Durmed adranse in durance vaal

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  • Durme: river in Belgium
  • Adra: river in Spain
  • Adranos: river in Turkey
  • Dranse: Swiss name for the Durance
  • Durance: river in France
  • durance vile: a long prison sentence. Robert Burns, "Esopus to Maria": "“In durance vile here must I wake and weep, /And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.”
  • durance: a stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments
  • Vaal: river in South Africa
  • vale: valley
  • Dreamed a trance in durance veil (though a veil would hardly be an appropriate use for durance cloth)