——vocantur
Ergo in concilium proceres——
Atque utinam his potius Nugis tota illa dediſſet
Tempora ſevitia.
OF all the ſumptuous Edifices which of late years have ſhot up in Oxford, and adorned the habitation of the muſes, the new Printing-houſe, commonly called Clarendon's Printing-houſe, ſrikes me with particular pleaſure and veneration: it is, I do aſſure my reader, a moſt magnificent and ſtately pile of building, ſuitable to thoſe great ends for which it was raiſed. This is the midwife in ordinary to Alma Mater, which delivers the profound genius's of the univerſity of all thoſe voluminous offsprings, to which the common wealth of letters is ſo much indebted and obliged.
Concerning the origination of this uſeful fabrick, divers rumours are gone forth; ſome ſay, the money, which was appropriated for this end, being embezzel'd, it was carried on at the charge of the univerſity treaſury: others, that certain books were ſold for the fourth part of the prime coſt, to defray this expence; which procedure was, I ſuppoſe,
