University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
Oculus Britanniae

An Heroi-Panegyrical poem on the University of Oxford. Illustrated with divers beautiful Similes, and useful Digressions [by Nicholas Amhurst]
 
 

expand section


13

But Fiddes, by sublimer views inspir'd,
And with a church-man's indignation fir'd,
Lists in this great, unhappy prelate's cause,
And by more candid rules his picture draws;
Solves all objections which historians make,
And screens his failings for his function's sake.