Cowley was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; and if I rightly remember Bonney's Life of Bishop Middleton, his affecting allusions to Cambridge had the highest praise of that accomplished scholar and divine:
"O mihi jucundum Grantæ super omnia nomen!
O penitus toto corde receptus amor!
O pulchræ sine luxu ædes, vitæque beatæ,
Splendida paupertas, ingenuusque decor!
O chara ante alias, magnorum nomine Regum
Digna domus! Trini nomine digna Dei
O nimium Cereris cumulati munere campi,
Posthabitis Ennæ quos colit illa jugis!
O sacri fontes! et sacræ vatibus umbræ