With shrill and jocund shouts, th' unmeasur'd

deeps awake,

And let the gods of sea their secret bow'rs forsake, Whilst our industrious Muse great Britain forth shall bring, [the spring; Grown'd with those glorious wreaths that beautify And whilst green Thetis' nymphs, with many an amorous lay

Sing our invention safe unto her long wish'd bay." Upon the utmost end of Cornwal's furrowing beak, Where Bresan from the land the tilting waves doth break;

The shore let her transcend, the promont' to descry, And view about the point th' unnumber'd fowl that fly;

Some rising like a storm from off the troubled sand, Seem in their hov'ring flight to shadow all the land; Some sitting on the beach to prune their painted breasts,

As if both earth and air they only did possess ; Whence climbing to the cliffs, herself she firmly sets The bourns, the brooks, the becks, the rills, the Exactly to derive; receiving in her way [rivulets, That streight'ned tongue of land, where at Mount Michael's bay,

Rude Neptune cutting in, a cantle forth doth take; And on the other side, Hayle's vaster mouth doth make

A chersonese 10 thereof, the corner clipping in ; Where to th' industrious Muse the Mount doth thus begin: [shore, "Before thou further pass, and leave this setting . Whose towns unto the saints that lived here of yore [shames) (Their fasting, works and pray'rs, remaining to our Were rear'd, and justly call'd by their peculiar [have, The builders' honour still; this due and let them As deign to drop a tear upon each holy grave; Whose charity and zeal, instead of knowledge stood:

names,

[good.

For surely in themselves they were right simply
If eredalous too much, thereby th' offended heaven,
In their devout intents yet be their sins forgiven."
Then from his rugged top the tears down trickling
And in his passion stirr'd, again began to tell [fell;
Strange things, that in his days time's course had.
brought to pass :
[was;
That forty miles now sea, so.netimes firm fore-land
And that a forest then, which now with him is flood,
§. Whereof he first was call'd the Hoar-rock in the
wood;

Relating then how long the soil had laid forlorn,
As that her genius now had almost her forsworn,
And of their ancient love did utterly repent,
Sith to destroy herself that fatal tool she lent,
To which th' insatiate slave her entrails out doth
draw,

That thrusts his gripple hand into her golden maw;
And for his part doth wish, that it were in his
To let the ocean in, her wholly to devour. [pow'r
Which Hayle doth overhear, and much doth
blame his rage,

And told him (to his teeth) he doated with his age. For Hayle (a lusty nymph, bent all to amorous play,

And having quick recourse into the Severn sea,

A small island upon the very point of Cornwal. A hill lying out as an elbow of land into the sea!

With Neptune's pages oft disporting in the deep; One never touch'd with care, but how herself to keep

In excellent estate) doth thus again entreat; §." Muse, leave the wayward Mount to his distemper'd heat, [of spite, Who nothing can produce but what doth taste I'll show thee things of ours most worthy thy delight. [stand, Behold our diamonds here, as in the quarrs they By nature neatly cut, as by a skilful hand, Who varieth them in forms, both curiously and oft; Which for she (wanting power) produceth them too soft,

That virtue which she could not liberally impart, She striveth to amend by her own proper art. Besides the sea-holm here, that spreadeth all our shore,

The sick-consuming man so powerful to restore, Whose root th' eringo is, the reins that doth inSo strongly to perform the Cytherean game, [flame That generally approv'd both far and near is sought; [thought

§. And our main-amber here, and burien trophy, Much wrong'd, nor yet preferr'd for wonders with the rest."

But the laborious Muse, upon her journey prest, Thus uttereth to herself; "To guide my course aright,

What mound or steddy mere is offered to my sight Upon this outstretch'd arm, whilst sailing here at ease, Betwixt the southern waste, and the Sabrinian seas, I view those wanton brooks, that waxing still do [again; That scarcely can conceive, but brought to bed Scarce rising from the spring (that is their natural mother)

wane ;

meets

Great Neptune when he swells, and rageth at the (Set out into those seas) enforcing through his shocks

Those arms of sea that thrust into the tinny strand, By their meand’red creeks indenting of that land, Whose fame by every tongue is for her minerals hurl'd,

Near from the mid-day's point throughout the western world.

10 A place almost surrounded by the sea.

Here Vale a lively flood, her nobler name that gives To Falmouth"; and by whom, it famous ever lives,

Whose entrance is from sea so intricately wound, Her haven angled so about her harb'rous sound, That in ber quiet bay a hundred ships may ride, Yet not the tallest mast be of the tall'st descry'd; Her bravery to this nymph when neighbouring rivers told,

Her mind to them again she briefly doth unfold: "Let Camel 12 of her course and curious windings boast, [coast In that her greatness reigns sole mistress of that Twixt Tamer and that bay, where Hayle pours forth her pride;

And let us (nobler nymphs) upon the mid-day side Be frolic with the best. Thou Foy, before us all, By thine own named town made famous in thy fall, As low amongst us here, a most delicious brook, With all our sister nymphs, that to the noonsted look,

Which gliding from the hills upon the tinny ore, Betwixt your high-rear'd banks, resort to this our shore; [less Lov'd streams, let us exult, and think ourselves no Than those upon their side, the setting that possess." Which Camel over-heard: but what doth she respect [neglect? Their taunts, her proper course that loosely doth As frantic, ever since her British Arthur's blood, By Mordred's murtherous hand was mingled with her flood. [breath, For as that river best might boast that conqueror's So sadly she bemoans his too untimely death; Who after twelve proud fields against the Saxon fought,

Yet back unto her banks by fate was lastly brought: As though no other place on Britain's spacious earth Were worthy of his end, but where he had his birth: And careless ever since how she her course doth steer,

[there:

This mutt'reth to herself, in wand'ring here and "Even in the aged'st face, where beauty once did dwell,

And nature (in the least) but seemed to excel, Time cannot make such waste, but something will appear,

To show some little tract of delicacy there,
Or some religious work, in building many a day,
That this penurious age hath suffer'd to decay;
Some limb or model dragg'd out of the ruinous
mass,

The richness will declare in glory whilst it was : But time upon my waste committed hath such theft,

That it of Arthur here scarce memory hath left." The nine-ston'd trophy thus whilst she doth entertain,

Proud Tamer swoops along with such a lusty train, As fits so brave a flood, two countries that divides: So to increase her strength, she from her equal sides [kind, Receives their several rills; and of the Cornish First taketh Atre in; and her not much behind Comes Kensey: after whom, clear Enjan in doth make,

[take.

In Tamer's roomthier banks their rest that scarcely

11 The bravery of Falmouth haven. 12 This is also called Alan.

Then Lyner, tho' the while aloof she seem'd to keep, [ful deep,

Her sovereign when she sees t' approach the surge-
To beautify her fall, her plenteous tribute brings;
This honours Tamer much, that she whose plente-
ous springs

Those proud aspiring hills, Bromwelly and his friend
High Rowter, from their tops impartially commend,
And is by Carew's 13 Muse the river most renown'd,
Associate should her grace to the Devonian ground,
Which in those other brooks doth emulation breed,
Of which, first Car comes crown'd with osier, segs
and reed:
[throws
Then Lid creeps on along, and taking Thrushel,
Herself amongst the rocks; and so incavern'd goes,
That of the blessed light (from other floods) debarr'd,
To bellow underneath she only can be heard,
As those that view her tract, seems strangely to
affright:

[right So Toovy straineth in; and Plym, that claims by The christning of that bay, which bears her nobler

name.

Upon the British coast 14 what ship yet ever came, That not of Plymouth hears, where those brave navies lie, [defy? From cannons' thund'ring throats that all the world Which to invasive spoil, when th' English list to draw, [awe: Have check'd Iberia's pride, and held her oft in Oft furnishing our dames with India's rar'st devices, And lent us gold, and pearl, rich silks, and dainty spices.

But Tamer takes the place, and all attend her here, A faithful bound to both; and two that be so near For likeliness of soil, and quantity they hold, Before the Roman came; whose people were of old §. Known by one general name, upon this point that dwell,

All other of this isle in wrestling that excel : With collars be they yok'd, to prove the aim at length, [strength; Like bulls set head to head, with meer deliver Or by the girdles grasp'd, they practise with the hip, [the trip's,

The forward, backward, falx, the mar, the turn, When stript into their shirts, each other they invade

Within a spacious ring, by the beholders made, According to the law. Or when the ball to throw, And drive it to the goal, in squadrons forth they go; And to avoid the troops their forces that forelay, Through dikes and rivers make, in this robustious

play;

16

By which the toils of war most lively are exprest. But Muse, may I demand, why these of all the rest, [strong? (As mighty Albion's eld'st) most active are and From Corin came it first, or from the use so long? §. Or that this foreland lies farth'st out into his sight, [light? Which spreads his vigorous flames on every lesser With th' virtue of his beams, this place that doth inspire, [fire, Whose pregnant womb prepar'd by his all pow'rful

13 A worthy gentleman, who wrote the description of Cornwal.

14 The praise of Plymouth.

15 Terms of art in wrestling.

16 Our first great wrestler, arriving here with Brute.

were,

And gath'ring young and old that rightly Trojan [strong: Up to the mountains march, thro' straits and forests Where taking in the towns pretended to belong Unto that Grecian lord 17, some forces there they put: [shut, Within whose safer walls their wives and children Into the fields they drew, for liberty to stand. "Which when Pandrasus heard, he sent his strict command

To levy all the power he presently could make: So to their strengths of war the Trojans them be. take. [or where "But whilst the Grecian guides (not knowing how The Teucrians were entrench'd, or what their forces were)

In foul disorder'd troops yet straggled, as secure, This looseness to their spoil the Trojans did allure, Who fiercely them assail'd: where stanchless fury rap'd

The Grecians in so fast, that scarcely one escap'd; Yea, proud Pandrasus' flight himself could hardly free.

Who, when he saw his force thus frustrated to be,
And by his present loss his passed errour found,
As by a later war to cure a former wound,
Doth reinforce his power, to make a second fight;
When they, whose better wits had over-matcht

Their slavery long sustain'd did willingly release: And (for a lasting league of amity and peace) Bright Innogen, his child, for wife to Brutus gave, And furnish'd them a fleet, with all things they

could crave

To set them out to sea. Who lanching, at the last, They on Lergecia light, an isle; and, ere they Into a temple built to great Diana there, [pass'd, The noble Brutus went; wise Trivia 18 to inquire, To show them where the stock of ancient Troy to place. (Trojau race, "The goddess, that both knew and lov'd the Reveal'd to him in dreams, that farthest to the west, [blest;

. He should desery the isle of Albion, highly

With giants lately stor'd; their numbers pow decay'd:

[staid: By vanquishing the rest, his hopes should there be Where from the stock of Troy, those puissant kings should rise, [scant suffice. Whose conquests from the west, the world should "Thus answer'd; great with hope, to sea they put again,

And safely under sail, the hours do entertain With sights of sundry shores, which they from far descry:

And viewing with delight th' Azarian mountains high, [say One walking on the deck, unto his friend would. (As I have heard some tell) *so goodly İda lay.’ "Thus talking 'mongst themselves, they sun

burnt Afric keep

Upon the leeward still, and (sulking up the deep) For Mauritania make: where putting in, they find [kind

A remnant (yet reserv'd) of th' ancient Dardan By brave Antenor brought from out the Greekish spoils

(O long renowned Troy of thee and of thy toils,, What country had not heard?) which to their general then

Great Corineus had, the strong'st of mortal meri : To whom (with joyful hearts) Diana's will they show.

"Who eas'ly being won along with them to go, They all together put into the wat'ry plain: Oft times with pirates, oft with monsters of the main

Distressed in their way; whom hope forbids to fear. Those pillars first they pass which Jove's great son did rear, [tains roll, And cuffing those stern waves which like huge moun(Full joy in every part possessing every soul) In Aquitain at last the Ilion face arrive; Whom strongly to repulse when as those recreants strive,

[fleet, They (anchoring there at first but to refresh their. Yet saw those savage men so rudely them to gret) Unshipp'd their warlike youth, advancing to the shore,

The dwellers, which perceiv'd such danger at thẻ door,

Their king Groffarius get to raise his powerful force: Who must'ring up an host of mingled foot and horse,

Upon the Trojans set; when suddenly began
A fierce and dangerous fight; where Corineus ran
With slaughter thro' the thick-set squadrons of
the foes,

And with his armed ax laid on such deadly blows, That heaps of lifeless trunks each passage stopp'd up quite.

"Groffarius having lost the honour of the fight, Repairs his ruin'd pow'rs; not so to give them breath:

[death,

When they, which must be freed by conquest or by And conquering them before, hop'd now to do no less,

(The like in courage still) stand for the like success. Then stern and deadly war put on his horrid shape; And wounds appear'd so wide, as if the grave did gape

[fall,

To swallow both at once; which strove as both shall When they with slaughter seem'd to be encircled

all:

same.

"For Albion sailing then, th' arrived quickly here, [were, (O! never in this world men half so joyful With shouts heard up to Heaven, when they beheld the land)

And in this very place where Totness now doth staud, [shore; First set their gods of Troy, kissing the blessed Then foraging this isle, long promis'd them before, Amongst the ragged cliffs those monstrous giants sought,

Who (of their dreadful kind) t'appal the Trojans, brought [tear: Great Gogmagog, an oak that by the roots could So mighty were (that time) the men who lived

Which Corin taketh up, to answer by and by, Upon this son of earth his utmost power to try. "All doubtful to which part the victory would [Hoe, Upon that lofty place at Plymouth call'd the Those mighty wrestlers 19 met; with many an ireful look

go,

This horn of land bestow'd, and mark'd it with his

name;

arrive,

§. Of Corin, Cornwal call'd, to his immortal fame." Clear Dert delivering thus the famous Brute's [strive Inflam'd with her report, the straggling rivulets So highly her to raise, that Ting (whose banks were blest

By her beloved nymph dear Leman) which addrest, And fully with herself determined before

To sing the Danish spoils committed on her shore, When hither from the east they came in mighty swarms, [arms, Nor could their native earth contain their numerous Their surcrease grew so great, as forced them at last

To seck another soil, as bees do when they cast;
And by their impious pride how hard she was bested,
When all the country swam with blood of Saxons
shed:

This river, as I said, which had determin'd long
The deluge of the Danes exactly to have song,
It utterly neglects; and studying how to do
The Dert those high respects belonging her unto,
Inviteth goodly Ex, who from her full-fed spring
Her little Barlee hath, and Dunsbrook her to bring
From Exmore; when she hath scarcely found her
course,

Than Creddy cometh in, and Forto, which inforce
Her faster to her fall; as Ken her closely clips,
And on her eastern side sweet Leman gently slips
Into her widen'd banks, her sovereign to assist;
As Columb wins for Ex clear Wever and the Clist,
Contributing their streams their mistress' fame to
raise.

ling eyes. [lies, And whilst at length of arm one from the other Their lusty sinews swell like cables, as they strive: Their feet such trampling make, as tho' they forc'd to drive

A thunder ont of earth, which stagger'd with the weight: [height, Thus, either's utmost force nrg'd to the greatest Whilst one upon his hip the other seeks to lift, And th' adverse (by a turn) doth from his cunning shift,

Their short-fetcht troubled breath a hollow noise doth make

Like bellows of a forge. Then Corin up doth take The giant 'twixt the grains; and voiding of his hold (Before his cumberous feet he well recover could) Pitch'd headlong from the hill; as when a man doth throw

An axtree, that with slight deliver'd from the toe Roots up the yielding earth; so that his violent fall Strook Neptune with such strength, as shoulder'd

him withal;

That where the monstrous waves like mountains late did stand, [sand They feap'd out of the place, and left the bared To gaze upon wide Heaven: so great a blow it gave. For which, the conquering. Brute on Corineus brave

"Description of the wrestling betwixt Corineus and Gogmagog.

own,

[thrown: That with most vain expense upon the prince is So these, the lesser brooks unto the greater pay; The greater, they again spend all upon the sea: As, Otrey (that her name doth of the otters take, Abounding in her banks) and Ax, their utmost

make

To aid stout Dert, that dar'd Brute's story to revive. For when the Saxon first the Britons forth did drive, Some up into the hills themselves o'er Severn shut: Upon this point of land, for refuge, others put, To that brave race of Brute still fortunate. For where ..[there Great Brute first disembark'd his wand'ring Trojans, §. His offspring (after long expulst the inner land, When they the Saxon power no longer could

withstand) [first Found refuge in their flight; where Ax and Otrey Gave these poor souls to drink, opprest with grievous thirst.

Here I'll unyoke awhile, and turn my steeds to [sweat. The land grows large and wide; my team begins to

meat:

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Ir in prose and religion it were as justifiable, as in poetry and fiction, to invoke a local power (for anciently both Jews, Gentiles, and Christians have