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WHat's Englands Metropolis be-come folorne? Europes late Glory, now a Pesants scorne? The Mistress of the Seas, She that outvi'd? Her ranting Sister Cities, th' Gallick Pride? Room resurrect, in her great Ela State? Must she now truckle to the Dooms of Fate Without a rescue? 's no bold Champion sent To wrest her from the rudest Ravishment O'th Rawbon'd Rascall, must he triumph thus? And timpanize himself with blood of us Poor Mortals? Devour more at a meal Then Bell and Dragon in an age could steal? Where's all the Quixots of our age? has none Th' Elixir, the long-look'd-for Stone? No Cure for her, whose Tenants made their boasts Till now, they'd rout the most victorious hosts Of all Diseases? Here's a Goliah stands And bids defiance 'gainst th' united bands Of Art: Then muster up your Forces, say, Who shall command? or who begin the Fray? If Seniority takes place, the Galenists Oblig'd in honour first to enter th' Lists. What weapons must he use? a Weavers Beams Too great for him to wield, His Apozemes, Electuaries, Julips, Bolus, and the rest Are all too gross to touch this Spirituallist. More refin'd weapons (though defensive all) Some say may shield us from this Canniball. Enter Van Helmont then, who like another Jacob, endeavours to supplant his Brother, And with more right perhaps; take but this story; What feats hee'l do with his Elabratory; How hee'l unravel Nature, th' causes find By Chimick art what 'tis compounds the wind: Yet h's Aquafortis, Regis, and Coelestis, (With choicest spirit, which esteem'd the best is) Though elevated higher then the gross And faeculent composure of a Dos,
Are too terrene t'encounter or contest With this invincible Antagonist. Quartans no more shall Galenists defame, Nor th' Altahest the Paracelsian blame. Here's a Disease so subtle (though impure) Baffles them both to find the Cause or Cure. Let's force Art to her Zenith then, and try The Virtuosoes Etimology. How they define, or gravely descant on This grand invisible Contagion. Malignant vagrant Atomes are the quaint (say they) Compounders of this mortal taint, Their qualities and motion[']s yet obscure, Till the Dioptricks can discern th'impure, Though subtle exhalations that proceeds From the first matter, which infection breeds, A Quere may be urg'd, whether they be Not vivid Atoms, since we daily see All sulphurous Fumes these wanderers expels, With other Insects to remoter Cells. Whatere they be, extrinsique first they are, And Vagrant too, why suffered then so farre T' entrench on humane nature? cannot Art Contrive a Statue Law, and whip this tart Unruly Vagabond from mortal bounds, Or (as the Country-man the Stragler pounds) Confine him? No, This Hoegan Mogan Lord, (Though wafted higher on a Shipwrackt bord) Takes so much state upon him, (like his Sire, The Sink of Christendome, Europes Quagmire) That Civil Laws this Gaderen defies, With Arts and Sciences as Enemies. Is Art then stinted? a non ultra here To her proceedings? Th' Question is not cleer; The Fountains muddy whence this taint first came, Why then should th' English Artist foul his name, In pudling into th' Cause, thus much Ile say, If sympathetick Atomes bear the sway, Our Calvenist with's motled Brotherhood, Draws Dutch Opinions, and his Countryes blood.