Though spitfull dartes which thei do beare importe iniquitie.
Their Shirts be verie straunge, not reachyng paste the thie:
With pleates on pleates thei pleated are, as thicke as pleates maie lye.
Whose sleues hang trailing doune almoste unto the Shoe:
And with a Mantell commonilie, the Irishe Karne doe goe.
Now some emongest the reste, doe use an other weede:
A coate I meane of strange device, whiche fancie first did breede.
His skirtes be verie shorte, with pleates set thicke about,
And Irishe trouzes more to put their straunge protractours out.[24]
Sir Walter Scott, writing of the verse, makes this comment:—