From "Hermetical Physic": Translated From Henry Nollius

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Title:     From "Hermetical Physic": Translated From Henry Nollius
Author: Henry Vaughan [More Titles by Vaughan]

(1655)

1. [HORACE. EPIST. I. 1, 14-5.]

Where'er my fancy calls, there I go still,
Not sworn a slave to any master's will.

 

2. [INCERTI.]

There's need, betwixt his clothes, his bed and board,
Of all that Earth and Sea and Air afford.

 

3. [INCERTI.]

With restless cares they waste the night and day,
To compass great estates, and get the sway.

 

4. [JUVENAL. SATIRE XV. 160-164.]

Whenever did, I pray,
One lion take another's life away?
Or in what forest did a wild boar by
The tusks of his own fellow wounded die?
Tigers with tigers never have debate;
And bears among themselves abstain from hate

 

5. [JUVENAL. SATIRE XV. 169-171.]

[Some] esteem it no point of revenge to kill,
Unless they may drink up the blood they spill:
Who do believe that hands, and hearts, and heads,
Are but a kind of meat, etc.

 

6. [INCERTI.]

The strongest body and the best
Cannot subsist without due rest.

[The end]
Henry Vaughan's poem: From "Hermetical Physic": Translated From Henry Nollius

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