Of this other wonder hee sayd, Dosmery poole amid the moores, On top stands of a hill, More then a mile about, no streames It empt, nor any fill.
In these passages, they meete sometimes with verie loose earth, sometimes with exceeding hard Rockes, and sometimes with great streames of water.
We now are comed to the cariages and swift streames to gett the lake of the Castors.
About the breake of day we made a stay, that not to goe through the violent streames for feare the Ennemy should be there to dispute the passage.
Then the Albanes appointed one Metius Suffetius, to be their Dictator.
The poore idiot glad to please his maistres, was desirous to knowe what it was, and promised to doe whatsouer he would bidde him.
Here the admyring her my mind did whett 5 To seeke thee God; so streames do shew their head; But though I have found thee, and thou my thirst hast fed, A holy thirsty dropsy melts mee yett.
By Euphrates flowry side We did bide, From deare Juda farre absented, Tearing the aire with our cryes, And our eyes, 5 With their streames his streame augmented.
The number of riuulets becks and streames whose banks are beset with willowes and Alders which giue occasion of easier fishing and slooping to the water makes that handsome coulered bird abound which is calld Alcedo Ispida or the King fisher.
In Norwich riuers in the runnes about Heueningham heath in the north riuer and streames thereof.
For those blew vaines that through her body spred, 'Those saphire streames which from great hils do spring.
Awaked from her Dreames, Shooting foorth goulden Beames Dansing vpon the Streames Courting the Fountaines.
How chanceth it that the violent streames of sinnes which thou swallowest vp like pleasant wine, or rather art deuoured of them, (the end of thy life by little and little now drawing néere) can not yet satisfie the?
Of such streames as fall into the sea, betweene the Thames and the mouth of Sauerne.
Finallie, within a mile of this bridge it goeth into the water of Hampton hauen, whervnto diuerse streames resort, as you shall heare hereafter.
Lhoegres by the riuers Sauerne and Dee, of which two streames this dooth fall into the Irish sea at Westchester, the other into the maine Ocean, betwixt Somersetshire and Southwales, as their seuerall courses shall witnesse more at large.
Thus haue I brought all such streames before me that fall into the Sauerne from the head, vntill I come to Powijc, wherof (as you may easily perceiue) the Temde is the most excellent.
The first of them are yearelie & often ouerflowen by the rising of such streames as passe through the same, or violent falles of land-waters, that descend from the hils about them.
Bactrians and Zogdians, knowne but by their names, Whereby his armes resistles, powers subdued, 1270 And Ganges streames congeald with Indian blood, Could not transeport his burthen to the sea.
Thy rented hayre doth rent my heart in twayne, And these fayr Seas, that raine downe showers of tears, Do melt my soule in liqued streames of sorrow.
What meanes great Caesar, droopes our generall, Or melts in womanish compassion: To see Pharsalias fieldes to change their hewe 270 And siluer streames be turn'd to lakes of blood?
These streames and barges do ennoblish very much the City, and make it as it were to seeme another Venice.
The city standeth vpon water, many streames run through it, the banks pitched, and so broad that they serue for streets to the cities vse.
We want that monefull sounde, That pratling Progne makes On fieldes of Thracian ground, Or streames of Thracian lakes: To empt her brest of paine For Itys by her slaine.
Phaetons sisters, daughters of the Sunne, Which waile your brother falne into the streames Of stately Po: the Gods vpon the bankes Your bodies to banke-louing Alders turn’d.
Therewith she lowdly did lament and shrike, Pouring forth streames of teares abundantly; 230 And all her sisters, with compassion like, The breaches of her singulfs* did supply.
Which I English thus: Stop up your streames (my lads) the medes haue drunk ther fill.
The goddesse heard, and suddeine where she sate, Welling out streames of teares, and quite dismayd 8 With stony feare of that rude rustick mate, Transformd her to a stone from stedfast virgins state.
The flashing fier flies 8 As from a forge out of their burning shields, And streames of purple bloud new +dies+ the verdant fields.
Violent streames Must not bee stopt by violence; there's an art To meete and put by the most boysterous wave; 'Tis now no policy for you to murmure Nor will I threaten.
With rugged tops the bending mountaines round Upon the slow calme streames looke downe.
Here with their dams, of Kids th’amazed flocks Hang on steep sides of Rocks; Here as they swim, the wanton Hinds do play In the coole streames all day.
He is the fountaine whence my streames doe flowe-- Forgive me if I speake as I was taught, A lyke to women, utter all I knowe, As longing to unlade so bad a fraught.
As Aprill-drops not half so pleasant be, Nor Nilus overflowe to Ægipt plaines As this sweet-streames that all hir ioints imbaynes.
He is the fountaine whence my streames do flowe-- Forgive me if I speak as I was taught; Alike to women, utter all I knowe, As longing to unlade so bad a fraught.
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