Transactions of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society, Bind 2

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Side 243 - ... with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom. So, till the judgment that yourself arise, You live in this, and dwell in lovers
Side 328 - I have been told by some old people, who in their younger years were eyewitnesses of these pageants so acted, that the yearly confluence of people to see that shew was extraordinary great, and yielded no small advantage to this city.
Side 327 - A Tragedye or enterlude manyfestyng the chefe promyses of God unto man by all ages in the olde lawe, from the fall of Adam to the incarnacyon of the lorde Jesus Christ.
Side 164 - For it cost more to redeem their souls : so that he must let that alone for ever; 9 Yea, though he live long : and see not the grave.
Side 127 - Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, , The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
Side 243 - Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth : your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity, That wear this world out to the ending doom. So, till the judgment .that yourself arise. You live in this, and dwell in lovers
Side 139 - TRAFfiques and Discoueries of the English Nation, made by Sea or ouer-land, to the South and South-east parts of the World, at any time within the compasse of these 1600. yeres: Diuided into two seuerall parts: Whereof the first containeth the personall trauels, &c.
Side 157 - Before the restauration of King Charles II. and during the common-wealth and WEL. Cromwell's government, no money was coined for the particular use of Ireland ; J648-9. hut divers persons in Dublin and other places in this kingdom, in order to supply the great scarcity of small change, coined copper tokens, with their names and places of abode stamped on them, whereby they obliged themselves to make them good.
Side 84 - He had a daughter fresh as floure of May, Which gave that name unto that pleasant vale; Mulla, the daughter of old Mole, so hight The Nimph, which of that water course has charge, That, springing out of Mole, doth run downe right To Buttevant, where, spreading forth at large, It giveth name unto that auncient Cittie, Which Kilnemullah cleped is of old; Whose ragged mines breed great ruth and pittie To travailers, which it from far behold.
Side 141 - England) for two, shillings or five groates a piece, good pigges and hennes for 3. pence a piece. The greatest want is industrious, painefull, and husbandly inhabitants to till and trimme the ground : for the common sort, if they can provide sufficient to serve from hand to mouth, take no further care. Of money (as it seemeth) there is very small store amongst them, which perhaps was the cause that made them double and triple the prizes of many things we bought of them, more then they were before...

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