The Plague of Athens, which hapned in the second year of the Peloponnesian Warre / First described in Greek by Thucydides; then in Latin by Lucretius. Now attempted in English

by Thomas Sprat; Thomas Hobbes; Thucydides

IV.

Those Africk Desarts strait were double Desarts grown,

The rav’nous Beasts were left alone,

The rav’nous beasts then first began

To pity their old enemy Man,

And blam’d the Plague for what they would themselves have done.

Nor stay’d the cruel evil there,

Nor could be long confin’d unto one Air,

Plagues presently forsake

The Wilderness which they themselves do make,