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Tot campos, etc. 



We saw so many woods and princely bowers, 

 Sweet fields, brave palaces, and stately towers, 

 So many gardens dress'd with curious care, 

 That Thames with royal Tiber may compare. 



2. The second river of note is Sabrina, or Severn ; it 

 hath its beginning in Plynlimmon Hill, in Montgomery- 

 shire, and his end seven miles from Bristol, washing, in 

 the mean space, the walls of Shrewsbury, Worcester, and 

 Gloucester, and divers other places and palaces of 

 note. 



3. Trent, so called from thirty kind of fishes * that 

 are found in it, or for that it receiveth thirty lesser rivers ; 

 who, having its fountain in Staffordshire, and gliding 

 through the counties of Nottingham, Lincoln, Leicester, 

 and York, augmenteth the turbulent current of Humber, 

 the most violent stream of all the isle. This Humber is 

 not, to say truth, a distinct river, having a spring-head of 

 his own, but it is rather the mouth or sestuarium of divers 

 rivers here confluent, and meeting together, namely, your 

 Derwent, and especially of Ouse and Trent ; and (as the 

 Danow, having received into its channel the River Dravus, 

 Savus, Tibiscus, and divers others) change th his name into 

 this of Humberabus, as the old geographers call it. 



4. Medway, a Kentish river, famous for harbouring the 

 royal navy. 



5. Tweed, the north-east bound of England ; on whose 

 northern banks is seated the strong and impregnable town 

 of Berwick. 



6. Tyne, famous for Newcastle, and her inexhaustible 

 coal-pits. These, and the rest of principal note, are thus 

 compreHUjfided in one of Mr. Drayton's sonnets. 



* Some say because it has thirty (trente) tributaries. It is more 

 likely that the Trent had that number of streams, great and small, 

 running into it, than that it ever produced thirty different varieties 

 of fish. E. 

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