The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, with memoir of the author.

ROKEBY. 315
To see a bride of heavenlie hewe
an ouglie fere to chuse.
This bride it is the soile,
the bridegroorne is the karne.
With writhed glibbes, like wicked sprits,
with visage rough and stearne;
With sculles upon their poalles,
instead of civill cappes;
With speares in hand, and swordes besydes,
to beare off after clappes;
With jackettes long and large,
which shroud simplicitie,
Though spitfull dartes which they do beare
importe iniquitie.
Their shirtes be very strange,
not reaching past the thie;
With pleates on pleates thei pleated are
as thick as pleates may lye.
Whose sleaves hang trailing doune
almost unto the shoe;
And with a mantell commonlie
the-Irish karne do goe.
Now some amongst the reste
doe use another weede;
A coate I meane, of strange devise,
which fancy first did breade.
His skirts be very shorte,
with pleates set thick about,
And Irish trouzes moe to put
their strange protactours out."
DERRICIK'S _mage of Ireland, apud SOMERS' Tracts.
Edin. 1809, 4to, vol. i. p. 585.
Some curious wooden engravings accompany this
poem, from which it would seem, that the ancient
Irish dress was (the bonnet excepted) very similar to
that of the Scottish Highlanders. The want of a