Oculus Britanniae An Heroi-Panegyrical poem on the University of Oxford. Illustrated with divers beautiful Similes, and useful Digressions [by Nicholas Amhurst] |
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Here the fam'd King and confessor was born,
Whose godly reign cœlestial gifts adorn,
That royal saint, whose salutiferous hand,
First from the noisome Evil purg'd the land.
Stupendous art! to pious kings reveal'd,
And witness'd by the crouds that have been heal'd;
Such Edward was, by gracious heaven design'd,
From scabs and ulcers to relieve mankind,
Of so abstemious, continent a life,
He shun'd the enjoyment of his lawful wife.
From age to age this wondrous art prevail'd,
(When the whole boasted strength of medicine fail'd)
Through a long race of monarchs, all divine,
'Till but of late it ceas'd with Stuart's line,
Unless, adhering to some good old wives,
In Stuart's lineal race it still survives.
Whose godly reign cœlestial gifts adorn,
That royal saint, whose salutiferous hand,
First from the noisome Evil purg'd the land.
Stupendous art! to pious kings reveal'd,
And witness'd by the crouds that have been heal'd;
Such Edward was, by gracious heaven design'd,
From scabs and ulcers to relieve mankind,
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He shun'd the enjoyment of his lawful wife.
From age to age this wondrous art prevail'd,
(When the whole boasted strength of medicine fail'd)
Through a long race of monarchs, all divine,
'Till but of late it ceas'd with Stuart's line,
Unless, adhering to some good old wives,
In Stuart's lineal race it still survives.
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