What misery th’ inabstinence of Eve139 Shall bring on men. Immediately a place140 Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark; A lazar-house it seemed, wherein were laid141 480 Numbers of all diseased, all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, 485 Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy142 And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy,143 Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence,144 Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans;
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