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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]
Amhurst, N. (1697-1742)
 
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Since first our Grannum cropt the fatal tree,
No spot of earth is from pollution free,
Briers and thorns infest the richest ground,
And tares amongst the choicest wheat are found;
The fruitful Nile destructive monsters breeds,
And ev'n Bellositum pruduces weeds.
 

An antient name of Oxford, and the country which surrounds it.

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