Came and rested without fear;
The eagle, lord of land and sea,
Stooped down to pay him fealty.

. . . . .

_He knew the rocks which angels haunt
Upon the mountains visitant;
He hath kenned them taking wing;
And into caves where Faeries sing
He hath entered; and been told
By voices how men lived of old._

Here now and then he was visited, it may be
supposed, by old friends. Perhaps that distinguished
son of the University of Cambridge, Gabriel Harvey, may
for a while have been his guest; he is introduced under
his pastoral name of Hobbinol, as present at the poet's
house on his return to Ireland. The most memorable of
these visits was that already alluded to--that paid to
him in 1589 by Sir Walter Raleigh, with whom it will be
remembered he had become acquainted some nine years
before. Raleigh, too, had received a grant from the
same huge forfeited estate, a fragment of which had
been given to Spenser. The granting of these, and
other shares of the Desmond estates, formed part of a
policy then vigorously entertained by the English
Government--the colonising of the so lately disordered
and still restless districts of Southern Ireland. The
recipients were termed 'undertakers;' it was one of