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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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Forbear, great man, restrain thy flowing gall,
Wherefore on me do all these censures fall?

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Why shouldst thou hope for honour from my lays,
When thy own Young forgets to sing thy praise?