The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1865-02-24
The Poet spenser and his Descendants
II Ireland.
CHAPTER /.

" ben Jarrett, the Great Ear OF Des
mond, was run to death by the Norarties
of Kerry Che blood hounds OF T" Black
Thomas" Earl Of OFmonde aud Ossory)
and when Gare,;'s head, properly "pichied
and placed in pip@in, . had been sent as
a dainty dish to the queen, the v hole Of
the Desmond estates in the counties Of
Cork, Kerry. Limerick and Waterford,
were parceiied out among i number of
! English adventures, called Undertake
ets," inasmuch as they undertook TO plant
and colonize property, which at this time
Was waa'e and almost without inhabitants
The soldier Kerry, who came down IN
on the Old carl in hut, and cut off his
head and sent it to the Black Easl got his
! portion. The Queen, in letter dated
December Is, 1886, ordered that her
- weIl-beloved subject and soldier, Daniel
/ Kelly, who slew tie late traitor Desmond,
/ for his good services therein, should have,
at least for thirty years, wl;hoEt fine, so
much Of Ter lands, spiritual or temporal,
as should amount TO 30l. sterling Per an
num.' Ormonde (who writes 10 Walsing-
ham, 81 do send her Highness, by this
bearer, the principa! traitor Desmond's
bead y received large increase TO his
/ inheritance, as sbe result of the outlawry
and death OF his step-faIher Garrett; for
these two earls stood to each other in the
relation Of ssepfather and step son, Des-
mond having married Ormonde's mother
Among the names Of the "Undertak-
ers" who received loyal grants CT the
Earl OF Desmond's forfeited estates, we
meet those Of Sir Walter Raleigh, and
the poet Edmund Spenser, who went TO
Ireland together, in 1880, in the train OF
abe Lord deputy Grey; the former in the
capacity Of captaic, who had no: won
his spurs" Captain Raleigh" as lie was
then called ard the latter in that Of pri
va'e secretary TO the Deputy, whom he 50
ridiculously lauds il the " faerie Queer"
as the sgseat "Ialos Of the Iron Fail, .
the instrument with which be " thrashed
the Irish.
tbs poets grant of the forfeited estates
consisted Of three thousand acres of rich
land in the county of Cork, lying between
the towns of DoneraiIe and Hut;evaEt
IN the middle Of tits estate stood The cas-
tie Of kilcolman, where be wrote his
View Of the State Of IreIand,' the
. Faerie Qucene," aud 1" Coin Clout come
home agane." This last is intended &c
celebrate his return to kilcoman after hi,
visit to London, where he had gone tc
have his great work published.
Bu: VIVA. Of Sponsors 5000 acres o
rich land in the County Cork, and kilcol
man castle He was burned out Of III.
castle OF Ki,coIinan, in the rising under
the late Earl of Desmond in 1895, hi,
youngest child persisted IN the flames
Tho .ri.h had no cause to love the poet
lie loved their lands, their riyers, and theiI
mountains far mole than be loved them
selves. lie made beautiful poetry respect
ing tia former, Of " Father Mole" anc
Bregos hight" and Lily rolling doaI
the Ies," and pheasant Boyne," arr
" tisay fruitful Ban and " Bsndon crown
ed with many wood" and "spreadir&
+ Lee, that like sn island fayre erclo:etl
Cofke with his divided food y but lie re
commended the determination OF the in
habitants. Had Sponser only written poe
try, or had he never written his = View 0
> the State Of Ire'anG,' lis memory an,
! genius would have been as much reyeret
!. il that country as are The memory all,
: genius Of the poet Moore. SpanFef, il
his View" recommended, that in orde
, TO complete the rs-conquest Of Ireland
Carried on during the reign Of Elizabeth,
! the few inhSbitaLts Who remained shouh
be driyen into the woods and increases
and lett there to s!arYe. We are happ
20 say for tie poets sake, that this pee
{ Of internal state policy has not the mer:
! Of being oTigifal. The idea was btoaohe
r By enc Travers, Of the artillery, in stat
paper, about fifty years before Spense
wrote his : View Of the State Of Ireland.
! | think Captain Trayerb married siste
, Of Spenser, We doubt that the poet
mind was capable Of originating, at laas
. in prose, anything go tiend like or ghouI
+. ish 1t is ~ith unmingIed regret we quot
!, tie following passage :
n Tie enc will, | assure me, be yer
r short and much sooner than can be in S
great a trouble as, it seeneth, hoped fol
t Although there should none Of them ia
l. " tHG s"oiI, Ut DC cIdiu ny Tue SCiuIcl
n yet, thus being kept from manurance, an
!. thar cattle from running abroad, by til
e hard restraint, they would quickly con
q same themselves, and devour enc anotL
err
Sponsor offers this advice for geners
:. adoption, afler having Witnessed the star,
# ing ont process in Munster -
n The proof whereof | saw sufficient
5 exampled in those wars of Munster, fc
q notwithstanding that The same was mo'
rich and plentiful country, full Of corn al
j cattle, that you would have thought the
q weuId have been able to stand long, y
}. ere one year and half thew were broug(
. to such wretchedness as that any ston
a hedrt c0uld hare rucd tie scme. Out
d every corner Of the woods and g!ens the
,e came creeping forth upon their hands, fc
j. their legs could no. bear them and the
looked like anatomies of death they spob
d like ghosts crying out OF .heir graves
and if they found plot of wafer crosse
or shamrocks, there they flocked as TO
feast. for the time
y, How any man could describe state
things which. he says, a "stony hes
7 would have rued in order to show ho
the taing could be done again, Is marve
Gus. The cts heart must have been