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