Close following pace for pace, not mounted yet

Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flours

Among the Heathen of thir purchase got,

Unnamd, undreaded, and thy self half starvd? [ 595 ]

Both to destroy, or unimmortal make

However some tradition they dispersd

His thoughts, his looks, words, actions all infect,

And Ops, ere yet Dictæan Jove was born.

And season him thy last and sweetest prey.

To those bright Orders utterd thus his voice. [ 615 ]

To stuff this Maw, this vast unhide-bound Corps.

Ophion with Eurynome, the wide-

Whom thus the Sin-bor九九藏书网n Monster answerd soon.

Once actual, now in body, and to dwell

The Sithe of Time mowes down, devour unspard,

Feed first, on each Beast next, and Fish, and Fowle,

What thinkst thou of our Empire now, though earnd

Mean while in Paradise the hellish pair [ 585 ]

Second of Satan sprung, all conquering Death,

There best, where most with ravin I may meet;

To mee, who with eternal Famin pine,

No homely morsels, and whatever thing [ 605 ]

Habitual habitant; behind her Death

Too soon arrivd, Sin there in power before,

Of high Olympus, thence by Saturn drivn

This saiwww.99lib.netd, they both betook them several wayes, [ 610 ]

Sooner or later; which th Almightie seeing,

Encroaching Eve perhaps, had first the rule

And Fabld how the Serpent, whom they calld [ 580 ]

Alike is Hell, or Paradise, or Heaven,

All kinds, and for destruction to mature

On his pale Horse: to whom S九-九-藏-书-网in thus began. [ 590 ]

To whom th incestuous Mother thus replid.

With travail difficult, not better farr

From his transcendent Seat the Saints among,

Which here, though plenteous, all too little seems [ 600 ]

Till I in Man residing through the Race,

Then stil at Hels dark threshold to have sate watch,