Note 391 — TENBY CASTLE, Pembrokeshire.
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Of this inundation, which swamped part of Holland, and sent a new colony to Wales, Drayton sings:—
“When wrathful Heaven the clouds so liberally bestowed, The seas—then wanting room to lay their boist’rous load— Upon the Belgian coast their pampered stomachs cast, That peopled cities sank into the mighty waste. The Flemings were enforced to take them to their oars, To try the setting main to find out firmer shores. When, as this spacious Isle them entrance did allow, To plant the Belgian stock upon this goodly brow; These nations, that their tongues did naturally affect, Both generally forsook the British dialect.”