Then Both from out Hell Gates into the waste
Hovering upon the Waters; what they met [ 285 ]
Came to the Sea, and over Hellespont
His Nostril wide into the murkie Air, [ 280 ]
So, if great things to small may be compard,
And with Asphaltic slime; broad as the Gate,
Cathaian Coast. The aggregated Soyle
Wide Anarchie of Chaos damp a９９ｌiｂ•ｎeｔnd dark
From out of Chaos to the out side bare
First lighted from his Wing, and landed safe
The confines met of Empyrean Heavn
Of this round World: with Pinns of Adamant
And Chains they made all fast, too fast they made
And of this World, and on the left hand Hell
Smooth, easie, inoffensive down to Hell. [ 305 ]
Over
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As Delos floating once; the rest his look
Forfeit to Death; from hence a passage broad,
From each side shoaling towards the mouth of Hell.
As with a Trident smote, and fixt as firm [ 295 ]
So sented the grim Feature, and upturnd
Deep to the Roots of Hell the gatherd beach
Solid o九-九-藏-书-网r slimie, as in raging Sea
Now had they brought the work by wondrous Art
And durable; and now in little space [ 320 ]
With long reach interposd; three sevral wayes
Immovable of this now fenceless world
Death with his Mace petrific, cold and dry,
In sight, to each of these three places led.
Upon the Cronian Sea, together drive [ 290 ]藏书网
And scourgd with many a stroak th indignant waves.
Flew divers, and with Power (thir Power was great)
As when two Polar Winds blowing adverse
Bridging his way, Europe with Asia joynd, [ 310 ]
Xerxes, the Libertie of Greece to yoke,
Of length prodigious joyning to the Wall
Of Satan, to the self same place where hee [ 315 ]
They fastend, and 九九藏书网the Mole immense wraught on [ 300 ]
Mountains of Ice, that stop th imagind way
Pontifical, a ridge of pendent Rock
Beyond Petsora Eastward, to the rich
Over the foaming deep high Archt, a Bridge
From Susa his Memnonian Palace high
Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move,
Tost up and down, together crowded drove
Sagacious of his Quarry from so farr.