On either side a formidable shape;

Now shaves with level wing the Deep, then soares

Satan with thoughts inflamd of highest design, [ 630 ]

Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape

Nor uglier follow the Night-Hag, when calld

Three Iron, three of Adamantine Rock,

For each seemd either; black it stood as Night, [ 670 ]

Hell bounds high reachin九九藏书g to the horrid Roof,

And kennel there, yet there still barkd and howld

Voluminous and vast, a Serpent armd

And shook a dreadful Dart; what seemd his head

But ended foul in many a scaly fould

Ply stemming nightly toward the Pole. So seemd

The one seemd Woman to the waste, and fair, [ 650 ]

Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell,九_九_藏_书_网

In secret, riding through the Air she comes

Yet unconsumd. Before the Gates there sat

Or substance might be calld that shadow seemd,

Lurd with the smell of infant blood, to dance

Of Ternate and Tidore, whence Merchants bring

He scours the right hand coast, som times the left,

If shape it might be calld that shape had none

If aught 九九藏书网disturbd thir noyse, into her woomb,

As when farr off at Sea a Fleet descrid

Impenetrable, impald with circling fire,

Vexd Scylla bathing in the Sea that parts [ 660 ]

With wide Cerberian mouths full loud, and rung [ 655 ]

Close sailing from Bengala, or the Iles

A cry of Hell Hounds never ceasing barkd

And thrice threefold the Gates; three

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folds were Brass, [ 645 ]

Explores his solitary flight; som times

Within unseen. Farr less abhorrd than these

Eclipses at thir charms. The other shape,

Distinguishable in member, joynt, or limb,

Thir spicie Drugs: they on the Trading Flood [ 640 ]

With mortal sting: about her middle round

Puts on swift wings, and towards the Gates of Hell

A h九_九_藏_书_网ideous Peal: yet, when they list, would creep,

Up to the fiery Concave touring high. [ 635 ]

Mean while the Adversary of God and Man,

Hangs in the Clouds, by Æquinoctial Winds

Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore:

Farr off the flying Fiend: at last appeer

The likeness of a Kingly Crown had on.

With Lapland Witches, while the labouring Moon [ 665 ]