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Our gracious monarch viewed with equal eye The wants of either university; Troops he to Oxford sent, well knowing why, That learned body wanted loyalty; But books to Cambridge sent, as well discerning That that right loyal body wanted learning. - another version of Joseph Trapp's epigram [Learning] The King, observing with judicious eyes, The state of both his universities, To one he sent a regiment, for why? That learned body wanted loyalty; To the other he sent books, as well discerning, How much that loyal body wanted learning. - Epigram, on the donation of Bishop Ely's Library to Cambridge University by George I [Learning]
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