Or waves that, when the blustering North embroils 270

The Baltic, thunder on the German shore.

Subject not then, by soft emollient arts,

This grand expence, on which your fates depend,

To every caprice of the sky; nor thwart

The genius of your clime: For from the blood 275

Least fickle rise the recremental steams,

And least obnoxious to the styptic air,

Which breathe thro’ straiter and more callous pores.

The temper’d Scythian hence, half-naked treads