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 144 CAMPION'S H1STORIE Sir lames Butler,* whose grandsire was lames sur- named the chast, for that of all vices hee most abhorred the sinne of the flesh, and in subduing of the same gave notable example. In the red Moore of Athye (the sun almost lodged in the West, and miraculously standing still in his epicycle the space of three houres till the feat was accomplished, and no pit in that bogge annoying either horse or man on his part) he van- quished Omore and his terrible Army with a few of his owne, and with the like number Arthur Mac Afur- rough, at whose might and puissance, all Leinster trembled. g To the imitation of this mans worthinesse, the compiler of certaine precepts touching the rule of a Common-wealth, exciteth his Lord the said Earle in diverse places of that Worke h incidently, eftsoones putting him in minde that the Irish beene false by kinde, that it were expedient, and a vvorke of Charity to execute upon them (willfull and malicious transgres- sours) the Kings Lawes somewhat sharpely, ir That Odempsye being winked at a while, abused that small time of sufferance, to the injury of the Earle of Kil- dare, intruding unjustly upon the Castle of Ley, from whence the said Deputy had justly expelled him, and put the Earle in possession thereof, that notwithstand- ing their oathes and pledges, yet they are no longer true then they feele themselves the weaker. This Deputye tamed the Obriens^ the JBurckes, { 1421. * In the translation of Cambrensis c. 57. b Prec. of government, c.27. ' ca. 28. k ca. 43.