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O! thou thrice happy Shire, confinéd so to be Twixt two so famous floods as Mersey is and Dee. Thy Dee upon the West from Wales doth thee divide; Thy Mersey on the North, from the Lancastrian side, Thy natural sister Shire; and link'd unto thee so, That Lancashire along with Cheshire still doth go. As tow'rds the Derbian Peak, and Moreland (which do draw More mountainous and wild) the high-crown'd Shutlingslawe And Molcop be thy mounds, with those proud hills whence rove The lovely sister Brooks, the silvery Dane and Dove; Clear Dove, that makes to Trent; the other to the West.

From "The Eleventh Song" in Poly-Olbion by Michael Drayton (1612) More quotations