CHAP. XIX. THE COMPLETE ANGLER, 315 



hence, it flieth betwixt Berks, Buckinghamshire, Mid- 

 dlesex, Surrey, Kent, and Essex, and, so, weddeth 

 himself to the Kentish Medway, in the very jaws of the 

 ocean. This glorious river feeleth the violence and 

 benefit of the sea more than any river in Europe; ebb- 

 ing and flowing, twice a day, more than sixty miles: 

 about whose banks are so many fair towns and princely 

 palaces, that a German* poet, thus, truly spake: 

 Tot Campos, fyc. 



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 Plinlimmon-hill, in Mont- 

 adopted ? " Tame (saith Leland) springeth out of the hills of Hertford- 

 *' shire, at a place called Bulbourne, a few miles from Penlye, (the house 

 " of a family of gentlemen called Verneys) it runneth from thence to 

 Cl Aylesbury, in Buckinghamshire, and to Tame, (a market town in Ox- 

 ' fordshire, whereunto it giveth the name,) then passing under Whatley- 

 " bridge, it cometh to Dorchester, and hard by joineth with Isis, or 

 " Ouse, and from that place joineth with it in name also." Dictionarium 

 Topographitum voce THAMF.. 



Unfortunately, Leland's manuscript, has lost twenty-five leaves, in 

 that part of it where one might expect to find this passage. But the fol- 

 lowing extract, from an author of great authority, and who had a seat 

 in the county of Hertford, will determine the question. 



u The Thome- (the most famous river of England) issues from three 

 * heads, in the parish of Tring; the first rises in an orchard, near the 

 < parsonage-house; the second in a place called Dundell; and the other 

 ** proceeds from a spring, named Bulbourne, which last stream joins the 

 other waters, at a place called New-mill: whence all, gliding together 

 " in one current through Puttenham in this county, pass by Aylesbury (a 

 c fair market-town in Buckinghamshire) to Etherop ; (an ancient plea- 

 * sant seat of that noble family of the Dormers, earls of Caernarvon ;) 

 " and, crossing that county by Netley-abbey, to Thame, (a market-town 

 *' in Oxfordshire, which borrows its name from this river,) hasteneth 

 " away by Whately-b ridge to Dorchester, (an ancient episcopal seat,) 

 * and thence congratulates the Isis ; but both emulating each other for 

 " the name, and neither yielding, they are complicated by that of Tba- 

 f f misis" Sir Henry Chauncy's Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire, p. 2. 

 See also the later Maps, of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. 



* Who this German poet was I cannot find ; but the verses, in the 

 priginal Latin, are in Heylin's Cosmography , page 24O, and are as follow ; 



Tot Campos^ sylvat, tot regia tecta^ tot bortos t 



Artifci excultos dextra, tot vidimus arces ; 



Ut mtfif Ausonip, Thamisis, turn Tibride ccrtet* 



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