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THE LIFE OF

Scorpio sty.

Quœ nova jam cœli fades ? Quijve horridus annumDeclivem Boreas contrijlat , & afperat auras ?Scilicet auratas Phœbi jam tardat habenasScorpius, at que hebetes radios , gelidoque venenoLetbiferi tinBos Jlimuli, vix suftinet ultroExtendi ejsœtis marcentia lumina terris.

Monstrum ingens late protendit brachia , caudœNigraque circuitu Jinuat curvamina longo ;

JJndique bis denis , trinisque aspersa favillis jQuas jertur posuijje Jovem, memorabile viBiOrionis signum ; nam cumsua robora jaBansOmnia derisit, terrœque animalia sprevit ;

Hoc monjlrum objecit tellus irata , superbamScevo urinigenæ domuit quod cuspide linguam.

Si documenta viris temere deducat ab ajlrisVana fuperjiitio , meliori emblemate nobisHoc placet inventum ; mundi fabricator, olympoSidus hoc inferuit , discant ut ad at her a duros ,Hifficilesque adit us, & vix penetrabile, fedesAd Juperas quod ducit iter ; per monjlra ferarum ,Scorpium & horrendum , dira qui cuspide caudœVulnerat in venas, subitum injinuatque venenum:Haud aliter jujlos tenebrofi tortor averniSubdolus infejlat , fidum , Christique minijlrum ,JJndique inexpleto quœrit, quem devoret ore .

Ite procul timidly sacraque abfijlite se de,

Queis fxusfat corde pavor , procul ite fugaces :At vos heroes! Vos fanBa in bella, piorumFortunata phalanx , Christo auBorata magijlro ;Pergite magnanimi , fidoque umbone salutisMunitiy sanctique armati flaminis enfe.

Horrida inaccejjum per monjlra , per ardua, cœloQuœrite iter ; mundi tranfite objlacula ; tandemEveniet tempus, quandb hac super ajlra dabunturÆternœ sedes, requies & cert a laborum ;

Qua fanBa!, nec telum hoflile, neve aspidis ira,Sollicitent animas , nec mortis causa , metusve ,

Nec Satanæ rabies ; tuti gradiemini in atrumScorpium, & ardentes Erebi calcabitis angues ,Gaudentes Christi at er nos celebrare triumphos ,Altitonans pojlquam descenderit cethere Judex,Carne triumphali viBricia figna reportans:

< Tunc mortem absorptam , tune caco carcere clausumLuciferum, eniti frujlra cernetis, averniSulfureos nigris spumantem faucibus ignes.

Sagittarius

AJpice ut intentus cursu venatur anhelo,Stelliserasque plagas vajli perlujlrat olympiArcitenens jaculis, in cœli monjlra mtnaciMijfurus nervo volucrem , diramque Sagittam ,

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