—The bestbankever yet known is a bank of earth; it never refuses to discount to honest labour; and the bestshareis the plough-share, on which dividends are always liberal.
—Nowe that Ireland doth give birthe to strange sortes of men, whose too greate quicknesse of thoughte doth impeede theyre judgmente, this storye whiche I have heard, will shewe. A wealthie lord of the countie of Corke there had a goodlie faire house new-built, but the broken brickes, tiles, sande, lime, stones, and such rubbish, as are commonlie the remnantes of such buildinges, lay confusedlie in heapes, ande scattered here ande there; the lord therefore demanded of his surveyor, wherefore the rubbish was not conveyed awaie; the surveyor said, that hee proposed to hyre an hundred carts for the purpose. The lord replied, that the charge of carts might be saved, for a pit might be digged in the grounde, and soe burie it. “Then, my lord,” said the surveyor, “I pray you what will wee doe with the earth which wee digge out of the said pitt?” “Why, you coxcombe,” said the lord, “canst thou not digge the pitt deepe enough to hold rubbish and all together?”—From the works of Taylor, the Water Poet.
—Carolan never prostituted his muse to party politics or religious bigotry, though attachment to the ancient faith and families of Ireland was the ruling principle of his heart; yet he could discern the virtues and celebrate the praises of those who dissented from the one, or claimed no connection with the other.—Hardiman’s Irish Minstrelsy.
—The well-known author of “British Worthies” wrote his own epitaph, as it appears in Westminster Abbey. It consists of onlyfourwords, but it speaks volumes, namely, “Here lies Fuller’s earth.”
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TRANSCRIBERS’ NOTESGeneral: Corrections to punctuation have not been individually notedPages 22-23: Position of apostrophes in contractions such as could’nt as in the originalPage 24: Releiving corrected to Relieving in titlePage 24: In An Irish Bull of 1630, spelling as in the original
General: Corrections to punctuation have not been individually noted
Pages 22-23: Position of apostrophes in contractions such as could’nt as in the original
Page 24: Releiving corrected to Relieving in title
Page 24: In An Irish Bull of 1630, spelling as in the original