Of Aquarius
Aquarius in 15 AD: the engineers who brought water uphill.
[p. 15] Aquarius pouring out his Urn, impartsAn useful Knowledge in resembling Arts,To find out Springs, and with new Streams supplyThe Barren Countries, and refresh the dry;To raise in Pipes, or to extend in Beams,And in high Rooms imprison Foreign Streams;Affront the Sea, for State, not use, restrainThe Waves with Moles, and curb the raging Main;Or Engins raise, whence Waters mount above,And mix the lower, with the higher Jove.
A thousand other Arts, which Waters sway,As Channels lead, or else as Pipes convey,Depend upon the influence of his Ray.And to his Births the World oblig'd shall oweSpheres, Cycles, Orbs, and turn new Skies below.Soft, easie Tempers, loving Coin for use,Not sordid, but inclin'd to be profuse;Not pincht, nor yet too swelling in Estate;Thus flows the Urn, and fixes this for Fate.
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The text is Thomas Creech's 1697 verse translation, checked word by word between three scans of the same type (the 1697 printing, the 1700 printing and a third copy). The long s is printed as s; every other spelling is Creech's. Pages are cited as the 1697 printing numbers them. The portrait is William Marshall’s engraving of Lilly from the front of the 1659 printing (Wellcome Library, public domain).