Syphilis: or, a poetical history of the French disease / Written in Latin ... And now attempted in English by N. Tate. [With life of Fracastorius].

  • Girolamo Fracastoro
Date:
1686
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Credit: Syphilis: or, a poetical history of the French disease / Written in Latin ... And now attempted in English by N. Tate. [With life of Fracastorius]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    What man can with immortal Pow’rs compare? Fly, wretches, fly, his Altars foon repair, h Load them with Incenfe, Him with Pray’rs invade, is His Anger will not eafily be laid ; ({wear, ] i Your Doom is paft, black Styx has heard him ' _ This Plague fhould never be extinguifht here, | 5 Since then your Soil muft ne’er be wholly free, % Beg Heav'n at leaft to yield fome Remedy: Bsr Amilkwhite Cow on Funo's Altar lay, BO, To Mother Earth a jet-black Heifer flay ; Bi One from above the happy Seeds hall thed, Bi The other rear the Grove and make it fpread, Pi That onely for your Grief a Cure fhall yield. B bx ' She faid: the Croud return‘d to th’ open’d Field, aC Rais'd Altars to the Sun without delay, w To Mother Earth, and Fumo Vitims flay. n Ni Twill feem moft ftrange what now I hall declare, But by our Gods and Anceftours I {wear, Tis |