_German Poet quoted by Camden._--_Britannia, sive regnorum Angliæ,
Scotiæ, et Hiberniæ chorographica descriptio_: Gulielmo Camdeno: Lond.
1607, folio, p. 302., Middlesex.
"Nec magno hinc intervallo _Tamisim_ duplici ostiolo Colus
postquam insulas sparserit, illabitur. _Ad quem_ ut nostræ ætatis
Poeta Germanus lusit:
"'Tot campos, sylvas, tot regia tecta, tot hortos
Artifici dextrâ excultos, tot vidimus arces,
Aut nunc Ausonio, Tamisis cum Tybride certet.'"
Camden, speaking of the Colne falling with a double mouth into the
Thames, quotes a German poet of his day; and I should be much obliged by
any reader of the "N. & Q." favouring me with the name, and reference to
the author from whence the preceding quotation is taken.
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