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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Others there are—but studious of her fame,
Fain would the muse conceal her mother's shame,
Sore loath I am to speak the mournful truth,
That modern Heads corrupt the letter'd youth,
That bold fanaticks, full of sturdy zeal
For Brunswick's house, disturb our commonweal,
Grave loyal wretches, of their monarch proud,
To college-pow'r advanc'd, infect the croud,
Through these unhappy walls their poison spread,
And strike ev'n Golgotha it self with dread.
Fain would the muse conceal her mother's shame,
Sore loath I am to speak the mournful truth,
That modern Heads corrupt the letter'd youth,
That bold fanaticks, full of sturdy zeal
For Brunswick's house, disturb our commonweal,
Grave loyal wretches, of their monarch proud,
To college-pow'r advanc'd, infect the croud,
Through these unhappy walls their poison spread,
And strike ev'n Golgotha it self with dread.
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