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<HEAD>LONDONS PLAGUE FROM HOLLAND, OR Inquiries after the Natural Cau&s;es of Her Pre&s;ent Calamity.</HEAD>
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<L>WHat's <HI>Englands Metropolis</HI> be|come folorne?</L>
<L><HI>Europes</HI> late <HI>Glory,</HI> now a Pe&s;ants &s;corne?</L>
<L>The <HI>Mi&s;tre&s;s</HI> of the Seas, She that outvi'd?</L>
<L>Her ranting <HI>Si&s;ter Cities,</HI> th' <HI>Gallick Pride?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Room</HI> re&s;rrect, in her great <HI>Ela State?</HI></L>
<L>Mu&s;t &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">ckle to the <HI>Dooms</HI> of <HI>Fate</HI></L>
<L>W<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">e? 's no bold <HI>Champion</HI> &s;ent</L>
<L>To wre<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">er from the rude&s;t <HI>Ravi&s;hment</HI></L>
<L>O'th <HI>Rawhon'd Ra&s;call,</HI> mu&s;t he triumph thus?</L>
<L>And <HI>timpanize</HI> him&s;elf with blood of us</L>
<L>Poor Morals? <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="5 words"></L>
<L>Then <HI>Bell</HI> and <HI>Dragon</HI> in an age could &s;teal?</L>
<L>Where's all the <HI>Quixots</HI> of our age? has none</L>
<L>Th' <HI>Elixir,</HI> the long-look'd-for <HI>Stone?</HI></L>
<L>No <HI>Cure</HI> for <HI>her,</HI> who&s;e <HI>Tenants</HI> made their boa&s;ts</L>
<L>Till now, they'd <HI>rout</HI> the mo&s;t victorious ho&s;ts</L>
<L>Of all <HI>Di&s;ea&s;es?</HI> Here's a <HI>Goliah</HI> &s;tands</L>
<L>And bids <HI>defiance</HI> 'gain&s;t th' united bands</L>
<L>Of <HI>Art:</HI> Then mu&s;ter up your <HI>Forces,</HI> &s;ay,</L>
<L>Who &s;hall command? or who begin the <HI>Fray?</HI></L>
<L>If <HI>Seniority</HI> takes place, the <HI>Galeni&s;t</HI>'s</L>
<L>Oblig'd in <HI>honour</HI> fir&s;t to enter th' <HI>Li&s;ts.</HI></L>
<L>What weapons mu&s;t he u&s;e? a <HI>Weavers Beams</HI></L>
<L>Too great for him to wield, <HI>His Apozemes,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Electuaries, Julips, Bolus,</HI> and the re&s;t</L>
<L>Are all too gro&s;s to touch this <HI>Spiritualli&s;t.</HI></L>
<L>More refin'd weapons (though de&s;en&s;ive all)</L>
<L>Some &s;ay may &s;hield us from this <HI>Canniball.</HI></L>
<L>Enter <HI>Van Helmont</HI> then, who like another</L>
<L><HI>Jacob,</HI> endeavours to &s;upplant his <HI>Brother,</HI></L>
<L>And with more right perhaps; take but this &s;tory,</L>
<L>What &s;eats hee'l do with his <HI>Elabratory;</HI></L>
<L>How he<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">'l unravel <HI>Nature,</HI> th' cau&s;es find</L>
<L>By <HI>Chimick art</HI> what 'tis compounds the wind&punc;</L>
<L>Yet h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s <HI>Aquafortis, Regis,</HI> and <HI>Coele&s;tis,</HI></L>
<L>(With choice&s;t &s;pirit, which e&s;teem'd the be&s;t is)</L>
<L>Though elevated higher then the gro&s;s</L>
<L>And &s;aeculent compo&s;ure of a <HI>Dos,</HI></L>
<L>Are too terrene t'encounter or conte&s;t</L>
<L>With this <HI>invincible Antagoni&s;t.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Quartans</HI> no more &s;hall <HI>Galeni&s;ts</HI> defame,</L>
<L>Nor th' <HI>Altahe&s;t</HI> the <HI>Paracel&s;ian</HI> blame.</L>
<L>Here's a <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e</HI> &s;o &s;ubtle (though impure)</L>
<L>Baffles them both to find the <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> or <HI>Cure.</HI></L>
<L>Let's force Art to her <HI>Zenith</HI> then, and try</L>
<L>The <HI>Virtuo&s;oes Etimology.</HI></L>
<L>How they define, or gravely de&s;cant on</L>
<L>This grand invi&s;ible <HI>Contagion.</HI></L>
<L>Malignant vagrant <HI>Atomes</HI> are the quaint</L>
<L>(&s;ay they) Compounders of this mortal taint&punc;</L>
<L>Their <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> and <HI>motion</HI>'s yet ob&s;cure,</L>
<L>Till the <HI>Dioptricks</HI> can di&s;cern th'impure,</L>
<L>Though &s;ubtle exhalations that proceeds</L>
<L>From the fir&s;t matter, which infection breeds,</L>
<L>A <HI>Quere</HI> may be urg'd, whether they be</L>
<L>Not <HI>vivid Atoms,</HI> &s;ince we daily &s;ee</L>
<L>All &s;ulphurous <HI>Fumes,</HI> the&s;e wanderers expels,</L>
<L>With other <HI>In&s;ects</HI> to remoter Cells.</L>
<L>What ere they be, extrin&s;ique fir&s;t they are,</L>
<L>And Vagrant too, why &s;uffered then &s;o farre</L>
<L>T' entrench on <HI>humane nature?</HI> cannot <HI>Art</HI></L>
<L>Contrive a <HI>Statue Law,</HI> and whip this tart</L>
<L>Unruly <HI>Vagabond</HI> from mortal bounds,</L>
<L>Or (as the Country-man the <HI>Stragler</HI> pounds)</L>
<L>Confine him? No, This <HI>Hoegan Mogan Lord,</HI></L>
<L>(Though wafted higher on a <HI>Shipwrackt</HI> bord)</L>
<L>Takes &s;o much <HI>&s;tate</HI> upon him, (like his <HI>Sire,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Sink</HI> of <HI>Chri&s;tendome, Europes Quagmire</HI>)</L>
<L>That <HI>Civil Laws</HI> this <HI>Gaderen</HI> defies,</L>
<L>With <HI>Arts</HI> and <HI>Sciences</HI> as Enemies.</L>
<L>Is <HI>Art</HI> then &s;tinted? a <HI>non ultra</HI> here</L>
<L>To her proceedings? Th' <HI>Que&s;tion</HI> is not cleer;</L>
<L>The <HI>Fountain</HI>'s muddy whence this taint fir&s;t came</L>
<L>Why then &s;hould th' <HI>Engli&s;h Arti&s;t</HI> &s;oul his name</L>
<L>In pudling into th' <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> thus much Ile &s;ay,</L>
<L>If <HI>&s;ympathetick Atomes</HI> bear the &s;way,</L>
<L>Our <HI>Calveni&s;t</HI> with's <HI>motled Brotherhood,</HI></L>
<L>Draws <HI>Dutch Opinions,</HI> and his Countryes blood.</L>
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