Social Commentaries

Epigram 63. Of Cambridge and Oxford

by Sir Aston Cokain 1608–1684

From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)

Social Commentaries

Cambridge one doth commend, Oxford another,
And would have one prefer'd above the other.
When they are best term'd equals: And no other
Such Foreign Place comes near the one or th'other
This my opinion is: who would an other,
May leave to trouble me, and ask another.

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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 63. Of Cambridge and Oxford.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/230/.

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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 63. Of Cambridge and Oxford.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/230/.

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