The aire of Famagusta is very vnwholesome, as they say, by reason of certaine marish ground adioyning vnto it.

[Sidenote: Sir Launcelot cometh to a marish country]

And when he came out of the forest he beheld before him a country of perfectly level marish, very lush and green, with many ponds of water and sluggish streams bordered by rushes and sedge, and with pollard willows standing in rows beside the waters.

And this castle and town were a very long distance away, though they appeared very clear and distinct to the sight across the level marish, like, as it were, to a fine bit of very small and cunning carving.

"Sir," said the yeoman, "that is called the Town of the Marish because it stands in these Fenlands.

But when Sir Tristram saw the sword of Sir Kay shining like lightning in the sunlight, somewhat of his knightly spirit arose within him and took wing like to a bird springing up out of the marish grass into the clear air.

Sometimes in a night-marish moment I wonder what the world would have been like had there been no Shakespeare.

Partake then, and give me the beleefe; thinkst thou or knowst thou any of this opinion, that that mooving marish element, that swels and swages as it please the Moone, to be in bignes equall to that solid lump that brings us up? Gra.

too nigh Th' Archangel stood, and from the other Hill To their fix'd Station, all in bright Array The Cherubim descended; on the Ground Gliding meteorous, as evening Mist Ris'n from a River, o'er the Marish glides, And gathers ground fast at the Lab'rer's Heel Homeward returning.

* * * * * About a stone-cast from the wall A sluice with blackened waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The cluster'd marish-mosses crept.

And o'er it many, round and small, The cluster'd marish-mosses crept.

too nigh Th' Archangel stood, and from the other Hill To their fix'd Station, all in bright Array The Cherubim descended; on the Ground Gliding meteorous, as evening Mist Ris'n from a River, o'er the Marish glides, And gathers ground fast at the Lab'rer's Heel Homeward returning.