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cause_n	blood_n	disease_n	part_n	2,042	5	4.6450	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61163	The plague of Athens, which hapned in the second year of the Peloponnesian Warre first described in Greek by Thucydides, then in Latin by Lucretius / now attempted in English, by Tho. Sprat.	Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713.; Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.; Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Book 2. English.; Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.	1665 (1665)	Wing S5040; ESTC R17244	14,883	38

to be subdu'd To be by their own swarms anoid And to be civilized onely to be destroid IX Minerva started when she heard the noise And dying mens confused voice From Heaven in haste she came to see What was the mighty prodigie Upon the Castle pinacles she sate And dar'd not nearer fly Nor midst so many deaths to trust her very Deity With pitying look she saw at every gate Death and destruction wait She wrung her hands and call'd on Iove And all th' immortal powers above But though a Goddess now did prey The Heavens refus'd and turn'd their ear away She brought her Olive and her Shield Neither of these Alas assistance yield She lookt upon Medusaes face Was angry that she was Her self of an Immortal Race Was angry that her Gorgons head Could not strike her as well as others dead She sate and wept awhile and then away she fled X. Now Death began her sword to whet Not all the Cyclops sweat Nor Vulcaus mighty Anvils could prepare Weapons enough fo● her No weapon large enough but all the Air. Men felt the heat within 'um rage And hop'd the Air would it asswage Call'd for its help but th' Air did them deceive And aggravate the ills it should relieve The Air no more was Vital now But did a mortal poyson grow The Lungs which us'd to fann the heart Onely now serv'd to fire each part What should refresh increas'd the smart And now their very breath The chiefest sign of life turn'd the cause of death XI Upon the Head first the disease As a bold Conqueror doth seize Begins with Mans Metropolis Secur'd the Capitol and then it knew It could at pleasure weaker parts subdue Blood started through each eye The redness of that Skie Fore-told a tempest nigh The tongue did flow all ore With clotted Filth and Gore As doth a Lions when some innocent prey He hath devoured and brought away Hoarsness and sores the throat did fill And stopt the passages of speech and life No room was left for groans or grief Too cruel and imperious ill Which not content to kill With tyrannous and dreadful pain Dost take from men the very power to complain XII Then down it went into the breast There are all the seats and shops of life possest Such noisome smells from thence did come As if the stomach were a tomb No food would there abide Or if it did turn'd to the enemies side The very meat new poysons to the Plague supply'd Next to the heart the fires came The heart did wonder what usurping flame What unknown furnace shou'd On its more natural heat intrude Strait call'd its spirits up but found too well It was too late now to rebell The tainted blood its course began And carried death where ere it ran That which before was Natures noblest Art The circulation from the heart Was most destructful now And Nature speedier did undoe For that the sooner did impart The poyson and the smart The infectious blood to every distant part XIII The belly felt at last its share And all the subtil labyrinths there Of winding bowels did new Monsters bear Here seven dayes it rul'd and sway'd And oftner kill'd because it death so long delay'd But if through strength and heat of age The body overcame its rage The Plague departed as the Devil doeth When driven by prayers away he goeth If Prayers and Heaven do him controul And if he cannot have the soul Himself out of the roof or window throws And will not all his labour lose But ●akes away with him part of the house So here the vanquisht evil took from them Who conque●'d it some part some limb Some lost the use of hand or eyes Some armes some legs some thighs Some all their lives before forgot Their m●ndes were but one darker blot Those various pictures in the head And all the numerous shapes were fled And now the ransackt memory Langu●sh'd in naked poverty Had lost its mighty treasury They past the Lethe Lake although they did not die XIV Whatever lesser Maladies men had They all gave place and vanished Those petty tyrants fled And at this mighty Conqueror shrunk their head Feavers Agues Palsies Stone Gout Cholick and Consumption And all the milder Generation By which Man-kind is by degrees undone Quickly were rooted out and gone Men saw themselves freed from the pain Rejoyc'd but all alas in vain 'T was an unhappy remedie Which cur'd 'um that they might both worse and sooner die XV. Physicians now could nought prevail They the first spoils to the proud Victor fall Nor would the Plague their knowledge trust But feared their skill and therefore slew them first So Tyrants when they would confirm their yoke First make the chiefest men to feel the stroke The chiefest and the wisest heads least they Should soonest disobey Should first rebell and others learn from them the way No aid of herbs or juyces power None of Apollo's art could cure But helpt the Plague the speedier to devour Physick it self was a disease Physick the fatal tortures did increase Prescriptions did the pains renew And Aesculapius to the sick did come As afterwards to Rome In form of Serpent brought new poyson swith him too XVI The streams did wonder that so soon As they were from their Native mountains gone They saw themselves drunk up and fear Another Xerxes Army near Some cast into the Pit the Urn And drink it dry at its return Again they drew again they drank At first the coolness of the stream did thank But strait the more were scorch'd the more did burn And drunk with water in their drinking sank That Urn which now to quench their thirst they use Shortly their Ashes shall inclose Others into the Chrystal brook With faint and wondring eyes did look Saw what a ghastly shape themselves had took Away they would have fled but them their leggs forsook Some snach'd the waters up Their hands their mouths the cup They drunk and found they flam'd the more And onely added to the burning store So have I seen on Lime cold water thrown Strait all was to a Ferment grown And hidden seeds of fire together run The heap was calm and temperate before Such as the Finger could indure But when the moistures it provoke Did rage did swell did smoke Did move and flame and burn and strait to ashes broke XVII So strong the heat so strong the torments were They like some mighty burden bear The lightest covering of Air. All Sexes and all Ages do invade The bounds which Nature laid The Laws of modesty which Nature made The Virgins blush not yet uncloath'd appear Undress'd do run about yet never fear The pain and the disease did now Unwillingly reduce men to That nakedness once more Which perfect health and innocence caus'd before No sleep no peace no rest Their wandring and affrighted minds possest Upon their souls and eyes Hell and Eternal horrour lies Unusual shapes and images Dark pictures and