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]
 
 

collapse section
 
 

But shall the dead alone engross my lays?
O, no; the living shall partake my praise;
Muse prune thy pinions for a second flight,
For living heroes claim an equal height.