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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    — ee eee For thé th’ infernal Peft fhould quit the Earth, i cis,)| Abfconding in the Hell, that gave it Birth; rone Yet after lazy Revolutions patft The unfufpected Prodigy at laft, fot] Shall from the womb of Night oncemore be hurl’, , |? infeét the Skies, and-to amaze the World. What therefore feems moft wondrous in his courfe Is that he fhould fo long conceal his Force; ‘For when the Foe his fecret way has made, . | And in our Intrails {trong detachments laid; Yet oft the Moon four monthly rounds fhall fteer | Before convincing Symptoms {hall appear; ing,)| So long the Malady fhall lurk within, \ And grow confirm'd before the danger’s fetta \, | Yet with Difturbance to the wretch difeas'd, \ Who with unwonted heavinefs is feiz’d, | }| With drooping Spirits, his affairs perfues, alt | And all his Limbs. their offices refute, C 4