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" And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground. "
Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh - Página 302
por James Stuart - 1819 - 651 páginas
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Nordirland in Geschichte und Gegenwart

Jürgen Elvert - 1994 - 598 páginas
...travel-writer Fynes Moryson who was acting as Lord Deputy Mountjoy's private secretary echo those of Spenser: „no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of...all coloured green by eating nettles, docks and all things they could rend from the ground". It must be admitted that the Irish lords deployed similar...
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Elizabethan and Jacobean Journals, 1591-1610

George Bagshawe Harrison - 1999 - 436 páginas
...towns and especially in the wasted counties no spectacle is more frequent than to see multitudes of poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above ground. 9/A March. FEARS AT COURT. From Court the news is the Queen much...
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Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland: English Renaissance ...

Patricia Palmer, Patricia Ann Palmer - 2001 - 280 páginas
...After Kinsale, we are confronted in a terribly literal way with spectacle and starkly silent mouths: no Spectacle was more frequent in the Ditches of Towns,...all coloured green by eating Nettles, Docks, and all things they could render up above Ground. (Moryson, History n, p. 284; my emphasis) In the contest...
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Feast and Famine: Food and Nutrition in Ireland 1500-1920

Leslie Clarkson, Margaret Crawford - 2001 - 338 páginas
...no spectacle was more frequent in the Ditches of Townes, and especiallie in wasted Countries, then to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured greene by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground. These and very many...
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The Shape of Irish History

Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart - 2001 - 232 páginas
...after the Desmond Rebellion when 'multitudes lay dead in the ditches of towns and other waste places, with their mouths all coloured green, by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above ground'. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping...
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Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters as translated into English by Owen ...

Michael O'Clery - 2003 - 398 páginas
...direful hunger, devoured some young children. He relates many other dreadful cases of famine, and says, " And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches...all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground." Mountjoy, in a letter to the lords of the council in England,...
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The Four Nations: A History of the United Kingdom

Frank Welsh - 2003 - 546 páginas
...children; in Dungannon children roasted the body of their dead mother: 'no spectacle was more frequent than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with...all coloured green by eating Nettles, Docks and all things they could rend above ground'. It could be claimed that peace in the new kingdom of Ireland...
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Overland Monthly

1895 - 818 páginas
...Towns, and especially in the wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people, the Irish, dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above the ground.1 The proceedings of the English leaders in the three provinces...
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