Picturesque views, on the River Medway, from the Nore to the vicinity of its source in Sussex : with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its neighbourhood . mon rite: ** Yet (halt thou live, when thy great foe § fhall fink** Beneath his mountain tombe, whofe fame ihall ftink i * And time his blacker name fhall blurre with blackeft ink, O let th lambick Mufe revenge that wrong, Which cannot flumber in thy (heets of lead ; Let thy abufed honour crie as long As there be quills to write, or eyes to reade: On his rank name let thine own votes be turnd i Oh may that man th
Picturesque views, on the River Medway, from the Nore to the vicinity of its source in Sussex : with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its neighbourhood . mon rite: ** Yet (halt thou live, when thy great foe § fhall fink** Beneath his mountain tombe, whofe fame ihall ftink i * And time his blacker name fhall blurre with blackeft ink, O let th lambick Mufe revenge that wrong, Which cannot flumber in thy (heets of lead ; Let thy abufed honour crie as long As there be quills to write, or eyes to reade: On his rank name let thine own votes be turnd i Oh may that man that hath the Mufes fcorridy Jlive-f nor dead^ be ever of a Mufe adornd ! At the birth of Sir Philip an oak wasplanted in the park, on the fpot now called ? Spencer. + a Elizabeth. + Sir Philip Sydney. ^ Lord Burleigh. Z z Bears ( i8o ) Bears Oak. This oak is celebrated by Wal-ler in the following lines; ** Go, boy, and carve this pafiion on the bark* Of yonder tree, which flands the facred mark Of iioble Sydneys birth ; when fuch benign,* Such more than mortal-making ftars did fhine ;?* That there they cannot bat for ever prove< The monumeat, and pledge of humble love.*. Whether the tree now fhewn (of whichthe annexed fketch is a portrait) be the iden-tical one here alluded to or no, I cannot afcertain. ( i8i ) afcertain, but, from its venerable appearance,it may be poflible. It meafures twenty-twofeet in circumference; and within the hollowof its fpacious trunk is affixed a feat capableof receiving feveral perfons. This nobletree Hands near a fine piece of water calledLane up Well. This park and neighbourhood is celebratedfor the large growth of its trees, one of whichv/as cut down about eight years fmce, andproduced eight hundred and forty feet oftimber, weighing twenty-one tons. Near Well Place, in the park, there is afine fpring called Kidders Well, which hasbeen found, on analizing it, to be a ftrongerchalybeate than thofe of Tunbridge. Thefpring rifes into a done bafon
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