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  But only tat, their wits no longer keep, Or forthwith fall into a deadly leep. Who at Clitorius fountain thirt remove, Loath Wine, and abtinent, meer Water love. With treams oppos'd to thee Lincetus flowes : They reel, as drunk, who drink too much of thoe. A Lake in fair Arcadia tands, of old Call'd Pheneus; upected, as twofold : Fear, and forbear to drink thereof by night : By night unwholome, wholome by day-light.

Joephus alo makes relation of the wonderfull nature of a certain river betwixt Arcea, and Raphanea, Cities of Syria: which runs with a full Channell all the Sabboth Day, and then on a udden ceaeth, as if the prings were topped, and all the ix dayes you may pas over it dry-hod: but again, on the eaventh day (no man knowing the reaon of it) the Waters return again in abundance, as before. Wherefore the inhabitants thereabout called it the Sabboth-day river, becaue of the Seaventh day, which was holy to the Jews. The Gopel alo tetifies to a heep-pool, into which whooever tepped firt, after the Water was troubled by the Angel, was made whole of whatoever dieae he had. The ame vertue, and efficacy we read was in a pring of the Ionian Nymphs, which was in the territories belonging to the Town of Elis, at a Village called Heraclea, neer the river Citheron: which whooever tepped into, being dieaed, came forth whole, and cured of all his dieaes. Pauanias alo reports, that in Lyceus, a mountain of Arcadia, there was a pring called Agria, to which, as often as the drynes of the Region threatned the detruction of fruits, Jupiters Priet of Lyceus went, and after the offering of Sacrifices, devoutly praying to the Waters of the Spring, holding a Bough of an Oke in his hand, put it down to the bottome of the hallowed Spring; Then the waters being troubled, a Vapour acending from thence into the Air was blown into Clouds, with which being joyned together, the whole Heaven was overpread: which being a little after diolved