They search’d it in their books, and fain would meet it there.
They turn’d the Records of the antient times,
And chiefly those that were made famous by their crimes;
To find if men were punish’d so before,
But found not the Disease nor cure.
Nature alas! was now surpriz’d,
And all her Forces seiz’d,
Before she was how to resist advis’d:
So when the Elephants did first affright
The Romans with unusual fight,