236 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [part i. 



We saiv 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 Plinilimmon-Hill in Mont- 

 gomeryshire, 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 Staffordshire, and 

 gliding through the counties of Nottingham, Lin- 

 coln, 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 ra- 

 ther the mouth, or cestuarium, of divers rivers here 

 confluent and meeting together ; namely, your Der- 

 went, and especially of Ouse and Trent : and (as the 

 Danow, having received into its channel the rivers 

 Dravus, Savus, Tibiscus, and divers others) changeth 

 his name into this of Humberabus, as the old geo- 

 graphers call it. 



4. Med way, 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. 



