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

Against those barbrous crouds thy arrows whet,

Where Arts and Laws are strangers yet;

Where thou may’st kill, and yet the loss will not be great,

There rage, there spread, and there infect the Air,

Murder whole towns and families there,

Thy worst against those Savage nations dare,

Those whom Man-kind can spare,

Those whom man-kind it self doth fear;

Amidst that dreadful night, and fatal cold,

There thou may’st walk unseen, and bold,