--STAMFORD.
Doctrinae studium, quod nunc viget ad vada Boum
Tempore venture celebrabitur ad vada Saxi.
Science that now o'er Oxford sheds her ray
Shall bless fair Stamford at some future day.
_Merlin._
STAFFORDSHIRE.
Or Trent who like some earth-born giant spreads
His thirsty arms along the indented meads.
_Milton._
And beauteous Trent that in himself enseams (fattens)
Both thirty sorts of fish and thirty sundry streams.
_Spenser._
BERKSHIRE.--ABINGDON.
(_From Piers Plowman's MSS. 1400._)
And there shall come a king and confess you religious,
And beat you as the Bible telleth, for breaking of your rule,
And then shall the Abbot of Abingdon and all his issue for ever
Have a knock of a king, and incurable the wound.
WILTSHIRE.--SALISBURY CATHEDRAL,
As many days as in one year there be,
So many windows in this church you see,
As many marble pillars here appear
As there are hours throughout the fleeting year,
As many gates as moons one here does view,
Strange tale to tell, yet not more strange than true.
A noble park near Sarum's stately town,
In form a mount's clear top call'd Clarendon;
There twenty groves, and each a mile in space,
With grateful shades, at once protect the place.
_Chippenham.--On a Stone._
Hither extendeth Maud Heath's Gift,
For where I stand is Chippenham Clift.
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