Crossword-Solution: NUBI 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Aure dell’ angoscioso viver mio Refrigerio soave, E dolce si, che piu non mi par grave Ne’l ardor, ne’l morir, anz’ il desio; Deh voil ghiaccio, e le nubi, e’l tempo rio Discacciatene omai, che londa chiara, E l’ombra non men cara A scherzare, a cantar per suoi boschetti, E prati festa et allegrezza alletti.

After visiting, in the plain of Machpelah, the tombs of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob, and Leah, and passing by Beth-Jairim, Scilo, Mount Moriah, Beth-Nubi, Ramah, Joppa, Jabneh, Azotus, Ascalon, built by Esdras, Lud, Tiberias, where are some hot springs, Gish and Merom, which is still a spot visited by Jewish pilgrims, Kedesh and Laish, near the cavern, where the Jordan takes its rise, the traveller left the land of Israel, and entered Damascus.

One thing must be observed: there is not here, as in some less happy representations of Venus, any downcast look, but that aspect of which Metastasio, in his Inno a Venere, says: "Tu colle lucide Pupille chiare, Fai lieta e fertile La terra e'l mare." And again: "Presto à tuoi placidi Astri ridenti, Le nubi fuggono, Fuggono i venti."[51] Art still profounder was perhaps shown in the configuration of the nose.

Michael starts upon his errand: Dovunque drizza Michelangel l'ale, Fuggon le nubi, e torna il ciel sereno; Gli gira intorno un aureo cerchio, quale Veggiam di notte lampeggiar baleno.

For if, as _Leo Africanus_ reporteth, the tenth part of a grain of the poison of _Nubia_[SN: granum Nubiæ.], will dispatch a man in two hours; if the bite of a Viper and sting of a Scorpion, is not conceived to impart so much; if the bite of an Asp will kill within an hour, yet the impression scarce visible, and the poison communicated not ponderable; we cannot as impossible reject this way of destruction; or deny the power of death in so narrow a circumscription.