ABSTRACT
William Vallans (flor. 1578-90) was an antiquarian and a friend of Camden (q.v.) A Tale of Two Swannes is, as a poetical exercise, modelled on the lost Epithalmion Thamesis, or on the 'Marriage of the Medway and Thames' in Faerie Queene IV. ix. Spenser's reference to the lost poem is in the first of Three Proper and Wittie familiar Letters, which explains that the poem is the result of a collaboration with Holinshed, presumably the other of 'those worthy Poets'.
