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Rh To the car, the ornament of over-wealthy luxury.

And none else than I invented the sea-wandering

Flaxen-winged vehicles of sailors.

Such inventions I wretched having found out

For men, myself have not the ingenuity by which

From the now present ill I may escape. Ch. You suffer unseemly ill; deranged in mind

You err; and as some bad physician, falling

Sick you are dejected, and cannot find

By what remedies you may be healed. Pr. Hearing the rest from me more will you wonder

What arts and what expedients I planned.

That which was greatest, if any might fall sick,

There was alleviation none, neither to eat,

Nor to anoint, nor drink, but for the want

Of medicines they were reduced to skeletons, till to them

I showed the mingling of mild remedies,

By which all ails they drive away.

And many modes of prophecy I settled,

And distinguished first of dreams what a real

Vision is required to be, and omens hard to be determined