Medway

Vacat. Ex. 100; Hist. Brit. (6) 5. 259. A river of southeastern England, flowing into the Thames at It has received much attention from English poets: Spenser devotes a canto of The Faerie Queene (4. 11) to the description of the marriage of the Medway and the Thames, and Drayton speaks of it in the Polyol hi on (17 and 18). The following (? Spenserian) line suggests Milton’s “Medway smooth”: ch193.xhtml s 200