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banks are so many fair towns and princely palaces, 

 that a German poet thus truly spake : 



Tot campos, 6r. 



We saw so many woods and princely bowers, 

 Sweet fields, brave palaces, and stately towers ; . ' 

 So many gardens drest 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 Plinilimmon-hill, 

 in Montgomeryshire ; 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 his fountain in Stafford- 

 shire, and gliding through the counties of Notting- 

 ham, 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 cestuarium 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, changeth his name into this of Hum- 

 berabus^ as the old geographers call it. 



4. MEDWAY, a Kentish river, famous for harbour- 

 ing the royal navy. 



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

 whose northern banks is seated the strong and im- 

 pregnable town of Berwick. 



6. TYNE, famous for Newcastle, and her inex- 

 haustible coal-pits. These, and the rest of principal 

 note, are thus comprehended in one of Mr. Dray- 

 ton's Sonnets: 



