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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    As fierce and early as it did in Spain. What flaughter in our /ta/y was made Where Zzer’s Tribute to the Oceans paid ; Where Poe does through a hundred Cities glide, jN And pours.as many Streams into the Tide, All at one Seafon, all without relief, Receiv'd and languifht with the common grief. Since from Pyrene’s foot, to Ztaly, It hed its Bane on France, while Space was free. | As foon the fertile Rhine its fury found, . And Regions with eternal Winter bound: Nor yet did Southern Climes its vengeance fhun, But felt a flame more fcorching than the Syn. The Palms of Ida now negiegted ftood, And Egypt languitht while her Nie o ‘erflow'ds From]