With Essex in Ireland;being Extracts From a Diary Kept in Ireland During the Year 1599
With Essex in Ireland;being Extracts From a Diary Kept in Ireland During the Year 1599
Lawless Emily
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I wonder what would they have?' cried he. * Do they wish me to cut up my own body into pieces for them ? Can I — that am but one man, and a subject to boot — carve out king- doms, lordships, counties, large and fertile estates and properties, and all that such a crew of leeches may batten and grow fat upon them at their pleasure? Have the gluttons never bethought them that they are men, and must die therefore, Digitized by VjOOQIC WITH ESSEX IN IRELAND 213 like their betters ? 'Fore God ! one w...ould almost believe that they alone were to cheat Sir Worm, and batten till the day of Doom upon the lands of other, and perchance not so very much worse men ! Not a parcel of land, not a patch of bog, not so much as a paltry sheep-walk going in this country but fifty of these land-beggars, who would else- where be earning their own livelihood, clamour after it, yelping and hoiting like a pack of hounds, or like those many-legged vermin the caterpillar- worms, that thirst to get hold of some goodly garment, though when they have it they use it for no better purpose but to stuff out their own hollow insides with it/ ' Faith, my Lord,' I answered on that occasion, ' I remember to have heard it said, or seen it writ somewhere, that no roaring lion is so savage or clamorous as an hungry office-seeker or petitioner when he is baulked of his prey.' * A lion, Hal !
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