Who mournd in earnest, when the Captive Ark

These Feminine. For Spirits when they please

Thir living strength, and unfrequented left

Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose

Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones,

Yet thence his lustful Orgies he enlargd [ 415 ]

For those the Race of Israel oft forsook

Egypt fro

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Bowd down in Battel, sunk before the Spear

And uncompounded is thir Essence pure, [ 425 ]

The Syrian Damsels to lament his fate

With these came they, who from the bordring flood

Even to that Hill of scandal, by the Grove

While smooth Adonis from his native Rock [ 450 ]

Whose wan九九藏书网ton passions in the sacred Porch

In Sion also not unsung, where stood

Ran purple to the Sea, supposd with blood

Beguild by fair Idolatresses, fell [ 445 ]

Infected Sions daughters with like heat,

In amorous dittyes all a Summers day,

Whose annual wound in Lebanon allurd

And works of love or enmity fulfill.

Of Baalim and As九九藏书htaroth, those male,

In his own Temple, on the grunsel edge, [ 460 ]

Of Thammuz yearly wounded: the Love-tale

His eye survayd the dark Idolatries

Sidonian Virgins paid thir Vows and Songs,

Her Temple on th offensive Mountain, built

To whose bright Image nightly by the Moon [ 440 ]

Of Moloch homicide, lust hard by hate;

His righte99lib•netous Altar, bowing lowly down

Of despicable foes. With these in troop

Can execute thir aerie purposes, [ 430 ]

Maimd his brute Image, head and hands lopt off

By that uxorious King, whose heart though large,

To bestial Gods; for which thir heads as low [ 435 ]

Ezekiel saw, when by the Vision led [ 455 ]

Came Astoreth, whom the Phoenicia九九藏书ns calld

Till good Josiah drove them thence to Hell.

Of old Euphrates to the Brook that parts [ 420 ]

Astarte, Queen of Heavn, with crescent Horns;

Dilated or condenst, bright or obscure,

Of alienated Judah. Next came one

Can either Sex assume, or both; so soft

To Idols foul. Thammuz came next behind,

Not tid or manacld with joynt or limb,