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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26249	Epiloimia epē, or, The anatomy of the pestilence a poem in three parts : describing the deplorable condition of the city of London under its merciless dominion, 1665 : what the plague is, together with the causes of it : as also, the prognosticks and most effectual means of safety, both preservative and curative / by William Austin ...	Austin, William, fl. 1662.	1666 (1666)	Wing A4260; ESTC R549	46,907	117

Stock still because the birds were slown away No talk of Pest in all this time and bed Did nothing know but that the Pest was dead When ou●ter came to use the bed h 'had bought So his of ●ight as any would have thought Pest wake't prov'd the possession for three year And turn'd the Plaintiff out of bed to bier As well we this may credit as bancheer Able to spend a thousand pounds a year For if bane long can stay where it does meet Opposing forces from the bodies heat Much longer well may it continue where No dog once opens mouth to bait the bear If many (a) Theoph. lib 9 de hist plant ● 16 poisons given be that need A time of many moneths to come to seed If (b) Albert. magn l. 7 dea'imal ● 2. mad dogs bite lay twelve years as unknown As millers thumb within a marrow-bone And if (c) Mercurial ● 14 depe l. pr●●● 2 such hurt one could not finde till he Might one each year have got Thespiadae Why may not some where then contagious pest For many suns and moons conserve its nest And if in ev'ry glass wine daily shows Small nimble sparks cut capers to the nose Such as by meer smell can compell the brain To ape the gambols of some giddy vein If smoke be from the fire exhal●d if stream Be lawful offspring of the fruitful stream If fl●wers and herbs do fragrant odours spread And with their spicy breath perfume their bed None think the Pest can't give her atome birth That shows a womb as open as the earth But must believe the bounteous airy skie City of refuge free to all that flye That fumes and vapours makes communicable Not from the altar more then from the stable Gives these as ev'ry other wandring drove Like full consent of liberty to rove That they to all antigonize their merit Giving the qualities that they inherit Thus as to those twin-brothers Mars bega● The wolf was parent cause subordinate So to have sound a Lupa to this Curse If not a Mother yet at least a Nurse Those that with watchful eyes and listening ears Attend the silent musick of the sphears Affirm our earths discord and harmony Answers to theirs and 's meerly sympathy Our mirth and melancholly both come down From great Celestial bodies smile and srown As our hearts joy and lifes most sweet solace Are rayes e●llux from their benign grace So war dearth plague fall as tempestuous rain From the malignant clouds of their disdain Our spindle in its action must cease As they the hands governing fingers please Like ropeing leads of ●lock to earth we may Guided by them our 〈◊〉 wheel above To speak the power of stars what e're does master Our wish with cross success we call disaster Their vertue who denies with Dido's leather May binde the years four seasons all together As not the least of all his vaunts may say His worthy beard is neither green nor gray That Autumn suits in humour and desire With Spring and Summer sits by Winters fire The * Psalm 19. heavens and firmament most skilful be In the Almighties glittering herauldry In hierogliphick characters there stand The fairest printed wonders of his hand Well may he welcome be to heaven who rears Himself up thither by a stair of stars To body as we ulcer finde or shame To reputation Plague to soul 's the same 'T is such a witness proves sin capitall And is the harvest season to its fall When from above we 've such a fatal touch We 're taught we look upon the earth too much When by him made us we will not be found Our dearest friends then hide us under ground Infallibly they 're Atheists must endure Such viper stripes no humane hand can cure Plague's Gods artillery thunders our fate With his design not to capitulate Storm may show his displeasure but when fire Must make that storm who then will doubt his ire Other plagues lightly follow at his word Pest not unless his Angel draw his sword They 're palmers rods men have at their command To chasten with Plague's Gods own heavy hand Celestial bow of wrath and vengeance when All-powerful Lord of host makes war with men 'T is † Levit. 18. 25. Death wages of sin that none pretend That payes him not by which he hath his end 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR THE ANATOMY OF THE Pestilence Part 3. T Is not enough when life must fade away Its glass being run to see old Time make hay To stand o're heart-sick neighbour as he lies And wash his rancid ulcers with our eyes Behold the sword of wrathful Providence And read his venger in the present tense T is not enough when Time ha's made escape To turn our heads and view his naked nape To stare into obscure expanded jaws Of Pestilence to know it in its cause The point's how we should be hereafter Time Present and past should into future climb Who Plague as Pox deride will ne're finde it Cur'd as imposthume by a laughing fit Wound prob●d ia'd wide and naked to the eye Can gape for nothing then but Charity E're 't is apply'd that it may best redound T' effect let plagues precursors lance the wound Ev is forewarn'd we better can endure And give a kinder welcome to their cure When sense will neither heed what 's show'd or said No wonder body 's destin'd to be dead Who credit not their faithful eye nor ear Unjustly will recriminate their fear When dogs combine in numerous company And arm themselves to make a mutiny They 're such pr●saging heraulds make appear Plague is to follow victor in the rear And all that time here Rebels made an head How many dogs devour'd the childrens bread E're Plague sets out to visit place it● mouth Sends message from the cloudy rainy south And in our wars what melkin did we finde As if hot baths sweated the air and winde When Mars and Saturn joyn they but contest Who shall doe most to introduce the Pest. And then the rage of sword and power of spite Could all things do but share usurped right When Plague would sit in throne its general Phrensie before prepares the Capitoll And we saw by our State mens lunacy Each had as many heads as Hecate Our siderated government did wane After the cheating moonshine of their brain † Evagr. l. 4. c. 25. When Plague's design'd to sease a man he sees Like one who ca'nt distinguish men from trees As Captain who endeavours to surprize A fort or camp first takes the scouts and spies And in our wars such blindness did bewitch Our Seers as to lead us into ditch Owls eagles steeples stables seem'd Their seeing Gave ev'ry object meer Vtopian being Th' had Idol-eyes for show not sight and that Dazled not more by water then by fat Our brightest and most noble part of all Vilely converted into washing-ball Direful prognosticks reckon all that are As our rebellion's