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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Nor dost thou only chuse this mongrel Life,
Blest with collegiate honours and—no wife;
Sundry besides, thy brethren of the gown,
Like thee, despising fame and wide renown,
Preferring stated meals and frequent prayers
To worldly bustles, and domestick cares,
Within their humble cells indulge the spleen,
Men never talk'd of, and but rarely seen,
With their obsequious fellows they debate,
In their own cloysters, all affairs of state,
Con over Mist, and Shatter once a week,
And by their love of kings and statesmen speak,
In the same tract of common-place they move,
And learn from them to censure and approve.
Blest with collegiate honours and—no wife;
Sundry besides, thy brethren of the gown,
Like thee, despising fame and wide renown,
Preferring stated meals and frequent prayers
To worldly bustles, and domestick cares,
Within their humble cells indulge the spleen,
Men never talk'd of, and but rarely seen,
With their obsequious fellows they debate,
In their own cloysters, all affairs of state,
Con over Mist, and Shatter once a week,
And by their love of kings and statesmen speak,
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And learn from them to censure and approve.
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