Then aught divine or holy else enjoyd

Shon with a glossie scurff, undoubted sign

And digd out ribs of Gold. Let none admire [ 690 ]

By Spirits reprobate, and in an hour

The work of Sulphur. Thither wingd with speed

For Treasures better hid. Soon had his crew

Forerun the

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Royal Camp, to trench a Field,

Deserve the precious bane. And here let those

Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell

Ransackd the Center, and with impious hands

Clashd on thir sounding Shields the din of war,

What in an age they with incessant toy九_九_藏_书_网le

Belchd fire and rowling smoak; the rest entire

And hands innumerable scarce perform.

A numerous Brigad hastend. As when Bands [ 675 ]

In vision beatific: by him first

Opnd into the Hill a spacious wound

Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped arms

That in his womb was hid metallic Ore,

Or cast a Rampart. Mammon led them on,

From heavn, for evn in heavn his looks and thoughts [ 680 ]

And Strength and Art are easily out-done

He spake: and to confirm his words, out-flew

Of mighty Cherubim; the sudden blaze [ 665 ]

The riches of 九-九-藏-书-网Heavns pavement, trodn Gold,

Of Pioners with Spade and Pickax armd

Far round illumind hell: highly they ragd

Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs

Learn how thir greatest Monuments of Fame, [ 695 ]

Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heavn.

Men also, and by his sugg九*九*藏*书*网estion taught, [ 685 ]

Rifld the bowels of thir mother Earth

That riches grow in Hell; that soyle may best

There stood a Hill not far whose griesly top [ 670 ]

Were always downward bent, admiring more

Of Babel, and the works of Memphian Kings

Who boast in mortal things, and wondring tell