Tabacum : poema libris duobus / auctore Raphaële Thorio.

  • Raphael Thorius
Date:
1716
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Tabacum : poema libris duobus / auctore Raphaële Thorio. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LL fru&ibus hine fapor accedit; hinc floribus omnis. fpirat odor: retinenlqu ' fui veftigia fucci. - At tcllure latent, penitus confuía cavernis, Sulphuiei latices, Nitri glacialis amarors lethale Ai:fenicum, flammis affine Bitumen, 263 argenti Liquor in foedam refolubilis auram; Chalcanthumque acidum, linguaeque aftri&or Alumen, atque alia innumeros fa£tura elementa fapores. Si quis jam excutiat prolixo carmine, de tot principiis.cui accepta ferat fua munera Pactum ; 270 comperiet tanto dignum fudore Bitumen : cujus in eximia fpecies fupereminet herba, pingue, olidum; acre tenax, Nitro fublime volanti; ignis amans, craflaque ferens fuligine fumum. his pi&am in tabula quicunque coloribus herbam 27$ non videt 5 hunc oculis captum, & rationis egentem crediderim : quid enim magis afpe&abile ? dextram trita oleo foedat, digitos & glutine vifcat; et folidat crudum lento ferrumine vulnus; forditiem ulceribus falfugine terget amaras 230 nec putrere finit: fenfum nam faucibus acrem impingit, longumque relinquit in ore calorem. late fufus odor, virofa vividus aura; diffipat ignavum cerebro torpente veternum 5 ficcat & illuviem, edu&is fternumine mucis. 28$ denique, in acreum flammis converfa vaporem; foeta falis vivi; fuperafque volantis ad arces; pervia fpiritibus, mentis capitolia fcandens, , fupplementa nova exhauftis animalibus infert 5 atque hebetes fubite reftaurat acumine mentes — - 290 Planta beata! decus terrarum ! munus Olympi! non tantum agricolis duro laffata labore membra levas, minuis viétus abfentis amorem; fundis & abfque cibo fparfas in corpora vires: fcd radium, fpecimenque dei, fapientibus ipfis 23$ ingenium illuftras, fi quando aut multa tenebras colligit ingluvies cerebro $ aut inolimine longo intelle&us hiat, rerum neque concipit umbras; conceptafve tenet; vel caeca oblivia regnant. ut femel izrepfit blando lux indita fumoy 300 aufugiunt )
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