Had rounded still th Horizon, and not known

Up to the Tropic Crab; thence down amaine [ 675 ]

By Leo and the Virgin and the Scales,

As deep as Capricorne, to bring in change

Like change on Sea and Land, sideral blast,

With adverse blast up-turns them from the South

Sirocco, and Libecchio. Thus began

And snow and haile and stormie gust and flaw,

Like distant breadth to Taurus with th99liｂ•neｔe Seavn

Or East or West, which had forbid the Snow [ 685 ]

Of Norumbega, and the Samoed shoar

Was bid turn Reines from th Equinoctial Rode

From Serraliona; thwart of these as fierce

Death introducd through fierce antipathie:

These changes in the Heavns, though slow, producd

Devourd each other; nor stood much in awe

Atlantick Sisters, and the Spartan Twins

Thus to disburd藏书网n sought with sad complaint.

Alreadie in part, though hid in gloomiest shade,

Inhabited, though sinless, more then now, [ 690 ]

Eurus and Zephir with thir lateral noise, [ 705 ]

Boreas and Cæcias and Argestes loud

And in a troubld Sea of passion tost,

Corrupt and Pestilent: Now from the North [ 695 ]

Beast now with Beast gan war, and Fowle with Fowle, [ 710 ]

Of Man, but fle

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The Sun, as from Thyestean Banquet, turnd

Avoided pinching cold and scorching heate?

Beyond the Polar Circles; to them Day

Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent Windes

Notus and Afer black with thundrous Clouds

To recompence his distance, in thir sight

The growing miseries, which Adam saw [ 715 ]

Outrage from liveless things; but Discord first

Vapour,

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Some say he bid his Angels turne ascanse

His course intended; else how had the World

Perpetual smild on Earth with vernant Flours,

Beneath Magellan. At that tasted Fruit

And Fish with Fish; to graze the Herb all leaving,

The Poles of Earth twice ten degrees and more

Daughter of Sin, among th irrational,

From cold Estotiland, and South as farr

Of Seasons to ewww.99lib.netach Clime; else had the Spring

And Thrascias rend the Woods and Seas upturn; [ 700 ]

To sorrow abandond, but worse felt within,

Glard on him passing: these were from without

Equal in Days and Nights, except to those [ 680 ]

Had unbenighted shon, while the low Sun

Oblique the Centric Globe: Som say the Sun

From the Suns Axle; they with labour pushd [ 670 ]

Bursting thir brazen Dungeon, armd with ice