Rubbe, and a great cast Epigrams. By Thomas Freeman, Gent.

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Title: Rubbe, and a great cast Epigrams. By Thomas Freeman, Gent.
Author: Freeman, Thomas, b. 1590 or 91.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: [By Nicholas Okes], and are to bee sold [by L. Lisle] at the Tigers Head,; 1614.
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EPIGRAM. 47.In Oxoniam.

Iile terrarum mihi preter omnes Angulus ridet. Horat. Od.
ENglands faire Athens, Youths thrise happy Nurse,Natures resiner, Learnings Consistory,Refuge whereto the Muses haue recourse,And where to be the Graces chiefly glory:Pardon thy Pupils high-presuming pen,That dares thy praise ambitiously aduenter,"Each little streame repaies the OceanHis borrowed waues, and doth the seare-enter:My selfe with like gratuity incenst,Returne to thee (from whom it first sprang forth)That little wit, that heretofore thou lentst,To legend out thy true deserued worth.But out alas, what rellish hath my riming,It can but be a blemish to the breeder,And I shall be controuled for high climing,Me thinkes I heare already from the Reader;Who telles me, in my talking thus so boldly,"Better be silent, then commend so coldly.