Επιλοιμια επε OR THE ANATOMY OF THE Pestilence A POEM In three Parts Describing The deplorable Condition of the City of London under its merciless dominion 1665. What the PLAGVE is together with the Causes of it As also The Prognostics and most Effectual Means of Safety both Preservative and Curative By William Austin of Grays-inn Esq London Printed for Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Cornhill 1666. The Printer to the Reader I Have no suspicion or thought at all that after a considerate and thorough perusal of this little Book you will repent of your pains or remain unsatisfied and therefore forbear to court your approbation All I have to say might well have been put in the Title were it not for giving it an unfashionable length I shall only tell you that this Poem was written at the earnest request of some very worthy persons into the Country at that time of the Sickness when the Mortality in London was so great that waving what was generally believed that they not to scare the City from its self were afraid to own and publish half the number of the dead according to the account of the usual Bills there died seven or eight thousand a Week with some hundreds over and above An Affliction never to be forgotten and a Subject worthy to be dedicated to eternal Posterity Errata Those most material that the Reader before perusal is desired to correct are these PAge 8 l. 19 for stoolball read stoball p. 14 l. 16. ● good r. make us good p 27 l. 10 f j●●k ● sack p. 40 l. 6 put † for * l. 19 for † put * l 22. ●or ● pu● † p. 45. l. 10 f. all ● call p. 55 l. 1. for ason ● cau●●● Those less considerable are these Pag● 3. 24 fo● music hill read music bill p 4. 〈…〉 d●es then r. dies than p 8 l 3 for war●●●●● ● wa●fare p. 10. l. 17 ●or smiling r. ●imp●ing p 11 l. 26 for common r. common p. 12. l 6 ●o● to have r ● h●ve p 18. l 5. for were r. are l. 18. for crumb ● ●rumm● p 32 l. 17 after arms put a comma Add his & siqua sint similia THE ANATOMY OF THE Pestilence In the Year of our Lord 1665. Part 1. DRawing a Map of this sad place my quill Seems in the frightful hand that writes a Will. We can't abscond or show our Tyrant-fears But in black robe of mourning characters If you agrade such fitly then the while You 'll with your tears to grace them mix a smile And no less justly look they should be made To have like day or emblem light and shade Others to whom the thoughts of Death seem dull Like bits crammed down the throat when belly 's full May know they spirit or clear eyesight lack Or eyes have none who cannot look on black And he who now dares not be cheerful hath Great scruple doubtless but small heart or faith Then whilst I writ Life's hasty post grim Death Hold not my pen nor come to stop my breath One fully resolute no where to ramble Now life so doubtful is needs no preamble Fancy But stay lest this offence may give We should ask leave to write as well as live Some Politicians silence charge when grief Backed with our healths chief foes hath played the thief From Physic prove their rule that those far best Who very sick lie still and speak the least Wisely sure treat on roast meat when they find Butcher and Cook have blandished their mind If faring ill differs from well their skill Judging of other flesh will thwart their will That Royal Sir who had for happy lot God's heart and King of politics begot When his great breast within was orb of fire The breath his silence kept in flamed it (a) Psal. 3● 2 higher And he who by afflictions did commence The Oracle of tacit patience Saw his contrasted victory o'er death Lay in the vocal virtue of his breath His tyrannous malignant dolours gave No other choice to him but speech or (b) Job 13 19 grave When nothing else will do complaint prevails While pain with vapour from the mouth exhales (c) John 1.9 Confession oft saves life when we endure The smartest sores our crying turns the cure Deep (d) occultarc morbum● fu●●slum wound to hid and lock up closely will Such safety be as to preserve it still In dangerous sickness then to hold one's peace Is like mute sleep to nourish the disease Your * S●●● of fancy septum lucidum a while yet keep Locked to our woe don't grudge us time to weep Who think our setting sun most fitly seems So painted as to cast his longest beams That Plague with Cause and Cure most modey goes When in a large grave cloak of mourning prose Such on the subject will refuse to hear Metre Apollo twitches by the ear He who with smiling cheer on music's hill Plays to the sick his therapeutic Skill Invigors flaccid body drooping soul With his illustrious rays and chants them whole He licence gives who Poet and Musician The pleasant is all-curing God Physician Inventum medicina suum est opisexque per orbem Dicitur herbarum & subjecta potentia vati Ex illo didicerunt funera primum Differre & gelidae vitare pericula mortis Fancy when blub-cheeked Boreas does strain To make a dreadful tempest on the Main When the Sea Arms in mutiny require Oceans to quench their element of fire Waters on waters horridly are laid As first they lay before the World was made Pretending ne'er to be sufficed with men They gape as if they 'd gorge the world again Their gulfey mouths rocks open and provoke Opposing Rocks with dea●'ning noise and smoke Wave murders wave then suddenly does bur● With briny thirst to be its neighbour's urn This drinks that 's blood dies then anew does rowl● As if it had imbibed the others soul. jupiter Neptune Mercury together Join as of old to wander God ●nows whither Neptune with all his forces does arise To take Auxiliaries from the Skies The bottom of the Sea confusely thrown Upward contemns the mountains in the Moon Deep answers deep the waters there and here Above and under heaven compose one sphere When rabid winds like Furies waked from sleep Design the ruin of poor floating ship O'er Hell the billows boiling how the wrack Inebriates the mates with toil and tack Some torn from mast a while with sails proud top They fly and then like Icarus they drop Others reel from the bark on either hand And sink where faithless Peter could not stand Here one with fear freely resigns his breath Another there tired out is forced to death Ralph hastily following Clem's call and beck Justles against Sam and thumps him over deck Like the known sport on Venice bridge or boat A * Two F●ctions in Venice that at a set time in the year contend for the mastery upon a bridge whence they tumble one another into the water Castellane against a Nicholote Or in a formal combat as if he Killing before he died should victor be Some past all hopes of life grown desperate Quickly to b' out of pain conspire with Fate The ship falls as she rides and faintly speaks Her inward bleeding wounds by sundry leaks The sail first tears and then the stately mast Like some great tumbling house exclaims its last Now vessel cast at Boreas his foot Bursts as a fired Granado all about One than on th' other takes fast hold & neither Scapes but like oak and Ivy die together To bovy them up a whil● each broken piece They fasten on and stick like Solon Geese Sporting there with their limbs at stake they 're soon Lost to some Shark that tears them one from one If no such greedy cozening gamester come They drop into the mare mortuum Like blossoms in the spring that some sharp cold Hath sorely nipped they quickly lose their hold Thus 't is with us our dearest darling breath The air we take is not our life but death That by which we should nimbly kick up heel● Spread sails to post along inverts our keels In every moment of swift time we have Surges and ravening fishes for our grave Destiny has the learned Physicians trick And by consent of most lives by the sick Lies as an infant swaddled up in bands Who for her help uses her parents hands Thousands kills daily yet as if her powers Were too too weak alone makes use of ours Such be luxurient clustered grapes and such Fruit hoarded up rots others by the touch As readily as flint and steel we make Fire are as spark and tinder touch and take As did of old those (a) 1 Sam. 14.10 Judg. 7. ● 22 fought with heaven so we Each is his fellows murdering enemy See when in fight Mars ragingly does ride Through armed ranks to triumph on each side When every noise being voiced with fire and smoke Sounds dismally as when heart is broke Soldier on soldier in distracted ire Tumbles like unbound faggots on the fire One deeply wounded dead friend does bemoan Till he fall on him for his burying stone Like Partridge chicken-tailed that you retrieve Here and there drop those can no longer live Here stands a straddling Hector that hath lost As many collops as old pissing post At last with others he 's compelled to yield His body to be pavement to the field Some nimbly rifle others then as those Who took the golden treasure at Talouse Another wounds them so they fall down where They spoil as under load too big to bear They see their friends expire but must no● have Life so long to be witness to their grave Who glory most in valour or in strength Cannot inch time out longer the● their length One's sent t' eternal silence while his jaws Stretch wide in his victorious friends applause Another heartening of his neighbour feels His own faint wounded soul run down his heels Thus we God help us our sick warfare find Being fruit that hang but till the first brisk wind We 're standing-corn to day then by and by With sickle cut we do but live to die Where the judicious make but a retreat Timorous vulgar crowds have their defeat One seeing how they tremble as they stand Would think they were on * Plin Gabians quaking land They goods imprison in each chest and hutch As if they were made guilty by their touch As tim'rously they talk look pale and stare As if they had been frighted by the air  they do firmly establish their intents First shuttlecock and stoolball arguments They 're bid to sly and then they 're bid to stay And so are hailed and tortured every way Some strive to change at least their vote Prorogue But the far greater number bears the vogue Should pelf say they so far with us prevail As to outweigh our lives in th' other scale Linger we here like Archimede till we Circled ourselves out of all Geometry No Balak bids where God shows angry face To build him altar in another place Let 's therefore lock up all and hasten out And so they turn the sail and ta●k about Both of them and their goods we are bereft While their fear seems concomitant to theft They run to hid their heads in every hole As if their bag and baggage they had stole Have ye ever seen a routed army how They mount up head and tail like capering cow Bound as Tre-ding-te-do or as when shot Falls in the rear and rouzes lazy Wat Leap hedge then fall in ditch scape ditch and then Flounce into bog then out and in again Think us as light of heel as wild and mad As new hatched Partridge of the Tribe of Gad. But as unlucky birds it is our lot That scarce one of a flock escapes the shot Haply we 're safe the first day of our flight But go into our winding-sheet at night So have I seen poor panting hunted deer Wounded by fatal arrows here and there Sigh fly wind turn but does as vainly fret As rambling Coney struggles in a net Heightens her dole and after all her course The life she 'd save is torn from her by force From her own self she posts away apace And makes the greater speed to lose the race By those infectious fires that she flies Like squib i'●h' air quickly consumes she dies Physic's suspended now you 'll soon see why As herbs their season come hung up to dry No man that sells his wisdom here will be Where Patient dies  he can come for fee. You must allow that they who judges sit On life and death should go the circuit What would a man chides the Physician have What should he do where he wants skill to save It cannot be honest or wise man's part To meddle with a thing beyond his art The Plague being out of humane power doth prove That there 's infallibly a God above To see men die and never make complaint More than by Purge or Pill would fright a Saint Pity with fear would move an heathens sense And bring his frailty to his conscience IT would make him as a Christian Physician Try well the Simples of his Composition Smpling's a part of Physic and you know Solomon said take simples where they grow Doctors must needs be wanted where they 're gone For all the country 's strangely liver-grown The sorrow that to us does intervene Makes us extremely troubled with the Spleen Much honesty and kindness they do show Telling us all their mind before they go They say mox longè tardè and thus put As wise men should their Iliads in a nut Who is not satisfied with this may fret Till Passion prove his antidote by Sweat A medicine that is taken  't is given Good to drive out their oldland ●and druggy leaven If any with their Lord have mercy's ble●t He may get Parish-Priest to do the rest Physicians so into Divins will run And then exhale as Spirits in the Sun They'd reprehended be to go away Like those who would not heal on Sabbath day Withdraw from the disease their helpful skill When it hath got the greatest force to kill Claim so great same of us and when they come To merit leave their titles in their room Like distant spreading trees some sinking wretch Reaching out to does only shadow catch But none can be dishonoured shamed or shent For wanting his full power they represent They never were intended such renown To have with Doctors style great Nature's crown They 're still but Mortals who our crazy harms Are not to help by miracles or charms Their absence intimates they do endure ●ardship with detriment for Patients cure And for the good of Nature are designed To help her work * Hipp. sect 1. ●pho 21. that way she 's most inclined Their Patients their copartners they make The prescripts they give them themselves they take What though the air common as water be jordan could serve to cure the Leprosy Those that have care of souls have bodies And these must be provided for you know Therefore that honest neighbour don't esteem One next himself the farther off from him They tell him what no Heathen is so strict Learned or wise to have wit to contradict That virtuous man can ne'er offend or sin Who makes his Charity at home begin So having pleasured those that would complain As with thick cloak against a shower of rain That blessing want not which the sick require Make us as happy as we can desire  they depart bid us adieu and thus Leave God the best Physician with us They leave us and we well do know the matter That shepherds when the sheep are smitten scatter Who t' Aaron now or Moses make address As of old seek them in the Wilderness Wh●re no more Grove-Idolatry we 'll fear Since Levites who Gods judgements dread are there We wonder not they leave us thus alone That Prophets fail us since the Law is gone We would reprove them well to leave us here Like Priest and Levite v●lned passenger If they should people ●each could not abide I● town or life to have the ●ext applied If where they cannot save they should employ Their brea●h and lucubrations to destroy If they with fear should have so little grace To think themselves less sinners for their place Were not the bodies of the Saints as dear In life as are their Relics any where Did Pastor not for Sheep in such mishaps To show them way of safety break the gaps And was that Patriarch conquered God so brave T' o'ercome Death and not halt into his grave The Law dispersed sundry ways invites As did the Infant Gospel Proselytes Each Inns of Court shut fast up seems to you Mysterious as Synagogue of jew. Conveighancer is at Surveighers hand As both in field designed to measure land If any quarrels betwixt neighbours breed Lawyer no more than Conjurer he 'll need For in a short time he may lay his life One or both parties die so end the strife we 'd blame these Do●s to leave us in a State O're-powered by th' uncivil laws of Fate To back the bench and bar relax and thaw This bitter biting weather from the Law Many would shrewdly chide them for their pains Conditioned they 'd but left them so much brains Who served the Tabernacle did not fail They say to keep it with vail over vail The Court disbands as if the rule of state Were like some long worn fashion out of date Each Officer like a Diagoras Studies the difference 'twixt place and place How he with safety farthest may recule From those relate the nearest to his rule They fly as if our judgement were the same With Sodom and Gomorrah's sulphur flame These fain we 'd blame I know not why unless We thought our Plague on them would make it less As if by our ill husbandry w' had found That their deep channels well might drain our ground Like such would all things with one measure meet Stand on our head or have our hands our ●eet When finding we 're exceeding ill we would Find fault with those could never do us good After we have rebelled we angry are That in our punishment they take no share When for our stubborness we 're scourged thus we 'd cry Our Rulers won't be ruled by us But we see Nature kindly takes our part To keep untainted liver brain and heart When Haracans blow us away heaven s●rowds The heads of lofty mountains in the clouds We see in gloomy rempests each fair light Adorns those Orbs above withdraws from sight And when to Earth Heaven's Parliament did vote Plague-grave of rain the Ark did safely float Bacchus & Ceres' worthies such who shine By th' agile jovial rays of Ale and Wine Haunt Tipling-booths & serve as many think To talk up vapouring spirits in the drink Or as most modern author's phrase it stand To gauge the Liquor-casks with sword in hand Till in their file they fall as not being fickle Till in their foil they fall as not being fickle To quit their service though they sleep in pickle Of these whom one listing affirmed it truly They were as numerous as Flies in july Some few are left but most are gone we see To teach rurigine Bumkins Cocks can neigh He 's but a Craven-cock who cannot brave Unless he may his own known Dunghill have So great a tempest beating on our Shore No wonder if the fields and meadows roar What place can you suppose fit to yield Such fruit as Wildings be than hedge or field Transplant them or if you do them inest Much sweetness they acquire and prove the best None can courageous spirit qualify Better than with the Country honesty Aug●as Stable still had been unclean Had Hercules ne'er from his City been These should be blamed for now when Night is dressed They ●ail to tell the spangles in her vest Leave us the sad reversion of their wars And in their stead to combat with the stars They should be blamed for being now so scared As to leave City without welt or guard Did not their flight their ramage prowess meet Friendly and by their care prove it discreet Show by their retrospection that  've sense Of after world as men of Conscience And to our charity commend their fear As such have not courage enough to hear They 'd be in fault if with their souls they do Trust God and do not with their bodies too Did not they signify each of them strives For future justice to preserve their lives The Trade's are in their Hieroglyphics now Their Shops Halls Signs lest only for a show Their progress they are gone to sundry parts T' instruct rude country towns and sow their arts They swarm in great ones and are fixed there As if our sad foul weather made their fair The only thriving trade that one can tell here Lives by the dead as Hangman Coffin-seller You judging of this mystery must know That sturdy Smith who lives by thump and blow Shoemaker Chandler Glover Baker Grocer And she makes shirts & lives by Yes and No Sir All these with almost every money-taker Are summed and tombed up in a Coffin-maker As each Disease when the Plague rages is Turned to the Plague so all trades turn to this At every door stand marshaled in array Buyers as greenboughs are planted there in May. Trades would be blamed for going out of town They take our Cities glorious Standard down That Standard Fame for news shows foreign Kings Each new day and relies upon for wings Enchants Erinnyes Snakes with rage to greet Each other till their Cadmus' teeth do meet Can e'er they London's interest repay Though they should work on every Holiday Do they want tools or make they tail of bricks That to the woods they go to pick up sticks Do they now for the want of Prentices To Country go to be supplied with these To their new streets inhabitants to win Fly they as Coy-ducks to bring others in As tired and heartless must they take their ease And like poor land lie fallow to increase Or should the grass in every street be seen Florid and verdant as in Bedlam-green With vacive houses do they lay a wile For wand'ring jews usurp them may the while Or says some Prophet that great Turkish rac● They may beget by changing of their place No no who 'll neither pity nor excuse Others great loss deserves himself to lose You 'd scarce count such an Artisan discreet Knows how to use his hands and not his feet When every one into the Country flies Trades here are wheels without their axel-tree● Th' imbellick and meticulous they were By th' ancient laws exempted from the war It is not always fear makes men retire Nor always cold that drives them to the fire Muff upon glove and gate with door to house Speak pleasure mode convenience grace and use Who hath good words will spare some to his neighbour And bless as well those rest as those that labour Who by h●s birth and calling too is free Hath double right to lawful liberty Well baked bread hath good crust as well as crumb And he writes best that hath his elbow room They get by their departure no disgrace The place did not make them they made th● plac● Men honour have not places unless those Where we bare head or pull off hose and shoes His place must out of measure him bewitch Makes altar that does daily kiss his breech When any at deaths point their dear lives crave What power has that idol then to save City should such preserve who give it fame Which from those it would destroy it canno● claim If they be rich long service ushers gain That bows low to their hand and thanks their brain If they have honour 't is not their renown More than their labours crops & virtue's crown When calm bright day with beauty to express The most resplendent robe in glory's dress Varying her look and tyre with lightning thunder Hail wind & clouds changes admirers wonder What fault have those whose luckless dwellings lie For quarter to such plundering enemy Yet all for sake not home but thousands stay Who ne'er go out of Parish bounds to pray Haply as who 'd not wish when plague is o'er May most be blessed to multiply a score London's not in Cimmerian darkness then But robbed of light to be returned again It 's richly furnished buildings seem to th' eye Like ships that in safe port at anchor lie Principle 'bides secure from all abuse Only a while it wants a little use Who with malignant sickness is at strife Has hardest task can be in humane life None learns to tutor Fate nor can be said Lord of his life with master of his trade Who needs will cavil when the sea a pace Po●ts o'er the bank he sits should keep h●s place Or when he sees some fire-drake does assail His face neither hide that nor turn his tail Abroad we see huge Pindus' of men spite As if the deluge were to fall again While praised be God he from Fates rage and Tenderly keeps unquenched our Israel's light We 're l●ke that people when the vulgar throng Took the dimensions of * Deut. 12 8. right and wrong we 'd clamour at those mounts but that we know The vales would loudly echo bac● our woe And e'er we can with words our envious pride Advance our stolid vanity deride They should be blamed did not our reasons seem To call them back in a sophistick dream Can aught within arts verge be found or made To wh●t our wit or judgement to persuade We should be blamed and we ourselves should blame Did not confession aggravate our shame And make our own insimulating breath Sub'tly alley us to a double death 'T is not our stay but our disordered pranks Betray our lives like troops have broke their ranks Such are our frantic fits they cry to have For whip and scourge no Bedlam but the grave We who remain seeing each attinent Deaf to our kindest words remove his tent Friends were as dear as flesh can be to bone Or heart to bosom leave us all alone That when we have the greatest need to use Their friendship than the love-knot should unloose In bitter winds when 't hails and reins and snows Then to be robbed and stripped of all our clothes That men and money tempered are alike As cold to help as hard to move or strike That we should find our richest heaps so scant That they but serve to mind us of our want As one to Westminster some stranger brings To view the wealthy Sepulchre of Kings The beauteous bulk & countenance of wealth Personless and without the soul of health That our bags when most heavy should be found Only of weight to weigh our hearts to ground Since th' eye assures us now we must not think 'T will look on us unless in paint or ink And th' ear no other words from us will hear But such as may be currant with its fear Takes from our mouths only such gales as may Carry its rocking vessel forth our bay T' expect succour from son as well one m●ght Days sun expect at deadest time of n●ght Who seeks one for his blessing as his son For blessing comes to Church when Church is done No mother's tender hand nor piteous smile Over her own dear bowels while they broil No wife to comfort With the body heart First dies as senseless then head dies apart Sister brother husband not more disclaim Their kindred than the hearing of their name In their assistance all no better are Then th' empty echo answers from afar In neighbour's house we think to give our moan That ●ase and scope it finds not it our own With open mouth we run forth but the door Answers our mouth as it was shut before Then haste we to acquaintance who the worst Fearing had took th' alarm to be horsed To send them gifts would seem such flattery As theirs who court old men with gifts to die Carriers too are in like cross reslive mood Neither with words nor presents to be wooed As if they should be pressed here did they come To carry buyers to grave they stay at home Finding ourselves each one as left pe●du In labyrinth without Ariadne's clue And having for our bitter sole relief Muse suspicions malady and grief All things without and in us full of woe we 'd secure beg but from whom do not know Then like such totally subjected are To th' effrene maniack manage of despair With every rule we are at mortal strife Would draw us from th' anomaly of life Orders confound and morals send to beg In fields and woods with neither arm nor leg As if reason were stupid sloth to feel Aculeate spur we place it at our heel Justice and dignity we only put Before to take the first place of our foot In harming others that we harm not less Ourselves we murder our own consciences Then when our souls tell-clocks are hushed that we Without remorse may sleep in villainy We dream of nothing but such freaks as they Usually act who with the Fairies play What may unriddled folly be else what On others name or body leaves a spot To scape the Plague we see lascivious Dame Who gives it us but by another name We surfeit and luxuriate till the Pest Though not invited boldly shares the feast This pledges us our healths that freely spare Liquor of life to the infected air We give ourselves to each enormity Will let us have the least ado to die Our valour since we 'd try what would come on 't So favours as to place us in the front We list under such vices seldom fail But speedily do with the Plague prevail They such be nothing have to do with it As we suppose no more than flies with meat Such as no more will let us feel our bane Then did Vitellius his bousing vain No more with plague confederates are then Cloister With Market Sword with Quaker Lark with Oyster The Captain Zophyrus his project hath Like Precedent to school our cheated faith As he so thèy lead us with friendly word But yet at last consign us to their Lord By Searchers we are governed such as feel Whether a man be made of wood or steel They 're pilgrim weemen-seers who can tell Not whether one be bound for heaven or hell But what 's of more importance many think To know the ill and welfare of his chink They prate not much of health as others but Are of the Gentle-craft to fit his foot Speedily they prepare him for the grave And then take measure of what e'er he have Confess and then absolve him all alone With power as much as ever had Pope joan. Better that you may know with theirs our state They may be termed the middle magistrate Not for their sex but ways for they 'll be sure To come between heir and executor Just in the centre fall where 's understood What ever can be valued as good They fear no rebel forces may them brave For none will strive with them for what they have They 're Captains of th' Amazonian shades Whose dismal territories none invades For all their age they 're left us for a breed Serving us always at our greatest need Serve dying man to multiply his store Increasing with what he can use no more Engender with the dead as on a tomb The Spaniard did with the Pope's † A marble Figure upon a tomb in St. Peter's Church of a very beautiful Lady wi●h which a Spaniard wa● so enamoured that ●e expiated his lust upon it as if it had b●●● alive niece in Rome Whom shall we spend our breath more to commend Then one is left our last and only friend They are our friends beyond what can be said For they do not forsake us when we 're dead Our spirits awe and keep our ghosts in fear As you may see by the small wand they bear With Searcher Nurse and Quack too rule our state To make completely a Triumvirate Her Politics are not from Aristotle But from the grave the purse the bag and bottle Her task is hard therefore one must allow Her food as much as if he were her plough Her danger being great he cannot think Her analeptick worse than Spanish drink Though she take many a preservative Quick silver 's that which keeps her best alive Her daily pay as commonly is known As hers that lover serves for half a crown Her hands to take are nu● hooks and her feet As ready are to run for winding-sheet She keeps the sick from want which she doe● ward Off so it can't touch her who is his guard Narcoticks are the best th●ngs he can keep By him for she thrives best when he 's asleep He never chides her nor indeed is' t reason He should for well he knows 't is out of season Passion uncurbed by fear is mastiff dog To raging fury left and freed from clog The Pestilence like Frigo● then will ride Hard goaded in the poop with ●inde and tide And soon his life 's dear longing he may lose Who for his Nurse is nice to pick and choose Suppose such are as scarce as may be ●are In corn that 's weeded well one here one there Discarded nurse may do him as much harm As Devil sent away without a charm For want of Nurses think as many shoals Of sick have died as hops without their poles For her neglect or absence his content Is patience as best fitting patiented He 'll ne'er give out she killed him for 't is said He 's to be always silent when he 's dead And while he lives Nurses he 'll never curse Knowing few good most bad and many worse Quietly h●'l conclude she 's such a thing About his person as is plague-sore ring You now to know the mystery of Quack May jumble walnuts in a musty Jack As many knick-knacks many will avouch it Lurk in his brain as in a Tinker's budget Now be'nt in wrath to see Quack hindmost here Greatness and office put him in the rear Knowing not to lead he is not first nor middle Having no soul of harmony to fiddle Therefore as best of all to please your taste Like sugar after physic comes at last He or some for him setting out a throat The patches speak in Tom of Bedlams coat As variously his pedigree he brings As flies from sorts of reptiles take their wings He never broke his brains to know or bear A Doctor's trouble who runs here and there But his first principles that you may think He 's knowing man to deal with pen and ink He was bred up to keep accounts or know The subtlety of weaver's art or so But since counts fail and ends are broke he lays A new design and falls to vary phrase By Physic he thinks best he may prevail So What d' ye lack he turns to What d' ye a●● Finding his Hate sink and almost past hope His spirits like brave soldier musters up Resolves to save himself or by some limb Catch others and so make them fall with hi●● Then without farther thought or needlessly Hackny'ng his breech to th' University As rebel Cobblers in the Pulpit where He from the shop steps into Doctor's chair So when some course old Holland napkin ro●● 'T is dishclout turned and serves to scour th● po●● What hurt do m●ny medicines well is known Therefore to mend this fault he hath but one Somewhat that on diseases foul will fall And like the fire consume and conquer all Some water pill or powder can give birth To wonders bring out all things like the earth Somewhat can mollify the hardest corn And strait the wind of a crumpled horn With his rule he can take Paul's height or use To lay foundation to a winking house The guts that do but learn his skill in part Are thought the close Meanders of his art The bodies every limb and bowel greet With as m●ch prid● his worth as gouty feet His instrument's a saw nail scowrer rammer Wedge chissel plane cord bellows forge and hammer Oft 't is but one but hath as many joints As merchant's shop with rattles pins & points Expect his ware not new and in the fashion But what as old is as dissimulation Under a new name vamped as strange appears As when the Farrier cuts off horses' ears As when for your convenience you do Turn heel down and make slipper of a shoe To every form and thing change this he can As jesuite they say is every man Like serpent with its old skin off it is Just as some newborn issue christened his Lest barren he by others be reviled For heir of arts father's another's child He 's very humble you must under●and Taking his fees by others underhand Whether his calling lawful be'nt or be HE has luck to find a lawful deputy Some Bookseller or Apothecary these Till he far better find him bread and cheese These two while he at tick-tack passage ●u●● Is diligent make money of his stuff While he consults to make his golden calves As jeroboam did they go his halves  've seen an highway gelding turn to jade So does his doctor's science turn to trade Of these he learns to set himself out bigger And bind his phrase in form if not in figure They for his credit will not let him lack Hard words would break a ploughman's teeth to crack To trim him up they are his looking-glass Or serum as scouring sand to bright his brass If he outlive the times he 'll never blush In meaner habit then of rival plush A Doctor's fellow he for wealth will be In judgement only of a low degree Mean while his prescript and his physic form As † 2 Tim. 2.17 Hymeneus' speech proves canker-worm Mangies our purse eludes our life and hath Authority to stigmatize our faith And he himself as his great acts may tell Like E●od 7.11 2 Tim. ● 8. jambres is monkey of miracle These are the times in which he must commence Being to the Plague a very pestilence This is our tottering three-legged stool  've found For fine device to tumble on the ground Upon these three we lean our painful heads As in a jesuits chamber with three beds Here young and handsome maids fearless to fall Keepin the street great distance from the wall Walk in the midst the way alone as though They might conceive if any near them go As if they in great danger were to get For plague great belly by the men they met A long streets length blind man may walk in dream And not a louse give any touches him Each Change now changed fast barricadoed is As janus' Temple in the times of peace Their flaunting gallantries hid all their heads As wh●n gay flowers ●ink into their bed● As when an old man's feet in frosty weather To make nest warm lie crumpled up together Where we had Pater noster in our way We sighing now Ora pro nobis say Many not broke by trade but breaking that For change of life in far more honoured state Knowing the great advantage by 't before They die desire their Will hang out at door Gift door with prophecy how it may teach Others the dying discipline they preach Persuade more after them that they may find●  've little reason long to stay behind Invite them there to dwell and so become The first door to their sempiternal ●ome When one dies in an house the rest th●y get Abroad and then the grave is to be let None count it strange that money should be given For passage makes the nearest way to heaven Those well have lived and so are si● to die Atropus there can teach her mystery They help and do her service in the place For many hands make work go ●n apace But patch and paint don't always join nor are All faces in disgrace for mark of scar. House neither goods nor master wants for he Secures his venture by a policy Rules it by poliza script twine or clue Can easily his labyrinth undo It only serves as ticket to the master To go to raise his faith in change of pasture Entreats house may not be by any thought Upon account of chance or time in fault 'T is ornamental-frize that by its place Insinuates the prayers turned to grace Emboldens fear And none the Tenant will Blame house secur●s t' himself by bond or bill 'T is to be let as I●abella is When wife to Tristram by antiphrasis 'T is to be let i.e. be let alone To tenant has ear-markt it for his own A Soldier stands at m●ny doors with spear As if black Pluto had his palace there Or that the soldier must his weapons carry Being deaths lifeguard and stipendiary As though wi●h our profession we would vaunt We members are of the Church militant Halberds and spears stand watching there alone Whil● guard as feared with their own arms are gone They seem Dodona's grove to speak a law L●ke Oracle to force one to withdraw Not that any designed with him to fight But as if master of those arms were spirit Think of the watchman's service and he shows But as a man of clouts to fright the crows Like gazing person in the market who Sits kicking heels and nothing has to do What cares he if his porch and fort you take When plaguy victor champion's at his back But he say we suppose him strong and stous Keeps not the sick within though others out As i● sick persons swelled t' a mighty state To let them out he 's porter at the gate Thinks it hard nature to withhold those who Would of the world but take leave  they go So up and down among the rest they crowd Now in then out as sun that 's under cloud To earth persuade us with touch sigh and groan As if 't were mortal sin to die alone Swarming like bee● on every h●rb they fall Not to get honey but disperse their gall Est●em it light where ever they resort If they revive joab and Abners sport As in a dance where many go the round One falling pulls down others to the ground Coaches and Carts our plague in health we are Free from as if the stones they must not wear And these as clean from use are kept as though Every d●y were to be the Lord Major●●how The coaches left scare us to see them come In mourning towards us like gaping tomb So sorrowful a spectacle to one They seem as body when the soul is gone They look as if they penitently mourned Because they had their m●sters overturned For sake of business pastime friend or wife Carried him quite beyond the stage of life As if not ghost as is the common talk But when a man is dead his house must walk So sadly do they look and mope about As if pleasure were turned the inside out Those open shops sell any ware or stuff In Cheapsi●e now do make it dear enough They 're very few and that there may be mad● Good bargain you 'll scarce find two of a trad● Most nailed and locked up are and seem to you Like picture buildings can't be looked into Presents sealed up and ready to be sent Where e'er their Landlords are to take th●●● ren● One gazing on them easily believes Whose e'er they be they 're very fit for thieves Stranger might think all the week long we kee● Some solemn feast as Holiday of sleep That all the day we lo●kt up night and lacked Nothing to know 't was noon but to be wake● Did Cesar now enter our City gate His prize would make him think he had fou●● a che●● Doubtless he 'd lose it all and in derision Go out again for want of opposition Our C●sh-bank's dry so little is there in it That parts abr●●d bring money to our mint Our treasury and glutted souls delight Devoured such wealth now craves the Widow's mite As if like * Gen. 42 35. corn sacks of the fathers so we Had fast when dead in our mouth● all our money As if t' appease the manes wi●h the dead All his whole substance too were buried Or for the last abuse of worldly store As if the rich did die to starve the poor So ●ast we die so poor live that what 's sent To feed us on our burials is spent Our gaudy robes can make no better brag● Then from each shire to be supplied with rags Nature 's inverted For this place the heart Should feed is fed by every other part Unless you 'll say the waters from the Main To rivers run do but refund again But so our Ocean does the rivers need That most of us seem of tru● beggars breed Strangers for alms we thankfully do greet Abroad and here beg of the next we meet Beggar hunts benefactor yet no worse He 'd handle him then merely take h●s purse I have been sick these thirteen days says one And now like bird from nest am newly flown Good Sir another cries have pity on me For I God wots have five plague-sores upo● me Thus benefactor feared dares make no stay So Charity with justice flies away Two days and nights fires in our stree● did bur● To light th' infectious spirits to their urn Three days by order they should have bee● ther● But to be out of pain of life and fear Like niggards who to their last end arrive We would not be at so much charge to live The fires were after precedent of such Old grandsires knew what fire was by th● touch But the Plague being in our flagitious lives And as the creature that in fire survives God with our sacrifice would not be pleased The physic e'er should touch the part diseased By night and day the dead walk ev●●● wher● As if th● day of doom drew very near Dins shows us his black princes in the dead Being more tall than others by the h●●d As they are softly carried on their way Death seems to make triumphant holiday Many attend them to the graves are taught How to come there next day so than ar● brought As if sins punishment with sin did meet To be alike infectious and sweet Thus as such in their duty are well read We do but let the † Non ●st vivere ●ed vale●● vita dead bury the dead The doleful Parish-bell all night and day Beating as pulse its sickness does betray Mortality all sermon● does contain As every silver ●ountain courts the Main All divine rays are centred in this text As amply round us spreads as heavens convex T' illustrate holy Scripture well his breath Best does it to the life best sets forth death The Gospel's full sum and epitome To prove life's warfare is Prepare to di● In this the graves great ●ubile we choose No place but Churchyard for our rendesvouze We need not when our li●e gins to fail Fall strait to dig our graves with tooth and nail Nor stay till we are by some long disease Consumed we may in grave walk when we please Who goes from street to street in City roams ●ike the possessed man among the tombs No subtle wit th' infernal God betrays Whose palace gate lies open nights and days His meskites porch opens to all that come To s●ay and be prepared to hear their doom There we receive the vapour and th● st●am Of those we lost before so follow them Graves mouths gape wide along our way to force At least invite us to our lives last course And that a lonely place may not displease  've room to welcome many families Though we before our exit from the womb Lay there alone we 're crowded in the tomb Wisely they leave graves open to the dead 'Cause some too early there are brought t● b●● Those there we thought bid us their last adi●● Before they can repent are born anew They wa-king speak thinking they may be bold Wanting their clothes to say they are a cold One out of trance returned after much stri●e Among a troup of dead exclaims for life One finding himself as some m●id hard laceed Or as ● Watch for pocket straight caseed Equally terrified with pain and fear Complains to those can neither speak nor hea● One having broke his elbows heels and toe● Continues on th● alarm with his nose Another he instead of louse and fleas Feeling himself worse pinched in little ease Dejected with arms hanging whines a ditty Like prisoner goes to suffer Psalm of pity Having with cold and speaking lost his throat Makes noise as bird that sings his rural note One too too weak to raise his aching head Throws of the sheet when friends have sold his bed Another not being used to silent life Calls daughter Doll maid Sue and Kate his wife At last they come and gape to what is said Like unlearned clowns that hear a letter read They cry for help as if they had disgrace By lying there or did not like their place They seem as favours to the world again Sent to convert their * Luke 16.28 sinful brethren We fear no grave if we may dying for though Buried to day we may arise to morrow The day of judgement can be no surpriz● For graves gape wide and the sepulchred rise By grinning heads that are be●ore us hurled From thence we 're scorned and ●louted from the world D●ath shows us not h●s teeth to scare but kill As morglayes bareed to execute his Will. These when our plotting heads would work our pride To great designs our policy deride When we laugh much our fellow sceleton Shows us our sides we hold from bone to bone When the world makes us sigh lament & cry Memento mori's always in our eye The Stygian lake receives again new birth And makes pro●ound eruptions from the earth Brimstone V●suvius and AE●na have  † Gaenta a gr●at gaping mount●in between Rom● an● Napl●s supposed to be cl●ft asunder by an earthquake Gaetan●an channels in each grave Heaven reins down scorpions while the earth presumes To stifle us with deletery fumes We cannot quench or cool that flaming breath The air swells up our lungs with but by death In our choice drink we do the Lethe taste And our dear bread is made of arsenic paste The flesh we eat gives us with strength bu● powe● To feed tho●e greedy wolves our hearts devour We 're as AEgystus sons or such cross guest Found in the wilderness a dying feast We stew ●ake boil with such success to follow To those that eat as when there 's * 2 Kings 4.40 mors in olls Warm vest like robe of Hercules was wet In Nessus' blood procures deaths icy sweat Each thing Paul said was † 1 Cor. 10.23 lawful though no● fi● Now 's so forbid we die by touching it Letter of friend long life and perfect health Gives us in wish takes both away by stealth Though 't bring us gold as Palamede's each groat Is for the carriage paid to Charo●s boat It treason shows and pays us our last meed While sadly we our condemnation read We find by this exitial surpr●ze The whole Creation's turned our enemies And to speak our condition at the best Our City 's merely but great house of Pest. To seem though foes to all t' ourselves good friends Holding all day our noses by the ends Some mixed drugs or herbs together bound We smell as if we stank above the ground Our rooms with sulphur fumes are smokeed and aired As if for Purgatory we prepared Our life of which we can be sure of no where So passive is we do not act but suffer We who are not permitted yet to die Seem left as dregs merely to put●esi● As broken hose one by misfortune rents At every touch ready to run to e●ds As tainted eggs the parent birds will not Brood longer on so addle we and rot We who of late praised heaven for victories Now beg our lives to conquer that with cries After our joy tears sighs and prayers these Make us concerned to write upon our knees Forelorn and wretched we who now remain Suddenly are as exiles caught and slain Our lethal curse making our friends afeared Like wounded dear we 're horned off from the heard God leaves us too Hell falls from heaven while thus The Devil reins his kingdom upon us Sad case could any fitly make appear No humane judge were great enough to hear And ten to one who thus employ their breath Like swans they do but sing before their death Tali spiramine Nesis Emittit stygium nebulosis aëra saxis Antraque letiferi rabiem Typhonis anhelant Lucan l. 6. OR THE ANATOMY OF THE Pestilence Part 2. THat flame Prometheus' image did inspire Upward from whence it came still sends its spire To heaven where th' Intellect feasting its wish Finds at the board uncovered every dish No aporetick qualm nor taper light Sconvolge its taste nor tantalise its sight But to the eye each thing more lucid seems Then if the sun lent it his feasting beams The hungry palate finds its full content Not more by pleasure than by nutriment Man's noble soul can never be confined To any lower region than his mind judgement his other faculties would call Together for due tribute from them all In every object of his sense and eye View with meridian light the what and why Till then if he be melancholy shows Like one wears legasie of mourning clothes And if disposed to mirth appears to be Like one with others laughs for company He 's as unsatisfied as when dry bone Is brought to whetted teeth to nabble on As if were set a vaulting horse or stile To carry traveller two hundred mile Here then disease we 'll meddle with as much As that permits so dangerous to touch What Plague is we will search in every nook As far as one can into millstone look And when w' have seen whence Nature's sovereign laws Finds this rebellious lay down the Cause Some think a mustled hand may well restrain Plague's power though 't does like tyrant bramble reign And if in haste to make a graceless feast It greedily feed upon man and beast Yet since it is under heaven's cope consigned To mortals therefore look it be designed One venturing at it once like witch about He searches for each poisonous herb and root Whatever of venesick force may seem To make him call it Feverish extreme Which said he sees a number go to p●t Felt but lukewarm so neither cold nor hot No thirst there no heat symptoms naught to call Feverish pulse unless their sudden fall In others plague-struck finds strong drink and meat Befriend their spirits & his judgement cheat Then he concludes he best may ●et it out As to go home the farthest way about And since plague is so perilous to touch That he should keep off from it very much Or like one sitting leveret hath found He ought for fear to keep a compass round So he as one at noon had lost the sight Of Hecate points at her in the night As who a punctum could not see or hair With arrow hit at rovers shoots in th' air He says 't is body's wrack heart's v●lture pain Bane to the blood confusion to the brain Not leprosy nor scurvy itch nor pox But such a thing 'scaped from Pandora's box Such is his sense For some hold 't is dispraise And wrong to Author to purloin his phrase 'T is eden's cursed fruit we may believe Such as we cannot throughly know and live So that one who the judgement will not bribe With doubts and scruples only must describe Plague banished is out of predicament Substance subjected to the accident Accident that no substance eye can see Gives any kind of hospitality A seed its first rise takes from naught and when Without ingress 't is entered into men Lays field of blood & from one common root Of death a thousand deaths makes quickly sprout 'T is fury's i●p who left to yell & rave Without a nurse in black Tartarean cave M●dusa newly brought to bed oppressed With pain applied to draw her ulcered breast 'T is brat from cruel Libitines' cursed womb And fed for milk with Cerberus' spume 'T is monster which as well to kill as scare Hath eye of Basilisk and Gorgon's hair Forehead of Tiger and its Bats cheek shows For beauty gods-mark botch and burning rose Suppose Clotho takes mud from Phlegeton And Cocytus live-locks from Tisiphone And when Hell's three-head mastiff opes ●is chaps To vent his fury saves the yesty drops Distils all these then lets the spirits fly To act at will their magic in the sky Hi●ba●dm●n say that many noxious weeds Have different grounds and several sorts of seeds For those of Plague we ought where you 'd refuse To give you choice that you may pick & choose So for their lot none grudge they should us thank Steaming the prize to be the veriest blank Those who unseasonably will repose Or else too long may sleep without their clothes They offer but fit sacrifice to move Great God of rest dire deathed enjoy their love Who contrary to rule of reason watch Watch not for good but harm so harm they catch Nature forsakes those that her laws forsaken Whom time they 'd not obey blots out his book Some cold or other grievance they dispense Holds correspondence with the Pestilence Unruled rage as link lighted is presumed ne'er to bequencht till all the week's consumed Revenge spite hatred malice these are fed With vital blood of heart in which they 're bred Greedy desires chief within contest And are as vulture to the parent breast Whatever by pretences they would have They truly scrape for nothing but a grave Fear joins with every spy that would betray And as the bribe of mischief opes it way Some who have known good feeders far and seen Others for want of meat and drink grow l●an Sad if a man do fall on heedlessly All sorts of meat he 'll swell like toad and die And if he 'll nothing else but drink and drink Like vapouring leaking ship at last he 'll sink And if he food will obstinately lack Then like a ●un stands empty long he 'll crack For nothing to man's delicate fine taste Can be so plaguy nocened as to fast Season and measure which make all things good Confer the wholesome energy to food Who eating slights these backward eats & puts A mere infectious dunghill in his guts ●lague soon 〈…〉 ●ecau●e I● finds its Cate●●e ●action in their maws Who for a dead year thus deceived provide Forfeit their store and house of store beside Who heedless every where for air will seek May as a bladder draw it in to break Air 's said to kill as well as animate As hand hath power to strike and struck the pate If any thorough burning-glass desires Sols cheering beams he finds them scorching fires In heat that pleasant Aura makes you laugh When Gunny pepper's in 't will make you cough Arms Arms made for help but furnished with a sword Can then take vengeance for bad act or word The snow that cools so kindly when it hath Be●n heated well may make a s●alding bath And spring that shows youth flourishing & fair With rhymes and fogs will make him ho●ry hair So when in humane Victor is possessed Of that fair Camp spreads th' air 's beni●n breast No otherwise she can effect our harms But as one must compelled by force of arms By luckless accident as when we say Kind● mother does her infant overly Avicen Galen and Hypocrates May of the open air ●ay what they please That th●s that 's stinted and abridged to no man But 's each one's own as properly as common 〈…〉 that evil's pasture-ground 〈…〉 is no sex or age can pound Sober hoard well may dance o'er hedge and rail When aestrum plays musician in her tail Renowned Peripatetic Prince whose back Can ●●ar the gl●●e and never crack Would ne'er allow the air to putrefy That kindly spread his learned axioms sky That is the air as it does first deri●e As unmixed w●x or honey from the hive When with its fellow peers its free consent And power it hath to vote in Parliament In it● pure Naturals as Eve  she A she●ps-eye cast at Adam or the tree Or else that air feeds high its own desire With zealous courtship from the sphere of fire Neighbours so near it that no fumes dare move As ●iv●ls to corrupt ●ts virgin love No fear of earth's assault Vapours as soon May thither reach as babes cry wake the moon But air when under vapours tyranny She wants her splendid boundless regency Purulent efflux qualities than claim Right to pollute the chaste illustrious dame As when one comes from fair large gallery Where dripping-pans pots cook & scullion be Is grimed and smutcht so strangely one might swe●● Masked beauty for the coals or ashes heir Air in its lower province province finds Hard task t' employ laborious designs How many outrages it suffers we By dull suns beams it lends us clearly see When fetent marshes tomb themselves in th● air To send out their death's message every where When Plague with filth fed high in poor 〈…〉 And it 's own pride no longer can endure From vile restraint out of some hole does tea● Its way and builds  castles in the air When cloudy Juno's plague seed do disperse To pregnant air that breeds it by commerce When oscitant earth too will not be said To stand between the living and the dead But the unburied carcases can lie And wreak reek revenge through air on th● enemy Thus is the gentle air in every coast harassed pestered and made deaths hackney post Idleness breeds Plague too And who won't strive To be of use what should they do alive When mettle's ne'er employed we look it must Be fruitful when in nothing else in rust Sloth ho-goos flesh alive and 's only good To bring the odious muffo in our blood Other Plague sires this does maintain & cover As onion peels one wrapped within another Hence in the veins crowds a rebellious mass Of humours spirits stop at every pass That they may have their treacherous intent To work the body to an excrement Which at last while they vig'rously conspire Like heap of muck sets its own self on fire Weemen ●●int or gravid in the plague Then seldom that they waste in bigness brag For oft their bloods dregs long being kept within Tempt the disease to be their damerin If * Mercur. lib 1. de venen c. 14. man's seed make worse poison than the pox Humours make pest without a paradox Wemens menses infect glass green plants dry And bounteous are of leprous charity Galen asserts as every one may † ●o E●●d read That mad man doing out of mouth his need Exquisite poison cast that made a Turk To murder one he hated play the shirk Such perfect bane his humours were he could Not longer keep them from the common good Infectious humours that for death contest Title themselves the partisans to pest Thus judge of all those th●ngs Physician call● For being abused li●es s●es non-naturals Plague's made by mot●s to tyrannize i' th' air is how they should come there 't is doubtfully disputed wh●re the● dwell Whether in Earth or Water Heaven or Hell One may believ● they 're epidemical So tempting him to sacrifice t● all Plague as 't is plague must be concluded evil So fit to be a present from the Devil Who rebels lists and leads a●t●r the fray To gratify their labours gives them pa● I observed not God s●r naught said one did try And scripture know better than you or I And for the Devil's honour do you think He 'll l●t his faithful servant's want their chink He though he father lies yet will and must For his pours sake to ●is b● true and just He 'd have but cold fires in his smoky Cell I● he did n●t reward his C●●lops well He 'd be but petty Prince and well might pass For one the World might play into an Ass If when he can command then laughs and sleers As cur that wags his tail and slacks his ears Will court them with all ●ort of flattery As spirits do that cog men over sea When he had ruled them many years at length Will then be rid as beast not knows his strength After his long ammaliating charms When th' enemy at last lays down his arms That then to seize on them he will not dare May do 't as easily as move the a●r Though to his Prince he cannot be devout Gets in his favour putting others out Lord Paramont whose laws he will not keep Uses him for corrector as his whip Under G●ds rule who will not be so civil To bow to him do homage to the Devil Th' Almighty where his government we slight Assigns th' Abisse's pote●tate his right Our Mother Earth some reckon such a flat As pudding makes and never washes gut Eats carrion and digests not then at last Belches and blows us backward with the blast Her ftreaks and fits I should not tell you of B●t to procure your pity not your scoff For when we are forsaken of all our kin Want friend's and harbour too she 'll take us i● When in the worst condition disgrace Or woe can put us give us kind embrace But truly does sometimes much provoke us Giving us food is only fit to choke us Our diet 's her allowance Yet before Belly 's half full we ne'er can swallow more So Cimbick like she will her fare disburse That we no better are then starved at nurse Then will she as great bellied woman lust To burst her crazy paunch with coals and dust Mean while as sheep in winter lost that crowd Under deep snow grass roots are all our food Or else as † Plu● in Alex. Alexander's men each sharks Such plunder for his guts as ●erbs and barks To lie in ambush for ourselves we creep Under green boughs eat them then die like sheep Sometimes her very petereaus prevail THE immerge us by renversing of our sail Her breath 's so strong that it will trip up all Elephant's feet and give a post a fall Ex. gra as in * A Cave near Naples grotto del cane that Stops nose of dog and blinds the eyes of cat Who stoops down low as to salute the ground reverence with adoration must confound There 's nothing to be seen at all no more Then when the Fairy's dance about the floo● Yet Basilisk Earth's steam in that dark Cell Strikes present death not by the sight but She 'll have a Ca●on then be after this As cold as Charity in famine is Each joint will shake as if she gave advice To have her bones converted into dice. Then as if she could not her dyscrasy Discover by her touch ●s well as eye Like one who best his own infirmities In faulty mirror of another sees For this or else some reason God knows we Must languish and be sick as ill as she Her sighs must be our harps and her groans To Nature pay the purchase of our bones A cruel diabolical intent May well be wrought by weakest instrument ●eedle can slyly murder and we know The smallest twig will strike the smartest blow Woman first cursed the earth which by the skill Of some Medea may be cursed still Furies are females and who Furies made Gave them their whips to labour in their t●ade Not to defraud the Devil of his right The King of mischief's agents have his might Records will tell you Plague's an hellish itch That first attacks a sorcerer or witch No matter in what manner they receive it Whether as pain or pleasure so they give it And if they can't sow th' enemy's tares well ne'er hope to find one labourer in hell Some who by other● censured are as nice As those a fall or cribe make dread the ●ce Or as those think all muck and dirt profane Because they'●e toiled with it and lost their pain Do as Physicians who by s●ent and show Of ordure Nature's Crisis judge and know Opinionate such filthy stuff may breed Plague as plumb-b●oth break teeth of those that feed Hence in a plague time Scavingers great trouble Brings Scutcheon on his grave with car● and shove● At least by double charge and daily strife With coach and cart he 's weary of his life Sleeps in his clothes all night and on his feet Eats dinner if not breakfast in the street Chambermaid too toiling with clout and broom Oft rids and sweeps herself into her tomb At least scarce having time to dress her head And make her fine she thinks herself half dead Loses her Love by false and shining face As if it mock● him w●th her looking glas● He slighting leaves her being all dirt & grease And courts the cook maid as the choicer piece Who won't subscribe this ten●nt may surmile 'T is 'cause he holds his nose and shuts his ●ye The jakes the putrid place or thing dispense A loathsome sum that suff●cates his sense If he hath stayed long o'er the Hirpines' land Or Charon● ditches 〈…〉 take his hand Philangia scorpions and that Death's spy Who makes a prey of mortals with his eye With the rest of like poisonous viper brood They get prove how they qualify the blood But who will proof require when one can't stay On such a subject but must turn away In Adam's days though cu●se did earth infest Yet till the Flood we never read of Pest. Of all plagues causes well may that be worst God us'dt ' express his indignation first As if the passion of his heart did rise So high to force an Ocean from his eyes With water which for those new born we save In font we but baptise them to the grave What  be fair kind countenance of water Within '●is lurid sanglant house of slaughter 'T is womb of soul corruption or rather Mother conceives that brat without a father Hence 't is that children w●m●n and such folk Make from the●r sat bulks colo●les of smoke Are frequent victims to the Plague because Condemned before by † Ari●●● m●●co● ●● Aris●o●les laws For this it is that where plague takes its station Not ●oist but drying meats are all in fashion Leaks onions garlic we 're to feed on then As if brought in Egyptian bonds ag●n We are commanded not to make a dish Of any soul may be allied to fish We 're bid with other dry woods burn the witch The Rosemary and Bays to save our breech  drowsy bed and sudling booth all these Are tenements of pestilent disease They have foundation in the wet are such As Conduits water yield to plants too much This evils root and Image-tree hath spread To murder more then  first woman bred We only say in praise of its desert 'T has found out means to make us die by art So long as men have bodies this will be Physicians greatest friend and enemy Their basis who advance their main design To th' highest pitch when they do undermine It by its wisely tampering with the blood For each disease makes birdlime very good Were 't not for this we 'd wonders act outlive The world and carry water in a s●eve The courteous and the careless both delight As well catch fish swim by as those that by't Some Ep●●●reans adverse to Plato As much as ever schoolboy was to Cato Having by much study new mode and way Learned how to celebrate th' Opalia Dogmatise thus that as on earth they find Each creature so the World too in its kind● Not as if one should reckon by the score ●at weathers r●nts or hogs but many more For not to matter th' ingenuity Of those by whom they 're called * T●● a stuli● um●●●●●lus alter M. ●eur B●iti●●ico Moroniae In th' universe that hath so  a breast No pourprise can suffice to make a vest The little flying bodies there that use In every vacant space to rendezvouse In several troops agree to lay their lumber Apart and so make worlds that none can number Now as all earthly beings when for pray Their youth and strength yields to them time So when all-powerful Nature does untie decay The frame of any of their souls they die As bird eats bird beast murders beast and pike Makes meal of jack and so devours its like As Butchers whetting mettle wears his knife And husband dies at pleasure of his wife As s●aby sheep the neighbouring sheep may harm And perish side corrupt th' appendent arm So one wo●ld makes another world its prise That swallowed in its putrid garbage lies 'T is for its woeful destiny involved In that by which its f●llow is dissolved Feels fatal shafts as when the Parthians take Leave of the field and shoot behind their back As when some great p●rni●ous flame goes out And sends it● sutling vapours all about Millions of subtle scouts carry sad fate To every place and poor they penetrate This is believed by divers ne'er could hear How many they should judge the wisemen were They 'll ne'er descent that they may none displease Like such good subjects will not break the peace We also may let this opinion go As one may passenger he does not know Pest as one guilty can't enormous fact Conceal declares 't is gotten by contact 'T is called contagion as what blatant Fame can't make traliniate from its kind in name Hence one man from another runs away As if he were wild beast of Lybia As men's embracess were the treaceries Of Centaurs or Mezentian carcases Pest in its sphere does seem to govern move Act and engender as Platonic love As when fair buxom wanton subtly tries To work Arachne's sampler with her eyes ●arts little sp●rits that are rays visive If Fracasto●ian authors we 'll believe If you with Cardan call them exhalations To gazer's eyes they 're sent to carry fashions From thence they work farther and farther in Till they have made the heart their magazine As th' ●y● hath power to generate am●re Dispense it can contagious malore It 's hairy bow that is so often bend With Cupid's shafts sends those are pestilent Each pupil's sc●ntil by whose fires and slashes Our humane spray quickly consumes to ashes Th' aspects can soon infect with but a glance Look one for ever out of countenance He may be martyred in contagious fire By charming word or velenose suspire Things though inanimate may be possessed With active and Smectymnuan soul of pest Ambrosia that so greedily we seek May swallowed swell our puddings till they break When we are filled with Nectar to the brink Or sail as vesle●s in the wine we drink We 're then drawn off the l●ss or sink for Bacchus May either as himself or Neptune rack us The pest to match our sure or mode can we●● Tatters or robes silk linen cloth or hair Our Bodies but such cover sustain As gutter-tiles that help us to the rain If Pest be ftorm they then soak in the wet If fire soment and multiply the heat To take pest ribbon's bramble skirt stool band New cut of France sleeve arm & gauntlet hand We must accept it for our garments sake As if for every purpose made to take We 're not so proud of them as they of it Which they 'll keep when we 're rotten in the pit Thus proves our glory our disgrace the same Betrays our misery that hides our shame While Poppey-headed Night dreams at her ease Sitting with Sleep & Death on both her knees Some would Contagion place between but that For want of wings it seems another's brat All three for kindred well agree with it But when 't should fly it stands on Satur's f●et When one would think it has spent its utmost bane Like root alive in earth its sprouts again As spy that from under the hang comes And takes one napeing at his sugar-plumbs Though in its usual fits it teezes folks As harness heifers newly put to yokes Makes them as vigilant as such whom spite Of angry dame makes tell the clock all night Yet it as quietly lies now and then As Rhenald when he plots surprise of hen Can have a lethargy whole years then drop Asleep as if the scourge were turned to top Marsil●●s Fisinus tells a tale Of one to whom Contagion gave bail Lurked in a feather bed three years that lay Stock still because the birds were slown away No talk of Pest in all this time and bed Did nothing know but that the Pest was dead When ou●ter came to use the bed h 'had bought So his of ●ight as any would have thought Pest wakeed proved the possession for three year And turned the Plaintiff out of bed to bier As well we this may credit as bancheer Able to spend a thousand pounds a year For if bane long can stay where it does meet Opposing forces from the body's heat Much longer well may it continue where No dog once opens mouth to bait the bear If many (a) Theoph. lib 9 de hist plant ● 16 poisons given be that need A time of many months to come to seed If (b) Albert. magn l. 7 dea'imal ● 2. mad dogs by't lay twelve years as unknown As miller's thumb within a marrowbone And if (c) Mercurial ● 14 deep l. pr●●● 2 such hurt one could not find till he Might one each year have got Thespiadae Why may not some where then contagious pest For many suns and moons conserve its nest And if in every glass wine daily shows Small nimble sparks cut capers to the nose Such as by mere smell can compel the brain To ape the gambols of some giddy vein If smoke be from the fire exhaled if stream Be lawful offspring of the fruitful stream If flowers and herbs do fragrant odours spread And with their spicy breath perfume their bed None think the Pest can't give her atom birth That shows a womb as open as the earth But must believe the bounteous airy sky City of refuge free to all that fly That fumes and vapours makes communicable Not from the altar more than from the stable Gives these as every other wand'ring drove Like full consent of liberty to rove That they to all antigonize their merit Giving the qualities that they inherit Thus as to those twin-brothers Mars bega● The wolf was parent cause subordinate So to have sound a Lupa to this Curse If not a Mother yet at least a Nurse Those that with watchful eyes and listening ears Attend the silent music of the spheres Affirm our earth's discord and harmony Answers to theirs and 's merely sympathy Our mirth and melancholy both come down From great Celestial bodies smile and frown As our heart's joy and life's most sweet solace Are rays e●llux from their benign grace So war dearth plague fall as tempestuous rain From the malignant clouds of their disdain Our spindle in its action must cease As they the hands governing fingers please Like ropeing leads of ●lock to earth we may Guided by them our wheel above To speak the power of stars what e'er does master Our wish with cross success we call disaster Their virtue who denies with Dido's leather May bind the years four seasons all together As not the least of all his vaunts may say His worthy beard is neither green nor grey That Autumn suits in humour and desire With Spring and Summer sits by Winter's fire The * Psalm 19 heavens and firmament most skilful be In the Almighty's glittering heraldry In hieroglyphic characters there stand The fairest printed wonders of his hand Well may he welcome be to heaven who rears Himself up thither by a stair of stars To body as we ulcer find or shame To reputation Plague to soul 's the same 'T is such a witness proves sin capital And is the harvest season to its fall When from above  've such a fatal touch We 're taught we look upon the earth too much When by him made us we will not be found Our dearest friends than hid us under ground Infallibly they 're Atheists must endure Such viper stripes no humane hand can cure Plague's Gods artillery thunders our fate With his design not to capitulate Storm may show his displeasure but when fire Must make that storm who then will doubt his ire Other plagues lightly follow at his word Pest not unless his Angel draw his sword They 're palmers rods men have at their command To chasten with Plague's Gods own heavy hand Celestial bow of wrath and vengeance when All-powerful Lord of host makes war with men 'T is † Levit. 18. 25. Death wages of sin that none pretend That pays him not by which he hath his end OR THE ANATOMY OF THE Pestilence Part 3. 't Is not enough when life must fade away Its glass being run to see old Time make hay To stand o'er heartsick neighbour as he lies And wash his rancid ulcers with our eyes Behold the sword of wrathful Providence And read his venger in the present tense 't is not enough when Time has made escape To turn our heads and view his naked nape To stare into obscure expanded jaws Of Pestilence to know it in its cause The points how we should be hereafter Time Present and past should into future climb Who Plague as Pox deride will ne'er find it Cured as imposthume by a laughing fit Wound probed iaed wide and naked to the eye Can gape for nothing then but Charity  't is applied that it may best redound T' effect let plagues precursors launce the wound Ev is forewarned we better can endure And give a kinder welcome to their cure When sense will neither heed what 's showed or said No wonder body 's destined to be dead Who credit not their faithful eye nor ear Unjustly will recriminate their fear When dogs combine in numerous company And arm themselves to make a mutiny They 're such presaging heralds make appear Plague is to follow victor in the rear And all that time here Rebels made an head How many dogs devoured the children's bread  Plague sets out to visit place it● mouth Sends message from the cloudy rainy south And in our wars what melkin did we find As if hot baths sweated the air and wind When Mars and Saturn join they but contest Who shall do most to introduce the Pest. And then the rage of sword and power of spite Can all things do but share usurped right When Plague would sit in throne its general Frenzy before prepares the Capitol And we saw by our State men's lunacy Each had as many heads as Hecate Our siderated government did wane After the cheating moonshine of their brain † Evagr. l. 4. c. 25. When Plague's designed to seize a man he sees Like one who can't distinguish men from trees As Captain who endeavours to surprise A fort or camp first takes the scouts and spies And in our wars such blindness did bewitch Our Seers as to lead us into ditch Owls eagles steeples stables seemed Their seeing Gave every object mere Utopian being Th' had Idol-eyes for show not sight and that Dazzled not more by water then by fat Our brightest and most noble part of all Vilely converted into washing-ball Direful prognostics reckon all that are As our rebellion's aresenall's tools of war God spares our thorns and briers twenty years Looking they should have fruited sighs and tears And four or five his clement patience stays That we repair our rugged filthy ways Since by our daily factious dispute we 'd turn and patch our tattered rebel suit This being all we 'd mend our butchers trade Fails while he breaks our needle rots our thread No hand but his must guerdon our desert All rods but his too weak to make the smart Cause and disease do on another woo Offence malignant punishment so too In this sad gloomy state what cheering ray Hath East in splendid bosom to display Where shall we find that kind Elysian vale Will echo to us joy while we bewail Can any sweet content of heart distil From consolatrix Pithos sugar quill Will smart and rage of our disease disband At soft and gentle touch of Muse's hand † 27. Natalis Comes makes a strange relation Of many Pest killed by precipitation Strange power indeed makes patiented ill at ease Till to destroy himself he turn disease As those when Siren sings cannot forbear But must leap headlong in the mouth they hear So they by Siren's charms of Pest being brought Under fly tyrant power of pensive thought First planet-struck their senses lose and rave Then out of window tumble into grave * 〈…〉 Jo● Imp●r Vicentine doctor whose most ample credit Was lawful heir to his rich learned merit Seeing th' unnatural Earth in time of Pest So greedily on her own children feast Disdaining life and earth both quite forsaken At once and gave his body to a brook What enthymem or what dilemma finds Place here to melt & couch between two lines Or what Sorites shall we flatter here To steal on us a placid change of cheer Were that great Sophy here ne'er met mischance But with salute of laughing † Demo●ri●s countenance Or he whose breath dried tears and did impart To every heavy hearing ear an (b) heart Where would he get such vigorous conceits Such flowery words or smiling figure cheats As might have force t' exhale out of our breast Stomacho ● apprehensions of the Pest (c) Mercur. l. 1. c. 6. Vulture's and ravens who do never chaw The carrions crams they seek it impast their craw If such appest●d cark●sses are  To touch but leave unburied as they lie Alacrity the wont lively guest To sprightly object and vivacious breast What courtesy can get it here t' accost Being so so capitol to death and ghost Yet if fair means won't do it must be pressed And forced as those were to the marriage feast If m●rth be judged to have at any time Its season when plague's ripe 't is in its prime There 's none will doubt but melancholy soon Can put our body's organs out of tune For cooling and so binding heart it stops The spirits and detains them from their shops Thus bodies trading fails Natural heat Parts want and can at market get no meat Hence humour makes a melancholy mood Cardan thought fit to call the Devil's food This passion when it may befriend the Pest In mischief will be sure to do its best For weakening then the noble parts they are Neither conditioned to resist nor dare We need no other testimony here But see how many pest themselves with fear For this sad sense can ne'er the humours please But with an atrabilions' disease For whose Nature we will no farther seek Then to Carbones kindle in the sick If you won't think with Avicen ima Gination can carry one shear away Fly to another man there build its nest Of botches coals and blans so lay the Pest. Haply because you 'll say who have a paten To wrangle in the Physic schools in Latin Maintain that this same faculty can't sit Translator like and labour in the sheet Ad intra only operates as he Who won't have others learn his mystery That soul keeps in its sphere and 's never known To act in other body then it 's own And that if 't could others infect it might Cure them so bid Physician good night Yet * Picinino intergris duchus lib m●d Pic. Mirandolan and Fab. Paolin Francesc of St. Nazar and Mich. Medin With divers other civil persons strain With all fair words to win you to their vein That you 'd believe a melancholy sense Oft projects to its self the Pestilence That those sad spirits strongly do enforce The yielding bowels to its healths divorce Altering then strangely move a sympathy In Plague t'intrude and bear them company So teeming woman longs for such a dish Or kick shaw marks her infant with her wish So † Phillip 1 grassing part 2 Pan such did dread mad dog taught their scared sense To fall with sury on their patience To turn them giddy and in corners lurk To set their venomed canine teeth on work So in * Petrus Pa●h in tract de pest c 9 infected Trapani the sad And simerous disease they feared they had Fell dead where no indic●um could be found To make foundation of sickly ground We then should keep high region of our mind As orb above dominion of the wind Serene as beauteous air when in the deep Rain winds and clouds are all fast rocked asleep And only pleasant Zephyrus may dare Make pastime with Apollo's golden hair Calm as when all the Sea Nymphs dance and play To celebrate the●r great Queen's marriage-day Sadness we should abandon and refrain As we would ●ly from cloud for fear of rain Paint it that with Allecto may stand Sister to Pest with Fur●es whip in hand That so its fellowship we never brook Knowing its nature fiercer than it● look The more disastres their effort employ Against us greater need we have of joy For breast burthen ●n our state Mirth should have free puissance to make the weight Give met●●mental chyle to every part And be the Pertcardium to the heart Great doubts in th●s that 's of ●o high esteem How our poor spirits purchase may the gem When we n● longer can resi●t or stand How to add vigour to our dagger hand When thousand● fall in v●e● to k●ep our ground And courage ra●se against 〈…〉 cannot wound Some speculative Authors who do treat About such works make men within side sweat That they to sadness ne'er be forced to yield Have thought their scull the best to be their ●●●eld For while say they the active mind does fall Aboard such things are scientifical All melancholy species 't will detest As raw flesh brought to board was never dressed And the more tetrick that the study be 'T is best to match and ●oile the enemy But there be others of another gang Who studious are about such lines as twang Say Muse to Pest hath great antipathy And so cry up Apollo to the sky That golden Archer 't was say they from whom Python symbol of Pest received his doom For which kind act Apollinary plays Be ne'er forgot to propagate his praise How can Plague do him any prejudice Who Phebus ●avourite and client is Upon Parnassus takes the suns first beams And drinks of Hippocrens' pure crystal streams Beholds in sweet society of Muse The brilliant caracolls of Pegasus How can one in a sad condition be Whose pen all day dr●ws lines of jubilee I● flowers that at spisi●g so gay appear Do make the 〈…〉 of the year Needs must he joy who diligently plots Poet's contrivances and garden-knots And if the Sun 's alias Apollo's flame Be godfather to mirth and gives it name Needs must he be allegre who displays Himself by lustre of Apollo's rays Thus they Which howsoe'er to purpose said None at their stairs are forced to run a head Not every Wood will make a Mercury Nor this sit those have other fish to fry Particular apply is endless that None will refuse wh'ch suits w'th every state Liranus Philo and jesephus tell How many sorts of plagues made Egypt Hell The Potshaw o'er which cursed train and show Was Pest elate great Pharo's sovereign too Though this fed on the Memphians like wave Promiscuously rolled man and beast to grave Yet all the Israelites it let alone Health took its quarters up with every one In Basil Plague fell on the Swissers and Gave to (a) Hist Eccles. 1903 Italians and French its hand In Maximinus' time it did insect Heathens but gave to (b) Euseb. 1.2 de niort Gal●● 18. Christians respect Another time when Indians were its meat Says Trajan us it civilly d●d treat If Pest these times would keep the same stile still And only infidels and ethnics kill We might have hope to lie out of its road And scape its touch for being of Christian blood If our spirits to theirs be different Our bodies be of the same element As when fortress is took the conquering foe Puts all to sword whether baptised or no. And as when dearth is to some country sent Pagans and our cheeks too are macilent So without difference contagious Fate Seizes each age religion sex and state jurists of old did Pestilence discuss As thing insolit and fortuitous Steemed as unusual and strange a smart As was Alceste's passion of the heart As rarely happened as their deaths decease Of Chilo's or Diagoras disease But now it is says * Inc. 24 Matth. Testate And who fear He speaks untruth may be prolinctors here ●ff●ct does only against nature fall For being so oft to us unnatural 'T is as familiar to us as grey ruffs When sliced and carbonadoed into cuffs Comes as the swallow or the flea who knows Its time creeps near a● rocket turned to hose We all its open se●ding common be To give it name of Pest from pascere 'T is called pandemos too and so can fat in A grazing place as well of Greek as Latin Our speculation then it must be bend To find our joy some higher argument Our musing wit some Numen should inspire Elisha's † 2 King 3 15. minstrel or else David's lyre Till raised up to Hea●en it there commence To penetrate Genius of Providence Advert the dispensation of his Graces Want to come to us with disastrous faces How often hath affront says Seneca Foot-cloth to Honour laid and spread his way Blow struck to kill or agonize the heart Brought life and * Phalercus cx gr. & cure to some apostemed part Egyptian pest gave Hebrews liberty who 'd by th' Assyrian pest too victory David's Plague rid him of his sontick fears And made him sound by penitence and tears Can mortal eye reach its desire and we Supe● humane wisdom's repostils see We should from cursed bed of present state Discern how many blessings germinate What maiden troops makes Pest pure spouses be In Heaven to be reserved from brothelry How many there advance their sather's fame Might here have been their earthly father's shame How many there are safe who here would stray Be lost and die an hundred times a day How many here had scarce one crust to eat There with the holy Lamb at supper sit God's rod Pest with its stroke but cleans our cloth From vanities and pleasures dust and moth When tender Mother calls her darling-dove To hug with kisses of her kindest love Woos him by all that can be counted dear And stoeworm he harks with deaf adders ear She stuzzicates nurse servant or some other Who with a vizard sc●●es him to his mother So larva face of plague does but affright To make us fly where kindness can't invite Opens our eyes wide till they stare and see God's lap the safest asyle that can be Let 's then take con sort For as David's pain And trouble cased him of his love profane As sick Antiochus devoutly fell Prostrate in Temple he abused when well And as afflicted Hebrews Idols broke That when tripudiant they did invoke So have we now occasion to retire From what before trappaned our fond desire The heavy flail we long have suffered under May break our vices ansrous wreaths asunder In recompense of its strokes bruise and pain Chaff is to fly and leave refined grain Let 's comfort take For as the spinners lay Their webs and wove them in a cloudy day As digged earth breeds the better and the vine Gratifies pruner plenteously with wine So we now under cloud and culture may Work well and gardener's care with fruit repay Let 's comfort take For like as jonas he Courageously opposed tempestuous sea And jacob wrestling with the Angel found Best rise as ball when hardest thrown to ground So now may our intrepid spirits be Pompous rich victors o'er calamity Let 's comfort take For if Physicians leave Th' infirm to whom what e'er they like they give If animal in fields and meadows rambles Without control he destined to the shambles And tree that husbandman never reclaims With mattock spade or knife must fruit him flames So it would but be bad omen if heaven should ne'er send us biting frosts to nip our blood If we in suns beams should be always warm And never knew what thunder was nor storm Let 's comfort take For if the cloudy air Gives th' earth a richer livery to wear If stinging be for use of us does drive Delicious anthine traffic in its hive If almond after crude hard acid meat Gives us at last as sumptuous feast the sweet If springs ruby and beauty's pride the Rose Her fragrant body hides in thorny clothes And if the Night after she long hath born Great belly be delivered of the Morn God haply after our hard tedious labour Intends to joy us with some signal favour Thus rightly awful and well tempered fear Keeps all our arms safe marching in the rear When we are under government of vice Judgements reclaim and miseries entice The●a signs not our death but our reprieve And Condemnation tells us we shall live We here and there in sunshine gad and roam When rainey weather makes us keep at home And when God's indignation pours on us His mercy 's then most scaturiginous His clemency may show the sweetest face But his severity's the kindest grace This can o'er us spread joy though we had been Inhabitants long in Trophonian den By such Nepenthe Melancholies earth Will sink and every where be poured with mirth Who can imbody spirits by their art And dexterously act Spagyricks part With those extract as supine out of verb A trade or mystery from drug or herb May estimate these pareneticks worse Than brass or lead helcysm of their purse Account they 'll stead the Patient as much As Bow Church Steeple him that needs a crutch After disease is charactered and cause Hath opened poisonous throat and showed its paws When whatsoever ●s of prophetic note Hath given in its signature and vote And diagnostic accidents are all Adjoined that use to be propempticall As one  Cain was born the world should show In parts would distribute it into two So they the sick and healthy sever which They call as pleases fortune poor or rich Alexipharms must as Physician serve Both sides either to cure or else preserve They bid the Rich their prized health intrust To rubies emrods saphires cordial dust Granates pearls jacints musk and amber lack Only their Gold to be dissolved to Sack The German species liberantes wait T' enfranchise them in hygiastick state Th' Emperor's powder shall be to them as free As can be open hand that drops their fee. * He affirmed he never saw any die of the Plague used it Montagnana's Confection they shall try Then see for all their wealth if they can die With sweet manicarets they shall be fed And eat the golden egg and so to bed Sev'ral olla podridas they shall choose That † V Hew●● sense and intellectuals may infuse To poor who salt may want their charity Gives peradventure sal absinthii Figs nuts salt rue berries of juniper May serve their turn with sauce of vinegar While others greater ventures they insure may Prescribe to them pilulae sine cura Such as for always saving life of old Were 'steem'd and called e'er gilded pills of gold But Panacea or what e'er can vie With high and mighty peer of Alchemy Etites amulet elixir all That can to Pest ●e antipaticall Will little do against disease must prove Its Pharmaceutick virtue from above Chief derives from heaven No hoplochrism e'er fought hand out of cloud or cured a Schism We 're * Palmer l de f●b pest c. 17. told that humane industry hath found ●anchrestum medicine for every wonnd The stoutest hector malady can fight Our nature meets its vincent antithete Mad dogs and serpents poison oft are tried In list with what demits their turgent pride And that there is sends packing over seas Collogueing Neapolitan disease The Plague amongst all subdued contagious harms Unconquered boasts its self sole King at arms Why this but that we should in our dispute Against its power implore from God recruit Know he our force can only in such wars Secundate sends and curbs erratic stars Doctor could he the smart of his sharp rod Ease always we should then adore as God Who with their useful lore the public serve Some secrets still to be admired reserve And God who does his stellegged honour own As dearly as his diadem or throne Though he hath taught Physicians his art Some crypticks to them never will impart And why because his bounty should assure Him glory from our benefit and cure Because his sole opitulating care Animates our desire should voice our prayer * ● Chron. 16 1. Asa may let Physician control Both his sick body and his sicker soul Sacre rule mind will conscience to his art Enthone and idolise him in his heart Alas he can share his infirmity And only knows to be as sick as he But what As the Athenians their disease Of Plague attributed to Pericles And Romans Lucius Verus th' Emperor Blamed as who Plague had taught to domineer So now we say the Pest is progeny Of star or body elementary Some Angel either good or bad we chide As falling Lucifer upon our pride None as it were lays faithful hand on breast To find it couch and pillowbear to Pest. None think Plague sent as l●ctor to maintain The cause of God's terricrepant disdain That 't is his burning missile to dispense Revenging flames of his incandescence Vesanous ablepsy that heavens clear light Hath made moon-cyed and quite deprived of sight Pergamus great * Gal. in Ep●d●m Physician could resign Pest though he neither knew to power divine And that Achaean Poet who was cried For wisdom up till he was de●sy'd Who whence he came on earth none e'er could find But gave men eyes though he himself was blind Ingen'ously told Greece the (a) Hom. pr. Ili Plague did follow The will and order of incensed Apollo What shall we then we Christians believe Who learn and write in his divine archive Know in Leviticus and (b) D●ut 23. L●vi● 26. Deuteronomy He menaces Israel with hierocomy Which one day with the Pest they having tried To seventy thousand proved hospiticide Plutarch asserts Lacedaemonian state When Pest among them did serpeggiate Consulted Oracles to make them wise That they voracious Pest might sepulize Athenians as Thucydides reports Made for their Deities new sacred courts And Romans Livy writes did fabricate To every Idol votive seat of state Ordered processions locked tribunal door And brought in Gods that ne'er saw Rome be●ore Each did though ne'er so barbarous the st●● With pious superstition pumicate Why then won't we to whom the Heav●● rev●● Their gracious true light realize our zeal That one foot may the head of Dragon press The other knee should make engonasis Supplicate his presidie that can be Wall on each hand through our Erythraean Sea Pomona can afford no remedy From her succinous flowery marquetry Nothing in her dominions can be found To hedge in or repastinate our ground Nothing of adjument can Tellus bring From rich encausted Jewels of the Spring No help of virtue seminal can come From aught that 's incadavered in her womb Nothing in Machaonian art can here Ransom our health or medicate our fear If we 'd find what does both and never fail We then must seek in the Peneian vale † 2 King 2.22 Elisha's salt should our sick waters heal And our deaths-pot be tempered with his meal Our Ajax shield must be the Rational Both phylactery and pharmatical When Planet who rules Capricorn or Spleen And he rules Scorpio or Gall convene From their cougress such vegetables make Purulent food d●●nk from paludous lake And Austral winds that usually breed Anoxery Pest is eructated No fear of Pest then where in sphere is s●t Good Angel for benign starrulet Where our commensal's Christ whom we view touch And 's sacramental body too embouch Where heavenly cordial melitism flows And breeze of Holy Spirit gently blow● That we be'nt kept from such an happy state Anomy should not interequitate Such redolent and vernant Paradise Can't be but first we must eructate vice Such bread's not for foul stomaches such a flood Will not expand its Cobrus streams on mud Such wind breathes not on dunghills and who 'll win Angel's love must be agamist to sin Brigades of flies frogs and such vermin these Signs of corruption are Pests oscines But one who liberally and daily ●eeds Runcina with a sacrifice of Weeds They whose superior souls have their ●it ●est In a polite lixiviated breast There stantiate and have their constant tent Where nothing pedid is or feculent Such neither danger find nor omen to be Previous or protatick to ghiandusse How ever others smart and are distressed Their fear will never isikle to Pest. Each for himself covets the happy fate To be to Pest victor Crotoniate we 'd Locri be near Nig●r fix our foot Or be inhabitants of Calcutta Places Cardan and Scaliger * ● 10 the subtle exer 32 relate ne'er known to give Pest room to stabulate Health's dear to us and yet we more befriend Our lust whose league we 're loath to interscind It were should we decrustate this we think To be ablacted both from meat and drink We must do more than wish ' te'nt to fulfil Our own desire to saginate our will It is expected we with all our ●light Manticulate our pan●h and appetite Oft keep Rogation week that it may raise And crumble into dust of Ember days Feed at the table of Apelles where Abstinence waits and ushers in the fare And acolastick riot is put by As complice to † A concivii● ex●la● philo●ophia proscribed philosophy By iconism made in every point To p●t both eye and stomach out of joint Pest * In ● 6 2 paral vers. pestilen Tostate says from pastus comes Hence those Most suffer by it are most crapulose As Dutch and Germans while such are most free Subtract their epigastricke husbandry Contagion fish atacks not For they spare In want of lungs to gourmandise the air And such who are unboweled of delight Secretly glides from innate appetite Have nothing in them serves or may be meant Organ to draw the vitiate ambient Who somewhat do peculiate from each dish Crams luxury may be as whole as fish You 'll grant they very well may guizzants seem While in salt sea of penitence they swim This 't is must give our carrack volant vogue And make us peccant humours disembogue This will extinguish fire of prurient lust And be smegmatick to our scabtous rust For crime pest to the soul does watch and carry For body's pest and is its emissary With oily words does it eutrapelize And with Dardanean art too syrenize Finds it obsequious to its call and beck And rules it as its Hogan Mogan Smeck Because against wise (a) In opus de iis qui s●●ò pu●iuntur Aesop some did rage They felt from Pe●● pounces of o●●frage Because the Romans Manlius did condemn To death being innocent with punic crime They as some great Theologists have said With Sibil thought to be (b) Liv. ●ec 1. ● 1 entheated Infliction had pat to their villainy And suffered Pests coccinean cruelty David too thousands of his subjects found By beccamorto given to the ground Because for giving holy prebend curse Of thrift had laid (c) Abu●●●s embargo on his purse Because by a subduction all his state He 'll calcule must himself denumerate Since then Pest's crimes punition that so Fares by 't as thrush that dungs on misletoe Or as that smith and known Merc●●●al gull Who cowed himself by Phala●is's bull If contrary contrary meet to try The mastership by mutual courtesy Collatcrate and be such friendly mates As one the others wounds consolidates Penitence ne'er with Pestilence will station ne'er be coll●gue nor join in parentation Who would not in this cataclysm die Like Morkin Leaches say to hill must fly Infected house shun more than hate to carry In an illuvious mucid columbary Make gun as intestinum rectum where Physic may issue have to purge the air Charge sweat it tend at every poor to carry Lethean humours out as ostiary Let cautery mouth open that may spawl As if provoked by some emeticall With vinegar make spear the spoil divide And lancepresado be to hosticide Sugar amand and suffer no such choice Sweet thing at board to have a choral voice But what say they who can with words transport Sick soul to health when their best skills amort Who would not be this feral monster's prey Fall in insidious Catoblepa's way He must himself abduce and sevocate From lu●ulent peccaminous estate Make resipiscence his reverticle Can utmost rage of larval foe repel There * Isa. 22 16. grave his habitation in a rock And with his gemmed Mausoleum danger mock Sakers of crebrous sighs must voice to clear The souls threnetick languid hemisphere Humours he must propel till they retreat Fall and precipitate themselves in sweat With dolorous and rainy eyes make wells T'officiate as lugubrious fontenels Acerb Compunction use to cut prick fret And be to conscience as its tabouret Friandises rambooz mulse all the throng Of dainties sergeants be to t●eth and tongue As Sinon's nauseate and from the table Keep as landloopers or abacted rabble Thus did the Royal Cytharist when he Would subjugate Plagues pervicacity Fasting he in a P●ycomachy strives To win the host of heaven by collatives His eyes while they are stormed by showry South Nothing but shriveing's liquid in his mouth Decubiae and abstinence these are His Pylad●an protocolls to prayer Makes his Gilt with his tears together drop So takes the bite of heaven with telescope Sambuck lays by agnizes all his rants And Israel's sweet singer than recants While a cilicious Sambenit environs His bare flesh rakes his wounds with scalping irons Seposites robes crown sceptre and in stead With ashes spices his anointed head And his basilical great Honour must Sat where alive he 's buried in the dust Thus he and thus each Roman Matron she Though hackney strumpet to Idolatry Yet in such times when Apollyon came With salient lust to ravish every dame They sending troops of agonistick fears To hold their paillards by their andoillers Every salacious wish and wanton groan Licencing to catuliate alone Scarmigliate and contrite than they be Each stubborn stiff Aloia bends her knee They wash their Idols temples with their tears Assurding them with sobs complaints suspires A better way we cannot well invent T' avoid a quarantene then keeping Lent When we refrene wilful ingluvious maw And Lust with Fannian and Scatinian Law Do from the soul those kitchen vapours keep Which lull its entelechie fast asleep That power by which the heavenly satraps be Assistant to us with their Hierarchy If in this lugent state we 'd find compa●●on Revoke the sentence of our decimation Be in possession quietly at home Where Zums now and † Is● 13 21. & 34 14. Ohims daily roam Desire Arachne with her Phalacrus Might eat their way securely out of us If we would have some remedy that brings Vaginipennous Plague to close its wings Be earthed again else fly and make retreat To distant part of African or Get Kyrie Eleison be our charm * 2 Kings 1.10 One may Call Heaven's fire † 1 King 8.37 38 39 thousands voice it quite away Cardiognostick haubertne're * 2 King 13.4 Ma●k 11.24 Ma●●●● 7.11 deverts His mercy from an hecatomb of hearts By obtestation from him we shall Delin●ment have delen●sicall Calastick septicall emollient Peptick what e'er from Hygia can be sent What gives us reviviction so can cure With Love's supernal fire our calenture While we conslagitate his grace he fights His own arms conque'ring our Amalekites By such a winding cockle-stairs as these We mount above the power of all disease Salacia and Thetis should contest Which from which eye can fluce out th' ocean best Drawing amorous streams from thence t' obtain Far more illustrious title o'er the Main The Penitential Psalms direct the way To sing our plangent dirge and Naenia They 're safe from being by Plague's deluge drowned Who wash themselves in this Probatick Pond The virtuous Bethesda of our eyes Makes sin and Plague not us the sacrifice To gain lost virgin state the Lazarous Squalid and jacent find it Canathus With sighs we draw heavens vital air with groans New life as those that touched * 2 King 13.21 Elisha's bones Remorse is such a thing by which we 're made To speed on then the most when retrograde Waters of Shiloah that softly fell From Zions foot were called the † N. h●m 2. 13. Dragon's W●ll Such are our coulant tears steal down to meet And pa's the humblest courtship of our feet That figured help and this to us does so Coule-sang plague drinks here and bursts in two But we must take more pains that it may fall TO our lot to have a Year Sabbatical 't is not enough with folded arms to groan Sat and resolve to make Ephesian moan That we more than irrorate cheeks so weep That couch and bed each floating seems a ship These are but ocious acts would fain be blessed With ease at wish have without labour rest If our arms be not busy after all Our tears will make our eyes but mopsical Our sacred tenure's soccage which we own To sudatorious manage of the Plough We must saburrate ship lest in the brine It swims it reel stumble and turn carrine With hands as well as eyes be diligent If we Pests racemation would prevent The great Theoremist's digests psephisms Decretals scits cancel our motacisms No student  his sacred volume took For practice can be blotted out his book What ever of Palladium was said Chimerically here 's the Word and Deed Decachord makes Plagues spirits by the sound In their Chimmerian hypoge abscond Each bankrupt reliquator here may be Discharged by grant of novae tabulae This gives us bill of health by sea and land Is our safe convoy and our caravan This Lesbian rule * Levit. 26 Deut. 5 29. Deut. 7.12.15 thus steads us And his mouth who 'll doubt he being the Fidius of truth Nomark here tells us who with things divine Make in their hearts ablectick officine Do to their Attic Christian faith fit place And class allow to every sister Grace Make them stand as such brious part'ners As were to dance by music of the spheres Handed with such associates * 2 P●l 1 5 6 7 & 10. ne'er will fall But be to Destiny despotical Nona and th' other two for ever be Secluded from the Virtue's company Those against these can harbour no designs To sidelay or eyebite their Valentines They though the puissant Regent's of mishap Do never lay dead pledges in their lap These never act sad part in tragedy Nor sing in consort with Melpomene They face the ortive sun but do not know Funebrous blasts that from Sirocco blow These daimonds be to contagion Take all magnetic virtue from the stone Virtue's become when sbïrro pest affai● Offenders their mallevadors and bails Oft they have courtiers who their kindness prove And then vacillate as if drunk with love Their mercedaries for some present boon They be but only love them for a moon With them a while exceedingly rejoice But quickly are deponents of their choice Float as Cutilia's isle and change their mind As often as Hyena's do their kind statical helps such want for cure and ease And need stegnoticks for their lose disease 'T is not who starts nor he that runs apace But † 1 Cor 9 24. he runs well to goal who wins the race 'T is not French fury but long faithful strife Hath promise of the * Rev ● 10 diadem of life Who virtues keep don't euripize but be As constant to them as the Baltic Sea To have allodial lands we can't devise A better way than give them predial tithes The oil of these wise virgin's lamps on fire Of Pest hath force to make it soon expire Nothing can e'er with Vices them engage To make condict or join in voisinage They 're Amazons ne'er but with cartel greet them Nor unless in steccado ever meet them The one as acolites are serviceable To Angels at heavens high communion table In every languid and lugubrious breast joyous invigorating power ingest The other wait Hell's plots trepans snares nets As Pagod's Deumo's Ashtaroths valets To intervert enervate and infest They conders are and scuttles to the Pest. They have an electricity to draw All acherontic Plagues to fire our straw That Plague may cease Curtius' life must be prized And populace of sin be sacrificed Who virtues for their help and favour choose To curb Pest's stasiastick boutefeu's Abdicate vice and all that vice retains With their relics encliticks and remains That Virtues birds of Paradise may come Hawkers extrude and vicious fowls deplume who 'd be their friend his morals interpole His mind embellish calandar his soul. They 'll have none are vertiginous to woo them None blind or lame in their affection to them Nergal by heathen Sycophants was meant Competitour with the Omnipotent They thought it fit while they to him did pray To join the senseless aid of Ashima Nibhaz can't move nor Tartak yet each stands To help their † 2 King 17.31 32 & 41. servants with their wooden hands So many their devotions sever now That quotient serves vice and virtue too Use vices as acetars that with these Virtue's may down and much the better please Thus as if in a quarrefour they stand Can on or back or turn to either hand Each with a vafrous slight can change their fist Be zealot now and then libidinist Mulato-like seeming to have a right To Hell and Heaven have parents black and white But rivals they detest unless they be First wedded to their own society Bigots or bigamists they will have none But who takes them all join and make but one Their Lovers they will have admire their worth As solely as the needle does the North. To be a carnalist is to refuse The true Olympus for mere spittle house T'obvaricate his dearest health and vary His arms from Temple into Mortuary His mirth 's Abderian laughter does but tend To make him agelastick in the end Kenodoxist himself does vainly tyre To follow false lights into pits and mire The lawlese's destructive Power and spite Breaks down an hedge that serpent may him * Eccles 10.8 by't The mammonist with all his ill-got gain Is Cerberus in adamantine chain Stasiarches glory happily may flush With midday's beams proves soon occiduous Gnatho's and they who lead Apicius life Devote to their delicious throats a knife Suist no care nor toil will let alone To please himself rolls Sisyphus' stone Beauty's stargazers have th' unhappy luck T' admire phantasms and be Planet-struck Vice is plagues whispring-place that does afford True correspondent sound to every word Who suffer under Libitines' black rod First nourished Vices colubriferous brood If plague tomb our elychnious bodies these Were first by vice brought to their obsequies This makes our Golgatha and Death when he Gives us the stroke this holds the clepsydre Others may sing our dirge this will devise Our sad commendaces and close our eyes No Neades like Vices when they rave And roar to shake our Earth into the grave They every hour such serpent's breed as will Defy and hiss in scorn at Ibis' bill If we do apolactize force and tread Them under foot we get above plagues head Best presentaneous help we have 's to clear All our araneous works and gossymeare Such rust delimate our gold bright will show Filtre such dregs from pest we run free too When all the World lay plagued mortally With phagedaena of enormity So virulent that leech from heaven was sent And needs must die to save the patiented Who ' tells us of his coming cries and prays That we prepare him clean strait even ways So now our taske's the same to break and cart Scelesticke scopelisin from the heart That nothing in our conversation be Of rancid or mephiticke quality T'unbow crook● wonts wry acts to regulate Make brochity of will and manners strait Euthemy both procures euthanasie And 's fanative to Erysipely Ephemerist who his aberrancyes Calculates faithfully with mouth and eyes With controbanded goods he does detest With his delicts he desecrates the pest Our mourning's dark red porphyry should now With wilkie features enterlace its brow Though black without yet fairer be then fire Underneath as Contemplatives attire Hewed as the Parian marble or what shows The beauteous argent smiles of Juno's rose Our salves and us can alabaster fence Best from corruption with its innocence We are to get our health as those of Greece Did gather golden grains with jasons' fleece Our souls great shepherd then now seems to sleep While murrain plays the wolf among the sheep Will wake its storm rebuke and safely carry His bleating lamkins in his oviary He 'll be our nuptialist and then esteem We as with spotless pudor come to him While Virtue from him kindly rules our Nights He 'll make the Delian twins Latonian lights Our spouses' salade is the surest fence Against gisarmes of the Pestilence Among those conquer this Physicians call Treacle despot and podestate to all Treacle to use the right we must not make Of trivial aconicke earthly snake But what the true Fanus is and is found In heaven like Zodiac to clasp it round The Serpent Moses lifted up who viewed By touch of visial beams their healths renewed We understand the figure well that * john 3.14 't was Mystery of our Shiloh on the Cross. Dragon Pest use all its mecidial tricks We cross its spite by eyeing Crusifix The Romans when they had endured the pain Long time of Pests ignivomous disdain To Epidaurus sent Ambassadors For Esculapius snake to work their cures This came Plague ceased And hence they make relation How their devotion to 't made their piation But sure we are 't is only he whose tread Had the sole power to bruise th' Old Serpent's head The deadly steam reeks from his poisonous den In cursed revenge on us repels again In pity to our humane frailty he Clothed himself with cures its infirmity He whom Leviathan cannot resist Turns him with hook to breathe which way he list None enter heavens Elysium but they Who pass through him is life's sole gate and way He 's that harmonious * 2 King 3.15 16 17 etc. vent that if we trust Focillate will our fires and quench our thirst Iliads of evils from us he 'll expel Our griefs and languors mancipate to hell All flagrant gledes and fire-drakes drive from hence To ring the Curfew to the Pestilence Who basis takes away sure can forbear To keep the structure hanging in the air Who imprecated sin did cause dismiss Effect can chase and ban the He needs if brazen snake could save alive Must cure who cures by representative Against phymata oedemata what e'er Distringent is by chagrin pain or fear What e'er 's tabi●icall or makes us sick Christ's thorns expunge and mortise to the quick A tempest of acutest malady His rood converts into a malacy Then Carduus benedictus if more bitter Its virtue proves ten thousand times the sweeter Relic of this with gratia Dei meets Our dead flesh and exulcerate ferits Impoluerized by sufferings it makes Poma ambrae and manus Christi cakes A some it is does not depress but carry Its gerents to the starry laqueary Floats them above deluge of Earth and brings Through all the Orb of fire on wooden wings This badge while in their Purpura they bear Makes them Knights here with the Patri●●i 'T is sceptre o'er both Globes * 1 Cor. 1 18 guidon of might there And tables of the Law laid thwart and right † Matth. 10 18. 't is Fortune's wheel th' Arts turnstile solely ha●s The place to give them way and let them pass Cyclopaedia's axis Learning's hand Its sense does and the letters too expand Piazza of the world's four parts where they To make a league together meet and stay Their symbol and impress rule protipe frame Includes them and indigits whence they came Physics Pharmacopoea comprehends Art infinite to all poor leech commends It 's timber can where ever need requires Contabulate our wants and our desires Physic may have hand of our cure at need But still Religion owns the heart and head She 't was that when sins Cypress tree was grown All o'er the earth gave charge to cut it down 'T was she that whole our piteous eyesore made By the detenebration of its shade 'T was that compassionate celestial dame Closed Divine Nature here in Virgin ●rame Was caliduct of sacred fires whence we May supervive by uranoscopy And when first the Creator gave each birth Was suppellecticarious to Fa●th So that to view defecated did come All the agroted Chaos had in womb She every species genus claimed for his Ordained then penned the Physic genesis Sh● plant and herb sororiant designed Prol●sick and lustrifick in its kind She made it vegetive and did it tie With the frank almoine of her Charity She she it was that e'er it budded forth Did to our use pastilicate its worth On humane art why should we fond rest That is but stolen or borrowed at the best When we may have what 's real beauty seem Content with the prestiges of a dream We can't when Nature does our Life disband Commit it to more safe and tender hand Rapine and Insolence such as engage To propagate ochlocrasie of Rage All macellarious complices and fiends Plot to abet and act pale Horrors ends Before her sink while they themselves confound As giddy Eddy in its circles drowned And more indulgent touch then hers can ne'er Come from the close embrace of gentle air When smiling she a sunny mantle throws About the blooming infant of the Rose More grateful and obliging courtesy ne'er rayed from Goddess of the Morn when she For her beloved weary Endymion's head In blushing satin makes his spicy bed ne'er from serene Lucina came who ties Her vigils vestment round with starry eyes When the tired Hours of the day do creep Into her open douney breast to sleep O don't despise a Beauty whose despite Does all our wishes hopes designs benight Whose Injury and Indignation are The rigid pregnant parents to despair Whose frown indusiated with threats may stand For gift from Circe's or Roxana's hand And whose all-bounteous ●avour when 't is gone Leaves us desponsed to Gods of wood and stone O do not slight a Beauty so supreme Brightens Heaven with her Juno's diadem Who where she lists the Civic crown confers Frustrates and makes irrite dire climacters And in whose smiles patulicates all this And life hereafter can embrace of bliss 'Slight not O slight not her with charms who sings Plague dead & covers you with Cupid's wings Paul plants Apollo waters when all 's done She 's wanted irradiation of the Sun When Doctors have exantlated their skill Her Raphael's sacred Physic cure● our ill That Plague surprise us not with fear or dread Sanctuary stands upon Religion's head We see through Art where e'er we cast our eye All Nature circuncluded with the Sky FINIS Books Printed for Nathaniel Brook and are to be sold at his Shop at the Angel in Cornhill Price s. d. 1. 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