Arbor vitae, or, The natural history of the tree of life : in prose and verse.

  • Thomas Stretzer
Date:
1741
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Credit: Arbor vitae, or, The natural history of the tree of life : in prose and verse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The tawny Queen to Helen lent, To cure her Griefs at all Event. Great Miltons Murd'rer fay s, it is The fam'd Mach ter a Herculis, And proves from Tome old Grecian Poet, So plain that all Men fare muft know it. That of this Tree the Club was made, With which he overcome ft is (aid) Thefpius Daughters, all grown wild, Andfifty Mad Women made mild3 Which very Club—(it makes one laugh) Omphale turn'd into a Diftaff. Nay, the Hefperian Tree was this, As (hew the Toma Veneris; Thefe Apples doubtlefs were the Fruit That 'twixt the Queens rais’d (uch De¬ pute* To make them allftart naked ftand^ While Taris held it in his Hand, And chuck'd into Venus's Mouth, Caufc (lie with Beauty fir'd the Youth. The Virtues are of inch great Note, That twenty Volumes might be wrote ; The
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