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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To these a various gowned tribe succeeds,
Fam'd for their learning, or illustrious deeds;
Physicians, lawyers, and a medly throng
Of preaching clerks and poets that have sung,
Logicians that have foil'd the states-man's schemes,
And prophets that sav'd nations by their dreams;
Casuists and school-divines, whose mystick skill
Could alter vice and virtue at their will,
Of right divine prove persecuting rage,
And tyranny the blessing of an age,
Turn pure religion into mortal sin,
And make the devil to the saints a-kin.
Fam'd for their learning, or illustrious deeds;
Physicians, lawyers, and a medly throng
Of preaching clerks and poets that have sung,
Logicians that have foil'd the states-man's schemes,
And prophets that sav'd nations by their dreams;
Casuists and school-divines, whose mystick skill
Could alter vice and virtue at their will,
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And tyranny the blessing of an age,
Turn pure religion into mortal sin,
And make the devil to the saints a-kin.
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