Next these came Tyne, along whose stony bancke xxxvi That Romaine Monarch built a brasen wall, Which mote the feebled Britons strongly flancke Against the Picts, that swarmed ouer all, Which yet thereof Gualseuer they doe call: And Twede the limit betwixt Logris land And Albany: And Eden though but small, Yet often stainde with bloud of many a band Of Scots and English both, that tyned on his strand. Then came those sixe sad brethren, like forlorne, xxxvii That whilome were (as antique fathers tell) Sixe valiant Knights, of one faire Nymphe yborne, Which did in noble deedes of armes excell, And wonned there, where now Yorke people dwell; Still Vre, swift Werfe, and Oze the most of might, High Swale, vnquiet Nide, and troublous Skell; All whom a Scythian king, that Humber hight, Slew cruelly, and in the riuer drowned quight. But past not long, ere _Brutus_ warlicke[215] sonne xxxviii _Locrinus_ them aueng’d, and the same date, Which the proud Humber vnto them had donne, By equall dome[216] repayd on his owne pate: For in the selfe same riuer, where he late Had drenched them, he drowned him againe; And nam’d the riuer of his wretched fate; Whose bad condition yet it doth retaine, Oft tossed with his stormes, which therein still remaine. These after, came the stony shallow Lone, xxxix That to old Loncaster his name doth lend; And following Dee, which Britons long ygone Did call diuine, that doth by Chester tend; And Conway which out of his streame doth send Plenty of pearles to decke his dames withall, And Lindus that his pikes doth most commend, Of which the auncient Lincolne men doe call; All these together marched toward _Proteus_ hall. Ne thence the Irishe Riuers absent were, xl Sith no lesse famous then the rest they bee, And ioyne in neighbourhood of kingdome nere, Why should they not likewise in loue agree, And ioy likewise this solemne day to see?[217] They saw it all, and present were in place; Though I them all according their degree, Cannot recount, nor tell their hidden race, Nor read the saluage cuntreis, thorough which they pace. There was the Liffy rolling downe the lea, xli The sandy Slane, the stony Aubrian, The spacious Shenan spreading like a sea, The pleasant Boyne, the fishy fruitfull Ban, Swift Awniduff, which of the English man Is cal’de Blacke water, and the Liffar deep, Sad Trowis, that once his people ouerran, Strong Allo[218] tombling from Slewlogher steep, And Mulla[219] mine, whose waues I whilom taught to weep.