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death_n	die_v	let_v	soul_n	6,570	5	5.2146	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61164	The plague of Athens which hapned in the second year of the Peloponnesian Warr / first described in Greek by Thucydides, then in Latin by Lucretius, now attempted in English by Tho. Sprat.	Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713.; Thucydides.; Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.	1667 (1667)	Wing S5041; ESTC R31007	15,295	42

resemblances Of things to come and of the World below O're their distemper'd fancies go Sometimes they curse sometimes they pray unto The Gods above the Gods beneath Sometimes they cruelties and fury breath Not sleep but waking now was sister unto death XVIII Scattered in Fields the Bodies lay The earth call'd to the Fowls to take their Flesh away In vain she call'd they come not nigh Nor would their food with their own ruine buy But at full meals they hunger pine and die The Vulters afar off did see the feast Rejoyc'd and call'd their friends to taste They rallied up their troops in haste Along came mighty droves Forsook their young ones and their groves Each one his native mountain and his nest They come but all their carcases abhor And now avoid the dead men more Than weaker birds did living men before But if some bolder fowls the flesh essay They were destroy'd by their own prey The Dog no longer bark't at coming guest Repents its being a domestick Beast Did to the woods and mountains haste The very Owls at Athens are But seldome seen and rare The Owls depart in open day Rather than in infected Ivy more to stay XIX Mountains of bones and carcases The streets the Market-place possess Threatning to raise a new Acropolis Here lies a mother and her child The infant suck'd as yet and smil'd But strait by its own food was kill'd There parents hugg'd their children last Here parting lovers last embrac'd But yet not parting neither They both expir'd and went away together Here pris'ners in the Dungeon die And gain a two-fold liberty They meet and thank their pains VVhich them from double chains Of body and of iron free Here others poyson'd by the scent VVhich from corrupted bodies went Quickly return the death they did receive And death to others give Themselves now dead the air pollute the more For which they others curs'd before Their bodies kill all that come near And even after death they all are murderers here XX. The friend doth hear his friends last cries Parteth his grief for him and dies Lives not enough to close his eyes The father at his death Speaks his son heir with an infectious breath In the same hour the son doth take His fathers will and his own make The servant needs not here be slain To serve his master in the other would again They languishing together lie Their souls away together flie The husband gasp'th and his wife lies by It must be her turn next to die The husband and the wife Too truly now are one and live one life That couple which the Gods did entertain Had made their prayer here in vain No fates in death could then divide They must without their priviledge together both have dy'd XXI There was no number now of death The sisters scarce stood still themselves to breath The sisters now quite wearied In cutting single thred Began at once to part whole looms One stroak did give whole houses dooms Now dy'd the frosty hairs The Aged and decrepid years They fell and only beg'd of Fate Some few months more but 't was alas too late Then Death as if asham'd of that A Conquest so degenerate Cut off the young and lusty too The young were reck'ning ore VVhat happy dayes what joyes they had in store But ffate er'e they had finish'd their account them slew The wretched Usurer dyed And had no time to tell where he his treasures hid The Merchant did behold His Ships return with Spice and Gold He saw 't and turn'd aside his head Nor thank'd the Gods but fell amidst his riches dead XXII The Meetings and Assemblies cease no more The people throng about the Orator No course of Justice did appear No noise of Lawyers fill'd the ear The Senate cast away The Robe of Honour and obey Deaths more restless sway VVhilest that with Dictatorian power Doth all the great and lesser Officers devour No Magistrates did walk about No purple aw'd the rout The common people too A purple of their own did shew And all their Bodies ore The ruling colours bore No Judge no Legislators sit Since this new Draco came And harsher Laws did frame Laws that like his in blood are writ The Benches and the Pleading-place they leave About the streets they run and rave The madness which Great Solon did of late But counterfeit For the advantage of the State Now his successors do too truly imitate XXIII Up starts the Souldier from his bed He though Deaths servant is not freed Death him cashier'd ' cause now his help she did not need He that ne're knew before to yield Or to give back or lead the Field Would fain now from himself have fled He snatch'd his sword now rusted o're Dreadful and sparkling now no more And thus in open streets did roar How have I death so ill deserv'd of thee That now thy self thou shouldst revenge on me Have I so many lives on thee bestow'd Have I the earth so often dy'd in blood Have I to flatter thee so many slain And must I now thy prey remain Let me at least if I must dye Meet in the Field some gallant enemy Send Gods the Persian troops again No they 're a base and degenerate train They by our Women may be slain Give me great Heavens some manful foes Let me my death amidst some valiant Grecians choose Let me survive to die at Syracuse Where my dear Countrey shall her Glory lose For you Great Gods into my dying mind infuse What miseries what doom Must on my Athens shortly come My thoughts inspir'd presage Saughters and Battels to the coming Age Oh! might I die upon that glorious stage Oh that but then he grasp'd his sword death concludes his rage XXIV Draw back draw back thy sword O Fate Lest thou repent when 't is too late Lest by thy making now so great a waste By spending all Man-kind upon one feast Thou sterve thy self at last What men wilt thou reserve in store Whom in the time to come thou mayst devour When thou shalt have destroyed all before But if thou wilt not yet give o're If yet thy greedie Stomach calls for more If more remain whom thou must kill And if thy jawes are craving still Carry thy fury to the Scythian coasts The Northern wildness and eternal frosts Against those barbrous crouds thy arrows whet Where Arts and Laws are strangers yet Where thou may'st kill and yet the loss will not be great There rage there spread and there infect the Air Murder whole towns and families there Thy worst against those Savage nations dare Those whom Man-kind can spare Those whom man-kind it self doth fear Amidst that dreadful night and fatal cold There thou may'st walk unseen and bold There let thy Flames their Empire hold Unto the farthest Seas and Natures ends Where never Summer Sun its beams extends Carry thy plagues thy pains thy heats Thy raging fires thy torturing sweats Where never ray or

to be subdu'd To be by their own swarms anoid And to be civilized only to be destroid IX Minerva started when she heard the noise And dying mens confused voice From Heaven in haste she came to see VVhat 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 VVith pitying look she saw at every gate Death and destruction wait She wrung her hands and call'd on Jove And all th' immortal powers above But though a Goddess now did pray The Heavens refus'd and turn'd their ear away She brought her Olive and her Shield Neither of these Alas assistance yeild 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 a while and then away she fled X. Now Death began her sword to wher Not all the Cyclops sweat Nor Vulcans mighty Anvils could prepare Weapons enough for 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 moral poyson grow The Lungs which us'd to fan the heart Onely now serv'd to fire each part VVhat should refresh more as'd the smart And now their very breath The chiefest signe 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 Lyons 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 noisomo 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 rebel 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 VVas 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 ofner 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 VVhen 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 takes away with him part of the house So here the vanquisht evil took from them VVho conquer'd it some part some limb Some lost the use of hands or eyes Some armes some legs some thighs Some all their lives before forgot Their minds were but one darker blot Those various pictures in the head And all the numerous shapes were fled And now they ransackt memory Languish'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 poysons with 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 only 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 coverig 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 imagies Dark pictures and