The Scribleriad : an heroic poem. In six books.

  • Cambridge, Richard Owen, 1717-1802.
Date:
1751
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Credit: The Scribleriad : an heroic poem. In six books. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * [ 2° ] > » _ * ft , * . 240 The fierce Bifaltee milk the nurfing Mare, Mix her rich Blood, and Twill the lufcious fare : 1 J And the foul Cynocephalus fuftains, - - With her drain’d udder, the Medimnian fwains; Strange to relate! near fam’d Hydafpes flood, 245 For their fupport they rear the pois’nous brood ; * r -v r, *. • -~x The Viper, Toad, and Scorpion are their food. - . . r - t .■ f -j . r '-a , Nay, ev’n in thefe uncultivated plains, . a * ♦ % I* J f 'The fwarming Locufl; feeds the hungry fwains* '% r * f ■ r ;v--r Far-length’ning fires extend along the coalt, ' t T T 250 And intercept the clofe-embatded hoft. Firm L. 240. Bifaltee quo more folent acerque Gelonus Cumfugit in Rhodopen, i/z defer t a Get drum, £/ concretum cum fanguine pot at equino. Virg. Georg, lib. iii. lin. 461. --’When for Drink and Food They mix their cruddled Milk with Plorfe’s Blood. Dryden. L. 246. The Prince of Cambay's daily Food Is Afp, and Bafililk, and Toad Which makes him have fo ftrong a Breath, Each Night he Finks a Queen to Death. Flu dibrass. L. 248. The fwarming Locufi.] Diodorus relates many Particulars of thefe Acridophagi, 1. iii. c. 29. Dr. Shaw fpeaking of thefe Locufts in his Travels, page 2 ^7, fays, 4 Thofe which I law were much bigger than our Grafshoppers. 4 It was furprizing to obferve, that no fooner were any of them hatch’d, than c they collected themfelves into a Body of about two hundred Yards iquare ; ‘ which marching forward, climb’d over Trees and Houfes, and eat up every 4 Plant in their way. The Inhabitants placing in a Row great Quantities of * Heath Stubble, &c. fet them on fire upon the approach of the Locufts. But 4 ail this was to no purpole, for the Fires were quickly put out by infinite 4 Swarms fucceeding one another : whilft the Front feem’d regardlels of Dan- 4 ger, and the Rear prefs’d on fo clofe, that a Retreat was impofiible.