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THE CHACE.
Book IV.
And Order to Confusion turns embroil'd.
Now the distended Vessels scarce contain
The wild Uproar, but press each weaker Part, 320
Unable to resist: The tender Brain,
And Stomach suffer most; Convulsions shake
His trembling Nerves, and wand'ring pungent Pains
Pinch sore the sleepless Wretch; his flutt'ring Pulse
Oft intermits; pensive, and sad, he mourns 325
His cruel Fate, and to his weeping Friends
Laments in vain; to hasty Anger prone,
Resents each slight Offence, walks with quick Step,
And wildly stares; at last with boundless Sway
The Tyrant Frenzy reigns. For as the Dog, 330
(Whose fatal Bite convey'd th' infectious Bane)
Raving he foams, and howls, and barks, and bates.
Like Agitations in his boiling Blood
Present like Species to his troubled Mind;
Now the distended Vessels scarce contain
The wild Uproar, but press each weaker Part, 320
Unable to resist: The tender Brain,
And Stomach suffer most; Convulsions shake
His trembling Nerves, and wand'ring pungent Pains
Pinch sore the sleepless Wretch; his flutt'ring Pulse
Oft intermits; pensive, and sad, he mourns 325
His cruel Fate, and to his weeping Friends
Laments in vain; to hasty Anger prone,
Resents each slight Offence, walks with quick Step,
And wildly stares; at last with boundless Sway
The Tyrant Frenzy reigns. For as the Dog, 330
(Whose fatal Bite convey'd th' infectious Bane)
Raving he foams, and howls, and barks, and bates.
Like Agitations in his boiling Blood
Present like Species to his troubled Mind;
His
