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Show You meet CoNTAGION ifTuing fron1 afar, And da{h the baleful conqueror from his car; When, Guefl: of DEATH! from charnel vaults he fieals, And bathes in hu1nan gore his armed wheels. 8 6 " Thus when the PLAGUE, upborne on Belgian air, ·Look' d through the mift and !hook his clotted hair ; 0, er ihrinking nations fteer' d malignant clouds, And rain' d deftruB:ion on the gafping crouds. 90 The beauteous lEGLE felt the venom' d dart, Slow roll' d her eye, and feebly throbb' d her heart; Each fervid figh feem' d !horter than. the lafl:, And ftarting Friendiliip iliunn'd her, as !he pafs'd. -With weak unfteady flep the fainting Maid 95 Seeks the cold garden's folitary fi1ade, The lmzuteous lEg/e. 1. 91. When the plague raged in Holland in 1636, a young girl was feized with it, had three carbuncles, and was rcn~oved to a garden, where her lover, who was betrothed to her, attended her as a nurfe, and flept with her as his wife. He remained uninfeCl:ed, and {he recovered, and was married to him. The ftory is related by Vine. Fabricius in the Mifc. Cur. Ann. II. Obf. 188. PaRT r. z |