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 method in his 'Theogony;' a revival, to judge from a passage in his first song, surely not undesigned:—

Our theory of a conscious reference to Hesiod's 'Theogony' by Drayton depends on the fourth verse of this extract; but, independently of this, almost any page in the 'Polyolbion' would furnish one or more illustrations of genealogism curiously Hesiodic. We might cite the rivers of Monmouth, Brecon, and Glamorgan, in the fourth song, or the Herefordshire streams in the seventh; but lengthy citations are impossible, and short extracts will ill represent the likeness which a wider comparison would confirm. In Pope's "Windsor Forest," the enumeration of the "seaborn brothers" of Old Father Thames, from "winding Isis" to "silent Darent,"

is indubitably a leaf out of Drayton's book, and so