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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While she surviv'd, indulgent to our cause,
We bilk'd our founders and defy'd their laws,
Those grave old blockheads, whose religious pride
Would quench love's flame and check old nature's tide,
Asswage hot blood, explode the genial tast,
And make mankind unnaturally chast.
Reliev'd by her from these imperious chains,
We knew the sweets of love, without the pains,
Clasp'd to her bosom, every college round
The joys of marriage, without marriage, found;
Spight of their musty statutes all the night
We roll'd in bliss and revel'd in delight.
We bilk'd our founders and defy'd their laws,
Those grave old blockheads, whose religious pride
Would quench love's flame and check old nature's tide,
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And make mankind unnaturally chast.
Reliev'd by her from these imperious chains,
We knew the sweets of love, without the pains,
Clasp'd to her bosom, every college round
The joys of marriage, without marriage, found;
Spight of their musty statutes all the night
We roll'd in bliss and revel'd in delight.
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