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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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Oculus Britanniæ, &c.
 
A Letter of Thanks

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49

In love too often interest sways the mind
And sordid riches our affections blind,
Some squeamish fops, fantastically nice,
For virtue sigh and puke at modish vice;
Others for titles languish and would scorn
Ev'n beauty's goddess, if obscurely born.
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