Would make my trifling verfe be heard around.
And sportive Echo play the empty found:
With you I fhould a better Phoebus find,
And own in you alone the charms of Oxford:
join'd.

ON

QUEEN CAROLINE'S

REBUILDING THE LODGINGS OF
THE BLACK PRINCE AND HENRY V.

AT QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD.

WHERE bold and graceful foars, fecure of
fame,

The pile, now worthy great Philippa's name,
Mark that old ruin, Gothic and uncouth,
Where the Black Edward pafs'd his beardless
youth;

And the Fifth Henry, for his first renown,
Out-stripp'd each rival in a student's gown.

In that coarse age were Princes fond to dwell
With meagre monks, and 'haunt the filent cell:
Sent from the Monarch's to the Mufe's court,
Their meals were frugal, and their fleeps were

fhort;

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To couch at curfeu-time they thought no fcorn,
And froze at matins every winter-morn;

They read, an early book, the starry frame,
And lifp'd each constellation by its name;
Art after art fill dawning to their view,

And their mind opening as their ftature grew. Yet, whofe ripe manhood spread our fame fo far,

Sages in peace, and demi-gods in war!

Who, ftern in fight, made echoing Creffy ring, And, mild in conqueft, ferv'd his captive king! Who gain'd, at Agincourt, the victor's bays ; Nor took himself, but gave good Heaven, the praife! birg

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Thy nurfelings, ancient dome! to virtue form'd; To mercy listening, whilft in fields they storm'd; Fierce to the fierce; and warm, th' oppreft to fave; 3

Through life rever'd, and worship'd in the grave!

In tenfold pride their mouldering roofs fhall

fhine,

The stately work of bounteous Caroline;

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And

And bleft Philippa, with unenvious eyes,
From Heaven behold her Rival's fabric rife.
If ftill, bright Saint, this fpot deferves thy care,
Incline thee to th' ambitious Mufe's prayer:

O, could't thou win young William's bloom to

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grace

His Mother's walls, and fill thy Edward's place,
How would that Genius, whofe propitious wings
Have here twice hover'd o'er the Sons of Kings,
Defcend triumphant to his ancient seat,
And take in charge a third Plantagenet!

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