Nor is this all which we thee grant; Rather than thou should’st full imployment want, We do permit in _Greece_ it self thy kingdom plant. Ransack _Lycurgus_ streets throughout, They’ve no defence of walls to keep thee out. On wanton and proud _Corinth_ seise, Nor let her double waves thy flames appease. Let _Cyprus_ feel more fires than those of Love, Let _Delos_ which at first did give the Sun, See unknown Flames in her begun, Now let her wish she might unconstant proves, And from her place might truly move. Let _Lemnos_ all thy anger feel, And think that a new _Vulcan_ fell, And brought with him new Anvils, and new hell. Nay and at _Athens_ too we give thee up, All that thou find’st in Field, or camp, or shop, Make havock there without controul Of every ignorant and common soul; But then kind Plague, thy conquests stop; Let Arts, and let the learned there escape, Upon _Minerva’s_ self commit no rape; Touch not the sacred throng, And let _Apollo’s_ Priests be like him young, Let him be healthful too, and strong. But ah! too ravenous plague, whilst I Strive to keep off the misery, The learned too as fast as others round me die; They from corruption are not free, Are mortal though they give an immortality. XXVII. They turn’d their Authors o’re, to try, What help, what cure, what remedy All Natures stores against this Plague supply, And though besides they shunn’d it every where, 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, They many battels lose, Before they knew their foes, Before they understood such dreadful troops t’oppose. XXVIII.