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 To fair Leander's picture sacrifice: And they were persons of especial price, That were allow'd it, as an ornament T' enrich their houses; for the continent Of the strange virtues all approv'd it held: For even the very look of it repell'd All blastings, witchcrafts, and the strifes of nature In those diseases that no herbs could cure: The wolfy sting of Avarice it would pull, And make the rankest miser bountiful. It kill'd the fear of thunder and of death: The discords, that conceits engendereth 'Twixt man and wife, it for the time would cease: The flames of love it quench'd, and would increase: Held in a prince's hand, it would put out The dreadful'st comet: it would ease all doubt Of threaten'd mischiefs: it would bring asleep Such as were mad: it would enforce to weep Most barbarous eyes: and many more effects This picture wrought, and sprung Leandrian sects, Of which was Hero first: for he whose form, Held in her hand, clear'd such a fatal storm, From hell she thought his person would defend her, Which night and Hellespont would quickly send her.