The plague of Athens, : which hapened [sic] in the second year of the Peloponnesian war / First described in Greek, by Thucydides; then in Latin by Lucretius. Since attempted in English by the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas Lord Bishop of Rochester.

  • Thomas Sprat
Date:
1709
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Credit: The plague of Athens, : which hapened [sic] in the second year of the Peloponnesian war / First described in Greek, by Thucydides; then in Latin by Lucretius. Since attempted in English by the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas Lord Bishop of Rochester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sa oes lace eee ae bi is Fil i bt . And ftopt the Paflages of fpecch and life; No room_was left for groans or grief; Too cruel and imperious ill t Which not content to kill, With Tyrannous and dreadful pain, — Doft take from Men the very power tocomplain? | _ 12. Then down it went into the very breaft; There all the feats and fhops of life pofle(s'd, - Such noifom fmells from thence did come, As if the Stomach were a Tomb ; Be No food would there abide, | _ Or if it did, turn’d to the Enemies fide; The very Meat new Poyfons to the Plague fupply’d: A Next to the Hear the fires came, | The Heart did wonder what ufurping flame, What unknown furnace fhou’d ; On its more natural heat intrude, Stait call’d its Spirits up but found too well, It was too late now torebel, — The tainted Blood its courfe began; a And carried death where eer it ran, That which before was Nature’s nobleft Art; } The Circulation from the Heart, Was moft deftrutful now, And nature fpeedier did undo, For that the fooner did impart Te The Poyfon and the fmart, The infe&tious Blood to every diftant part; 13. The Belly felt.at laft its Share, And all che fubtile Labyrints there — Of winding Bowels did new Montfters beat: Here
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