
sinking
,
and
can
neither
help
ones
self
out
;
nor
persuade
Teague
to
assist
,
unless
St.
Patrick
does
prompt
him
in
a
most
special
manner
.
Yet
is
the
Soil
in
many
Parts
fat
,
and
liking
(
as
Dunghils
are
)
and
were
it
well
husbanded
,
would
yield
a
plentiful
Encrease
;
but
what
thorow
Laziness
,
and
want
of
Industry
,
(
I
speak
of
the
meer
Irish
,
to
whom
the
whole
Character
relates
)
and
their
innate
Pride
,
and
Self-conceitedness
,
which
makes
them
disdain
to
be
taught
by
Foreigners
,
they
do
so
little
Improve
their
Lands
,
that
unless
it
be
themselves
,
nothing
to
an
Ingenious
Eye
can
be
a
sadder
Spectacle
.
Inclosures
are
very
rare
amongst
them
,
and
those
no
better
fenced
than
an
Old
Midwife's
toothless
Gums
,
or
those
Parts
of
Northamptonshire
,
where
the
Hedges
were
grubbed
up
by
the
rebellious
Rout
of
the
Commoners
.
Much
of
their
Land
is
reserved
for
Grazing
and
Pasturage
;
and
there
,
indeed
,
the
Grass
being
very
sweet
,
and
holding
a
constant
verdure
,
it
is
in
many
places
so
indented
with
Purling
Brooks
and
Streams
,
that
their
Meadows
look
like
a
new
Green
Carpet
border'd
or
fringed
with
the
purest
Silver
:
yet
Hay
is
a
Rarity
amongst
them
,
and
would
cost
them
more
pains
than
they
can
well
afford
,
towards
the
making
of
it
,
therefore
they
seldom
or
never
trouble
their
heads
or
hands
about
it
.
And
then
for
their
Arrable
Ground
,
it
lies
most
commonly
as
much
neglected
and
unmanured
as
the
sandy
Desarts
of
Arabia
,
or
a
ranting
Young
Gallant
's
Old
Bed-rid
Spouse
.
And
,
not
to
particularize
every
Circumstance
,
their
National
Custom
of
Ploughing
,
by
tying
their
wooden
Harness
to
the
Horses-Tail
,
and
that
other
senseless
Improvidence
of
burning
their
Oats
to
save
the
Labour
of
Thrashing
,
are
two
such
very
remarkable
Proofs
of
their
Husbandry
,
that
it
would
be
needless
to
describe
it
further
:
So
that
whatever
the
Country
be
,
they
are
a
wild
Herd
of
brute
Animals
inhabiting
,
but
not
improving
,
it
.
This
Sloath
and
carelessness
is
judged
to
be
one
reason
why
all
sorts
of
Grain
and
Fruits
are
of
a
less
and
more
degenerate
growth
,
than
in
other
well
Cultivated
and
Improved
Countries
(
which
is
also
noted
in
most
of
their
Vegetables
and
Animals
,
Women
and
Greyhounds
only
excepted
)
the
Corn
seldom
shoots
up
to
that
aspiring
height
upon
its
Spindle
,
as
may
be
seen
elsewhere
,
nor
does
it
attain
so
full
and
weighty
an
Ear
as
to
make
it
bend
down
to
kiss
its
Mothers
bosom
;
but
grows
so
dwarfish
,
thin
,
and
full
of
Weeds
,
that
it
resembles
the
Field
in
the
Parable
,
which
the
Evil
One
sowed
with
Tares
.
To
which
may
be
coupled
the
Houswifery
of
the
Women
,
and
it
were
pity
to
part
their
good
qualities
,
whose
nastiness
cannot
better
be
described
,
than
by
directly
opposing
them
against
the
Dutch
,
as
the
other
extream
;
these
being
no
less
excessive
in
their
exquisite
Sluttery
,
than
the
other
in
their
overnice
cleanliness
:
and
though
both
have
a
too
fond
opinion
of
their
ways
,
yet
,
if
I
mistake
not
,
these
Kernes
have
a
much
better
conceit
of
their
Sordidness
,
than
the
other
of
their
over-nice
Curiosity
,
which
though
perhaps
is
a
fault
in
both
,
may
be
more
excusable
in
the
Dutch
(
as
one
says
in
the
like
case
)
the
Hollander
being
indeed
Proud
of
a
Mole-hill
;
but
the
Teague
of
a
Dunghill
,
the
place
whereon
most
commonly
the
rank
Weeds
of
Pride
and
Arrogance
are
aptest
to
grow
.
And
how
ill
these
two
agree
,
Pride
and
Poverty
,
the
Proverb
will
tell
them
.
In
this
me-thinks
they
may
be
fitly
compared
to
their
own
high
Mountains
,
which
have
their
Heads
raised
above
the
Clouds
,
and
seem
to
wear
the
Stars
for
a
Coronet
;
but
yet
are
,
indeed
,
no
better
dighted
,
than
with
a
dirty
Bog
on
the
top
,
more
deep
and
dangerous
than
the
lowest
Road
in
the
Valleys
.
Says
one
,
I
never
yet
found
Pride
in
a
Noble
Nature
,
nor
Humility
in
an
unworthy
Mind
:
it
may
seem
strange
to
an
inconsiderate
Eye
,
that
such
a
poor
Violet
Vertue
should
ever
dwell
with
Honour
,
and
such
an
Aspiring
fume
as
Pride
should
generally
sojourn
with
baseness
:
Whether
it
be
not
so
amongst
the
meaner
Irish
,
I
leave
knowing
Persons
to
judge
.
And
sure
I
am
,
this
Pride
is
their
greatest
Enemy
;
it
makes
them
unsociable
with
the
English
,
their
mistaken
and
ambitious
thoughts
setting
their
worth
above
themselves
,
and
all
others
beneath
them
;
makes
them
despise
their
Amity
and
Ingenuity
,
Disdain
being
writ
upon
their
Brow
,
where
one
may
read
,
I
am
too
good
for
thee
:
This
makes
them
idle
in
their
Occupations
,
careless
to
improve
their
Knowledge
,
and
if
some
of
them
are
Born
to
good
Parts
by
Nature
,
they
rarely
add
any
thing
by
Industry
:
This
makes
them
hug
their
old
Ethnick
Customs
,
not
because
they
are
good
,
but
because
their
Ancestors
formerly
used
them
,
and
themselves
have
since
practised
them
:
In
fine
,
this
makes
them
chuse
rather
to
want
than
to
work
,
rather
to
steal
than
to
want
,
and
so
rather
run
the
hazard
of
the
greatest
Severity
of
the
Law
for
such
Offences
,
than
to
earn
their
Bread
by
honest
Labour
,
and
gain
a
livelihood
with
the
sweat
of
their
Brows
.
Their
Dwellings
or
Cabans
,
I
should
more
exactly
describe
,
if
I
durst
have
adventured
oftner
into
them
;
or
could
have
staid
long
enough
to
have
Survey'd
them
at
my
being
there
;
which
I
did
once
assay
,
but
found
it
as
hazardous
almost
,
as
Orpheus
his
descent
into
Hell
,
where
there
might
be
indeed
a
greater
Fire
,
but
not
more
Smoak
,
which
thick
Cloud
in
the
midst
of
the
Room
did
so
blind
me
,
and
conceal
the
House
,
that
I
could
scarce
remember
any
thing
,
but
my
sore
Eyes
,
when
I
came
out
again
:
Should
they
be
as
much
troubled
with
that
other
noisom
Disease
of
Scolding
Wives
,
as
they
are
with
Smoaky
Houses
,
they
might
well
upon
each
Door
write
,
Lord
have
Mercy
upon
us
,
for
certainly
there
cannot
be
a
greater
Plague
.
As
for
the
outward
Structure
,
an
English
Cow-house
hath
more
Architecture
far
;
nay
,
my
Lord
Mayor's
Dog-kennel
is
a
Palace
compared
to
them
:
and
for
sweetness
,
I
have
heard
many
affirm
,
that
the
foulest
Corner
about
the
Bear-garden
is
Musk
and
Amber
to
their
sweetest
Rooms
.
The
Walls
are
made
of
meer
Mud
,
mixed
with
a
little
wet
Straw
,
the
Covering
is
Thatch
;
the
Floor
Earth
;
which
,
by
reason
of
the
constant
Rains
,
is
generally
so
damp
,
that
they
may
be
said
to
live
over
a
Bog
;
and
the
Thatch
so
ill
thrashed
,
that
(
by
the
sprouting
of
the
left
Corn
,
which
often
springs
up
green
)
it
may
be
added
,
they
live
under
a
Meadow
;
or
(
as
a
Person
of
Honour
said
of
the
like
place
,
to
which
he
most
aptly
compared
the
Long
,
long
,
long
Parliament
)
they
have
green
Ears
over
their
Heads
,
and
a
false
Ground
under
their
Feet
.
The
Beds
are
upon
such
a
firm
Foundation
,
that
nothing
but
an
Earthquake
can
move
them
;
Instead
of
Feathers
or
Flocks
,
they
use
Rushes
or
Straw
,
which
serves
them
without
changing
,
till
cast
Horse-litter
is
a
fragrant
Nosegay
to
it
,
and
Jacob's
sweet
Lodging
on
the
fresh
Grass
,
compared
to
it
,
is
like
the
Pleasure
of
the
Marriage-Bed
.
Sheets
they
never
provide
,
and
to
tell
the
naked
Truth
,
unless
they
can
purchase
a
poor
Cadow
,
which
is
not
often
,
they
ligg
together
like
Adam
and
Eve
before
the
Fall
,
not
a
Rag
to
cover
them
,
but
themselves
:
which
may
be
one
reason
why
they
so
multiply
;
for
being
necessitated
to
keep
together
for
warmth
,
they
ingender
as
thick
as
Fly-blows
,
each
little
Hutt
being
as
full
of
Children
,
as
a
Conney-Burrough
in
a
well
stock'd
Warren
is
of
Rabbits
.
They
seldom
have
any
Partitions
or
several
Rooms
,
but
sleep
in
common
with
their
Swine
and
Poultrey
:
and
for
second
or
third
Story
you
may
look
long
enough
e're
you
find
any
.
Windows
would
discover
their
Poverty
and
Sluttery
too
much
,
and
a
Chimney
is
reckoned
as
superfluous
as
a
Steeple
at
a
new
fangled
Conventicle
:
The
Door
which
perhaps
is
as
irregular
and
multiform
as
a
new
made
breach
in
a
Wall
,
serving
both
to
let
in
the
Light
,
and
let
out
the
Smoak
;
so
that
you
may
guess
their
abodes
are
pleasant
and
airy
as
a
Dungeon
,
and
unless
they
be
compared
to
one
another
,
each
of
them
may
very
properly
be
called
None-such
.
Their
Women
generally
are
very
little
beholding
to
Nature
for
their
Beauty
,
and
less
to
Art
:
one
may
safely
Swear
they
use
no
Painting
,
or
such
like
auxiliary
aids
of
Fucusses
,
being
so
averse
to
that
kind
of
Curiosity
,
(
tho'
they
have
as
much
need
thereof
as
any
I
ever
yet
beheld
)
that
one
would
think
they
never
had
their
faces
wash
'd
but
at
their
Baptism
.
To
whom
the
perpetual
Smoak
within
Doors
,
and
want
of
a
Bon-grace
without
,
does
add
such
a
tincture
of
Complexion
,
that
a
Ploughman's
Sun-burnt
hand
,
or
a
Seaman's
weather-beaten
face
,
is
Snow
and
Cream
to
it
:
So
that
one
need
not
fear
much
temptation
,
they
being
,
indeed
,
meer
Scarr-Crows
,
and
their
Phisiognomies
such
a
defence
,
such
a
spell
for
their
Plackets
,
such
a
refrigeratory
'gainst
the
flames
of
Lust
,
that
in
the
Day-light
they
are
secure
from
any
violent
attempt
upon
their
Chastity
,
though
in
the
Night
they
may
pass
Muster
,
and
the
push
of
Pike
,
when
Joan
is
as
good
as
my
Lady
.
Nonsence
,
their
Converse
;
kindness
,
Treachery
;
Red
hair
,
and
Louziness
,
their
Letchery
.
Their
Bodies
are
of
a
tollerable
proportion
,
and
to
be
born
withal
,
but
then
are
they
mounted
on
such
mishapen
Trussels
or
Supporters
,
that
whenever
any
Man
desires
to
try
the
Pleasure
of
their
Embraces
,
he
will
be
sure
(
as
a
witty
Gentleman
observed
)
to
lay
their
Legs
aside
.
Their
Breasts
are
excepted
against
by
some
,
for
being
of
the
same
size
with
their
Buttocks
:
and
their
Hands
are
so
tann'd
leather'd
,
that
Gloves
were
but
thrown
away
upon
them
.
Amorous
they
are
as
Doves
,
but
not
altogether
so
chast
as
Turtles
,
desiring
as
much
to
be
billing
,
and
very
frequently
bringing
forth
Twins
,
as
the
others
hatch
young
ones
by
Pairs
.
There
needs
no
great
Ceremony
or
Courtship
,
for
if
they
yield
not
at
first
Summons
upon
Composition
,
a
slight
attack
wins
the
Fortress
,
and
one
may
soon
enter
.
These
old
Texts
being
Orthodox
amongst
them
,
Touch
and
take
,
Laugh
and
lye
down
,
Up
and
ride
,
and
so
to
the
end
of
the
Chapter
.
It
is
affirmed
by
some
,
that
of
late
,
they
did
begin
to
drive
this
Trade
for
Profit
,
as
well
as
Pleasure
,
and
were
grown
so
wary
in
their
Bargains
,
that
(
like
their
own
Country
Kine
)
they
would
not
give
down
one
drop
of
their
Kindness
till
they
saw
their
Golden
Calf
within
their
reach
.
But
on
a
design
of
Marriage
they
are
less
scrupulous
or
cautious
,
and
so
far
from
selling
a
Pig
in
a
Poke
,
that
it
is
not
unusual
for
the
Man
to
mount
the
Beast
,
before
he
binds
the
Bargain
;
so
that
't
is
no
strange
thing
amongst
them
,
to
make
a
Maid
a
Whore
first
,
and
then
to
make
that
Whore
his
Wife
afterwards
;
like
a
Sloven
that
first
makes
a
Close-stool
of
his
own
Hat
,
and
then
claps
it
upon
his
own
Head
.
Thus
rather
than
want
Horns
,
they
will
have
some
of
their
own
graffing
,
antidating
themselves
Cuckolds
;
and
having
taught
their
Wives
this
Lesson
so
early
,
who
can
wonder
if
they
practise
it
afterwards
,
a
new
Cask
still
retains
a
touch
of
its
first
Seasoning
,
and
when
once
such
young
Colts
find
the
Gap
of
Liberty
set
open
,
they
will
frisk
out
of
the
Bounds
of
all
Modesty
,
and
never
leave
running
till
they
have
brought
their
Husbands
to
Cockolds-Point
.
The
Men
,
as
Birds
of
the
same
Nest
and
Feather
,
differ
only
in
the
Sex
,
not
in
their
good
Humour
and
Conditions
.
Withall
,
they
are
held
to
be
in
some
measure
more
Crafty
than
might
be
expected
;
but
not
Prudent
,
nor
Honest
;
Credulous
and
light
of
belief
,
treacherous
,
sharking
,
and
great
List'ners
after
News
,
which
may
be
imputed
to
their
long
unsettled
Government
,
fearing
always
some
Innovation
,
and
eminent
Change
and
Danger
.
Notorious
Thieves
they
are
,
and
very
Skilful
at
Leger-de-main
,
for
which
Trade
both
Nature
and
Fortune
seem
to
have
fitted
them
;
For
as
they
are
miserably
Poor
,
so
they
are
more
Impudent
than
a
Court-Page
,
or
an
Italian
Curtezan
,
and
have
made
it
a
common
Practice
to
enter
into
any
House
without
the
Civility
of
craving
leave
,
or
knocking
at
the
Door
;
and
being
once
in
,
they
have
no
creaking
Shoes
to
betray
them
,
but
either
they
wear
Broags
,
a
kind
of
thin
Pumps
,
or
else
make
so
bold
with
Nature
as
to
use
their
bare
feet
:
If
they
spy
any
portable
Prize
,
their
Hands
are
like
Lime-twigs
,
and
the
Prey
shall
hardly
escape
them
;
nor
are
they
ever
unprovided
of
a
Cloak
or
Mantle
(
large
as
a
Jesuite's
Conscience
)
to
spread
over
their
Knavery
;
And
lastly
,
for
Agility
and
swiftness
of
retreat
,
they
may
compare
with
Mercury
himself
,
being
ever
in
a
running
Posture
,
and
always
setting
the
best
foot
foremost
.
Surely
,
of
all
People
they
are
the
least
troubled
with
Corns
upon
their
Toes
,
they
walk
so
soundly
;
but
amongst
a
thousand
of
their
Hands
,
I
do
not
think
one
Finger
could
be
pickt
out
that
were
not
tainted
with
an
Itch
after
unlawful
Gain
,
or
infected
with
a
Felon
:
for
so
much
sweetness
do
they
fancy
in
the
relish
of
Stolen-Goods
,
that
they
have
little
gusto
for
any
other
.
It
is
an
usual
Saying
,
That
a
good
Face
needs
no
Band
,
and
a
bad
one
deserves
none
;
which
may
be
a
reason
why
these
are
so
ill
accoutred
and
negligent
in
their
Apparel
;
tho'
if
the
extreme
Poverty
of
the
generality
be
consider'd
(
which
yet
proceeds
from
their
own
sloath
,
their
Condition
being
much
like
Job's
upon
the
Dunghil
)
we
shall
find
more
cause
to
pity
,
than
wonder
at
them
.
Once
a
Year
,
perhaps
,
their
Stock
may
swell
to
the
purchase
of
a
frieze
Garment
of
a
brace
of
Two-pences
the
bandle
;
higher
it
can
hardly
reach
,
whatever
their
Ambition
prompt
them
to
:
a
coarse
out-side
,
indeed
,
yet
most
think
it
suteable
enough
to
the
lining
within
,
for
a
Loam
Wall
deserves
but
a
mean
Hanging
.
The
Females
have
a
Head
Attire
which
they
call
Kerchers
:
amongst
the
better
Sort
it
is
made
of
Linnen
,
but
seldom
so
white
as
a
Dutch-man's
Sail
:
whilst
the
common
Trulls
cannot
possibly
be
any
thing
,
but
an
old
Rag
turned
out
of
other
Service
,
or
the
flappet
of
a
Month
worn
Smock
reprieved
from
the
Wash-bowl
;
and
yet
,
as
one
said
of
the
like
Sluttery
,
the
poor
remnant
looks
as
briskly
as
if
it
were
promised
for
the
next
whole
quarter
to
scape
many
a
scowring
.
Flesh-bags
they
may
,
some
of
them
,
have
for
the
Day
,
but
at
Night
they
ever
uncase
themselves
and
ligg
in
the
woollen
,
if
their
Wits
can
gather
enough
to
cover
them
,
otherwise
they
nustle
together
in
Litter
with
the
Sow
and
Pigs
,
being
all
of
a
Family
:
But
their
Smocks
cannot
properly
be
called
Changes
,
for
they
seldom
allow
themselves
more
than
one
,
till
that
be
worn
out
,
which
is
used
till
it
be
fit
to
be
torn
off
their
Backs
for
touch
to
light
Tobacco
as
they
sit
in
the
Fields
,
as
I
have
seen
them
do
.
Thus
the
Smock
is
at
last
turned
into
Smoak
,
having
first
struck
fire
in
the
Devil's
Tinder-box
the
Tobacco-Pipe
,
which
one
wittily
compares
to
the
Passion
of
Love
,
thus
:
So
fares
it
with
an
Amorous
Desire
;
The
more
't
is
kiss'd
,
the
more
't
is
set
on
fire
.
Dancing
is
much
in
request
amongst
them
,
after
their
rude
way
,
which
is
much
like
the
Drunken
Bacchanals
of
old
:
Their
chief
Delight
is
called
the
Trott
,
and
it
is
not
named
improperly
,
for
not
only
Banks's
Horse
was
an
absolute
Monsieur
to
them
;
and
the
heaviest
Mare
that
ever
trotted
Man's
Dagger
out
of
its
Sheath
,
went
more
regular
and
smoothly
,
but
it
hath
likewise
so
many
Horse-tricks
in
it
,
that
't
is
much
sitter
for
the
Stable
,
than
any
decent
Hall
,
or
Dining-Room
.
The
Jews
Trump
is
their
common
Musick
,
to
whose
Melody
they
will
hobble
till
the
labour
makes
them
send
forth
a
Haut-goust
as
little
pleasing
as
their
Tunes
:
but
if
they
can
attain
to
a
Harp
or
Bag-Pipe
,
O
then
they
will
Dance
out
of
all
Measure
!
add
to
this
their
Tatter-demallion
Dress
,
and
no
Antimasque
of
Rag-a-Muffians
was
ever
like
them
:
Their
Petticoats
,
if
any
,
are
of
as
many
several
Colours
as
a
Tailor's
fundamental
Cushion
;
to
which
the
Wastcoat
is
the
fittest
match
that
can
be
,
and
cross
their
Shoulders
a
Linnen
shroud
of
the
same
hue
of
a
Winding
sheet
after
some
Years
burial
.
Shoes
are
above
their
Price
,
neither
are
Broags
a
Purchase
for
every
one
;
No
,
they
stand
more
upon
their
Feet
than
so
,
and
for
Stockings
they
have
a
very
cheap
and
durable
Mode
,
one
Pair
lasting
their
whole
Pilgrimage
,
and
those
no
other
than
of
Nature's
knitting
,
which
sit
close
,
and
so
tite
,
it
saves
the
labour
of
Gart'ring
;
having
no
great
fault
,
but
their
too
much
Calf
.
Complements
are
as
seldom
used
amongst
them
,
as
the
Common-Prayers
amongst
the
Non-Con
;
you
might
as
soon
teach
an
Elephant
to
cut
a
Caper
,
as
bring
one
of
them
to
make
a
handsom
Leg
:
Such
Block-heads
have
they
,
that
't
is
a
trouble
to
them
to
pull
off
their
Hats
;
which
done
,
shall
be
seconded
with
a
Speech
containing
less
sence
and
reason
than
that
of
Balaam's
Ass
;
and
to
be
sure
must
either
be
usher'd
in
,
or
out
,
with
a
By
Chreesht
and
St.
Patrick
,
or
an
Elegant-Curse
,
or
two
:
But
for
this
Nonsence
perhaps
their
Nurses
are
to
be
condemn'd
,
who
(
especially
in
Ulster
)
when
they
suckle
their
young
Babes
,
if
they
chance
to
have
a
Cold
in
their
Heads
,
seldom
or
never
wipe
their
Noses
,
but
suck
them
with
their
Mouths
so
hard
,
that
,
as
one
observed
,
't
is
very
probable
that
they
suck
out
all
their
Brains
,
and
leave
them
for
ever
after
empty
Skull'd
.
I
wonder
,
said
one
,
to
an
Irishman
,
that
being
Thirty
Years
of
Age
,
and
having
travel'd
through
the
best
Part
of
the
World
,
you
should
be
so
great
a
Fool
still
.
That
's
no
wonder
,
replies
another
.
But
the
greater
wonder
is
,
that
there
should
be
a
whole
Kingdom
of
such
Fools
.
Shirts
are
no
less
out
of
date
amongst
the
Teagues
than
Surplices
with
the
Dissenters
;
so
that
one
may
guess
what
poor
shift
they
make
to
keep
their
Bodies
sweet
:
and
may
not
this
be
one
reason
why
they
so
much
dread
to
hear
one
break
wind
at
the
Postern
?
The
intolerable
sustiness
that
must
needs
lye
lurking
in
their
unlined
Breeches
,
adding
a
stench
beyond
the
Devil's
Pomander
:
otherwise
they
do
not
appear
so
over-nice
and
curious
,
nor
would
they
contradict
the
Proverb
,
That
Every
mans
Tayl
smells
sweet
in
his
own
Nose
:
Neither
would
they
let
fly
so
often
above-board
,
for
they
will
belch
as
loud
as
Pot-guns
,
and
as
often
as
a
Lover
in
absence
breathes
his
amorous
Sighs
:
But
add
to
the
rest
the
straitness
of
their
Breeches
,
called
Trowses
,
which
sit
as
close
as
a
Jealous
Wife
to
her
Husband's
Tayl
,
and
you
need
not
wonder
at
their
backward
Modesty
.
Some
count
them
naturally
hospitable
,
but
if
they
are
so
,
it
is
after
such
an
ill-favour'd
manner
,
that
't
is
like
the
giving
an
Alms
in
a
nasty
Clout
,
which
Necessity
may
make
welcom
,
but
the
greatest
Charity
cannot
account
Decent
.
Bonny-Clabber
and
Mulahaan
,
alias
Sowre
Milk
,
and
Choak-Cheese
,
with
a
Dish
of
Potatoes
boiled
,
is
the
general
Entertainment
,
to
which
add
an
Oat-cake
,
and
it
compleats
their
Bill
of
Fare
,
unless
they
intend
to
shew
their
excessive
Prodigality
,
and
tempt
your
Appetite
with
a
Dozen
of
Eggs
extraordinary
,
which
many
times
,
instead
of
being
new-laid
,
prove
like
over-ridden
Wenches
,
either
rotten
,
or
else
having
a
young
Chick
in
the
belly
of
'
em
.
After
this
,
comes
Tobacco
;
which
you
must
either
take
in
Smoak
,
or
Snuff
,
if
you
will
be
good
Company
,
while
they
sit
chewing
it
with
as
much
eagerness
and
desire
,
as
the
longing
great-bellied
Woman
did
bite
at
the
fat
Man's
Breech
.
And
for
a
close
to
all
this
Treat
(
a
la
Grandezza
)
the
Mistress
shall
produce
her
Moornaun
of
sowre
Milk
,
and
having
stript
up
her
sleeve
to
the
Shoulder
,
she
thrusts
up
to
the
Arm-pits
,
and
stirring
the
Curds
at
the
bottom
with
her
Hands
▪
she
then
presents
you
with
the
Liquor
,
and
if
you
like
it
,
you
may
fill
your
Belly
with
her
kindness
till
you
are
satisfied
.
I
have
heard
it
affirmed
also
,
by
knowing
Persons
in
this
Country
,
that
in
some
Parts
of
it
,
they
have
a
way
of
making
a
Soupe
,
beyond
all
the
French
Pottages
in
Vogue
;
the
way
is
thus
,
A
Dame
of
the
better
sort
,
having
had
the
good
Fortune
to
boil
a
piece
of
very
fat
Pork
,
till
a
great
part
of
it
is
run
into
an
Oil
swimming
on
the
top
,
she
strips
off
her
Smock
,
dips
it
therein
till
it
has
soaked
up
all
the
Grease
;
then
puts
it
on
her
Body
,
and
so
wears
it
some
days
to
smoothen
her
Skin
,
and
supple
her
Joints
;
now
if
afterwards
there
be
occasion
,
and
no
store
of
other
Provision
about
the
Cabban
,
off
comes
this
anointed
Garment
agen
,
which
being
boiled
in
clear
Water
,
and
a
little
Oatmeal
,
and
a
small
Faggot
of
Herbs
;
the
melted
Fat
,
and
those
other
Ingredients
will
be
converted
into
a
most
savoury
Mess
of
Irish-Smock-broath
,
and
then
't
is
done
in
a
Dish
.
Sure
,
they
learned
this
in
some
Besieged
City
,
like
Sanserre
,
or
London-Derry
,
near
starved
,
where
like
the
Parboil'd
Shoes
and
Hydes
,
it
might
afford
some
relish
,
but
they
that
can
digest
this
abominable
Sluttery
,
not
provoked
or
sharpned
by
Famine
,
need
never
stay
their
Stomachs
till
the
Skie
falls
,
for
such
Dainties
,
as
a
Dish
of
Larks
.
Sure
,
where
the
Devil
sent
these
Cooks
,
he
must
also
send
them
Customers
,
or
they
may
eat
it
all
themselves
.
But
let
me
not
forget
their
Butter
,
made
up
with
so
much
filth
and
Hair
,
it
looks
like
the
Lime
we
prepare
to
Plaister
our
Walls
withal
,
which
being
beaten
up
into
as
rude
a
shape
as
a
Spanish
Piece
of
Eight
,
if
eaten
without
Sindging
,
or
not
melted
and
strained
,
you
shall
run
as
great
hazard
,
as
one
that
would
swallow
the
Burr
of
an
over-grown
Artichoke
without
Butter
,
or
a
pickled
Rope
without
Sauce
:
Hence
one
may
easily
guess
the
difference
betwixt
this
and
the
Dutch
Butter-box
,
the
one
cutting
like
Spanish
Marmalad
,
the
other
like
untried
Kitchin-stuff
,
and
having
as
rank
an
odour
as
a
Carriers
Summer
trotters
.
If
they
had
the
Wit
to
put
the
Hair
in
one
Dish
and
the
Butter
in
another
apart
:
it
might
be
in
a
Man's
choice
to
take
or
leave
as
he
pleased
;
but
they
are
so
order'd
,
you
must
eat
both
or
none
.
And
that
their
Bread
may
be
suitable
to
their
Butter
,
and
so
stick
the
closer
together
,
the
Women
grind
their
Corn
on
a
Stone
placed
betwixt
their
naked
Thighs
upon
the
Ground
(
in
the
very
same
posture
as
they
Churn
their
Cream
)
Their
Mills
having
this
Advantage
over
others
,
that
they
are
equally
supplied
both
with
Wind
and
Water
at
the
same
instant
.
Drinking
is
not
so
much
their
Vice
,
as
some
of
their
Neighbouring
Nations
,
unless
their
so
excessive
Smoaking
be
reckoned
in
,
to
which
both
the
Men
and
Women
are
so
generally
addicted
;
yea
,
the
very
Children
too
,
that
an
Infant
of
their
breeding
,
shall
take
more
delight
in
handling
a
Tobacco-Pipe
than
a
Rattle
,
and
will
sooner
learn
to
make
use
of
it
,
than
another
shall
of
it
's
Sucking-bottle
.
Surely
,
this
Indian
Weed
is
a
very
Witch
,
and
they
have
this
resemblance
,
that
both
of
them
are
very
masty
and
ugly
.
The
Liquor
they
palate
best
,
when
they
venture
at
a
Debauch
,
is
Usquebaugh
,
a
kind
of
exceeding
strong
Aqua-vitae
,
which
though
esteemed
as
Liquor
of
Life
,
yet
it
does
sometimes
leave
them
Dead
Drunk
upon
the
Spot
.
In
their
Sowse
they
are
pettish
and
haughty
,
but
not
stout
;
for
I
have
seen
one
resolute
Stranger
make
a
whole
Bevy
of
them
,
lick
up
the
foul
Language
they
had
vomited
in
his
presence
,
and
by
drawing
a
little
Blood
from
one
,
all
the
rest
have
been
fainting
;
which
shews
that
the
Potion
heats
only
their
Brain
and
Tongue
,
but
leaves
the
Heart
cold
as
before
,
and
does
them
this
Prejudice
,
that
it
brings
them
many
times
into
a
Scuffle
,
but
cannot
bring
them
out
agen
with
any
credit
,
or
honour
.
For
daring
Valour
,
or
true
heat
of
Courage
was
never
yet
the
Crime
laid
to
their
charge
.
And
though
Wars
has
often
been
given
to
them
;
yet
I
wonder
when
it
was
that
they
were
so
given
to
War
as
Solinus
affirms
,
that
the
Mother
at
the
Birth
of
a
Son
,
gave
the
Child
the
first
piece
of
Flesh
it
ever
tasted
upon
the
point
of
her
Husband's
Sword
,
using
many
stout
Imprecations
,
wishing
that
it
might
live
and
die
no
otherwise
than
by
the
Sword
.
But
since
,
it
seems
,
that
Sword
by
the
Iron
teeth
of
Time
,
has
been
eaten
away
into
a
Skeyne
only
,
like
that
of
Captain
Bessus
into
a
Dagger
:
for
take
them
all
along
both
in
the
time
of
Oliver
,
and
these
present
Combustions
,
and
you
will
find
that
never
Men
sneak'd
themselves
so
unworthily
out
of
their
Interests
as
they
have
done
,
witness
the
late
Siege
of
London-derry
,
where
a
small
Town
,
a
Garrison
of
unexperienced
and
unprovided
People
;
a
Gown-man
for
their
Governor
,
withstood
the
whole
force
of
their
Royal-Army
,
headed
by
old
foreign
Generals
:
who
notwithstanding
their
regular
Approaches
,
their
threatning
Bombs
,
and
all
other
Arts
of
Military
Stratagems
,
were
at
length
forced
to
retire
,
and
would
have
fain
shuffled
all
away
,
if
those
of
Inniskilling
had
not
so
rudely
saluted
and
stopt
many
of
them
,
en
passant
,
which
the
Monsieurs
of
their
Party
think
to
be
so
very
uncivil
towards
those
that
had
been
sent
so
far
to
give
them
a
visit
,
that
it
's
believed
,
if
ever
any
of
them
can
recover
their
own
Country
again
,
they
will
hardly
return
into
Ireland
;
since
they
understand
Complement
no
better
,
or
use
such
rugged
Ceremonies
to
those
that
have
been
bred
more
Courtier-like
.
So
that
if
we
consider
the
meer
Irish
,
it
seems
these
poor
Dastards
have
not
so
much
as
the
very
ruins
of
Valour
left
in
them
,
to
reach
forth
to
Posterity
any
sign
that
they
are
the
lawful
Descendants
of
those
valiant
Ancestors
,
and
courageous
Amazons
mentioned
by
Solinus
.
It
is
an
Irish
Observation
(
and
a
notable
one
to
)
that
whenever
two
Armies
meet
in
Battle
,
the
one
must
run
,
for
both
cannot
conquer
,
and
since
one
must
give
way
,
why
not
at
the
beginning
before
much
Bloodshed
,
rather
than
after
too
many
lives
are
lost
;
and
since
one
of
them
must
,
or
generally
does
run
,
who
fitter
to
run
than
they
whom
Nature
has
provided
with
better
Legs
to
run
,
than
Hands
or
Hearts
to
fight
;
therefore
they
commonly
do
run
,
and
run
betimes
,
lest
some
Wound
in
their
Legs
should
hinder
their
nimble
Retreat
:
This
made
an
old
experienc'd
Officer
(
who
knew
the
way
of
the
reasoning
of
these
Bruits
)
cause
some
Regiments
of
Dragoons
to
march
on
foot
up
towards
their
more
numerous
Army
,
with
Boots
on
,
whom
when
the
Irish
beheld
,
they
straightway
concluded
that
those
English
men
being
booted
,
would
not
,
or
could
not
run
,
and
since
one
Party
must
go
off
at
last
,
it
must
needs
be
themselves
,
and
therefore
they
discreetly
ran
all
away
immediately
.
Or
if
ever
they
do
fight
,
they
do
it
more
courageously
upon
any
other
Turf
,
than
their
own
;
for
there
,
as
abovesaid
,
their
Heels
do
ever
do
them
more
Service
than
their
Hands
(
which
profess
themselves
utter
Enemies
of
all
Industry
)
and
if
they
recover
a
Bog
,
St.
Patrick
then
hugs
them
in
the
bosom
of
his
safest
Protection
.
Bloody
they
are
when
they
can
o'repower
,
and
do
it
securely
,
and
this
is
an
Effect
of
their
base
Cowardise
,
(
for
that
and
Pride
and
Cruelty
are
Curs
of
the
same
Litter
)
witness
their
execrable
Butcheries
and
Massacres
of
our
poor
unwary
and
unarmed
Country-folks
,
their
Burning
and
Destroying
of
Towns
,
which
hath
lain
upon
them
so
heavy
ever
since
,
that
what
Cause
soever
they
manage
,
hath
but
ill
success
,
and
what
Friends
soever
engages
for
them
,
have
and
shall
still
suffer
the
more
deeply
for
being
on
that
side
.
A
Stiff-necked
Generation
they
cannot
be
called
,
they
lay
them
down
so
readily
to
every
Yoak
,
as
if
they
were
born
to
Servitude
,
and
so
we
find
them
inclined
to
have
been
indifferently
under
their
own
Countrymen
,
or
under
their
old
Friends
the
Spaniards
in
former
times
,
and
their
new
Friends
the
French
at
present
,
if
the
English
should
not
prevent
it
.
Therefore
are
they
the
less
to
be
pitied
,
because
by
them
there
is
no
greater
Liberty
expected
,
or
much
desired
and
struggled
for
by
them
.
Some
few
Places
they
have
which
may
be
of
good
Strength
,
but
those
general
Buildings
they
call
Castles
,
wherein
some
better
sort
of
Teagues
do
dwell
,
are
indeed
no
other
than
meer
Prisons
,
where
every
Apartment
is
but
a
different
Dungeon
;
and
though
they
were
intended
for
places
of
Defence
,
not
for
Pleasure
,
or
Oeconomical
convenience
;
yet
whoever
surveys
them
with
a
skilful
Eye
,
does
meet
with
such
strange
Irregularities
and
Transgressions
against
both
the
Ancient
and
Modern
Rules
of
Fortification
,
as
will
soon
make
him
conclude
it
was
their
great
Fear
and
little
Wit
,
or
Judgment
,
that
was
chief
Ingenier
;
so
that
they
may
more
properly
be
called
Block-houses
,
in
honour
of
those
Dull-heads
that
Founded
them
.
And
as
they
shewed
but
little
Ingenuity
in
their
contrivance
that
raised
them
;
so
their
Heirs
have
hitherto
(
and
I
believe
will
hereafter
)
shew
less
Courage
in
Defending
them
,
who
though
they
may
have
lofty
Towers
,
yet
having
but
groveling
Spirits
,
tho'
they
have
strong
Walls
,
yet
having
but
weak
Hearts
,
tho'
they
have
Care
and
Fear
enough
to
Man
a
Fort
;
(
which
are
said
to
be
the
most
circumspect
and
wary
Sentinels
)
yet
having
so
little
brave
Resolution
to
back
them
withal
,
they
will
scarce
prove
so
good
a
Guard
as
the
Geese
were
to
the
Capitol
,
for
they
are
said
to
have
preserved
that
place
,
whereas
these
have
often
already
,
(
and
I
dare
affirm
,
will
often
hereafter
)
surrender
and
fly
,
at
first
Summons
,
without
so
much
as
hissing
or
gaggling
.
And
as
these
Castle-houses
are
but
rough-hewn
on
the
outside
,
so
are
they
yet
more
homely
within
,
their
general
Furniture
is
scarce
worth
the
mention
,
and
such
as
have
the
best
,
do
marshal
it
after
such
an
indecent
manner
,
that
it
lies
in
as
great
disorder
as
a
Tavern
after
a
Midnights
revelling
Debauch
,
or
a
Bawdy-house
after
a
fray
.
The
middle
sort
of
People
,
had
formerly
many
more
of
these
sort
of
Dens
,
but
in
the
long
Parliaments
time
an
infinite
number
were
destroyed
,
or
so
defaced
,
they
now
look
like
the
remnant
of
a
London-Custard
,
that
has
been
assaulted
at
a
City
Feast
,
with
much
Valour
and
Stomach
.
I
do
not
hereby
design
any
thing
of
the
true
Gentry
,
or
Nobility
,
amongst
whom
there
are
Persons
of
as
great
Valour
,
as
fair
Estates
,
as
good
Literature
and
Breeding
,
and
as
Eminent
Vertues
as
in
any
of
the
most
Polite
Countries
:
And
of
these
some
have
as
Pompous
Titles
as
any
Men
upon
Earth
,
to
wit
,
a
Duke
of
Ormond
,
or
the
Golden
World
;
Earl
of
Twomund
,
or
two
Worlds
;
and
of
Desmond
,
or
ten
Worlds
,
as
if
one
World
were
too
little
for
them
:
whilst
the
Commons
are
contented
with
the
meanest
Titles
,
and
least
Proportion
that
can
be
imagined
of
one
poor
dirty
corner
of
this
World
.
But
to
return
to
our
first
Post
:
Their
Language
seems
to
be
very
ancient
,
indeed
,
being
almost
worn
quite
out
of
Date
,
scarce
known
in
any
other
Country
,
and
not
generally
used
in
their
own
:
To
a
Foreigner
it
sounds
so
unpleasant
,
that
it
rather
grates
than
tickles
the
Ear
,
and
seems
fitter
to
conjure
than
converse
in
.
Withal
,
they
use
such
a
whining
tone
,
and
speak
so
precipitately
,
that
considering
their
Garb
and
Posture
,
you
would
think
they
had
been
newly
stript
of
their
little
All
;
and
were
now
hastily
and
earnestly
craving
your
Relief
and
Charity
for
a
fresh
Supply
.
Nor
are
they
more
grave
or
demure
in
their
Pace
;
but
frisk
it
about
the
Streets
,
so
Post-horse
like
,
as
if
a
Bailiff
pursued
them
,
or
some
fiercer
Devil
drove
them
.
Yet
at
their
work
they
are
on
the
other
hand
,
so
slow
and
deliberate
(
Digging
,
Ploughing
,
Thrashing
,
&c.
with
their
Cloaks
upon
their
Backs
,
and
wasting
so
much
of
their
time
in
Smoaking
and
Prating
)
that
it
is
usual
to
hire
Four
of
these
Lubbers
to
dispatch
the
same
daily
Proportion
of
Work
,
as
is
performed
by
one
Industrious
English-hind
;
which
would
be
very
chargeable
,
did
they
not
humbly
submit
to
accept
of
much
lesser
Wages
,
which
they
take
good
care
not
to
over-earn
,
lest
they
should
surfeit
themselves
,
or
wear
out
their
precious
Limbs
too
soon
;
and
either
want
more
Business
,
or
the
Strength
to
go
thorow
with
it
next
day
.
Some
Historians
do
speak
them
to
be
very
tender
and
careful
of
their
Young
ones
:
but
wherein
that
tendernessconsists
,
is
not
readily
to
be
found
out
.
For
their
Food
is
not
in
the
least
degree
better
than
they
allow
their
Pigs
,
Bonny-rowre
for
the
Summer
,
and
Potato-roots
in
Winter
are
their
choicest
Dainties
:
and
then
for
their
Cloathing
,
it
is
yet
courser
;
of
a
whole
Child
the
third
part
is
scarce
cover'd
with
Woollen
;
nor
so
much
Linnen
to
be
seen
amongst
a
whole
Tribe
as
would
make
a
Quakers
falling-band
,
or
furnish
an
ordinary
Box
with
Tinder
,
they
being
for
the
most
part
as
naked
as
a
young
Ladies
Neck
in
the
Dogdays
,
or
the
Bird
in
the
Fable
stript
of
its
borrowed
Plumes
;
so
that
unless
their
Apish
hugging
them
in
their
Arms
,
or
carrying
them
on
their
Backs
can
make
it
out
,
I
cannot
.
And
when
they
are
grown
up
,
their
Education
is
suitable
to
the
rest
of
their
Care
:
For
I
have
known
many
other
People
take
more
pains
to
reach
a
Parrot
,
or
to
train
a
Spaniel
,
than
they
do
to
instruct
their
Children
,
and
perhaps
have
brought
them
to
more
dexterity
of
Understanding
,
and
Ingenuity
:
Writing
is
a
rarity
,
and
Reading
would
be
utterly
laid
aside
,
were
it
not
of
great
and
important
consequence
when
they
are
allowed
the
Benefit
of
their
Clergy
in
a
Neck-verse
.
And
how
much
the
want
of
Education
sets
them
beneath
a
Learned
and
Polite
People
,
may
be
found
out
in
the
first
Hours
conversation
with
either
of
them
.
But
however
careless
they
be
of
the
Living
,
they
are
mightily
concerned
for
the
Dead
,
having
a
Custom
,
(
which
sure
they
borrowed
from
the
Egyptians
)
of
howling
when
they
carry
any
one
to
Burial
,
and
screaming
over
their
Graves
,
not
like
other
Christians
,
but
like
People
without
Hope
:
and
sooner
than
this
shall
be
omitted
,
they
do
hire
a
whole
Herd
of
these
Crocodils
to
accompany
the
Corps
,
who
with
their
counterfeit
Tears
and
Sighs
,
and
confused
Clamour
and
Noise
,
do
seem
heartily
to
bemoan
the
departed
Friend
,
though
all
this
is
with
no
more
concern
and
reality
,
than
an
Actor
on
the
Theatre
for
the
feigned
Death
of
his
Dearest
in
a
Tragedy
.
Instead
of
a
Funeral
Oration
,
they
bawl
out
these
or
the
like
querulous
Lamentations
,
O
hone
!
O
hone
!
Dear
Joy
,
why
did
thou
die
and
leave
us
?
Hadst
thou
not
Pigs
and
a
Potato
Garden
?
Hadst
thou
not
some
Sheep
and
a
Cow
,
Mulahan
and
Oat-cake
,
and
good
Usquebaugh
to
comfort
thy
heart
,
and
put
Mirth
upon
thy
Friends
?
Then
,
wherefore
wouldst
thou
leave
this
good
World
,
and
thy
poor
Wife
and
Children
?
O
hone
!
O
hone
!
with
much
more
such
stuff
;
to
all
which
,
Dear
Joy
,
lending
but
a
deaf
Ear
,
sleeps
on
till
Doomesday
by
St.
Patrick
,
while
home
they
go
to
Drink
,
and
drown
the
present
Sorrow
;
till
the
Melancholly
fit
comes
upon
them
afresh
,
and
the
Melodious
Harp
,
or
Bag-Pipe
is
out
of
the
way
,
and
then
they
resort
to
the
Grave
,
and
bedew
it
with
Tears
as
big
as
Turnips
,
repeating
and
howling
their
O
hones
with
as
much
deep
Sence
and
Sorrow
as
before
.
They
have
many
other
extravagant
Customs
daily
practised
at
their
Weddings
and
Christnings
,
all
which
would
be
worth
describing
,
did
we
know
the
Original
Institution
,
and
true
Signification
of
them
,
but
this
they
either
conceal
,
or
do
not
now
well
understand
.
Having
occasion
once
to
go
to
a
Country
Town
of
no
small
note
,
I
chanced
to
wander
into
the
midst
of
the
Market-place
,
yet
could
not
find
where
the
Town
stood
;
I
saw
indeed
,
several
heaps
of
Rubbish
which
look'd
like
Dunghills
cover'd
over
with
weather-beaten
Straw
,
and
imagin'd
,
they
were
,
or
might
be
Peopled
with
Swine
,
but
could
not
possibly
guess
them
the
Habitations
of
any
Human
Race
,
unless
there
should
be
extant
a
Generation
of
Pigmies
;
but
upon
inquiry
and
further
search
,
these
were
the
Dwellings
of
the
Teaguelanders
themselves
,
so
low
,
one
would
have
imagined
an
Earthquake
had
unmercicifully
swallow'd
the
Buildings
,
all
but
the
very
Cook-lofts
;
the
Policy
being
,
as
I
after
learned
,
to
prevent
any
Enemy
that
should
come
to
quarter
upon
them
,
and
make
Stables
for
their
Horses
of
their
Dining-Rooms
or
Bed-Chambers
,
which
now
they
defie
them
to
do
,
unless
the
humble
Beasts
could
creep
in
upon
their
knees
,
and
sit
down
at
their
Mangers
as
themselves
are
ever
forced
to
do
within
Doors
.
Some
of
their
Chief
Cities
are
tollerably
good
,
but
most
of
them
more
Populous
than
Rich
(
Dublin
excepted
)
for
though
they
are
thronged
like
Hives
,
yet
being
for
the
most
part
Drones
,
they
rather
diminish
than
encrease
their
Stock
;
so
that
were
it
not
for
the
Industrious
English
and
Strangers
amongst
them
,
I
am
persuaded
in
process
of
time
,
they
wou'd
let
it
all
run
into
its
original
wildness
,
and
live
either
like
Canibals
upon
one
another
;
or
like
their
Native
Wolves
,
(
from
whom
they
are
now
but
one
degree
removed
in
point
of
Industry
and
Humanity
)
upon
the
next
Prey
they
could
light
on
,
tho'
of
their
nearest
Blood
,
rather
than
take
the
least
honest
pains
to
provide
better
for
themselves
,
or
their
wretched
Progeny
.
But
certainly
were
more
of
our
laborious
English
,
or
some
of
our
Active
and
Industrious
Neighbours
planted
there
,
and
once
in
the
quiet
Possession
of
that
Island
,
they
would
soon
turn
their
Rags
into
Riches
;
their
Corn
and
Cattle
into
Coyn
,
and
make
them
more
famous
for
their
Plenty
and
Abundance
,
than
they
are
now
despicable
for
their
Want
and
Scarcity
of
Cash
,
and
Courage
.
One
Privilege
,
indeed
,
they
have
to
boast
of
above
most
other
Countries
;
which
is
,
that
they
are
free
from
Venomous
Creatures
(
as
England
is
from
Ravenous
)
which
we
may
believe
to
be
a
Natural
Antipathy
,
like
that
of
the
Islands
Cyprus
,
and
Guernzey
;
Tho'
they
will
needs
attribute
it
to
their
Miraclemonger
St.
Patrick
,
who
,
(
as
their
Tradition
goes
)
did
one
day
Summon
them
all
together
on
the
top
of
an
high
and
large
Hill
,
called
Cruich
Phadrick
,
or
St.
Patrick's
Mount
;
where
having
by
irrisistible
Conjuration
assembled
them
,
he
,
by
his
powerful
Invocation
called
for
Fire
from
Heaven
,
which
came
down
,
and
consumed
them
:
To
which
part
of
the
Legend
,
some
have
added
(
with
as
much
probability
of
truth
)
That
the
great
Croud
of
Irish
Witnesses
whom
the
good
Saint
had
brought
with
him
to
see
this
feat
,
and
bear
testimony
of
it
,
finding
he
had
so
good
interest
and
familiarity
with
God
Almighty
to
obtain
what
he
but
asked
for
,
desired
him
fortwith
to
make
a
second
Petition
,
that
Heaven
would
send
down
a
plentiful
Shower
of
Gold
and
Silver
to
cure
them
of
their
Poverty
,
and
make
them
as
opulent
as
the
richest
Nations
:
But
he
angrily
replied
,
That
God
would
work
no
Miracles
to
gratifie
their
Covetousness
;
That
he
had
already
given
them
a
large
Country
,
which
they
were
to
Cultivate
and
Improve
,
and
that
their
honest
Labour
would
bring
them
in
a
sufficient
Stock
of
Wealth
,
&c.
and
therefore
if
they
were
not
enough
satisfied
with
this
great
Blessing
so
freely
conferred
,
but
continued
to
murmur
,
and
tempt
God
too
far
,
perhaps
he
might
for
their
unthankfulness
and
sordid
Desires
,
turn
it
into
a
Curse
again
,
to
their
perpetual
Punishment
.
But
they
still
importuning
him
,
he
at
last
made
a
second
Essay
,
not
Petitioning
for
Gold
or
Silver
,
but
that
God
would
send
down
what
he
knew
to
be
fittest
for
that
Generation
.
Which
word
he
no
sooner
had
pronounced
,
but
there
arose
a
great
and
furious
Whirlwind
,
which
blew
and
dispersed
the
Ashes
of
those
Poisonous
Creatures
over
all
the
whole
Country
,
and
the
same
being
forthwith
converted
all
into
Lice
,
they
have
for
ever
since
continued
a
most
Nasty
and
Lowzy
Generation
,
and
could
never
find
a
Cure
,
or
remove
this
Epidemical
,
Egyptian
Bosom-plague
,
so
close
it
yet
sticks
to
them
.
A
most
excellent
Country
it
is
for
a
young
Traveller
to
be
first
seasoned
in
,
for
let
him
but
once
taste
of
their
Entertainment
and
Usage
,
and
I
dare
undertake
he
shall
love
all
the
rest
of
the
World
much
better
ever
after
)
(
except
Scotland
.
)
A
certain
Portion
of
the
County
of
Galloway
is
very
well
worth
observation
;
for
in
a
considerable
extent
thereof
,
Nature
affords
'em
neither
Water
enough
to
drown
'em
,
Wood
enough
to
Hang
'em
,
nor
Earth
enough
to
Bury
'em
;
and
yet
't
is
very
well
Inhabited
:
Now
what
sort
of
Creatures
,
unless
a
race
of
Spanish
Gennets
,
that
are
said
to
engender
by
the
Wind
,
or
a
brood
of
Cameleons
that
feed
upon
Air
,
can
subsist
where
three
of
the
most
necessary
Elements
are
so
scarce
,
I
leave
Oedipus
to
judge
.
Friendly
they
are
in
outward
appearance
and
Promises
,
and
upon
ordinary
Occasions
one
may
make
use
of
them
:
But
at
a
pinch
,
or
time
of
extraordinary
trial
,
if
you
lean
too
hard
,
they
prove
but
broken
Reeds
,
and
not
only
fail
to
support
,
but
often
wound
the
hand
that
resteth
on
their
brittle
Faith
.
Of
this
they
have
given
so
many
eminent
and
recent
Examples
,
that
the
whole
World
is
witness
of
the
Truth
of
the
Assertion
:
For
at
the
Battle
of
the
Boyne
,
where
our
victorious
Hero
King
William
set
upon
them
under
all
the
Circumstances
of
Disadvantage
,
except
his
Matchless
Courage
;
how
basely
did
they
sneak
away
whilst
their
foreign
Friends
made
a
tollerable
(
tho'
short
)
resistance
;
and
tho'
they
had
Vowed
by
Creesht
and
by
St.
Patrick
to
stand
by
them
,
and
look
their
Enemies
in
the
fauce
,
till
Death
was
put
upon
them
:
yet
they
all
upon
a
little
firing
turn'd
tail
in
an
instant
,
and
disappeared
with
such
Agility
,
that
Thousands
of
them
seemed
to
outflee
the
very
Shot
that
were
sent
after
them
,
and
out-ran
the
nimblest
Horsemen
that
pursued
them
;
leaving
their
best
Officers
,
and
such
as
had
any
Valour
,
to
make
what
retreat
and
shift
they
could
,
without
the
least
regard
or
assistance
on
their
part
.
Since
which
,
in
all
their
Winter
Skirmishes
,
their
petit
Assaults
upon
Gentlemens
Houses
,
their
Rapperie
Stratagems
,
and
Bogg-Plots
,
they
have
shewed
so
much
Cruelty
,
(
where
ever
they
could
surprize
any
unarmed
Men
,
or
Women
and
Children
)
and
so
little
Courage
upon
any
slight
resistance
,
that
it
demonstrates
them
to
be
more
bloody
than
Tygers
,
and
at
the
same
time
,
more
timerous
than
Hares
:
But
there
is
now
fair
hopes
the
greatest
Crew
of
that
cursed
Generation
will
be
utterly
extirpated
,
either
by
Martial-Law
,
which
hath
already
Hanged
them
up
as
thick
as
Rabbits
by
Couples
in
a
Poulterer's
Shop
,
or
Vermin
in
a
Warren
.
Or
by
transplanting
them
into
some
other
Country
so
far
distant
,
that
their
very
Name
and
Ignominious
Memory
may
be
lost
to
all
the
civilized
World
.
A
second
most
remarkable
instance
we
gather
from
their
Behaviour
at
the
Action
of
Athlone
,
(
to
omit
Mullingar
,
&c.
)
where
in
a
Town
most
regularly
Fortified
,
well
Provided
,
and
fully
Garrison'd
,
an
Army
Encamped
within
sight
to
Relieve
and
Support
them
,
commanded
by
a
fierce
and
bloody
French
General
(
most
famous
for
his
Hangman-like
Exploits
,
and
Butcherly
Infamies
)
besides
a
dangerous
Ford
to
be
passed
in
the
very
teeth
of
their
great
and
small
Shot
:
Notwithstanding
all
these
Obstructions
,
a
small
Party
of
English
Granadiers
marching
thorow
the
Water
on
foot
,
and
following
their
brave
Commanders
with
loud
Shouts
of
Joy
(
as
it
were
going
only
in
Triumph
to
the
Breach
they
attacqued
)
they
no
sooner
saw
them
set
foot
on
shoar
,
and
cast
their
Hand
Granadoes
into
their
Works
,
but
they
modestly
withdrew
,
and
as
many
as
conveniently
could
,
retreated
at
the
Irish
rate
from
the
other
End
of
the
Town
towards
the
frenchified
Camp
,
when
meeting
with
some
Detachments
of
Horse
approaching
to
assist
them
,
They
told
them
they
might
spare
the
labour
,
for
the
Enemy
had
forced
their
way
in
thorow
Fire
and
Water
,
and
would
not
be
persuaded
to
stay
their
coming
;
therefore
who
could
be
so
fool-hardy
,
as
to
contend
with
,
or
oppose
such
desperate
and
wilful
Men
;
upon
which
they
were
convinced
in
it
to
be
safer
to
retire
than
advance
,
and
so
turned
back
again
to
the
Tune
of
a
running
Jigg
,
not
staying
for
any
word
of
Command
,
nor
the
Commanders
themselves
,
whom
they
left
to
the
Enemies
mercy
,
according
to
the
right
Teaguish
Faith
and
Gallantry
.
Now
what
hopes
the
French
Devil
of
a
St.
Ruth
could
Build
upon
this
boggy
Foundation
of
Irish
Magnanimity
and
Fidelity
to
their
new
King
Lewis
d'Or
,
is
hard
to
guess
,
unless
he
believed
that
for
his
former
noble
Service
in
the
Dragooning
the
Hereticks
in
France
,
with
so
much
Zeal
for
the
Catholick
Cause
,
he
might
be
rewarded
with
the
Crown
of
Romish
Martyrdom
in
Ireland
,
and
admitted
into
the
Popish
Kalendar
for
his
abetting
of
St.
Patrick's
Quarrel
.
Tho'
I
wish
he
do
not
find
it
true
that
the
Title
and
Denomination
he
bare
of
St.
Ruth
here
,
has
by
the
weight
of
his
horrid
Crimes
sunk
him
down
to
be
dignified
of
Satan
below
,
and
Entred
into
the
Muster
Roll
of
Pluto's
Black
Guard
of
Dragoons
,
as
his
highest
Reward
,
and
fittest
for
his
blood-thirsty
Genius
.
It
is
reported
of
the
Germans
,
and
some
other
war-like
People
,
that
when
they
come
within
sight
and
hearing
of
the
Enemy
,
being
drawn
up
in
Battalia
,
and
almost
ready
to
Engage
,
they
draw
out
their
broad
Swords
,
and
each
with
a
Whetstone
,
they
carry
for
that
purpose
,
falls
to
work
to
set
a
keen
Edge
on
his
Weapon
,
with
so
much
eagerness
and
noise
,
that
it
begets
no
little
terrour
in
the
listening
Foe
,
and
Proclaims
with
what
undaunted
Resolution
they
prepare
to
Assault
them
.
Whereas
the
Teigs
do
only
gaze
about
to
see
what
Wood
or
Bog
lies
nearest
,
and
can
best
shelter
or
favour
them
in
their
Retreat
,
or
,
perhaps
by
greazing
their
Broags
,
and
anointing
their
Joints
,
make
ready
for
a
more
speedy
Flight
;
then
throwing
down
their
Arms
,
and
trusting
solely
to
their
Legs
,
dare
not
so
much
as
once
look
back
,
but
leave
the
Devil
to
take
the
hindmost
.
Blindly
obedient
Children
they
are
to
the
Pope
of
Rome
their
Holy
Father
,
and
to
the
Church
of
Rome
their
Gawdy-Mother
;
yet
so
grosly
ignorant
in
all
Matters
of
Religion
,
that
the
History
of
Tom
Thumb
being
read
to
them
,
has
passed
currant
for
the
Legend
of
one
of
their
famous
Saints
,
and
believed
to
be
as
true
as
Gospel
;
and
if
any
improbability
,
nay
,
impossibility
lyes
in
their
way
,
name
but
St.
Patrick
for
Voucher
,
and
they
shall
swallow
as
many
Prodigeous
Untruths
,
as
would
choak
the
Credulity
of
the
most
illiterate
Heathen
alive
.
Ask
many
of
them
,
What
was
the
Name
of
the
most
Blessed
Virgin
Mary
,
and
't
is
ten
to
one
,
but
they
'l
answer
,
it
was
Jane
,
or
Susan
,
and
that
St.
Patrick
was
her
Godfather
;
and
to
any
the
like
Question
,
they
will
furnish
you
with
the
like
Answer
,
&c.
So
that
if
Ignorance
be
the
true
Mother
of
Devotion
;
the
City
of
Rome
it self
cannot
produce
such
Devout
Catholicks
as
these
Teigs
;
and
therefore
it
's
pity
but
they
should
be
transplanted
into
the
Territories
of
Holy
Church
,
as
being
the
most
submissive
Members
thereof
.
Much
more
might
be
said
,
but
I
have
raked
long
enough
in
this
Dunghil
of
Ireland
,
and
shall
add
no
more
,
but
that
it
is
,
A
Land
which
does
no
venom'd
Beast
disclose
,
Yet
she
breeds
Men
more
Venomous
than
those
;
Men
,
who
in
Cruelty
are
so
sublime
,
It
shews
it
is
their
Nature
,
as
their
Crime
;
Yet
,
when
Our
Hero's
Landing
they
did
hear
,
Their
Guilt
,
tho'
vast
,
did
scarce
transcend
their
Fear
:
Which
at
the
Boyne
,
his
Victory
made
good
,
And
wrote
Heaven's
Justice
on
them
in
their
Blood
.
Which
smee
repeated
by
his
General
's
Sword
,
Th'
Oppressors
punish'd
,
and
th'
oppress'd
restor'd
.
Impartial
Reader
,
To
evince
I
have
not
branded
the
Commonalty
of
the
Irish
Nation
with
Cowardice
either
out
of
Ignorance
,
or
Spleen
:
or
that
meer
ill
Fortune
,
or
any
odd
Accidents
of
War
,
hath
been
the
occasion
of
their
late
ill
Successes
(
which
many
times
hath
befallen
the
bravest
of
Men
:
)
I
have
,
to
make
good
my
Character
of
them
,
added
hereunto
a
true
Account
of
their
Behaviour
in
the
beginning
of
the
Former
War
,
in
the
Time
of
the
Long
Parliament
,
wherein
you
shall
find
them
described
in
lively
colours
to
be
the
same
timerous
Animals
I
have
declared
,
as
will
appear
by
this
Irish
Monthly
Mercury
Printed
at
Cork
,
at
the
same
time
the
Things
were
Transacted
:
Which
Matters
of
Fact
,
were
never
contradicted
by
themselves
,
of
the
Irish
Nation
,
nor
by
any
other
Advocate
for
them
.
The
Reflections
therein
contained
,
may
be
excused
,
if
the
Reader
but
duly
considers
in
what
Times
it
was
written
.
The
annexed
Poem
,
being
a
Land
Voyage
;
is
inserted
only
to
describe
the
Nature
of
that
Climate
,
most
subject
to
frequent
and
prodigious
Floods
of
Rain
,
&c.
The
last
is
a
Fragment
of
a
larger
Poem
to
His
Majesty
,
which
containing
a
short
Character
of
England
;
was
thought
proper
enough
to
be
joyned
hereunto
.
Which
with
the
Irish
Epigram
,
serves
to
Conclude
this
Trifle
.
The
Irish
Monthly
Mercury
.
I.
BRave
C
.....
(
and
his
valiant
blades
)
Who
hath
conquer'd
Kingdoms
Three
,
And
made
the
War
the
best
of
Trades
,
And
made
it
like
to
be
.
II
.
His
Actions
't
is
I
do
intend
T'
expose
unto
your
View
;
Therefore
no
Muse
I
need
to
Friend
,
Nor
ought
,
but
to
speak
true
.
III
.
Jockey's
Defeat
makes
all
the
Earth
Abundantly
to
know
him
;
His
Fame
yet
finds
a
second
Birth
From
Zim
,
and
Gim
,
and
Ohim
.
IV
.
O
would
he
keep
but
his
Command
For
one
Half-file
of
......
I
'd
lose
my
Head
he
'd
clear
the
Land
Of
base
Teigs
,
and
Bog-trotters
.
IT
is
but
just
that
the
People
should
have
News
for
their
Money
,
and
that
they
should
hear
as
well
as
feel
the
Effects
of
their
Taxes
:
the
Committees
have
so
perfectly
performed
the
last
,
that
if
I
do
but
the
first
as
well
,
I
may
as
much
Merit
a
share
in
their
Gain
,
as
they
deserve
a
Punishment
for
making
any
.
But
because
I
undertake
the
English
Armies
progress
,
I
will
run
over
briefly
those
principal
Occurrences
which
happen'd
before
I
could
come
to
the
conveniency
of
a
Press
,
and
henceforth
Monthly
deduce
you
all
things
in
as
Set
a
Form
,
as
the
Common-Prayer
or
Mass-Book
.
Not
long
after
the
Sally
at
Dublin
,
which
the
Enemy
out
of
Modesty
call
the
Battel
of
Ramines
,
the
Lord
Lieutenant
landed
at
Dublin
with
an
Army
so
nourisht
in
Victory
,
that
they
never
saw
any
Defeats
,
but
those
they
gave
their
Enemies
.
The
first
Design
they
undertook
,
was
the
gaining
of
Tredagh
,
in
which
the
Noble
O
.....
had
placed
above
Three
Thousand
of
his
select
Men
,
and
Sir
A
....
A
....
for
Commander
,
one
as
unable
to
stand
to
it
,
as
to
run
away
:
and
it
may
be
that's
the
reason
he
fell
in
the
Service
,
doubtless
he
was
better
for
a
Retreat
,
since
every
step
he
would
make
a
halt
.
In
a
word
,
if
the
rule
be
true
of
judging
Hercules
by
his
Foot
,
one
may
conclude
this
a
wooden
Governour
.
Yet
he
had
made
so
good
Earthen
Fortifications
,
that
by
trusting
to
his
Works
,
he
shewed
what
Religion
he
was
of
.
Their
first
Retrenchment
against
us
,
was
the
Church
,
out
of
which
they
were
soon
dislodged
;
And
I
dare
say
,
't
was
the
first
time
they
ever
went
from
Church
unwillingly
.
This
being
done
too
,
by
some
Ordinance
of
Parliament
,
't
is
not
unlikely
,
the
grave
Presbyterians
,
(
if
ever
the
Assembly
come
into
play
agen
)
may
question
their
Proceeding
,
and
aver
we
have
a
mind
our
Enemies
should
still
continue
Papists
,
by
so
pregnantly
evincing
there
was
no
Salvation
for
them
in
our
Church
.
At
length
the
breach
being
found
assaultable
(
more
from
the
Event
than
the
largeness
of
it
)
our
Army
were
so
little
Courtiers
,
as
to
enter
the
Town
,
without
so
much
as
knocking
at
the
Gate
,
where
all
lost
their
lives
but
those
that
saved
them
:
Of
the
first
qualification
there
were
about
Three
Thousand
;
of
the
latter
Thirty
,
be
it
more
or
less
.
Whilst
this
was
doing
,
Inchequin
,
to
divert
,
but
it
proved
to
increase
our
success
,
assaulted
the
Naus
,
a
Town
fortified
like
Jerico
,
after
the
Battery
of
the
Rams-horns
,
from
whence
he
drew
off
with
a
Flea
in
's
Ear
,
confessing
in
his
Heart
,
that
Providence
was
a
better
Engineer
than
A
.....
,
and
concluding
the
Spanish
fashion
was
the
best
,
which
is
to
leave
a
Town
when
one
cannot
take
it
.
Doubtless
the
Sympathetick
Operation
is
not
meerly
Notional
;
for
we
find
,
that
though
there
wanted
a
Medium
to
hand
and
convey
the
Enemies
fears
from
Tredagh
to
Trim
and
Dundalk
;
yet
by
Sympathetical
working
,
those
in
the
two
last
specified
Garrisons
abandoned
them
as
soon
as
we
had
the
first
,
and
thereby
gave
us
no
trouble
in
the
taking
them
,
but
that
we
took
nothing
in
them
.
The
Army
,
after
a
short
breathing
at
Dublin
,
march'd
with
some
Cannon
to
Washford
;
a
thing
(
to
those
that
know
the
way
)
as
hard
to
be
believed
as
performed
;
and
indured
more
to
seek
Danger
,
than
others
could
to
avoid
it
.
Washford
is
the
Dunkirk
of
Ireland
,
and
a
place
only
famous
for
being
infamous
:
This
also
the
Army
took
by
Storm
;
but
a
few
were
spared
,
and
but
a
few
put
to
the
Sword
;
for
the
Divine
Justice
manifested
it self
to
be
what
it
is
,
in
making
those
who
had
ruined
many
by
the
Sea
,
to
be
ruined
in
it
.
't
is
a
frequent
rule
with
Heaven
,
to
evidence
the
Sin
in
the
Punishment
:
near
Two
Thousand
of
those
Otters
were
drowned
;
which
was
generally
esteemed
a
Misfortune
,
but
only
because
there
were
no
more
drowned
.
From
Washford
the
Army
march'd
to
Ros
Pontis
,
so
called
,
(
as
I
take
it
)
because
it
never
had
a
Bridge
.
The
place
was
soon
yielded
;
and
tho'
the
dispute
was
short
,
the
Foe
made
a
shift
to
lose
Five
hundred
Men
;
who
being
all
English
,
fought
stoutly
for
the
time
,
and
gave
us
ten
times
the
work
of
so
many
Irish
.
This
was
the
dearest
Siege
we
undertook
;
for
it
cost
ever
since
as
much
Money
as
will
Pay
half
a
Thousand
of
Men
.
Certainly
that
Axiom
in
Philosophy
is
true
,
that
all
things
have
a
natural
Appetite
to
rejoyn
with
that
part
of
it self
from
which
it
hath
violently
been
divided
.
This
was
demonstrated
by
the
English
surprisal
of
the
City
of
Cork
,
and
reintegrating
themselves
into
their
own
Nation
.
Sir
R.S.
Knight
,
&c.
was
Governour
there
,
who
little
dream'd
of
losing
his
Command
,
and
yet
found
he
had
lost
it
when
he
wak'd
:
one
may
truly
say
he
was
taken
napping
:
But
I
must
acknowledge
,
to
extenuate
his
misfortune
,
that
he
was
divested
of
his
Government
in
the
dark
,
and
by
consequence
could
not
see
to
prevent
it
.
Sure
this
Major
General
lost
his
way
into
that
Office
,
and
was
as
much
surprized
at
his
having
got
that
Employment
,
as
we
were
to
see
him
in
it
.
His
Ignorance
was
so
great
,
it
past
for
his
Religion
;
for
never
any
that
saw
him
draw
up
the
Army
,
but
concluded
he
relied
on
Providence
for
the
Victory
,
he
made
so
little
use
of
the
means
for
the
obtaining
of
it
.
He
has
now
done
that
too
,
which
he
never
did
to
his
Regiment
,
I
mean
Exercised
;
and
the
word
of
Command
is
,
As
you
were
;
that
is
,
reduced
to
his
Primitive
Existence
,
which
affords
him
the
Stoicks
Motto
,
Omnia
mea
mecum
Porto
.
This
makes
me
that
I
believe
he
will
think
these
last
Eight
Years
to
be
a
Dream
,
and
that
he
was
never
really
wak'd
out
of
it
,
but
when
these
rude
Fellows
of
Cork
presum'd
to
do
it
.
There
was
besides
in
Cork
,
the
Right
Reverend
Father
the
—
:
And
tho'
he
were
immediately
commanded
to
leave
the
Town
,
yet
,
in
spight
of
the
Officers
Noses
,
he
did
his
BUSINESS
first
,
nay
carried
it
away
with
him
too
.
This
is
a
Man
of
so
Unfortunate
a
Behaviour
,
that
he
left
an
ill
Odour
behind
him
,
both
amongst
his
Friends
and
Enemies
:
yet
thereby
he
rendred
one
Branch
of
the
Covenant
unperformable
,
as
to
his
particular
;
for
though
he
were
a
Limb
of
the
Hierarchy
,
yet
it
was
impossible
to
take
him
CLEAN
away
.
The
General
being
assured
of
the
Declaration
of
Cork
,
to
improve
that
Success
,
sent
away
Col.
P
—
for
Munster
,
with
Five
hundred
Foot
in
a
Fleet
,
that
took
another
whilst
the
first
was
weighing
Anchor
;
but
as
these
Forces
were
Sailing
by
Dungarvan
,
News
was
brought
them
,
that
Yoghal
had
declared
too
,
which
made
them
Land
there
.
In
a
short
time
,
as
one
Shoulder
of
Mutton
draws
down
another
,
so
one
Town
did
the
like
unto
another
,
whereby
in
less
than
a
Fortnight
,
the
Parliament
recovered
their
former
Interest
in
that
Province
,
and
with
as
little
Blood
,
as
they
had
lost
it
.
By
this
O
—
and
Owen
Roe
O
Neale
had
shook
hands
,
the
General
hoping
they
would
think
themselves
strong
enough
to
be
beaten
,
(
for
he
desired
no
higher
certainty
of
the
Victory
than
to
come
to
the
Battle
)
march'd
over
the
Barro
,
upon
a
Bridge
which
floated
,
but
he
soon
found
the
Enemy
did
so
too
,
and
that
tho'
they
wanted
valour
it self
,
yet
they
had
the
best
part
of
it
discretion
,
or
like
Unfortunate
Gamesters
,
they
would
stake
away
their
Rest
,
and
never
Play
for
it
.
But
J
—
who
no
man
can
say
hath
been
Unactive
,
tho'
it
were
only
for
the
often
changing
of
his
Party
,
with
near
Three
thousand
Horse
and
Foot
,
went
to
encounter
a
small
Party
of
ours
,
being
but
a
handful
,
coming
from
Dublin
,
he
took
them
tired
Cap-a-pe
,
yet
they
gave
him
so
rude
a
Salute
,
for
a
Gentleman
that
came
so
far
to
meet
them
;
that
he
took
their
usage
so
much
to
heart
,
as
he
Vowed
he
would
never
be
guilty
of
the
like
Civility
agen
:
In
a
word
,
he
did
nothing
considerable
,
but
that
he
did
nothing
that
was
so
,
neither
can
I
think
any
thing
in
his
defence
,
for
his
Retreat
,
but
that
he
is
dear
to
his
Mistress
,
and
consequently
believes
she
will
value
him
the
more
,
for
taking
such
care
to
preserve
what
she
loved
.
Our
Army
being
over
the
Barro
,
and
the
Enemies
not
so
much
as
attempting
to
send
them
back
,
those
of
Inestege
believing
it
was
out
of
Complement
;
to
imitate
their
Superiours
,
quitted
to
us
that
Quarter
,
and
the
Magistrate
of
the
Town
of
Carrick
,
loth
that
any
should
transcend
him
in
Civility
,
received
Col.
R
—
into
his
Corporation
;
nay
,
though
the
Colonel
had
been
so
unkind
as
to
give
him
no
Advertisement
of
his
Visit
,
till
he
was
within
the
Walls
:
Col.
R
—
who
is
so
just
as
to
take
the
intention
for
the
Act
,
and
who
was
convinced
,
that
had
they
known
of
his
coming
,
they
would
have
been
better
provided
for
him
,
told
the
Inhabitants
,
It
was
better
as
it
was
.
The
General
by
the
benefit
of
this
place
,
Fords
over
the
River
of
Shoore
,
and
advanceth
towards
Waterford
,
but
the
Foe
not
daring
to
relieve
it
by
force
,
endeavour
it
by
Diversion
,
and
at
Noon-day
stormed
Carrick
,
but
the
Gallant
Englishman
,
that
had
the
Courage
to
take
it
,
had
also
the
Valour
to
defend
it
,
and
having
increased
the
Romish
Martyrs
by
a
Recruit
of
Three
or
Four
hundred
,
the
rest
very
wisely
concluded
there
would
be
then
no
room
for
any
more
of
them
in
the
Holy
Muster-Roll
,
and
so
adjourned
their
Martyrdom
till
a
convenienter
Opportunity
;
all
the
Honour
they
got
by
the
Attempt
,
was
that
they
durst
make
it
.
But
though
we
had
thus
happily
overcome
hitherto
all
Enemies
we
had
encountred
,
yet
one
was
soon
sent
us
that
plainly
worsted
us
,
which
was
the
Extremity
of
the
Weather
,
that
permitted
not
our
Ships
(
wherein
was
our
Bread
and
Artillery
)
to
continue
any
longer
in
the
Road
,
nor
us
in
the
Field
;
So
that
the
Second
of
this
Month
we
drew
off
from
near
Waterford
(
having
first
taken
and
garrisoned
the
Fort
of
Passage
in
the
way
to
Harbour
)
but
in
Weather
so
sad
,
that
our
marching
away
in
it
could
not
fill
the
Town
with
more
Joy
.
The
Fourth
,
the
Army
did
march
by
Dungarvan
,
which
the
day
before
had
turned
Honest
.
There
it
was
that
Lieutenant-General
Jo
—
fell
Sick
,
and
in
Seven
days
died
,
a
Loss
which
countervails
almost
all
our
Victories
,
and
which
merits
as
many
Tears
as
the
very
Clouds
have
shed
of
late
;
he
was
a
Person
of
whom
I
should
give
you
a
low
Character
,
if
I
thought
I
could
give
you
his
.
In
brief
,
he
was
a
Person
to
be
known
Negatively
,
which
was
the
way
,
the
best
Pen
chose
to
describe
the
best
place
.
The
General
having
past
the
Black-water
,
made
Yoghal
his
Head-Quarter
,
where
he
received
Intelligence
the
Eleventh
of
this
Instant
,
that
Lieutenant-General
F
—
,
intending
to
make
a
Boe-peep
War
of
it
,
had
drawn
out
of
Waterford
Two
thousand
Horse
and
Foot
,
and
was
set
down
before
the
Fort
of
Passage
;
he
therefore
immediately
Commanded
away
gallant
Col.
S
—
with
about
One
hundred
and
eighty
Horse
,
and
as
many
Foot
and
Dragoons
;
he
ordered
his
Business
so
well
,
that
he
routed
the
Teigs
,
kill'd
and
took
Six
hundred
,
without
the
loss
of
one
Man
on
our
side
:
Heaven
knowing
that
we
wanted
Men
,
as
much
as
Success
,
did
therefore
give
us
the
last
,
and
preserved
the
first
.
The
Prisoners
consisted
of
Irish
Vulsters
,
and
English-Irish
Vulsters
,
for
so
I
make
bold
to
term
the
Fuzees
,
and
if
I
be
not
mistaken
,
they
will
make
bold
to
deserve
that
Name
.
There
,
too
,
was
taken
Wo
—
,
one
who
commanded
Duncannon
,
and
who
there
pray'd
God
to
keep
him
from
the
General's
Mercy
;
I
believe
his
Pray'r
will
be
granted
,
for
he
shall
receive
his
Justice
,
for
by
the
Rules
of
Gradation
he
must
now
serve
the
Gallows
,
they
admit
but
of
three
Stories
,
nor
can
his
changes
admit
of
more
;
his
first
Masters
(
since
he
left
the
English
Service
)
were
the
Jockies
,
his
second
the
Teigs
;
now
,
if
any
can
find
a
Superlative
,
to
that
Positive
ond
Comparative
,
but
the
Gibbet
,
I
wish
that
may
not
prove
.
Mr.
Wo
—
's
Fate
.
These
Vulsters
now
taken
are
as
near
Jockies
in
condition
,
as
in
Country
,
a
People
too
,
that
hate
their
own
Country
,
as
much
as
the
Original
Covenanters
do
theirs
,
and
with
as
much
cause
:
They
are
both
like
Fountains
,
always
running
from
whence
they
Spring
;
me-thinks
't
were
not
amiss
those
Barbarians
should
be
sent
after
their
General
O.
R
—
who
died
about
a
Month
since
;
and
yet
upon
better
thoughts
that
would
prove
no
Punishment
,
for
it
would
but
confine
them
eternally
from
returning
home
;
't
were
better
make
an
Irish-Tweed
,
or
a
Pictwall
,
and
keep
them
on
the
North
side
of
it
.
The
General
having
ordered
these
Savages
to
be
convoyed
to
Cork
,
went
thither
himself
the
Fifteenth
;
and
whereas
other
Corporations
make
their
Mouth
tell
their
Joy
,
this
made
their
Looks
do
it
,
in
which
I
believe
he
saw
their
Hearts
;
I
cannot
for
the
credit
of
the
Place
,
but
let
the
World
know
,
there
was
too
a
Speech
made
by
an
old
Inhabitant
of
the
City
;
I
must
confess
I
cannot
do
him
the
right
to
relate
his
words
,
but
I
must
do
him
this
right
,
that
I
believe
they
pleas'd
the
General
well
,
for
they
made
him
laugh
heartily
.
The
Twentieth
,
the
beforementioned
Vulsters
came
to
Town
,
a
Crew
of
such
things
as
admits
not
of
any
Comparison
,
but
amongst
the
residue
of
their
Country-men
;
what
the
dull
P
—
(
who
hath
not
Wit
enough
to
be
a
Secretary
)
cast
upon
the
Army
,
might
have
been
seen
in
this
Epitomy
of
the
Enemies
,
I
mean
naked
Adamites
for
want
of
Cloathing
,
Cowardly
Quakers
,
&c.
But
yet
't
is
strange
they
are
such
docile
Creatures
,
that
upon
only
a
bare
Motion
of
the
Marshal
General
,
they
had
all
like
to
have
gone
to
Church
;
some
merry
Fellows
were
about
to
move
the
General
,
that
the
Clergy
of
this
Province
who
are
now
Reform'd
(
I
mean
not
in
their
Lives
,
but
Livings
)
should
have
this
new
Congregation
for
their
Parishioners
;
and
truly
't
were
not
amiss
,
for
it
's
thought
they
are
as
like
to
convert
them
as
any
others
:
Oh
,
would
that
Clergy
but
keep
as
far
from
Sin
,
as
they
use
to
do
from
their
Texts
,
or
as
they
are
like
to
do
from
their
Tythes
.
Some
transcendent
Losses
we
have
had
by
the
Death
of
some
of
our
bravest
Officers
cut
off
by
the
Distemper
of
the
Country
:
but
to
sweeten
this
Cup
,
we
understand
for
certain
,
that
the
Lord
President
of
Connaught
hath
taken
Colerane
by
Storm
,
and
hath
so
settled
the
Irish
and
Scotch
Garrison
in
it
,
that
they
are
never
like
to
march
out
of
it
again
.
We
hear
further
he
hath
agreed
for
the
Surrender
of
Karick-vergus
,
if
it
be
not
relieved
in
six
Weeks
time
;
and
though
some
believe
the
Garrison
have
taken
so
long
a
time
,
in
hope
of
Relief
from
their
Country
,
yet
I
believe
't
is
only
to
keep
so
long
out
of
it
.
Sir
H.
w
—
too
,
the
Nineteenth
of
this
Month
,
Landed
with
a
Regiment
of
Foot
clad
in
a
Livery
,
which
I
believe
their
Swords
will
wear
next
Spring
:
There
are
besides
several
other
Ships
come
from
the
West
,
from
Milford
,
from
Bristol
,
and
from
London
,
with
Provisions
,
Money
,
Men
,
Artillery
,
&c.
Thus
Seas
and
Winds
and
Men
,
do
all
make
Leagues
,
To
act
the
Ruine
of
the
filthy
Teagues
.
Ended
the
21th
of
Decemb
.
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at
Corke
.