Awbeg, a tributary of the Blackwater, in Ireland, which flowed close by Spenser’s home. Spenser is called by Shenstone “the bard of Mulla’s silver stream.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.