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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Malicious tongues indeed with censures loud
Stile him imperious, turbulent and proud,
Revengeful, cruel, of a ruthless mind,
To persecution, and to rage inclin'd;
In whoredom and pollution uncontroul'd,
And to a proverb arrogantly bold;
A publick drunkard, and a college thief,
In act a brute, an atheist in belief:
To lust, they say, he sacrific'd his breath,
And perish'd of the foul, venereal death.
Stile him imperious, turbulent and proud,
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To persecution, and to rage inclin'd;
In whoredom and pollution uncontroul'd,
And to a proverb arrogantly bold;
A publick drunkard, and a college thief,
In act a brute, an atheist in belief:
To lust, they say, he sacrific'd his breath,
And perish'd of the foul, venereal death.
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