32/33 He affected some decent poetry just before he was hanged, and therefore the Saints took up his memory and wrote monodies on him. His piety and the composition of the lies in this book broke out at the same time. H.C.' [30] Although Captain Borrow was never as ignorant as one or two of Borrow's biographers, who call the Irish language 'Erse.' [31] _The Bible in Spain_, ch. xx. Johnson, as reported by Boswell, says: '_I have long wished that the Irish literature were cultivated. |