Teumesius

Eleg. 6. 23. Pertaining to Teume us, a range of mountains separating the plain of Thebes, Boeotia, from the valley of the Asopus. Teutonici Agri. See Germany. Thames (Tamigi, Thame, Thamesis). Sonnet 3. 10; Vacat. Ex. 100; Eleg. 1. 9; Mansus 32; Damon. 3, 177; Ad. Rous. 18; Hist. Brit. (1) 5. 22; (4) 5. 187; (2) 5. 40, 41, 49, 50; (5) 5. 193 (twice), 200, 203, 206, 207, 208 (twice), 209, 214, 221, 231; (6) 5. 242, 249 (twice), 250, 251, 253, 256, 259, 263, 271, 283; Lit. Oliv. (25) 7. 268; (43) 7. 290; The “Royal Towred Thame” (i. Lit. Rich. (11) 7. 342. e., Thames) of Vacat. Ex, 100 is celebrated by Spenser: On his head like to a Coronet He wore, that seemed strange to common vew, In which were many towres and castels set, That it encompast round as with a golden fret. Like as the mother of the Gods, they say. In her great iron charet wonts to ride, When to loues pallace she doth take her way: Old Cybele, arayd with pompous pride, Wearing a Diademe embattild wide With hundred turrets, like a Turribant. With such an one was Thamis beaut if ide; That was to weet the famous Troynouant, In which her king domes throne is chiefly resiant. (F. Q. 4. 11. 27-8.) Drayton writes in the same strain The faire and goodly Tames With Kingly houses Crown’d, of more then earthly pride,... Upon his either Banks, as he along doth glide With wonderful delight, doth his long course pursue, Where Otlands, Hampton Court, and Richmond he doth view, Then Westminster the next great Tames doth entertaine; That vaunts her Palace large, and her most sumptuous Fane: The Lands tribunall seate that challengeth for hers, The crowning of our Kings, their famous sepulchers. (Polyolbion 17.) In Eleg. 1 Milton speaks of London as “urbs reflua quam Thamesis alluit und a” (“the city which Thames washes against with its refluant stream”). Probably he means that, as Drayton says in a marginal note, “Tames ebbes and flowes beyond Richmond.” Drayton explains it as follows: When Tames now understood, what paines the Mole did take, How farre the loving Nymph adventur’d for his sake; Although with Medway matcht, yet never could remove The often quickning sparks of his more ancient love So that it comes to pa e, when by great Natures guide The Ocean doth returne, and thrusteth in the Tide; Up tow’rds the place, where first his much lov’d Mole was seen, He ever since doth flow, beyond delight full Sheene. (Polyolbion 17.) In preceding verses Drayton represents Thames as having been with the Mole before his espousals with the Medway. Milton does not refer to this theme, so fully treated by Spenser (F. Q. 4. 11), though his linking of “Medway smooth,” and “Royal Towred Thame” in one line suggests it. The “caerule is patris” (“dark-blue father”) of Ad Rous. 18 suggests JEneid 8. 64, where Father Tiber is called “caerule us.” The affection of Milton for the Thames appears in the words “Thamesis meus.” {Damon. 177.) Ma on translates as follows lines 30-4 of in love Manstis: We also think that we have heard the swans in our river Making music at night through all the shadowy darkne . Where our silver Thames, at breadth of her pure gushing current, Bathes with tidal whirl the yellow locks of the Ocean. They suggest the Prothalamion of Spenser, with its mention of swans, and such expre ions as “silver streaming Themmes.” (Line 11.) In that day Thames could more properly be called “silver” than now. Thanet. 1. See Tanet. Thebes (Echionius, Ogygius, Thebae). II Pens. 99; Eleg. 6. Nov. 65; P. L. 1. 578; P. R. 4. 572; Tetrach. (Matt. 68; Quint. 5. 31, 32) 4. 202; Logic (1. 25) 7. (twice). (See also ch302.xhtml i 307