Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea. / Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial

by Various

So far a royal poet’s fancy. Now take a kingly fact; the fact being also told in song—

“Now there was maid fast by the Touris wall

A gardyn faire, and in the corneris set,

Ane herbere greene, with wandis long and small

Railit about, and so with treeis set

Was all the place, and hawthorne hegis knet.

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“And therew^t kest I doun myn eye ageyne,

Quhare as I saw walkyng under the toure,

Full secretely, new cumyn hir to pleyne,