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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Fall down, ye sons of Christ-church, at his feet,
And gratefully your benefactor greet;
For o! remember to his bounteous hand
How much indebted, and oblig'd you stand.
He first with large endowments did intail
Your loins of mutton, and your butts of ale;
To him you owe the soft engaging art
Of pretty songs and epigrams so smart:
'Twas he that took you from the rural plains,
And made you scholards, who had else been swains;
Instead of jolly canons, you had now
Perhaps some livery worn, or follow'd plow,
Perhaps some painful servile life have led,
Or in the shambles, like himself, been bred.
And gratefully your benefactor greet;
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How much indebted, and oblig'd you stand.
He first with large endowments did intail
Your loins of mutton, and your butts of ale;
To him you owe the soft engaging art
Of pretty songs and epigrams so smart:
'Twas he that took you from the rural plains,
And made you scholards, who had else been swains;
Instead of jolly canons, you had now
Perhaps some livery worn, or follow'd plow,
Perhaps some painful servile life have led,
Or in the shambles, like himself, been bred.
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