Spreading his bosom under Kentish downs,

With commerce freighted, or triumphant war.[GJ]


FOOTNOTES:

[GI] Compare Michael Drayton—

But southward sallying hence, to those sea-bordering Lands,

Where Duddon driving down to the Lancastrian Sands,

This Cumberland cuts out, etc.

Poly-olbion. The thirtieth song.—Ed.

[GJ] "This sonnet was probably written from some rare vantage ground or view as is obtained of the last reaches of the Duddon