The breath was fetch’d, and with huge lab’rings heav’d. 560

At last a heavy pain oppress’d the head,

A wild delirium came; their weeping friends

Were strangers now, and this no home of theirs.

Harass’d with toil on toil, the sinking powers

Lay prostrate and o’erthrown; a ponderous sleep 565

Wrapt all the senses up: They slept and died.

In some a gentle horror crept at first

O’er all the limbs; the sluices of the skin

Withheld their moisture, till by art provok’d