a cluster of islands

The noble Thamis […] seem'd to stoupe afore / With bowed backe, by reason of the lode / And auncient heavy burden which he bore / Of that faire City, wherein make abode / So many learned impes, that shoote abrode, / And with their braunches spred all Britany […].

Amen ( or Awoman even, in fact can there be A men? It surely would be Aman?)

to bolt a rabbit