At my leaving Cambridge August the 14th, Extempore. Sarah Fyge Egerton Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T125148 Egerton, Sarah Fyge, 1668-1723. Poems on Several Occasions, Together with a Pastoral. By Mrs. S. F. [poems only] London printed, and are to be sold by J. Nutt, near Stationers-Hall 1703 pp. 35-36. [20],117,[3],15,[1]p.; 8⁰.

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At my leaving Cambridge August the 14th , Extempore . Cambridge adieu ! I ne'er shall see thee more , Nor feast my Soul at Learning's mighty Store ; Not one fresh Drop of thy ambrosial Sense , To quench my Thirst at learned Cham's Expence ; Apollo's Fountain I must ever quit , Who's only Nectar is the streams of Wit ; I thy fair Colleges no more shall see , Each Greece , Rome , Athens , in Epitomy ; The antient infant Learning which they taught , Could only here be to Perfection brought ; They've finish'd all , each long hid Spring discern , The Gods themselves may hover here and learn ; And if in every Grace they would advance , Let B— give Wit , and G— teach Complaisance ; To th' sacred Vatican no more I come , But grieve like Ovid when excluded Rome .