The sugar-cane: a poem in four books with notes / [James Grainger].

  • James Grainger
Date:
1766
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Credit: The sugar-cane: a poem in four books with notes / [James Grainger]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nor all Apollo’s arts, will always bribe The infidious tyrant death, thrice tyrant here : Elfe good Amyntor, him the graces lov’d, Wifdom carefs’d, and Themis call’d her own, 330 Had liv’d by all admir’d, had now perus’d ‘6 Thefe lines, with all the malice of a friend.” Yer future rains the careful may foretel : Mofquitos, fand-flies, feek the fhelter’d roof, And with fell rage the ftranger-gueft affail, 995 Nor {pare the fportive child ; from their retreats Ver. 334. Mofquitos,] This is'a Spanith word, fignifying 2 Gnat, or Fly. ‘They are very troublefome, efpecially to ftrangers, whom they bite unmercifully, caufing a vellow-coloured tumour attended with exceflive itching. Ugly ulcers have often been occafioned by fcratching thofe {wellings, in perfons of a bad habit of body. Though natives of the Weft-Indies, they are not lefs common in the coldeft regions: for Mr. Maupertuis takes notice how troublefome they were to him and his attendants on the fhowy fummit of certain mountains within the arétic circle. ‘They, however, chiefly love fhady, moift, and warm places. Accordingly they are commoneft to be met with in the corners of rooms, towards evening, and before rain. They are fo light, as not to be felt when they pitch on the fkin; and, as {con as Cte oy mation one has of being bit by them, is the itching tumour. Warm lime-juice is its remedy. ‘The Moiquito makes a humming noife, efpecially in the night-time. Ver. 334. fand-flies.] This infect the Spaniards call Mofqui- tilla, being much imajler than the Mofquito. Its bite is like a {park of fire, falling on the fkin, which it raiies into a fmalk tumour accompanied with itching. But if the fandy-fly caufes a fharper and more fudden pain than the Mofquito, yet it is a more ture, it may eafily be killed. Its colour is grey and black, Cockroaches
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