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

There thou maist deal a victory,

And none of this world hear the cry

Of those that by thy wounds shall die;

No Greek shall know thy cruelty,

And tell it to posterity.

Go, and unpeople all those mighty Lands,

Destroy with unrelenting hands;

Go, and the Spaniards sword prevent,

Go, make the Spaniard innocent,

Go, and root out all man-kind there.