By many a city, and by many a towne,

And many riuers taking vnder hand

Into his waters, as he passeth downe,

The Cle, the Were, the Grant[213], the Sture, the Rowne.

Thence doth by Huntingdon and Cambridge flit,

My mother Cambridge, whom as with a Crowne

He doth adorne, and is adorn’d of it

With many a gentle Muse, and many a learned wit.

And after him the fatall Welland went, xxxv

That if old sawes proue true (which God forbid)