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-Title: The Plague of Athens
-       Which happened in the second year of the Peloponnesian warre,
-       first described in Greek by Thucydes; then in Latin by Lucretius.
-       Now attempted in English
-
-Author: Thomas Sprat
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-Release Date: August 1, 2021 [eBook #65972]
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-  corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within
-  the text and consultation of external sources.
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-[Illustration: (publisher colophon)]
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-  Let this Book be Printed.
-
-  _Roger L’Estrange._
-
-  ~MARCH~ 28.
-  1665.
-
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-
-
-  THE
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-  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~.
-
-
-  =LONDON=,
-  Printed by _E. C._ for _Henry Brome_, at the Gun in
-  _Ivy-lane_, 1665.
-
-
-
-
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-
-_To my Worthy and Learned Friend, Dr._ Walter Pope, _late Proctor of
-the University of_ Oxford.
-
-  =SIR=,
-
-I Know not what pleasure you could take in bestowing your commands so
-unprofitably, unless it be that for which Nature sometimes cherishes
-and allows Monsters, The love of Variety. This onely delight you will
-receive by turning over this rude and unpolisht Copy, and comparing
-it with my excellent Patterns, the _Greek_ and _Latin_. By this you
-will see how much a noble Subject is chang’d and disfigured by an ill
-hand, and what reason _Alexander_ had to forbid his Picture to be
-drawn but by some celebrated Pencil. In _Greek Thucydides_ so well
-and so lively expresses it, that I know not which is more a Poem,
-his description, or that of _Lucretius_. Though it must be said,
-that the _Historian_ had a vast advantage over the _Poet_; He having
-been present on the place, and assaulted by the disease himself, had
-the horror familiar to his Eyes, and all the shapes of the _misery_
-still remaining on his mind, which must needs make a great impression
-on his Pen and Fancie. Whereas the _Poet_ was forced to allow his
-foot-steps, and onely work on that matter he allow’d him. This I
-speak, because it may in some measure too excuse my own defects:
-For being so far remov’d from the place whereon the disease acted
-its Tragedy; and time having denied us many of the circumstances,
-customes of the Countrey, and other small things which would be of
-great use to any one who did intend to be perfect on the subject;
-besides onely writing by an _Idea_ of that which I never yet saw, nor
-care to feel, (being not of the humor of the Painter in Sir _Philip
-Sidney_, who thrust himself into the midst of a Fight, that he might
-the better delineate it) having, I say, all these disadvantages,
-and many more, for which I must onely blame my self, it cannot be
-expected, that I should come near equalling him in whom none of the
-contrary advantages were wanting. Thus then, Sir, by emboldning me
-to this rash attempt, you have given opportunitie to the _Greek_ and
-_Latin_ to Triumph over our _Mother tongue_. Yet I would not have the
-honour of the Countries or Languages engaged in the comparison, but
-that the inequality should reach no farther than the Authors. But
-I have much reason to fear the just indignation of that excellent
-Person, (the present Ornament and Honour of our Nation) whose way of
-writing I imitate: for he may think himself as much injured by my
-following him, as were the Heavens by that bold mans counterfeiting
-the sacred and unimitable noise of Thunder by the sound of Brass and
-Horses hoofs. I shall onely say for my self, that I took _Cicero_’s
-advice, who bids us in imitation propose the Noblest pattern to our
-thoughts; for so we may be sure to be raised above the common Level,
-though we come infinitely short of what we aim at. Yet I hope that
-renowned Poet will have none of my crimes any way reflect on himself;
-for it was not any fault in the excellent Musician, that the weak
-Bird, indeavouring by straining its throat, to follow his Notes,
-destroyed her self in the Attempt. Well, Sir, by this, that I have
-chosen rather to expose my self than be disobedient, you may guess
-with what zeal and hazard I strive to approve my self,
-
-  =SIR=,
-
-  _Your most Humble and
-  Affectionate Servant_,
-
-  ~THO. SPRAT~.
-
-
-
-
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-
-~THUCYDIDES~, Lib. 2.
-
-As it is excellently Translated by Mr. _Hobbs_.
-
-
-_In the very beginning of Summer, the_ Peloponnesians, _and their_
-Confederates, _with two thirds of their forces, as before invaded_
-Attica, _under the conduct of_ Archidamus, _the son of_ Zeuxidamas,
-_King of_ Lacedæmon, _and after they had encamped themselves, wasted
-the Countrey about them_.
-
-_They had not been many days in_ Attica, _when the Plague first
-began amongst the_ Athenians, _said also to have seized formerly on
-divers other parts, as about_ Lemnos, _and elsewhere; but so great
-a Plague, and Mortality of Men, was never remembred to have hapned
-in any place before. For at first, neither were the Physicians able
-to cure it, through ignorance of what it was, but died fastest
-themselves, as being the men that most approach’d the sick, nor any
-other art of man availed whatsoever. All supplications to the_ Gods,
-_and enquiries of_ Oracles, _and whatsoever other means they used
-of that kind, proved all unprofitable; insomuch as subdued with the
-greatness of the evil, they gave them all over. It began (by report)
-first, in that part of_ Æthiopia _that lieth upon_ Ægypt, _and thence
-fell down into_ Ægypt _and_ Afrique, _and into the greatest part of
-the Territories of the_ King. _It invaded_ Athens _on a sudden, and
-touched first upon those that dwelt in_ Pyræus, _insomuch as they
-reported that the_ Peloponnesians _had cast poyson into their Wells;
-for Springs there were not any in that place. But afterwards it came
-up into the high City, and then they died a great deal faster. Now
-let every man, Physician, or other, concerning the ground of this
-sickness, whence it sprung, and what causes he thinks able to produce
-so great an alteration, speak according to his own knowledge; for my
-own part, I will deliver but the manner of it, and lay open onely
-such things, as one may take his Mark by, to discover the same if it
-come again, having been both sick of it my self, and seen others sick
-of the same. This year, by confession of all men, was of all other,
-for other Diseases, most free and healthful. If any man were sick
-before, his disease turned to this; if not, yet suddenly, without
-any apparent cause preceding, and being in perfect health, they
-were taken first with an extream ache in their Heads, redness and
-inflamation of the Eyes; and then inwardly their Throats and Tongues
-grew presently bloody, and their breath noysome and unsavory. Upon
-this followed a sneezing and hoarsness, and not long after, the pain,
-together with a mighty cough, came down into the brest. And when
-once it was setled in the Stomach, it caused vomit, and with great
-torment came up all manner of bilious purgation that Physicians ever
-named. Most of them had also the Hickeyexe, which brought with it
-a strong Convulsion, and in some ceased quickly, but in others was
-long before it gave over. Their bodies outwardly to the touch, were
-neither very hot, nor pale, but reddish, livid, and beflowred with
-little pimples and whelks; but so burned inwardly, as not to endure
-any the lightest cloaths or linnen garment to be upon them, nor any
-thing but meer nakedness, but rather, most willingly to have cast
-themselves into the cold water. And many of them that were not looked
-to, possessed with insatiate thirst, ran unto the Wells; and to drink
-much, or little, was indifferent, being still from ease and power to
-sleep as far as ever. As long as the disease was at the height, their
-bodies wasted not, but resisted the torment beyond all expectation,
-insomuch as the most of them either died of their inward burning in 9
-or 7 dayes, whilest they had yet strength, or if they escaped that,
-then the disease falling down into their bellies, and causing there
-great exulcerations and immoderate looseness, they died many of them
-afterwards through weakness: For the disease (which took first the
-head) began above, and came down, and passed through the whole body;
-and he that overcame the worst of it, was yet marked with the loss of
-his extreme parts; for breaking out both at their Privy-members, and
-at their Fingers and Toes, many with the loss of these escaped. There
-were also some that lost there Eys, & many that presently upon their
-recovery were taken with such an oblivion of all things whatsoever,
-as they neither knew themselves nor their acquaintance. For this was
-a kind of sickness which far surmounted all expression of words, and
-both exceeded Humane Nature, in the cruelty wherewith it handled
-each one, and appeared also otherwise to be none of those diseases
-that are bred amongst us, and that especially by this. For all, both
-Birds and Beasts; that use to feed on Humane flesh, though many men
-lay abroad unburied, either came not at them, or tasting perished.
-An Argument whereof as touching the_ Birds, _is the manifest defect
-of such Fowl, which were not then seen, neither about the Carcasses,
-or any where else; but by the Dogs, because they are familiar with
-Men, this effect was seen much clearer. So that this disease (to
-pass over many strange particulars of the accidents that some had
-differently from others) was in general such as_ I _have shewn; and
-for other usual sicknesses, at that time, no man was troubled with
-any. Now they died, some for want of attendance, and some again with
-all the care and_ Physick _that could be used. Nor was there any,
-to say, certain Medicine, that applied must have helped them; for
-if it did good to one, it did harm to another; nor any difference
-of_ Body _for strength or weakness that was able to resist it; but
-it carried all away what Physick soever was administred. But the
-greatest misery of all was, the dejection of Mind, in such as found
-themselves beginning to be sick, (for they grew presently desperate,
-and gave themselves over without making any resistance) as also their
-dying thus like_ Sheep, _infected by mutual visitation: For if men
-forbore to visit them for fear, then they died forlorn, whereby many
-Families became empty, for want of such as should take care of them.
-If they forbore not, then they died themselves, and principally the
-honestest men. For out of shame, they would not spare themselves,
-but went in unto their friends, especially after it was come to this
-pass, that even their Domesticks, wearied with the lamentations of
-them that died, and overcome with the greatness of the calamity,
-were no longer moved therewith. But those that were recovered, had
-much compassion both on them that died, and on them that lay sick,
-as having both known the misery themselvs and now no more subject
-to the like danger: For this disease never took any man the second
-time so as to be mortal. And these men were both by others counted
-happy, and they also themselves, through excess of present joy,
-conceived a kind of light hope, never to die of any other sickness
-hereafter. Besides the present affliction, the reception of the
-Countrey people, and of their substance into the City, oppressed
-both them, and much more the people themselves that so came in. For
-having no Houses, but dwelling at that time of the year in stifling
-Booths, the Mortality was now without all form; and dying men lay
-tumbling one upon another in the Streets, and men half dead about
-every Conduit through desire of water. The_ Temples _also where they
-dwelt in_ Tents, _were all full of the dead that died within them;
-for oppressed with the violence of the Calamity, and not knowing what
-to do, Men grew careless, both of_ Holy _and_ Prophane _things alike.
-And the Laws which they formerly used touching_ Funerals, _were all
-now broken; every one burying where he could find room. And many for
-want of things necessary, after so many Deaths before, were forced to
-become impudent in the_ Funerals _of their_ Friends. _For when one
-had made a_ Funeral Pile, _another getting before him, would throw
-on his dead, and give it fire. And when one was in burning, another
-would come, and having cast thereon him whom he carried, go his way
-again. And the great licentiousness, which also in other kinds was
-used in the City, began at first from this disease. For that which
-a man before would dissemble, and not acknowledge to be done for
-voluptuousness, he durst now do freely, seeing before his Eyes such
-quick revolution, of the rich dying, and men worth nothing inheriting
-their Estates; insomuch as they justified a speedy fruition of their
-Goods, even for their pleasure, as Men that thought they held their
-Lives but by the day. As for pains, no man was forward in any action
-of Honour, to take any, because they thought it uncertain whether
-they should die or not, before they atchieved it. But what any man
-knew to be delightful, and to be profitable to pleasure, that was
-made both profitable and honourable. Neither the fear of the Gods,
-nor Laws of men, awed any man. Not the former, because they concluded
-it was alike to worship or not worship, from seeing that alike they
-all perished: nor the latter, because no man expected that lives
-would last, till he received punishment of his crimes by Judgement.
-But they thought there was now over their heads some far greater
-Judgement decreed against them; before which fell, they thought to
-enjoy some little part of their Lives._
-
-
-
-
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-
-_The Plague of_
-
-~ATHENS~.
-
-
-      Unhappy Man! by Nature made to sway,
-      And yet is every Creatures prey,
-      Destroy’d by those that should his power obey.
-      Of the whole World we call _Mankind_ the Lords,
-            Flattring our selves with mighty words;
-            Of all things we the Monarchs are,
-      And so we rule, and so we domineer;
-            All creatures else about us stand
-            Like some _Prætorian_ Band,
-            To guard, to help, and to defend;
-            Yet they sometimes prove Enemies,
-            Sometimes against us rise;
-      Our very Guards rebel, and tyrannize.
-            Thousand Diseases sent by Fate,
-            (Unhappie Servants!) on us wait;
-            A thousand Treacheries within
-            Are laid weak Life to win;
-            Huge Troops of Maladies without,
-      (A grim, a meager, and a dreadful rout:)
-            Some formal Sieges make
-      And with sure slowness do our Bodies take;
-      Some with quick violence storm the Town,
-            And all in a moment down:
-            Some one peculiar sort assail,
-      Some by general attempt prevail.
-      Small Herbs, alas, can onely us relieve,
-      And small is the assistance they can give;
-      How can the fading Off spring of the Field
-            Sure health and succour yield?
-            What strong and certain remedie?
-        What firm and lasting life can ours be?
-      When that which makes us live, doth ev’ry Winter die?
-
-
-II.
-
-        Nor is this all, we do not onely breed
-            Within our selves the fatal seed
-        Of change, and of decrease in ev’ry part,
-      Head, Bellie, Stomach, and the Root of Life the Heart,
-        Not onely have our Autumn, when we must
-            Of our own Nature turn to Dust,
-            When Leaves and Fruit must fall;
-        But are expos’d to mighty Tempests too,
-        Which do at once what that would slowlie do,
-      Which throw down Fruit and Tree of Life withal.
-            From ruine we in vain
-        Our bodies by repair maintain,
-            Bodies compos’d of stuff,
-            Mouldring and frail enough;
-        Yet from without as well we fear
-            A dangerous and destructful War,
-        From Heaven, from Earth, from Sea, from Air.
-        We like the _Roman Empire_ should decay,
-            And our own force would melt away
-                  By the intestine jar
-        Of Elephants, which on each other prey,
-      The _Cæsars_ and the _Pompeys_ which within we bear:
-            Yet are (like that) in danger too
-        Of forreign Armies, and external foe,
-        Sometimes the _Gothish_ and the barbarous rage
-        Of Plague, or Pestilence, attends Mans age,
-            Which neither Force nor Arts asswage;
-        Which cannot be avoided, or withstood,
-      But drowns, and over-runs with unexpected Flood.
-
-
-III.
-
-        On _Æthiopia_, and the Southern-sands,
-        The unfrequented Coasts, and parched Land,
-        Whither the Sun too kind a heat doth send,
-      (The Sun, which the worst Neighbour is, and the best Friend)
-              Hither a mortal influence came,
-              A fatal and unhappy flame,
-              Kindled by Heavens angry beam.
-      With dreadful frowns the Heavens scattered here
-        Cruel infectious heats into the Air,
-        Now all their stores of poyson sent,
-            Threatning at once a general doom,
-            Lavisht out all their hate, and meant
-        In future Ages to be innocent,
-      Not to disturb the World for many years to come.
-            Hold! Heavens hold! Why should your Sacred Fire,
-            Which doth to all things Life inspire,
-            By whose kinde beams you bring
-            Each year on every thing,
-            A new and glorious Spring,
-            Which doth th’ Original Seed
-        Of all things in the Womb of Earth that breed,
-            With vital heat and quick’ning seed,
-        Why should you now that heat imploy,
-      The Earth, the Air, the Fields, the Cities to annoy?
-      That which before reviv’d, why should it now destroy?
-
-
-IV.
-
-        Those _Africk_ Desarts strait were double Desarts grown,
-            The rav’nous Beasts were left alone,
-            The rav’nous beasts then first began
-            To pity their old enemy Man,
-      And blam’d the Plague for what they would themselves have done.
-            Nor stay’d the cruel evil there,
-        Nor could be long confin’d unto one Air,
-            Plagues presently forsake
-        The Wilderness which they themselves do make,
-        Away the deadly breaths their journey take.
-            Driven by a mighty wind,
-        They a new booty and fresh forrage find.
-            The loaded wind went swiftly on,
-        And as it past was heard to sigh and groan.
-            On _Ægypt_ next it seiz’d,
-      Nor could but by a general ruine be appeas’d.
-        _Ægypt_ in rage back on the South did look,
-        And wondred thence should come th’ unhappy stroke,
-        From whence before her fruitfulness she took.
-            _Egypt_ did now curse and revile
-        Those very Lands from whence she has her _Nile_;
-        _Egypt_ now fear’d another _Hebrew_ God,
-      Another Angels Hand, a second _Aarons_ Rod.
-
-
-V.
-
-        Then on it goes, and through the Sacred Land
-            Its angry Forces did command,
-            But God did place an Angel there,
-            Its violence to withstand,
-        And turn into another road the putrid Air.
-        To _Tyre_ it came, and there did all devour,
-        Though that by Seas might think it self secure:
-            Nor staid, as the great Conquerors did,
-            Till it had fill’d and stopt the tyde,
-            Which did it from the shore divide,
-        But past the waters, and did all possess,
-            And quickly all was wilderness.
-            Thence it did _Persia_ over-run,
-        And all that Sacrifice unto the Sun;
-        In every Limb a dreadful pain they felt,
-            Tortur’d with secret coals did melt;
-        The _Persians_ call’d upon their Sun in vain,
-            Their God increas’d the pain.
-            They lookt up to their God no more,
-        But curse the beams they worshipped before,
-      And hate the very fire which once they did adore.
-
-
-VI.
-
-        Glutted with ruine of the East,
-      She took her wings and down to _Athens_ past:
-            Just Plague! which dost no parties take,
-            But _Greece_ as well as _Persia_ sack,
-            While in unnatural quarrels they
-            (Like Frogs and Mice) each other slay,
-        Thou in thy ravenous claws took’st both away.
-        Thither it came and did destroy the Town,
-        Whilest all its Ships and Souldiers lookt upon:
-            And now the _Asian_ Plague did more
-        Than all the _Asian_ Force could do before.
-        Without the Walls the _Spartan_ Army sate,
-            The _Spartan_ Army came too late;
-        For now there was no farther work for fate.
-            They saw the Citie open lay,
-            An easie and a bloodless prey,
-            They saw the rampires emptie stand,
-            The Fleet, the Walls, the Forts Unman’d.
-        No need of crueltie or slaughters now
-        The Plague had finisht what they came to do:
-        They might now unresisted enter there,
-            Did they not the very Air,
-            More than th’ _Athenians_ fear.
-      The Air it self to them was wall, and bullwarks too.
-
-
-VII.
-
-        Unhappy _Athens_! it is true, thou wert
-        The proudest work of Nature and of Art:
-            Learning and strength did thee compose,
-              As soul and body us:
-            But yet thou onely thence art made
-            A nobler prey for Fates t’ invade.
-        Those mighty numbers that within thee breath,
-      Do onely serve to make a fatter feast for Death.
-        Death in the most frequented places lives,
-            Most tribute from the croud receives;
-        And though it bears a sigh, and seems to own
-            A rustick life alone:
-            It loves no Wilderness,
-            No scattred Villages,
-          But mighty populous Palaces,
-        The throng, the tumult, and the town;
-        What strange, unheard-of Conqueror is this,
-      Which by the forces that resist it doth increase!
-            When other Conquerors are
-            Oblig’d to make a slower war,
-            Nay sometimes for themselves may fear,
-              And must proceed with watchful care,
-        When thicker troops of enemies appear;
-        This stronger still, and more successeful grows,
-            Down sooner all before it throws,
-      If greater multitudes of men do it oppose.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-        The Tyrant first the haven did subdue,
-          Lately the _Athenians_ (it knew)
-        Themselves by wooden walls did save,
-        And therefore first to them th’ infection gave,
-          Least they new succour thence receive.
-        Cruel _Pyræus_! now thou hast undone,
-          The honour thou before hadst wone:
-            Not all thy Merchandize,
-            Thy wealth, thy treasuries,
-        Which from all Coasts thy Fleet supplies,
-          Can to atone this crime suffice.
-          Next o’re the upper Town it spread,
-          With mad and undiscerned speed;
-          In every corner, every street,
-          Without a guide did sets its feet,
-        And too familiar every house did greet.
-        Unhappy _Greece_ of _Greece_! great _Theseus_ now
-          Did thee a mortal injury do,
-          When first in walls he did thee close,
-        When first he did thy Citizens reduce,
-        Houses and Government, and Lawes to use.
-        It had been better if thy people still
-          Dispersed in some field, or hill,
-      Though Salvage, and undisciplin’d did dwell,
-          Though barbarous, untame, and rude,
-        Than by their numbers thus 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 _Jove_,
-            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 for her,
-        No weapon large enough but all the Air;
-            Men felt the heat within him 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 slow 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 should
-            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 takes away with him part of the house:
-        So here the vanquisht evil took from them
-            Who 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 mindes were but one darker blot;
-            Those various pictures in the head,
-            And all the numerous shapes were fled;
-            And now the 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,
-            ’Twas an unhappy remedie,
-      Which cur’d him 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 _Æsculapius_ 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 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 resemblances
-        Of things to come, and of the World below,
-            O’re their distemper’d fancies goe:
-        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.
-
-            Scattred 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 street, 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
-            Which them from double chains
-            Of body and of iron free.
-        Here others poyson’d by the scent
-            Which 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 world 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 onely beg’d of Fate,
-        Some few months more, but ’twas 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
-        What happy dayes, what joyes they had in store;
-      But Fate, e’re 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 resistless sway,
-            Whilest 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 o’re,
-              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 a 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,
-                Slaughters 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 ’tis 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 tortering sweats,
-              Where never ray, or heat did come,
-              They will rejoyce at such a doom,
-              They’l bless thy Pestilential fire,
-                Though by it they expire,
-      They’l thank the very Flames with which they do consume.
-
-
-XXV.
-
-        Then if that banquet will not thee suffice,
-        Seek out new Lands where thou maist tyrannize;
-            Search every forrest, every hill,
-        And all that in the hollow mountains dwell;
-            Those wild and untame troops devour,
-        Thereby thou wilt the rest of men secure,
-        And that the rest of men will thank thee for.
-            Let all those humane beasts be slain,
-            Till scarce their memory remain;
-        Thy self with that ignoble slaughter fill,
-        ’Twill be permitted thee that blood to spill.
-            Measure the ruder world throughout,
-            March all the Ocean shores about,
-        Only pass by and spare the _British Isle_.
-        Go on, and (what _Columbus_ once shall do,
-        When daies and time unto their ripeness grow)
-        Find out new lands, and unknown countries too.
-            Attempt those lands which yet are hid
-            From all Mortalitie beside:
-            There thou maist deal a victory,
-            And none of this world hear the cry
-            Of those that by thy wounds shall die;
-            No _Greek_ shall know thy cruelty,
-            And tell it to posterity.
-        Go, and unpeople all those mighty Lands,
-            Destroy with unrelenting hands;
-            Go, and the _Spaniards_ sword prevent,
-            Go, make the _Spaniard_ innocent,
-            Go, and root out all man-kind there.
-      That when the _Europæan_ Armies shall appear,
-            Their sin may be the less,
-            They may find all a wilderness,
-      And without blood the gold and silver there possess.
-
-
-XXVI.
-
-            Nor is this all which we thee grant;
-      Rather than thou should’st full imployment want,
-        We do permit in _Greece_ it self thy kingdom plant.
-            Ransack _Lycurgus_ streets throughout,
-        They’ve no defence of walls to keep thee out.
-            On wanton and proud _Corinth_ seise,
-        Nor let her double waves thy flames appease.
-        Let _Cyprus_ feel more fires than those of Love,
-        Let _Delos_ which at first did give the Sun,
-            See unknown Flames in her begun,
-        Now let her wish she might unconstant proves,
-            And from her place might truly move.
-            Let _Lemnos_ all thy anger feel,
-            And think that a new _Vulcan_ fell,
-      And brought with him new Anvils, and new hell.
-        Nay and at _Athens_ too we give thee up,
-        All that thou find’st in Field, or camp, or shop,
-            Make havock there without controul
-        Of every ignorant and common soul;
-        But then kind Plague, thy conquests stop;
-        Let Arts, and let the learned there escape,
-        Upon _Minerva’s_ self commit no rape;
-            Touch not the sacred throng,
-        And let _Apollo’s_ Priests be like him young,
-            Let him be healthful too, and strong.
-            But ah! too ravenous plague, whilst I
-            Strive to keep off the misery,
-      The learned too as fast as others round me die;
-            They from corruption are not free,
-      Are mortal though they give an immortality.
-
-
-XXVII.
-
-        They turn’d their Authors o’re, to try,
-            What help, what cure, what remedy
-        All Natures stores against this Plague supply,
-        And though besides they shunn’d it every where,
-      They search’d it in their books, and fain would meet it there.
-            They turn’d the Records of the antient times,
-      And chiefly those that were made famous by their crimes;
-            To find if men were punish’d so before,
-            But found not the Disease nor cure.
-            Nature alas! was now surpriz’d,
-            And all her Forces seiz’d,
-        Before she was how to resist advis’d:
-        So when the Elephants did first affright
-              The _Romans_ with unusual fight,
-              They many battels lose,
-              Before they knew their foes,
-      Before they understood such dreadful troops t’oppose.
-
-
-XXVIII.
-
-            Now ev’ry different Sect agrees
-      Against their common adversary the disease,
-            And all their little wranglings cease;
-        The _Pythagoreans_ from their precepts swerve,
-            No more their silence they observe,
-            Out of their Schools they run,
-            Lament, and cry, and groan;
-        They now desir’d their Metempsychosis;
-            Not onely do dispute, but wish
-      That they might turn to beasts, or fowls, or fish.
-            If the _Platonicks_ had been here,
-            They would have curs’d their Masters year,
-            When all things shall be as they were,
-        When they again the same disease should bear:
-            And all Philosophers would now,
-            What the great _Stagyrite_ shall do,
-      Themselves into the waters head-long throw.
-
-
-XXIX.
-
-            The _Stoick_ felt the deadly stroke,
-        At first assault their courage was not broke,
-            They call’d to all the Cobweb aid,
-        Of rules and precepts, which in store they had,
-            They bid their hearts stand out,
-            Bid them be calm and stout;
-        But all the strength of precepts will not do’t.
-        They cannot the storms of passions now asswage,
-        As common men are angry, grieve, and rage.
-            The Gods are called upon in vain,
-        The Gods gave no release unto their pain,
-        The Gods to fear even for themselves began.
-        For now the sick unto the Temples came,
-            And brought more than a holy flame,
-            There at the Altars made their prayer,
-            They sacrific’d and died there,
-            A sacrifice not seen before;
-          That Heaven, onely us’d unto the gore
-            Of Lambs or Bulls, should now
-      Loaded with Priests see its own Altars too.
-
-
-XXX.
-
-            The woods gave fun’ral piles no more,
-            The dead the very fire devour,
-      And that almighty Conqueror over-power.
-            The noble and the common dust
-      Into each others graves are thrust,
-            No place is sacred, and no tomb,
-            ’Tis now a priviledge to consume;
-            Their ashes no distinction had;
-        Too truly all by death are equal made.
-        The Ghosts of those great Heroes that had fled
-            From _Athens_ long since banished,
-            Now o’re the City hovered;
-            Their anger yielded to their love,
-            They left th’ immortal joyes above;
-        So much their _Athens_ danger did them move,
-            They came to pity and to aid,
-            But now alas! were quite dismay’d,
-        When they beheld the marbles open lay’d,
-        And poor mens bones the noble Urns invade:
-            Back to the blessed seats they went,
-            And now did thank their banishment,
-      By which they were to die in forreign Countries sent.
-
-
-XXXI.
-
-            But what, Great Gods! was worst of all,
-        Hell forth its magazines of Lusts did call,
-            Nor would it be content
-      With the thick troops of souls were thither sent;
-            Into the upper world it went,
-            Such guilt, such wickedness,
-            Such irreligion did increase,
-            That the few good who did survive,
-      Were angry with the Plague for suffring them to live,
-            More for the living than the dead did grieve:
-            Some robb’d the very dead,
-        Though sure to be infected ere they fled,
-      Though in the very Air sure to be punished.
-        Some nor the shrines nor temples spar’d,
-            Nor Gods, nor Heavens fear’d,
-        Though such examples of their power appear’d.
-          Vertue was now esteem’d an empty name,
-          And honesty the foolish voice of fame;
-          For having pass’d those tort’ring flames before,
-          They thought the punishment already o’re,
-          Thought Heaven no worse torments had in store,
-      Here having felt one Hell, they thought there was no more.
-
-
-=FINIS=.
-
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-A List of some choice Poems, Printed for _Henry Brome_ at the _Gun_
-in _Ivy-lane_.
-
-  Poems {Lyrique,      }
-        {Macronique,   } by Mr. _Henry Bold_.
-        {Heroique, &c. }
-
-Songs and Poems by Mr. _A. Brome_, the second Edition.
-
-All the Songs and Poems on the _Long Parliament_, from 1640. till
-1661. by Persons of Quality.
-
-Songs and Poems by the Wits of both Universities.
-
-_Scarronnides_, or _Virgil Travestie_, a Mock-Poem, being the first
-Book of _Virgils Æneis_ in English, _Burlesque_.
-
-_Scarronnides_, or _Virgil Travestie_, a Mock-Poem, being the fourth
-Book of _Virgils Æneis_ in English, _Burlesque_: both by a Person of
-Honour.
-
-Also, a List of what Damages we have received by the _Dutch_; And a
-brief History of the late War with the _Turks_.
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-~PLAYES~.
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-  The English Moor.
-  The Love-sick Court.
-  The New Academy.
-  The Weeding of _Covent-Garden_.
-  The Royal Exchange.
-  The Jovial Crew; or the Merry Beggars.
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-  _All by Mr_. Richard Brome.
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-  =IMPRIMATUR=,
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-  Guil. Jane. R. P. D. Hen. Epis. Lond.
-  à Sacris Dom.
-
-  _Nov._ the _9th_ 1678.
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-  TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
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-  Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
-  and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
-
-  Preface
-  Pg 4: ‘must hvve helped’ replaced by ‘must have helped’.
-  Pg 6: ‘and hononourable’ replaced by ‘and honourable’.
-
-  Poem
-  Pg 4: ‘great Conqueros’ replaced by ‘great Conquerors’.
-  Pg 8: ‘within ’um rage’ replaced by ‘within him rage’.
-  Pg 10: ‘the toof or’ replaced by ‘the roof or’.
-  Pg 11: ‘Which cur’d ’um’ replaced by ‘Which cur’d him’.
-  Pg 20: ‘all min-kind’ replaced by ‘all man-kind’.
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