 Ouse came far from land, By many a city and by many a towne And many rivers taking under-hand Into his waters as he passeth downe, The Cle, the Were, the Grant, the Sture, the Rowne. Thence doth by Huntingdon and Cambridge flit, My mother Cambridge, whom...  Fourth booke of the Faerie Queene, canto I-XII - Page 448by Edmund Spenser - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Robert Willis - 1886 - 862 pages
...By many a city and by many a towne, And many rivers taking under-hand Into his waters, as he passeth downe, (The Cle, the Were, the Guant, the Sture, the...mother, Cambridge, whom, as with a crowne, He doth adorn, and is adorned of it With many a gentle muse and many a learned wit1." On Speed's map of Cambridgeshire... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - Poetry of places - 1887 - 390 pages
...And many rivers taking under-hand Into his waters as he passeth downe, The Cle, the Were, the Grant, the Sture, the Rowne, Thence doth by Huntingdon and...doth adorne, and is adorn'd of it With many a gentle Muse and many a learned wit. And after him the fatall Welland went, That, if old sawes prove true (which... | |
 | John Willis Clark - Cambridge (England) - 1890 - 344 pages
...By many a city and by many a towne, And many rivers taking under-hand Into his waters, as he passeth downe, (The Cle, the Were, the Guant, the Sture, the...doth adorne, and is adorn'd of it With many a gentle muse and many a learned wit." Camden, writing in 1586, recognises the Cam as well as the Granta : "... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - Knights and knighthood - 1896 - 288 pages
...And many rivers taking under-hand Into his waters as he passeth downe, The Cle, the Were, the Grant, the Sture, the Rowne. Thence doth by Huntingdon and...doth adorne, and is adorn'd of it With many a gentle Muse and many a learned wit. And after him the fatall Welland went, That, if old sawes prove true (which... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - Knights and knighthood - 1899 - 296 pages
...many a city, and by many a towne, And many rivers taking under-hand Into his waters, as he passeth downe, The Cle, the Were, the Guant, the Sture, the...doth adorne, and is adorn'd of it With many a gentle Muse and many a learned wit. XXXV And after him the fatall Welland went, That if old sawes prove true... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - Authors, English - 1902 - 800 pages
...the Store, the Ilowne. Thence doth by Huntingdon and CAMBRIDGE flit ; My mother Cambridge, whom aa would dishonour bee To you that are our judge of equity, To wreake you Muse and many a learned wit. But he makes no mention of his college. The notorious Gabriel Harvey,... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - Great Britain - 1904 - 388 pages
...He wrote in a well-known passage of the Faerie Queene how the River Ouse which runs near Cambridge 'doth by Huntingdon and Cambridge flit,— My mother Cambridge, whom as with a crown He li.i'. the river] doth adorn and is adorn'd of it With many a gentle muse and many a learned... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - Great Britain - 1904 - 390 pages
...He wrote in a well-known passage of the Faerie Queene how the River Ouse which runs near Cambridge 'doth by Huntingdon and Cambridge flit, — My mother Cambridge, whom as with a crown He [ie the river] doth adorn and is adom'd of it With many a gentle muse and many a learned wit.'i... | |
 | Charles William Stubbs - Cambridge (England) - 1905 - 422 pages
...under-hand Into his waters as he passeth down, The Cle, the Were, the Grant, the Sture, the Bowne, Thence doth by Huntingdon and Cambridge flit, My Mother...Cambridge, whom as with a crowne He doth adorne, and is adorned by it With many a gentle Muse and many a learned wit." — SPENSER'S Faerie Qucent, 1v. xi.... | |
 | Henry C. Shelley - 1909 - 426 pages
...And many rivers taking under-hand Into his waters as he passeth downe, The Cle, the Were, the Grant, the Sture, the Rowne. Thence doth by Huntingdon and...doth adorne, and is adorn'd of it With many a gentle Muse and many a learned wit." It is known that Spenser left Cambridge in 1576 on taking his MA degree,... | |
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