Epiloimia epē, 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 plague is, together with the causes of it : as also, the prognosticks and most effectual means of safety, both preservative and curative / by William Austin ...

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. OR, THE ANATOMY OF THE Pestilence,

Part 3.

TIs not enough when life must fade away, Its glass being run, to see old Time make hay: To stand o're heart-sick 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. Tis not enough when Time ha's 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 point's how we should be hereafter. Time Present and past should into future climb. Who Plague, as Pox, deride, will ne're finde it Cur'd, as imposthume, by a laughing fit. Wound prob••d, ia'd wide and naked to the eye, Can gape for nothing then but Charity. E're 'tis apply'd, that it may best redound T'effect, let plagues precursors lance the wound. "Ev is forewarn'd we better can endure, "And give a kinder welcome to their cure. When sense will neither heed what's show'd or said, No wonder body's destin'd to be dead. "Who credit not their faithful eye nor ear, "Unjustly will recriminate their fear. When dogs combine in numerous com∣pany, And arm themselves to make a mutiny, They're such pr••saging heraulds make appear, Plague is to follow victor in the rear. And all that time here Rebels made an head, How many dogs devour'd the childrens bread? E're Plague sets out to visit place, it•• mouth Sends message from the cloudy, rainy south. And in our wars what melkin did we finde! As if hot baths sweated the air and winde. When Mars and Saturn joyn, they but contest, Who shall doe most to introduce the Pest.

And then the rage of sword and power of spite Could all things do but share usurped right. When Plague would sit in throne, its general Phrensie, before prepares the Capitoll. And we saw by our State mens lunacy Each had as many heads as Hecate. Our siderated government did wane After the cheating moonshine of their brain. † When Plague's design'd to sease a man, he sees Like one who ca'nt distinguish men from trees. As Captain who endeavours to surprize 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 seem'd. Their seeing Gave ev'ry object meer Vtopian being. Th' had Idol-eyes, for show not sight, and that Dazled not more by water then by fat. Our brightest and most noble part of all, Vilely converted into washing-ball. Direful prognosticks reckon all that are As our rebellion's aresenall's tools of war. God spares our thorns and briars twenty years, Looking they should have fruited sighs and tears.

And four or five his clement patience stayes, That we repair our rugged filthy wayes. Since by our daily factious dispute We'd turn and patch our tatter'd rebel suit, This being all we'd mend; our botchers 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 wooe. Offence malignant: punishment so too, In this sad gloomy state what chearing ray Hath East in splendid bosome to display? Where shall we finde that kinde Elysian vale, Will eccho to us joy while we bewail? Can any sweet content of heart distill From consolatrix Pithos sugar quill? Will smart and rage of our disease, disband At soft and gentle touch of Muses hand? † Natalis Comes makes a strange relation Of many Pest kill'd by precipitation. Strange power indeed makes patient ill at ease, Till to destroy himself he turn disease. As those when Syren sings, cannot forbear; But must leap headlong in the mouth they hear, So they by Syren charms of Pest, being brought Under fly tyrant power of pensive thought; First planet-s••ruck their senses loose and rave. Then out of window, tumble into grave.

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 forsook At once, and gave his body to a brook. What enthymem, or what dilemma findes Place here to melt & couch between two lines? Or what Sorites shall we flatter here, To steal on us a placid change of chear? Were that great Sophie here ne're met mis∣chance, But with salute of laughing † countenance. Or he whose breath dried tears, and did impart To ev'ry heavy hearing ear an (b) heart. Where would he get such vigorous conceits, Such flowrey words or smiling figure cheats, As might have force t' exhale out of our brest Stomacho •• apprehensions of the Pest? (c) Vul••ur••s and ravens, who do never chaw The ca••rions crams they seek t' impast their craw; If such, appest••d cark••sses are shie To touch, but leave unburied as they lie: Alacrity the wonted lively guest To sprightly object and vivacious breast, What courtesie can get it here t' accost, Being soe so capitol to death and ghost?

Yet if fair means wo'nt doe, it must be prest And fore't, as those were to the marriage feast. If m••rth be judg'd to have at any time Its season, when plague's ripe 'tis in its prime. There's none will doubt but melancholly soon Can put our bodies 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 humor makes a melancholly mood, Cardan thought fit to call the Devils food. This passion, when it may befriend the Pest, In mischief will be sure to do its best. For weak'ning then the noble parts, they are Neither condition'd to resist nor dare. We need no other testimony here, But see how many pest themselves with fear. For this sad sense can ne're the humors 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 shere away: Fly to another man, there build its nest Of botches, coles and blans: so lay the Pest. Haply because you'l say, who have a paten To wrangle in the Physick schools in Latin, Maintain that this same faculty ca'nt sit, Translator like, and labour in the sheet;

Ad intra onely operates: as he Who wo'nt have others learn his mystery: That soul keeps in its sphere, and's never known To act in other body then its own: And that if't could others infect, it might Cure them: so bid Physician good night. Yet 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 melancholly sense Oft projects to its self the Pestilence. That those sad spirits strongly do enforce The yielding bowels to its healths divorce Alt'ring 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 † such did dread mad dog, taught their scar'd sense To fall with sury on their patience: To turn them giddy, and in corners lurk, To set their venom'd canine teeth on work. So in infected Trapani the sad And simerous disease they feard, 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 winde: Serene as beauteous air, when in the deep Rain, windes and clouds are all fast rockt asleep: And onely 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 Queens marriage-day. Sadness we should abandon and refrain, As we would ••ly from cloud for fear of rain: Paint it, that with Alecto 〈◊〉〈◊〉 may stand Sister to Pest, with Fur••es whip in hand. That so its fellowship we never brook, Knowing its nature fiercer then 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 pu••ssance to make the weight: Give met••••mental chyle to ev'ry part, And be the Pertcardium to the heart. Great doubt••s 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 adde vigour to our dagger hand. When thousand•• fall in v••e••, to k••ep our g••ound, And courage ra••se▪ 'gainst 〈…〉〈…〉 cannot wound.

Some speculative Authors who do treat About such works make men within side sweat, That they to sadness ne're be forc't to yield Have thought their scull the best to be their ••••••eld. For while, say they, the active minde does fall Aboard such things are scientificall, All melancholly species 'twill detest, As raw flesh brought to board was never drest. And the more tetrick that the study be, 'Tis 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 skie. That golden Archer 'twas say they, from whom Python, symbol of Pest, receiv'd his doom. For which kinde act Apollinary playes Be ne're forgot to propagate his praise. How can Plague do him any prejudice, Who Phebus ••avourite and cl••ent is? Upon Parnassus takes the suns first beams. And drinks of Hippocrens pure christal 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 jubile? I•• flowers that at spisi••g so gay appear, Do make the 〈…〉〈…〉 of the year;

Needs must he joy who diligently plots Poëts 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 displayes Himself by lustre of Apollo's raies. Thus they. Which howsoe're to purpose said, None at their stairs are forc't to run a head. Not ev'ry Wood will make a Mercury. Nor this sit those have other fish to fry. Particular apply is endless: that None will refuse wh'ch sutes w'th ev'ry state. Liranus Philo and Iesephus tell How many sorts of plagues made Egypt Hell. The Potshaw o're which cursed train and show, Was Pest, elate great Pharo's soveraign too. Though this fed on the Memphians, like wave, Promiscuously rowl'd man and beast to grave; Yet all the Israelite•• it let alone. Health took its quarters up with ev'ry one. In Basil Plague fell on the Switzers; and Gave to (a) Italians and French its hand. In Maximinus time it did insect Heathens: but gave to (b) Christians respect. Another time when Indians were its meat, Sayes Trajan, us it civilly d••d treat.

If Pest these times, would keep the same stile still, And onely infidels and ethnicks 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 fort••ess is took, the conqu'ring foe Puts all to sword, whether baptiz'd or no. And as when dearth is to some countrey sent, Pagans and our cheeks too are macilent; So without difference contagious Fate Seases each age, religion, sex and state. Iurists of old did Pestilence discuss, As thing insolit and fortuitous: Steem'd as unusual and strange a smart, As was Alceste's passion of the heart. As rarely hapned as their deaths, decease Of Chilo's or Diagoras disease. But now it is, sayes Testate, (And who fear He speaks untruth, may be prolinctors here) ••ff••ct does onely against nature fall, For being so oft to us unnatural. 'Tis as familiar to us as gray ruffs, When slic't and carbonado'd into cuffs: Comes as the swallow or the flea, who knows Its time, creeps near a•• rocket turn'd to hose. We all its open se••ding common be, To give it name of Pest from pascere

'Tis call'd pandemos too: and so can fat in A grazing place as well of Greek as Latine. Our speculation, then, it must be bent To finde our joy some higher argument. Our musing wit some Numen should inspire, Elisha's† minstrel or else Davids lyre. Till raised up to Hea••en, it there commence To penetrate Genius of Providence: Advert the dispensation of his Graces. Wont to come to us with disastrous faces. How often hath affront, sayes Seneca, Foot-cloth to Honour laid and spread his way! Blow struck to kill or agonize the heart, Brought life and cure to some apostem'd part! Egyptian pest gave Hebrews liberty; Who'd by th' Assyrian pest too victory. Davids Plague rid him of his sontick fears, And made him sound by penitence and tears. Could 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 troups makes Pest pure spouses be In Heaven to be reserv'd from brothelry? How many there advance their sather's fame, Might here have been their earthly fathers 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? Gods 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; Wooes 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 flye where kindness ca'nt invite. Opens our eyes wide till they stare and see Gods lap the safest a••yle that can be. Let's, then, take con sort. For as Davids pain And trouble cas'd him of his love prophane. As sick Antiochus devoutly fell Prostrate in Temple he abus'd when well. And as afflicted Hebrews Idols broke, That when tripudiant they did invoke. So have we now occasion to retire From what before trappan'd our fond desire. The heavy flail we long have suffer'd under, May break our vices ansrous wreaths assunder.

In recompence of its strokes bruise and pain, Chaff is to flye and leave refined grain. Let's comfort take. For as the spinners lay Their webs and weave them in a cloudy day: As digg'd earth breeds the better; and the vine Gratifies pruner plenteously with wine; So we now under cloud and culture, may Work well, and gardners care with fruit repay. Let's comfort take. For like as Ionas he Courageously oppos'd tempestuous sea. And Iacob 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're calamity. Let's comfort take. For if Physicians leave Th' infirm, to whom what e're they like, they give. If animal in fields and meadows rambles Without controul, he destin'd to the shambles. And tree that husbandman never reclaims With mattock, spade or knife, must fruit him flames. So 't would but be bad omen, if heaven shou'd Ne're send us biting frosts to nip our blood. If we in suns beams should be alwayes 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 bee for use of us does drive Delicious anthine traffick in its hive. If almond after crude, hard, acid meat Gives us at last (as sumptuous feast) the sweet. If springs ruby and beauties pride, the Rose, Her fragrant body hides in thorny clothes. And if the Night after she long hath born Great belly, be deliver'd of the Morn; God haply after our hard tedious labour, Intends to joy us with some signal favour. Thus rightly aweful and well temper'd fear, Keeps all our arms safe marching in the reer. When we are under goverment of vice, Judgements reclaim and miseries intice. The••a signs not our death but our reprieve; And Condemnation tells us we shall live. We here and there in sun-shine gad and roam, When rainey weather makes us keep at home. And when Gods 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're us spread joy, though we had bin Inhabitants long in Trophonian den. By such Nepenthe Melancholies earth Will sink and ev'ry where be por'd 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 Then brass or lead helcysm of their purse: Account they'l stead the Patient as much, As Bow Church Steeple him that needs a crutch. After disease is character'd, and cause Hath opened pois'nous throat and show'd its paws; When whatsoe're ••s of prophetick note, Hath given in its signature and vote; And diagnostick accidents are all Adjoyn'd that use to be propempticall: As one e're 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 Physitian, serve Both sides, either to cure or else preserve. They bid the Rich their prized health intrust To rubies, emrods, saphires cordial dust. Granates, pearles, jacints, musk and amber lack Onely their Gold to be dissolv'd to Sack. The Germane species liberantes wait T' enfranchise them in hygiastick state. Th' Emperours powder shall be to them as free, As can be open hand that drops their fee.

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 podrida's they shall choose, That † sense and intellectuals may infuse. To poor who salt may want, their charity Gives peradventure sal absinthii; Figs, nuts, salt, rue, berries of Iuniper, May serve their turn with sauce of vinegar. While others greater ventures they insure, may Prescribe to them pilulae sine cura. Such as for alwayes saving life, of old, Were 'steem'd and call'd e're gilded, pills of gold. But Panacea, or what e're can vie With high and mighty peer of Alchimy. Etites, amulet, elixar, all That can to Pest ••e antipaticall, Will little do against disease (must prove Its Pharmaceutick vertue from above) Chiefly derives from heaven. No hoplochrism E're fought hand out of cloud, or cur'd a Schism. We're told that humane industry hath found ••anchrestum, medicine for ev'ry 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 'mongst all subdu'd contagious harms, Vnconquer'd 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 onely in such wars Secundate, sends and curbs erratick stars? Doctor, could he the smart of his sharp rod Ease alwayes, we should then adore as God. Who with their useful lore the publick serve, Some secrets still to be admir'd reserve. And God, who does his stellegg'd honour own As dearly as his diadem or throne, Though he hath taught Physitians 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. Asa may let Physitian controul Both his sick body and his sicker soul: Sacre rule, minde, will, conscience to his art, Enthone and idolize him in his heart;

Alas, he can share his infirmity, And onely knows to be as sick as he. But what? As the Athenians their disease Of Plague attributed to Pericles. And Romans Lucius Verus th' Emperour Blam'd, 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, layes faithful hand on breast, To finde it couch and pillowbear to Pest. None think Plague sent as l••ctor to maintain The cause of Gods terricrepant disdain: That 'tis his burning missile to dispense Revenging flames of his incandescence. Vesanous ablepsie, that heavens clear light Hath made moon-cy'd and quite depriv'd of sight! Pergamus great Physitian could resign Pest (though he neither knew) to power di∣vine. And that Achaian Poet who was cryed For wisdom up till he was de••sy'd; Who whence he came on earth none e're could finde: But gave men eyes, though he himself was blinde.

Ingen'ously told Greece, the (a) Plague did follow The will and order of incens'd Apollo. What shall we, then, we, Christians believe, Who learn and write in his divine archive? Know in Leviticus and (b) Deuteronomy He menac••s Israel with hierocomy; Which one day with the Pest they having tried To seventy thousand prov'd hospiticide? Plutarke asserts Lacedemonian state, When Pest among them did serpeggiate, Consulted Oracles to make them wise, That they voracious Pest might sepulize. Athenians, as Thucidides reports, Made for their Dieties new sacred courts. And Romans, Livie writes, did fabricate To ev'ry Idol votive seat of state: Order'd processions; lockt tribunal door, And brought in Gods that ne're saw Rome be••ore Each did, though ne're so barbarous, the st•••• With pious superstition pumicate. Why then wo'nt 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 Erythrean Sea. Pomona can afford no remedy From her succinous flow'ry 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 vertue seminal can come From aught that's incadaver'd in her womb. Noth••ng in Machaonian art can here Ransome our health or medicate our fear. If we'd finde what does both and never fail, We then must seek in the Peneian vale. † Elisha's salt should our sick waters heal, And our deaths-pot be temper'd with his meal. Our Ajax s••ield 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 Aus••ral windes that usually breed Anoxery, Pest is eructated. No fear of Pest, then, where in sphear 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 stomacks: such a flood Will not expand its Cobrus streams on mud. Such winde breaths not on dunghils, and who'l win Angels love, must be agamist to sin. Brigades of flies, frogs and such vermine, these Signs of corruption, are Pests oscines. But one who liberally and daily ••eeds Runcina with a sacrifice of Weeds. They whose superiour 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 finde nor omen to be P••evious or protatick to ghiandusse.

How ever others smart and are d••strest, Their fear will never isikle to Pest. Each for himself covets the happy fate, To be to Pest victor Crotoniate. We'd Locri be; neer Nig••r fix our foot; Or be inhabitants of Calecut: Places Cardan and Scaliger relate Ne're known to give Pest room to stabulate. Health's dear to us: and yet we more befriend Our lust, whose league we're loth to interscind. It were, should we decrustate this, we think, To be ablacted both from meat and drink. We must do more then wish: 'te'nt to fulfill 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 dayes: Feed at the table of Apelles, where Abstinence waits and ushers in the fare. And acolastick riot is put by; As complice to † proscrib'd philo••ophy. By iconism made in ev'ry point To p••t both eye and stomack out of joynt.

Pest, Tostate says, from pastus comes. Hence those Most suffer by it are most crapulose. As Dutch and Germans, while such are most free, Substract their epigastricke husbandry. Contagion fish atacks not. For they spare, In want of lungs to gormandize the air. And such who are unbowel'd 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'l grant they very well may guizzants seem, While in salt sea of penitence they swim. This 'tis must give our carrack volant vogue, And make us peccant humors dise••bogue. This will extinguish fire of prur••ent lust, And be smegmatick to our scabtous rust. For crime, pest to the soul, does watch and carry For bodies pest, and is its emissary: With oily words does it eutrapelize, And with Dardanean art too syrenize. Findes it obsequious to its call and beck, And rules it as its Hogan Mogan Smeck.

Because against wise (a) Esop some did rage: They felt from Pe•••• pounces of o••••frage. Because the Romans Manlius did condemn To death, being innocent, with punick crime: They (as some great Theologists have said, With Sibil, thought to be (b) entheated) Infliction had pat to their villany, And suffer'd 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) embargo on his purse. Because by a subduction all his state He'l 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 cow'd himself by Phala••is's bull. If contrary contrary meet to try The mastership by mutual courtesie: Collatcrate and be such friendly mates, As one the others wounds consolidates. Penitence ne're with Pestilence will station, Ne're be coll••gue nor joyn in parentation.

Who would not in this cataclysm die, Like Morkin, Leaches say, to hill must flye. Infected house shun more than hate to carry In an illuvious, mucid columbary: Make gun as intestinum rectum, where Physick may issue have to purge the air: Charge sweat it tend at ev'ry pore to carry Lethean humours out as ostiary. Let cautery mouth open that may spawl, As if provok't by some emeticall. VVith 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 trans∣port Sick soul to health, when their best skill's a∣mort? VVho would not be this feral monsters prey; Fall in insidious Catoblepa's way; He must himself abduce and sevocate From lu••ulent pe••caminou•• estate: Make resip••scence his reverticle, Can utmost rage of larval foe repell. There grave his habitation in a rock, And with his gemm'd 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 lugubrous fontenels: Acerb Compunction use to cut, prick, fret, And be to conscience as its tabouret. Friandises, rambooz, mulse, all the throng, Of dainties, sargeants be to t••eth and tongue, As Sinons 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 storm'd by showry South, Nothing but shriveing's liquid in his mouth. Decubiae and abstinance, these are His Pylad••an protocolls to prayer: Makes his Gilt with his tears together drop. So takes the bight of heaven with telescope. Sambuck lays by, agnizes all his rants. And Israels sweet singer then recants. While a cilicious Sambenit environs His bare flesh, rakes his wounds with scalping irons: Seposites robes, crown, septer, and in stead With ashes spices his anointed head;

And his basilical great Honour must Sit 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 saliant lust to ravish ev'ry dame; They sending troups of agonistick fears, To hold their paillards by their andoillers: Ev'ry salacious wish and wanton groan, Licensing to catuliate alone, Scarmigliate and contrite then they be: Each stubborn, stiff Aloia bends her knee, They wash their Idols temples with their tears, Assurding them with sobs, complaints, sus∣pires. A better way we cannot well invent T' avoid a quarantene then keeping Lent: When we refrene willfull ingluvious maw And Lust, with Fannian and Scatinian Law: Doe 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 finde com∣pa••••on, Revoke the sentence of our decimation: Be in possession quietly at home, Where Zums now and † 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 eartht agen; else flye and make retreat To distant part of African or Gete, Kyrie Eleison be our charm. One may Call Heavens fire: † thousands voice it quite away. Cardiognostick haubertne're 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're from Hygia can be sent; What gives us reviviction: so can cure With Loves 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 amarous streams, from thence t' ob∣tain Far more illustrious title o're the Main. The Penitential Psalms direct the way To sing our plangent dirg and Naenia. They're safe from being by Plagues deluge drown'd, Who wash themselves in this Probatick Pond. The vertuous Bethesda of our eyes, Makes sin and Plague, not us, the sacrifice. To gain lost virgin state the Lazarous▪ Squalid and jacent finde it Canathus. VVith sighs we draw heavens vital air, with grones New life: as those that toucht 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 Sions foot, were call'd the † Dragons W••ll. Such are our coulant tears steal down to meet And pa's the humblest courtship of our feet. That fig••r'd 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 T' our lot to have a Year Sabbatical.

Tis not enough with folded arms to grone, Sit and resolve to make Ephesian moan: That we more then irrorate cheeks, so weep, That couch and bed each floating seems a ship. These are but ocious acts would fain be blest With ease at wish; have without labour rest. If our armes be not busie after all, Our tears will make our eyes but mopsical. Our sacred tenure's soccage, which we owe To sudatorious manage of the Plough. We must saburrate ship, least 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 e're 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 Discharg'd 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 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: Doe to their Attick Christian faith fit place And class allow to ev'ry sister Grace: Make them stand as such brious part'ners As were to dance by musick of the sphears. Handed with such associates ne're will fall, But be to Destiny despoticall. Nona and th' other two for ever be Secluded from the Vertues company. Those against these can harbour no designs To sidelay or eyebite their Valentines. They, though the puissant Regents of mishap, Doe 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 magnetick vertue from the stone. Vertues become when sbïrro pest affai•• Offenders, their mallevadors and bails. Oft they have courtiers who their kind∣ness prove, And then vacillate, as if drunk with love. Their mercedaries for some present boon They be; but onely love them for a moon. With them a while exceedingly rejoyce, But quickly are deponents of their choice.

Float as Cutilia's isle, and change their minde, As often as Hyena's doe their kinde. Staticall helps such want for cure and ease, And need stegnoticks for their loose disease. 'Tis not who starts nor he that runs apace: But † he runs well to goal, who wins the race. 'Tis not French fury, but long faithful strife Hath promise of the diadem of life. Who vertues keep, do'nt euripize, but be As constant to them as the Baltick Sea. To have allodial lands we can't devise A better way then give them predial tythes. The oil of these wise virgins lamps, on fire Of Pest hath force to make it soon expire. Nothing can e're with Vices them in∣gage To make condict or joyn in voisinage. They're Amazons ne're 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 ev'ry languid and lugubrous breast, Ioyous invigorating power ingest. The other wait Hells 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 acherontick Plagues to fire our straw. That Plague may cease, Curtius life must be priz'd, And populace of sin be sacrific'd. Who vertues for their help and favour choose, To curb Pest's stasiastick boutefeu's, Abdicate vice, and all that vice retains, With their relicts, encliticks and remains. That Vertues, birds of Paradise, may come, Hawkers extrude, and vitious fowls deplume. Who'd be their friend, his morals interpole; His minde embellish, calander his soul. They'l have none are vertiginous to wooe 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 joyn the senseless aid of Ashima. Nibhaz ca'nt move nor Tartak; yet each stands To help their † servants, with their wooden hands. So many their devotions sever now, That quotient serves vice and vertue too:

Use vices as acetars, that with these. Vertues 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 zelot 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 joyn 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 meere spittle house: T'obvaricate his dearest health, and vary His armes from Temple into Mortuary. His mirth's Abderian laughter; does but tend To make him agelastick in the end. Kenodoxist himself does vainly tire, To follow false lights into pits and mire. The lawlese's destructive Power and spight, Breaks down an hedge that serpent may him bite. The mammonist with all his ill-got gain, Is Cerberus in adamantine chaine.

Stasiarchs glory happily may flush With mid-dayes 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 himselfe, roules Sisyphus's stone. Beauty's star-gazers 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 nourisht 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. Noe Neades like Vices when they rave And roar, to shake our Earth into the grave. They ev'ry hour such serpents breed, as will Defie and hiss in scorn at Ibis bill. If we doe 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 enorm••ty;

So virulent, that leach from heaven was sent, And needs must die to save the patient. Who 'tells us of his coming, cryes, and prayes, That we prepare him clean, straight, even wayes. So now our taske's the same, to breake and cart Scelesticke scopelisin from the heart: That nothing in our conversation be Of rancid or mephiticke quality: T'unbow crook•• wonts, wrie acts to regulate: Make brochity of will and manners straight. 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: Hew'd as the Parian marble, or what shows The beauteous argent smiles of Iuno'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 Iasons fleece.

Our soules great shepheard, then, now seems to sleep, While murrain plays the wolfe among the sheep, Will wake, its storm rebuke, and safely carry His bleating lamkins in his oviary. He'l be our nuptialist, and then esteem We as with spotless pudor come to him. While Virtue from him kindly rules our Nights, He'l make the Delian twins, Latonian lights. Our spouses salade is the surest fence Against gisarmes of the Pestilence. Among those conquer this, Physitians 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 Zodiacke to clasp it round. The Serpent Moses lifted up who view'd, By touch of visial beams their healths renew'd. We understand the figure well, that 'twas Mystery of our Shiloh on the Cross. Dragon Pest use all its mecidial tricks, We cross its spight by eyeing Crusifix. The Romans when they had endur'd the pain Long time of Pests ign••vomous disdain, To Epidaurus sent Ambassadors For Esculapius snake to work their cures.

This came: Plague ceas't. And hence they make relation, How their devotion to't made their piation. But sure we are 'tis onely he whose tread Had the sole power to bruise th' Old Serpents head. The deadly steam reeks from his poisonous den, In curst revenge on us, repels again. In pitty to our humane frailty, he Cloath'd himself with, cures its infirmity. He whom Leviathan cannot resist, Turns him with hook to breath which way he list. None enter heavens Elysium, but they Who pass through him is lifes sole gate and way He's that harmonious vent, that if we trust, Focillate will our fires and quench our thirst. Iliads of evils from us he'l expel, Our griefs and languors mancipate to hell: All flagrant gledes and firedrakes 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 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

He needs, if brazen snake could save alive, Must cure who cures by representative. 'Gainst phymata, oedemata, what e're Distringent is by chagrin, pain or fear, What e're '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 sweet∣er Relike of this with gratia Dei meets Our dead flesh and exulcerate ferits. Impolueriz'd 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: Flotes 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 'Tis septer o're both Globes, guidon of might, there. And tables of the Law laid thwart and right. † Tis Fortunes wheel, th' Arts turnst••le solely ha••s The place to give them way and let them pass.

Cyclopaedia's axis, Learnings hand, Its sense does and the letters too expand. Piazza of the worlds 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. Physicks Pharmacopoea comprehends Art infinite to all poor leach commends. Its timber can, where ever need requires. Contabulate our wants and our desires. Physick may have hand of our cure at need, But still Religion ownes the heart and head. She 'twas that when sins Cypress tree was grown All o're the earth, gave charge to cut it down. 'Twas she that whole our piteous eye-sore made, By the detenebration of its shade. 'Twas that compassionate celestial dame, Clos'd 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 ev'ry species genus claim'd for his Ordain'd; then pen'd the Physick genesis. Sh•• plant and herb sororiant design'd Prol••sick and lustrifick in its kinde.

She made it vegetive, and did it tie With the frank almoine of her Charity. She, she it was, that e're it budded forth, Did to our use pastilicate its worth. On humane art why should we fondly rest, That is but stoln or borrowed at the best? When we may have what's real beauty, seem Content with the prestiges of a dream? We ca'nt, when Nature does our Life disband, Commit it to more safe and tender hand. Rapine and Insolence, such as ingage To propagate ochlocrasie of Rage; All macellarious complices and fiends, Plot to abet and act pale Horrours ends, Before her sink, while they themselves con∣found, As giddy Eddy in its circles drown'd. And more indulgent touch then hers can ne're 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 courtesie Ne're ray'd from Goddess of the Morn, when she For her belov'd weary Endymions head, In blushing satten makes his spicy bed. Ne're from serene Lucina came, who ties Her vigils vestment round with starry eyes, When the tir'd Howers of the day doe creep, Into her open douney breast to sleep.

O do'nt despise a Beauty, whose despight 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 Circes or Roxana's hand. And whose all-bounteous ••avour, when 'tis gone, Leaves us despons't to Gods of wood and stone. O doe not slight a Beauty so supream, Brightens Heaven with her Iuno's diadem. Who, where she lists, the Civick 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 Cupids wings. Paul plants, Apollo waters: when all's done, She's wanted irradiation of the Sun. When Doctors have exantlated t••eir skill, Her Raphaels sacred Physick cure•• our ill. That Plague surprize us not with fear or dread, Sanctuary stands upon Religions head. We see, through Art, where e're we cast our eye, All Nature circuncluded with the Sky.

FINIS.

Notes

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  Evagr. l. 4. c. 25.
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  27. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• 〈…〉〈…〉 Jo•• Imp••r.
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  Demo••ri••s
• (b)

  〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• (c)

  Mercur. l. 1. c. 6.
• Pic intergris duchus lib m••d
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  Phil 1▪ grassi•••• part 2 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Pan
• Petrus Pa••h, in tract. de pest. c 9.
• (a)

  Hist Eccles. 1903
• (b)

  Euseb. 1.2, de niort Gal•• •• 18.
• Inc. 24 Matth.
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  2 King 3 15.
• Phalercus cx. gr. &.
• He affirmed he never saw any die of the Plague 〈◊〉〈◊〉 used it.
• †

  V. Hew••••.
• Palmer l de f••b pest. c. 17.
• •• Chron. 16 1.
• Gal. in Ep••d••m.
• (a)

  Hom. pr. Ili.
• (b)

  D••ut. 23. L••vi••. 26.
• †

  2 King 2.22
• ••. 10 de subtil exer 32
• †

  A concivii•• ex••la•• philo••ophia.
• In ••. 6 2 paral. vers. pestilen.
• (a)

  In opus. de iis qui s••••ò pu••iuntur.
• (b)

  Liv. ••ec. 1.••.1.
• (c)

  Abu••••••s.
• Isa. 22 16.
• †

  Is••. 13 21. & 34 14.
• 2 Kings 1.10.
• †

  1 King 8.37, 38, 39.
• 2 King. 13.4. Ma••k 11.24. Ma••••••••. 7.11.
• 2 King 13.21.
• †

  N.h••m 2. 13.
• Levit. 26 Deut. 5 29. Deut. 7.12.15.
• 2 P••l 1, 5, 6, 7, & 10.
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  1 Cor 9 24.
• Rev ••.10.
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  2 King 17.31, 32, & 41.
• Eccles 10.8.
• Iohn 3.14.
• 2 King 3.15, 16, 17, &c.
• 1 Cor. 1 18
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  Matth. 10 18.