The battle of Waterloo. A poem / [John Haskins].

Haskins, John

Date:: 1816

Credit: The battle of Waterloo. A poem / [John Haskins]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$5. “ Its poison, Upas like.” The Bohon Upas, a fabulous tree said to grow in the island of Java, whose deleterious influence is such, as to cause the death of all animals that come within the reach of its effluvia. The climate, however, of Java is particularly unhealthy. 6. “ And suck'd with fiend-like gust the spouting gore” It is asserted as a fact, that the Poissardes of Paris at the time of the revolution, actually sucked the blood of those un¬ fortunate human beings, who fell victims to their fury. \ * • 1 .\y ’ ? - 7. —“ the sable Edward.” i Edward, the Black Prince, eldest son of Edward III. so called from the color of his armour. He was not fourteen years of age at the battle of Cressy. It w&s in this memor-$

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