Of that faire City, wherein make abode[209]

So many learned impes, that shoote abrode,

And with their braunches spred all Britany,

No lesse then do her elder sisters broode.

Ioy to you both, ye double noursery[210]

Of Arts, but Oxford thine doth Thame most glorify.

But he their sonne full fresh and iolly was, xxvii

All decked in a robe of watchet hew,

On which the waues, glittering like Christall glas,

So cunningly enwouen were, that few