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

The Air no more was Vital now,

But did a mortal poyson grow;

The Lungs which us’d to fann the heart,

Onely now serv’d to fire each part,

What should refresh, increas’d the smart,

And now their very breath,

The chiefest sign of life, turn’d the cause of death.

XI.

Upon the Head first the disease,

As a bold Conqueror doth seize,