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

Into the upper world it went,

Such guilt, such wickedness,

Such irreligion did increase,

That the few good who did survive,

Were angry with the Plague for suffring them to live,

More for the living than the dead did grieve:

Some robb’d the very dead,

Though sure to be infected ere they fled,

Though in the very Air sure to be punished.

Some nor the shrines nor temples spar’d,