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NOTES TO CANTO THIRD.
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described with some spirit; the burning of houses, driving off cattle, and all pertaining to such predatory inroads, is illustrated by a rude cut. The defeat of the Irish, by a party of English soldiers from the next garrison, is then commemorated, and in like manner adorned with an engraving, in which the friar is exhibited mourning over the slain chieftain; or, as the rubric expresses it,
The friar then, that treacherous knave, with ough ough-hone lament.
To see his cousin Devill's-son to have so foul event.
To see his cousin Devill's-son to have so foul event.
The matter is handled at great length in the text, of which the following verses are more than sufficient sample:—
The frier seying this,
lamentes that lucklesse parte,
And curseth to the pitte of hell
the death man's sturdie harte:
Yet for to quight them with
the frier taketh paine,
For all the synnes that ere he did
remission to obtaine.
And therefore swerves his booke,
the candell and the bell;
But thinke you that suche apishe toies
bring damned souls from hell?
It 'longs not to my parte
infernall things to knowe;
BI beleve till later daie,
thei rise not from belowe.
Yet hope that friers give
to this rebellious rout,
If that their soules should chaunce in hell,
to bring them quicklie out,
lamentes that lucklesse parte,
And curseth to the pitte of hell
the death man's sturdie harte:
Yet for to quight them with
the frier taketh paine,
For all the synnes that ere he did
remission to obtaine.
And therefore swerves his booke,
the candell and the bell;
But thinke you that suche apishe toies
bring damned souls from hell?
It 'longs not to my parte
infernall things to knowe;
BI beleve till later daie,
thei rise not from belowe.
Yet hope that friers give
to this rebellious rout,
If that their soules should chaunce in hell,
to bring them quicklie out,
