2l6 THE PEAK IN THE DAYS OF QUEEN ANNE. 



" Which will bear this Translation — 



" To Granus healing waters let him haste 

 Who finds his Body thro' consumption wast, 

 When the Blood suffers by a febril fire 

 To cooling Aponus for care retire. 

 And why so noted are ye Psaulian streams 

 But as they purge and purify the Reins ; 

 The waters yt from famed Calderia spring 

 Assistance to a weakened optick bring. 

 But Buxton has a general healing power 

 And yields to every Disease a cure." 



" I observed while I was bathing on one side of the well 

 a Cold spring which flowed up among the other waters. If you 

 put your foot upon the place where it bubbles up you feel it 

 wonderfull cold while your upper parts are quite warm, so that 

 you may be said, as the ingenious Mr. Cotton expresses it, 



" t'endure 

 At once an ague and a calenture." 



" I shall conclude my observations on this place (which were 

 the Roads as passable would be noted as those springs in Somer- 

 setshire) with the Lines of Mr. Hobbs — 



" Diva; sacer est fons inclytus Anna; 

 Ambas miscet aquas Calida? gelidajque ministra 

 Tellus ; sulphureisque effundit Pharmaca venis, 

 Hxc resoluta senum confirmat membra trementum, 

 El refovet nervos lotrix haec lympha gelatos. 

 Hue infirma regunt baculis vestigia claudi ; 

 Ingrati referunt baculis vestigia spretis. 

 Hue, mater fieri cupiens, accedit inanis, 

 Plenaque discedit, puto, nee veniente marito." 

 In English. 

 " This fountain sacred to Saint Anna's name, 

 A stream from thence both hot and cold does rise 

 In which a Pharmaceutic vertue lies. 

 It gives the aged Paralyte reliefe, 

 And nourishes the nerves grown cold and stiff. 

 It doth the sick unto their health restore, 

 And makes the same to need the crutch no more : " 

 &c., &c. 

 " About a mile from Buxton is Pool's Hole so called from one 

 Pool an outlaw who fled and hid himself here. It opens at the 

 bottom of a mountain where severall women attend with 



