Note 7 — PREFACE.
Reading edition
The English reader is not to suppose that these blanc-mangers of the poor Irish were such as are to be had at the Verys or Beauvilliers. The Irish white meates were curds and whey, the only provisions which men whose lives were “in wandering spent and care” could obtain. The Irish then lived like Arabs, a prey of cattle being the subject of their fiercest contests.