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The Poems of Richard Corbet, late bishop of Oxford and of Norwich

Note 92 — ITER BOREALE

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The figure in these lines is taken from the fine church of St. Mary’s, Nottingham, in which the long chancel and nave with the tower in the midst resemble the object of the bishop’s metaphor. The castle mentioned in the succeeding lines has “perished ’mid the wreck of things that were.”

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