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The Land-War In Ireland (1870)

CHAPTER I
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Their common oath they swear is by books, bells, and other ornaments which they do use as holy religion.

Their chief and solemnest oath is by their lord or master's hand, which whoso forsweareth is sure to pay a fine or sustain a worse turn.

The Sabbath-day they rest from all honest exercises, and the week days they are not idle, but worse occupied.
They do not honour their father and mother as much as they do reverence strangers.

For every murder that they commit they do not so soon repent, for whose blood they once shed, they lightly never cease killing all that name.

They do not so commonly commit adultery; not for that they profess or keep chastity, but for that they seldom or never marry, and therefore few of them are lawful heirs, by the law of the realm, to the lands they possess.


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