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 The Four Elements. 107

I'le here let pafs, my choler, caufe of wars

And influence of clivers of thofe ftars

When in Conjunction with the Sun do more

Augment his heat, which w^as too hot before.

The Summer ripening feafon I do claim

And man from thirty unto fifty frame.

Of old when Sacrifices w^ere Divine,

I of acceptance was the holy figne,

'Mong all my wonders which I might recount.

There's none more ftrange then AitncCs Sulphry mount

The choaking flames, that from Vefitviits flew

The over curious fecond Pliny * flew^.

And w^ith the Afhes that it fometimes flied

Apulia s 'jacent parts were covered.

And though I be a fervant to each man

Yet by my force, mafl;er, my mafl:ers can.

What famous Towns, to Cinders have I turned?

What lafhing forts my kindled wrath hath burn'd ?

The ftately Seats of mighty Kings by me [9]

In confufed heaps, of aflies may you fee.

Wher's Minus great wall'd Town, & Troy of old

Carthage^ and hundred more in ftories told

Which when they could not be o'recome by foes

The Army, through my help vi6lorious rofe

And ftately London^ (our great Britain^'^ g^ory)

My raging flame did make a mournful ftory,

��* She does not mean, by mistake, the Touiiger Plinj, but translates the cognomen of Seciifidus, which belonged to both Plinjs.

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