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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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With half a fowl, and half a penny small
He makes a sober dinner in the hall,
(Such slender meals suffice his famish'd nerves,)
And the minc'd fragment for his supper serves.