Or Trent who like some earth-born giant spreads
His thirsty arms along the indented meads.
Milton.
And beauteous Trent that in himself enseams (fattens)
Both thirty sorts of fish and thirty sundry streams.
Spenser.
BERKSHIRE.—ABINGDON.
(From Piers Plowman's MSS. 1400.)
And there shall come a king and confess you religious,
And beat you as the Bible telleth, for breaking of your rule,