“ ‘Unlike effects Lyncestis will produce; Who drinks his waters, though with moderate use, Reels us with wine, and sees with double sight; His heels too heavy, and his head too light. Ladon, once Pheneus, an Arcadian stream, (Ambiguous in the effects, as in the name,) By day is wholesome beverage, but is thought By night infected, and a deadly draught.

“ ‘Thus running rivers, and the standing lake, Now of these virtues, now of those partake: Time was (and all things time and fate obey) When fast Ortygia floated on the sea; Such were Cyanean isles, when Typhis steer’d Between their straits, and their collision fear’d; They swam where now they sit; and firmly join’d, Secure of rooting up, resist the wind. Nor Aetna, vomiting sulphureous fire, Will ever belch; for sulphur will expire: (The veins exhausted of the liquid store:) Time was, she cast no flames; in time will cast no more.