To halfe the river; there did silver runne:

The other halfe ran clowdes; where the curl’d wood

With his exalted head threaten’d the floude.

Here could I wish us ever passing by

And never past; now Newarke is too nigh:

And as a Christmas seemes a day but short,

Deluding time with revells and good sport;

So did these beauteous mixtures us beguile,

And the whole twelve, being travail’d, seem’d a mile.

Now as the way was sweet, soe was the end;