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R5852 OF all the Grain our Nation yield's / In Orchards, Gardens, or in Fields, Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 3: 823 A / PANEGYRICK / UPON / OATES / SILVESTREM TENUI MUSAM MEDITEMUR AVENA. A PANEGYRICK UPON OATES SILVESTREM TENUI MUSAM MEDITEMUR AVENA. A PANEGYRIC UPON OATES SILVESTREM TENUI MUSAM MEDITEMUR AVENA. Duke, Richard ?-?

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OF all the Grain our Nation yields In Orchards, Gardens, or in Fields, There is a Grain, (which tho tis common) Its Worth till now, was known to no man Not Ceres Sicle ere did Crop, A Grain with Ears of greater hope; For why? some say, the Earth nere bore In any Clime, such Seed before. Yet this Grain has (as all must own) To Grooms and Ostlers well bin known; And often has, without disdain, In Musty Barn and Manger layn; As if it had bin only good To be for Birds and Beasts the Food: But now by new inspired force It keeps alive both Man and Horse Speak then, my Muse, for now we guess, What Grain it is, thou wouldst express. It is not Barley, Rye, or Wheat, That can pretend to such a Feat; Tis Oates, bare Oates, which is become The Health of England, Bane of Rome, And Wonder of all Christendom.
And therefore Oates has well deservd, From Musty Barn to be preferd, And now in Royal Court preservd; That, like Hesperian Fruit, Oates may Be watchd and Garded night and Day; Which is but just Retaliation For having Guarded a whole Nation. Hence every lofty Plant which stands Twixt Barwick Wals and Dover Sands, The Oake it self, which well we stile The Pride and safe-guard of our Isle, Must Wave and Strike its lofty Head, And now Salute an Oaten Reed: For surely Oates deserves to be Exalted far bove any Tree. Th Egyptians once (tho it seems odd) Did worship Onyons for a God; And poor peeld Garlick was with them Esteemd beyond the greatest Gemm. What would they done, had they, think ye Had such a Blade of Oates as we? Oates of such known Divinity! Since then by Oates such good we find, Let
Let Oates at least now be enshrind, Or in some sacred Press enclosd Be only kept to be exposd; And all fond Reliques else, shall be Deemd Objects of Idolatry. Popelings may tell us, how they saw Their Garnets Picture on a Straw; Twas a Great miracle we know To see him drawn in little so, But on an Oaten Stalk, there is A greater miracle than this, A Visage, which with lively Grace Does Twenty Garnets now Out-face, And like Twig of Dodonas Grove Even speaks as if inspird by Jove. Nay, to add to the Wonder more, Declares unheard-of Things before, And Thousand mysteries does unfold, As plain as Oracles of old;
By which we steer affaires of State; And stave off Britains sullen Fate. Lets then, in honour of the name Of Oates enact some Solemn Game, Where Oaten Pipe shall us inspire Beyond the Charms of Orpheus Lyre; Stones, Stocks and every Senceless thing To Oates shall dance, to Oates shall sing. Whilst Woods amazd to th Ecchos ring. And as (that Heros names may not When they are rotten; be forgot) We hang Atchievements ore their Dust; (A debt to their great merits just:) So if Deserts of Oates we prize, Let Oates still hang before our eyes; Thereby to raise our Contemplation, Oates being to this Happy Nation The Mystic Embleme of Salvation.
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