“This little fount was known only to so few, that Dante, who wrote for the Italian people generally, can scarcely be thought to have meant this, when the famous Fonte Branda at Siena was, at least by name, familiar to them all, and formed an image more in character with the insatiable thirst of Master Adam.”

Poetically the question is of slight importance; for, as Fluellen says:⁠—

“There is a river in Macedon, and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth,⁠ ⁠… and there is salmons in both.”

“There is a river in Macedon, and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth,⁠ ⁠… and there is salmons in both.”

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