CARLSBAD. 



F IVE and twenty years before Wen/el Payer, 

 of Ellbogen f 1 ), wrote the first medical treatise on 

 the hot springs of Carlsbad , a bohemian nobleman, 

 Bohuslas de Lobkowitz ( 2 ), sung their virtues in the 

 following hexameters: 



IN THERMAS CAROLI IV. 



Foils, Hcliconiadnm inerito celebrande coliorti, 

 Vnde tiJri latices calidi , venaeve weantis 

 Sulphitris, aut vivae, dictti mirubilc, calcis? 

 Per terras Siculamne ignis qui provocat Aetit-uai, 

 Id facit? An Styyii f'orsaii vicinia Ditis 

 Has tcpefecit aquas? Jtuiarum littora cedant, 

 Al<\u& Antenoreum prosjiectans nuda Tituaiitm, 

 Et qitae caeruleo consuryit proxima fi/iiuo, 

 Nolnliiata tuo, sanctissime Carole return, 

 Interitu. (hiantas emittit in ai-ra Inllasl 

 Asjtice quam varie lapides et marmora ]>in<jit 

 Per quaecunquc flu it I Vlx ipsa coloribus Iris 

 Collucet totideml Felix per secula mana, 

 FOHS sacer, humano generiquc salutifer estul 

 Redde seni valida* vires, pavidaeque pucllae 

 Foruiosam confer facietn , morbisquc int'der<- 

 Omnihnt, et patrias accedat laetior oras 



iiii in ktic lyiuphii fragile* iinmerseril arlun'. 



