Fire and brimstone from heaven, from earth, in hell, or, Three discourses I. Concerning…

In English thus:

Through horrid falls within, like noise of thunder, Mount Aetna sounds as if 'twould break asunder. Thence first a cloud break forth as black as night, With pitchy curls, with sparks like stars to sight. Then follow globes of flames, which mount a loft, As if to kiss the Orbs of Heaven they sought. The bottom-fire like boiling furnace glows, Which melts the hardest stones, and upward throws Great Rocks through th'air with groans. The fame doth go That great Enceladus do lye below Who being thunder-struck, and on him thrown Huge Aetna Mount, with weight to keep him down; When weary he shifts sides, and turns about. He shakes the Mount, his breath in flames goes out As at a Furnace mouth, the Heavens above Are clothed with smoke. Trinacria trembles—

Through horrid falls within, like noise of thunde•, Mount Aetna sounds as if 'twould break asunder. Thence first a cloud break forth as black as night, With pitchy curls, with sparks like stars to sight. Then follow globes of flames, which mount a loft, As if to kisse the Orbes of Heaven they sought. The bottom-fire like boiling furnace glowes, Which melts the hardest stones, and upward throwes Great Rocks through th'air with groans. The fame doth go That great Enceladus do lye below Who being thunder-struck, and on him thrown Huge Aetna Mount, with weight to keep him down; When weary he shifts sides, and turns about. He shakes the Mount, his breath in flames goes out As at a Furnace mouth, the Heavens above Are cloth'd with smoak. Trinacria trembles—

I shall add but one Author more, and that is of a late Geographer, namely Varenius, who in his first Book of Geography, page 105. doth both describe this Mount, and giveth relation of one notable eruption of fire not much above a hundred years since.