Durmed adranse in durance vaal
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- 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)