. The life and letters of the great Earl of Cork. was so sudden and unexpected that it cannotbe wondered that he devoutly believed that Providence hadindeed taken him by the hand. Not one misfortune had hesustained that had not really worked for his good. If he hadsucceeded at the Temple, he would have lived the life of anordinary London lawyer, but his failure sent him to Ireland :there he might have settled down as a comfortable countrygentleman but for the rebellion that drove him to England ;and in England he might have been forgotten but for the FORTUNE MY FOE 17 persecution of his enemie
. The life and letters of the great Earl of Cork. was so sudden and unexpected that it cannotbe wondered that he devoutly believed that Providence hadindeed taken him by the hand. Not one misfortune had hesustained that had not really worked for his good. If he hadsucceeded at the Temple, he would have lived the life of anordinary London lawyer, but his failure sent him to Ireland :there he might have settled down as a comfortable countrygentleman but for the rebellion that drove him to England ;and in England he might have been forgotten but for the FORTUNE MY FOE 17 persecution of his enemies obliging him to appeal to theQueen. Even the imprisonment that prevented him followingEssex to Ireland also prevented his sharing Essexs fall, andkept him in England till he could begin his new career underthe patronage of a much safer friend than Essex, the wiseand valiant George Carew, a courtier who knew how to keepthe Queens favour to the day of her death, and a soldierwhose stubborn courage wearied out even the spirits of B CHAPTER II «PACATA HIBERNIA 1599—^^°^ * Were now the general of our gracious Empress(As in good time he may) from Ireland comingBringing rebellion broached on his sword . . Henry V., Act v. When Boyle landed In Kerry as Clerk to the MunsterCouncil, he was no richer in coined money than when hefled to England at the outbreak of the rebellion. But he hadarrived in England as a fugitive, a ruined landowner, and aprisoner who had broken bail; he returned to Ireland buoyedup by the hopes and ambitions of the men who were resolvedto create a new Munster. The history of the way in whichthey pacified Ireland was told by Carew himself in his FacataHibernia} and although there are but two allusions to Boyleby name in that brilliant narrative, it makes us realise, as noother book but the Faery ^een can do, in what sort of timesBoyle lived, what manner of men were his comrades, andunder what teacher he learned the art of government. This Mun
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