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to have happened but a fhort time after- 

 wards, he immediately divorced Guendo- 

 lena, and acknowledged Eflyllt for his 

 queen. When he died, Guendolena af- 

 fumed the government, and with unrelent- 

 ing cruelty, caufed EfTylt and a daughter, 

 called Alwsn, which me had borne to 

 Locrinus, to be thrown into the river and 

 drowned : from this circumftance it is fup- 

 pofed to have aflumed the name of Abrjen, 

 which afterwards, with a flight alteration, 

 became Sabrina, and then Severn.* 



Of this ftory, Milton,-)- who has made 

 Abren or Sabrina, the goddefs of chaftity, 



* This event is faid to have taken place above 

 I coo years before the birth of Chrift. Sec Geoffry 

 ap Arthur, or Jeffry of Monmouth's Hiftory of 

 Britain, in the Cambrian Regifter, II. p, 26, 29. 

 And after him Matt. Weftm. p. 20. Speed's Maps, 

 c. X. fol. 115. And Whitelock's Memorials from 

 Brutus, p. 2 



t In his Maique of Comus. 



has 



