The Goat
The Goat that fed Jupiter: restless travellers, wandering like goats on the rocks.
[p. 59] But when the Ram hath trebled Ten Degrees,Shines all above, excluded all from SeasThe Goat (whose Bruitish Dugs did once improveThe mighty Babe, and nurst the growing Jove;Who gave him strength to Thunder) first appears,Breeds timorous Births, and fills their Breasts with Fears.On slight Occasions, they with Doubts are Curst,Suspicious, jealous, fearing still the worst.Or Travellers bent on foreign Lands they breed;Thus o're the Rocks Goats wander as they feed;Now seek this Plain, and then as fast pursueWhat tempts their sight, leave old, and seize the new.
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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).