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A24237
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Cataplus, or, Æneas, his descent to hell a mock poem in imitation of the sixth book of Virgil's Æneis, in English burlesque.
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Atkins, Maurice.; Virgil. Aeneis. Liber 6.
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1672
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Wing A17; ESTC R11485
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you were the chief concerns Talk of the Devil and see his horns When of thy dangers I did hear It cost me many a sigh and tear For fear thou shou'dst in passing thorough So many difficulties know sorrow He having made conclusion his Son Began with mannerly submission Had I come of my own head you 'l Quoth he dear Father call me fool Wer 't not for your continual haunting My presence now had here been wanting But seeing my time 's but short Father Come let 's for shame shake hands together 'T is fit Father and Son shou'd hug Puh quoth Anchises Coxen pug Then tears began to trickle out As fast as water from a spout Have you not read of Aesops dog That instead of substantial prog With greedy snarie at shadow snapt Whilst real flesh in water dapt Or rather as Ixion woed With wanton grasps an empty cloud Aeneas just in such a sort Did incorporeal Father court But Ghost was in compliance shy And like a coy wench put him by Have you not in Glamorgan-shire From mountain high up in the air Lookt down upon the Countrey under And seen blind houses lie asunder Houses of turf and thatcht wherein People do live that card and spin Aeneas such a Valley spi'd From ascent where he did abide And once again have you not seen In any place where you have been In Summer-season swarms of bees Or Chafers roaming 'bout the trees Or Grashoppers or eager Ants A tugging to relive their wants So many folks he did descry And if you will believ 't you may And as 't is the nature of those So these did also hum and buz Or rather like as you may hear In Market or tumultuous Fair. Aeneas was at first amaz'd And like one knockt in the head gaz'd Quoth he what means that yonder feud So much disorder can't be good Quoth Anchises these drink a liquour Call'd Lethe which is by much quicker Than March beer bottle-ale or mead And sooner flyes up to the head They drink this so long till the Elves Grow sottish and forget themselves And here they madly drink whole ones Till they put on new flesh and bones I cou'd tell many pleasant stories Relating to these drunken Tories But I must tell of noble Heroes That shall be to the world meer scare-crows Who though we look like fools shall be Dasht from the loins of I and thee But hold quoth Aeneas pray hold Father if I may be so bold Let me before you proceed on Propose to you one question Why shou'd the staring Jacanoddies Desire to resume new bodies Quoth Anchises I 'l tell thee all By notions Philosophical As orderly as Probleme is When Ergo follows premisses The Sun and Moon Stars Earth and Ocean Internal Spirits have and motion And as the Stoicks have defin'd There rules in them a certain mind Which does material part controul As body manag'd is by Soul These second causes are whence spring Existency to every thing To all sorts of beasts fish and fowl Let it be Badger Dace or Owl There 's not an individual being But from these Elements you see spring For nothing Nature can create Without earth water air and heat These four as it were being tried And in a Limbick rarified Turns into life which leaps and mounts Like quicksilver upon the joints And as 't is variously compos'd So variously it is dispos'd For now in appetite 't is boil'd Another time in grief turmoil'd To day it sneaks and shrinks for fear With jealousie doubt and despair To morrow fits of joy come in Making it ready leap from skin Now when this life forsakes the lump Of body by deaths utmost thump It 's tost and tumbled in the air Like smoak or feather here and there It has no cloaths no not a smock So much to keep it from a shock Sometimes it feels the heavy rap Of hail-stones or a thunder-clap In Sun-beams fryed in frost benum'd By showers half-drown'd and by storms thrumb'd Thus being naked becomes more Weather-beaten than before But like a ship that has been banded By waves and winds at length is landed So after difficulties have been It shall arrive to quiet haven Then when time 's snake is wreath'd about This life is cleans'd and purg'd throughout From filthy thoughts with which 't was tainted When with the lower air acquainted 'T is put into a modish dresse Pester'd with weather lice or fleas Anchises had his fair speech ended Which nothing to the purpose tended Then down the way he led along Towards the giddy-headed throng Himself the Sibyl and his Son Got up upon a tomb of stone Because they thought it not so good To be at flats with multitude Besides if there had been no less thing 'T was cause enough to avoid pressing Now quoth Anchises fix your eyes And mark what Spirits shall arise I 'l shew you plainly to your face The Chavalieroes of our race Who shall in Italy bear sway And from the rest bear bell away He there that wears his Hat a cockt With Javelin in his clutches lockt Shall first drop from the womb of night Into the Regions of light Whom thou shalt get upon thy wife At the latter end of life So that people of the town Shall say the child is not thy own One that shall be as stout I 'l warrant As any Knight that ere rid errant The next is Procas of high worth With Capys Numitor and so forth But look what yonder fellows are See how they swagger huff and swear As if they wou'd drink dry a fountain And swallow at one bit a mountain These shall convert wild heaths and downs Into Mart and Burrough-towns Nomentum Fidenae and Bola Pomety Gabii and Cora In every one of which a Mayor Shall the sword of Justice bear With reverend Aldermen assistants To Carbonadoe rogues and miscreants Next Romulus the Bully Rock Comes strutting like a Turky-cock Fame and report in time to come Shall sound as loud as trump and drum And glory with a golden stamp Shall coin his name as bright as lamp Have you not seen town full of people Wherein stands a Cathedral steeple Which for it's bulk and antiquity Is term'd by Geopraphers a City Such a Town Romulus shall found And call it Rome for stately sound With walls and seven Towers lofty To keep it in defence and safety House-keepers dwelling in this place Shall be very well to passe By the advantages of trade And traffick which shall seldom fade From Bankers Scriveners and Drapers To old shoos boots and kennel-scrapers Scarce one but shall have in his purse Enough to buy a score of us But bend both eyes hitherward son Here are the men when all is done These are Romans against weather As true as ever trod shoe-leather Fierce Julius sirnamed Caesar Who domineer shall