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

Did move, and flame, and burn, and strait to ashes broke.

XVII.

So strong the heat, so strong the torments were,

They like some mighty burden bear

The lightest covering of Air.

All Sexes and all Ages do invade

The bounds which Nature laid,

The Laws of modesty which Nature made.

The Virgins blush not, yet uncloath’d appear,

Undress’d do run about, yet never fear.