From "Of The Diseases Of The Mind And The Body": Translated From Plutarch

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Title:     From "Of The Diseases Of The Mind And The Body": Translated From Plutarch
Author: Henry Vaughan [More Titles by Vaughan]

1651

1. [HOMER. ILIAD, XVII. 446-7.]

That man for misery excell'd
All creatures which the wide world held.

 

2. [EURIPIDES. BACCHAE, 1170-4.]

A tender kid--see, where 'tis put--
I on the hills did slay,
Now dress'd and into quarters cut,
A pleasant, dainty prey.

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Henry Vaughan's poem: From "of The Diseases Of The Mind And The Body": Translated From Plutarch

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